•Olumide Akpata The Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, yesterday said he won’t challenge the result of the September 21 gubernatorial election. Akpata emerged third with 22, 763 votes in the election, reports Channels TV. He lost to the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Monday Okpebholo, who raked i...
•Julius Abure The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has refused to recognise Julius Abure as the National Chairman of Labour Party, despite retaining his name on its website, on the list of political party chairmen. This new revelation is contained in a counter-affidavit filed in the Federal High Court Abuja, in response to Labo...
•Olumide Akpata The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has dismissed an appeal filed by Kenneth Imansuangbon, seeking to disqualify Olumide Akpata as the governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the September 21 governorship election in Edo State. In the lead judgment delivered by Justice Okon Abang, the appellate court held among others, t...
The Federal High Court sitting in Benin has dismissed a suit filed by Kenneth Imasuagbon, challenging the candidature of the Labour Party (LP) gubernatorial candidate, Olumide Akpata for the Edo State governorship race. The court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to entertain the suit, adding that the suit lacked merit and was based on specula...
•Peter Obi and Keir Starmer The Labour Party’s presidential candidate in Nigeria’s 2023 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has extended his warm congratulations to Keir Starmer and the Labour Party UK on their resounding victory in the recent election. In a statement today, Obi expressed his hope that the victory will usher in a new chapter [&hell...
•Ajaero and Abure The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has invalidated the outcome of the recent national convention of the Labour Party, held in Nnewi, Anambra State, which saw the return of Julius Abure as National Chairman, along with his National Working Committee. In a communiqué issued following the NLC Political Commission Stakeholders mee...
•Peter Obi The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 polls, Peter Obi, has said the reported N744,500,000 his campaign team spent on the 2023 election litigation was not just for paying lawyers, as some have reported. He said this yesterday in a statement signed on his behalf by Dr Yunusa Tanko, […]

