Ahead of the coming governorship election in Ondo State, the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has appointed Senator Abba Moro as the chairman of the State Ward Congress Electoral Committee slated for tomorrow, Monday April 8. The committee is saddled with the responsibility of conducting the three-man ad-hoc ward congress for t...
The National Rescue Movement (NRM), has decried the exclusion of the name of its candidate, Dennis Osaron Aikoriogie, by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), ahead of the September 21 governorship election. NRM National Publicity Secretary, Olusola Afuye, in a statement yesterday, said failure of INEC to upload the name of its...
•Jandor and Tinubu The Lagos State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Abdul-Azeez Adediran better known as Jandor has weighed in on the biting economic hardship in the country and is suggesting President Bola Tinubu should seek help and “reset the buttons” to reverse the trend. Nigeria’s floating of the naira and the ...
Despite the All Progressives Congress (APC) declaration and issuance of Certificate of Return to Senator Monday Okpebholo, another contestant in the primary election, Honourable Dennis Idahosa, has insisted that he is the valid candidate of the party for the September governorship election in Edo state. Idahosa, who wrote to the Independent Na...
•Lucky Aiyedatiwa Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, wife of the late governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, has tackled her late husband’s niece, Funke Akeredolu-Aruna, for supporting the governorship aspiration of incumbent Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa. Akeredolu-Aruna who served as former Deputy Chief of Protocol in the administration of late Governo...
Ahead of the September 21 governorship election in Edo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has issued a deadline for the submission of nomination forms for candidates. The electoral body in a statement today by its National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, asked politica...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will tomorrow Presents Certificate of Return to its Edo State governorship candidate, Asuerinme Ighodalo. Recall that Ighodalo had on Thursday won the primary election with 577 votes as announced by the returning officer in the PDP governorship primary and Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal, reports Daily...
•Philip Shaibu The deputy governor of Edo State, Phillip Shaibu, has emerged as the winner in a factional primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2024 Edo governorship election. Shaibu won the parallel primaries with over three hundred and one votes. Meanwhile, the Governor Godwin Obaseki faction of the party is yet to […]...
•Sacked Governor Uzodinma The All Progressives Congress National Working Committee has sacked Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, as Chairman of the Edo State Gubernatorial Election Committee. A revised list issued today and signed by Suleiman Argungu, National Organising Secretary of the party, announced Cross Rivers State Governor Bas...
•Anugbum Onuoha The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Edo State, Dr. Anugbum Onuoha, has expressed his anger against all the governorship aspirants in Edo State for engaging in open campaigns while the Commission was yet to lift ban on campaigns for the September 21 gubernatorial election. The REC who called on the aspirants to remove all [&...