•Olayinka Braimoh Action Alliance candidate Olayinka Braimoh, who is running for governor of Kogi State, has explained his arrest and detention on Saturday, which he claimed resulted in his disenfranchisement. Braimoh was arrested by security operatives in Kabba, along with seven of his security details after campaign materials were allegedly ...
Governor of Bayelsa State and candidate of the PDP, Senator Douye Diri, has established an early lead in the governorship election held yesterday in the state. Results from the polling units in Ogbia, Nembe, Brass, Sagbama, Ekeremor, Kolokuma-Opokuma, Yenagoa and parts of Southern Ijaw indicated that the governor was ahead of the other candida...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has adjourned the state collation of results for the Bayelsa governorship election. The Returning Officer for the election Faruk Adamu Kuta announced this late yesterday at the INEC Collation Centre in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The exercise was also adjourned in Kogi State, reports Channels TV...
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has condemned pockets of violence and vote trading that characterised the Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo States governorship elections. A member of the CDD Election Analysis Centre, Dr Jack Jackson, at a press briefing today in Abuja, also bemoaned the late arrival of sensitive materials by the Independent...
•Kogi LGA Chairman James Onoja in white Security operatives today allegedly arrested the council chairman of Igalamela Local Government Area of Kogi State, James Onoja, for possession of ammunition and lots of cash. The money and the ammunition it was gathered were packed in several ‘Ghana-must-go’ bags, reports Saturday PUNCH. The money and a...
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has secured victory at Grade 1 Area Court, Ajaka Ward 07 in Igalamela/Odolu Local Government Area of Kogi State. The party polled 111 votes to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC), which trailed with 05 votes while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secured zero votes, reports Daily Trust. Earlier when [...
Suspected hoodlums broke into the secretariat of the National Union of Journalists in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, today. The hoodlums stormed in with cars and motorcycles, reports Saturday PUNCH. The secretariat is not far from the Crowther College, which houses a considerable number of polling units. The hoodlums were seen haggling over m...
Kogi State Police Command has ordered restriction of vehicular movement from 11:59 pm today, November 10, to 6 pm on tomorrow Saturday, November 11. Spokesman of the command, SP William Aya, made this known in a statement today in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital that the movement restriction was due to the governorship election holding [&hellip...
Voters across the 21 local government areas of Kogi State will be heading to the polling units tomorrow to elect a new governor. According to the final list of candidates published by INEC, 18 candidates will represent their parties in the election. They are Isah Jibrin Usman (Accord), Braimoh Olayinka (AA), Achimugu Augustine (AAC), Abejide [...
•Ballot box IGovernorship elections have been scheduled in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi states for tomorrow Saturday November 11. On election day, voting will take place between 8:30 am and 2:30 pm. Nevertheless, voters in the queue on or before 2:30 pm will be allowed to vote, reports Channels TV. 1. Voting starts at 8:30 am. […]