•Fubara and Wike The Action Peoples Party has won 22 chairmanship positions out of 23 in the Rivers State local government election. The Chief Election Officer of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, Justice Adolphus Enebeli, made this known today in Port Harcourt, the state capital, reports Saturday PUNCH. While declaring the re...
Supporters of former Rivers State governor, and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, staged a protest today in Port Harcourt, calling on the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, to comply with a recent High Court judgment regarding the ongoing local government elections. The protest, which drew ...
The local government election has commenced in Rivers State, despite the absence of police to man the process. Our correspondent reports that sensitive materials have been distributed across the local government areas. The state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has vowed to conduct the local government election amid tensions in the state. &...
•A bomb explosion Explosives destroyed buildings and others property at the Tony Okocha-led secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) along Aba Road, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. •Some party members gather around the APC Secretariat in Rivers State after explosion this morning The gate of the secretariat and the doors were...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the electorates in Rivers State to participate in today’s local government election in the oil-rich state. The Rivers State Police Command had said it would not participate in the October 5 election, citing a ruling by Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, reports Channels [&h...
The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) says all is set for the local government elections billed for today, Saturday, October 5, 2024. Police authorities in the state have said they will not provide security for the exercise, citing a court order. However, RSIEC late yesterday said the election will go on as scheduled, repor...
•Protesting Rivers PDP members Members of the Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party have staged a protest march to the Department of State Security office and the Government House both in Port Harcourt the Rivers state capital. There is massive presence of security officers as the protesters had initially gathered in large numbe...
•Fubara Rivers State governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has declared that the Saturday, October 5 Local Government election in the state is sacrosanct, saying no amount of propaganda will stop the election. He said his conviction stems from the Supreme Court judgment that all states in the federation should have democratically elected local gove...
•Late Pastor Patience Umo Eno The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State has put its political campaign for local elections in the state on hold following the death of the Akwa Ibom First Lady, Patience Eno. Local elections in Akwa Ibom is scheduled for 26 October and political parties have been campaigning for […]
The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it will not be taking part in the upcoming local government elections scheduled for October 5. Aaron Chukwuemeka, the state party Chairman, disclosed this after a stakeholders’ meeting at the PDP secretariat in Port Harcourt, reports Channels TV. He said the party is awaiting ...
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