In a rare show of camaraderie, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the September 21, 2024 Edo State governorship election, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, has congratulated his All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the Labour Party (LP) counterparts, Senator Monday Okpebholo, and Olumide Akpata, former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, respectively, on their emergence…
Esekhaigbe Sues for Closing of Ranks in APC, Rallies Support for Okpebholo Ahead of Edo Governorship Battle
With the political battleline drawn with the three major political parties in Edo State picking their flagbearers for the September 21 governorship election last weekend, Leader of the All-Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo Central senatorial district, Cecil Esekhaigbe, a retired army general, has seized the initiative to foster unity and peace within the opposition party…
Idahosa Insists He Remains APC Candidate, Warns Party of Legal Consequences of Substitution
The last may not have been heard in the controversial Edo State All Progressives Congress, (APC) governorship primary election as the initially declared winner of the election, Dennis Idahosa, the member representing Ovia Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives is still laying claim to the party’s ticket in spite of the emergence of Monday…
Okpebholo Defeats Idahosa as Edo APC Concludes Guber Primary
The hitherto suspended gubernatorial primary of the Edo State All Progressives Congress, APC, was concluded on Friday with the senator representing Edo Central Senatorial District, Monday Okpebholo, declared the winner. The Governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Otu, who replaced Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State as Chairman of Edo APC’s shadow poll, made…
Edo 2024: Ighodalo Scales First Hurdle, Wins PDP Guber Ticket
…. As Shaibu emerges factional candidate Asue Ighodalo, a lawyer and former chairman of Sterling Bank and Nigerian Breweries Limited, who had been tipped to win the ticket of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP for the September 21, 2024, governorship election in Edo State, on Thursday proved bookmakers right, emerging winner of the primary…
PDP Wins Bayelsa Gubernatorial Election.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has retained the governorship seat in Bayelsa State, after failing to upstage APC in Imo and Kogi States. Incumbent governor, Douye Diri, was formally declared winner of the keenly contested election having won majority of the votes cast. Results from the eight local government areas of the state announced by…
Court of Appeal Re-Affirms LP’s Attah as Duly Elected Rep for Eti-Osa Federal Constituency, Obanikoro congratulates winner
Attempts by candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and that of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ibrahim Obanikoro, and Bankole Wellington, popularly known as Banky W, respectively, to unseat Labour Party’s Thaddeus Attah as member of the House of Representatives for Eti-Osa Federal Constituency in Lagos State, has failed as the Court of Appeal,…
Time for Atiku Abubakar to Finally Go Away and End His Ambition to be President
Former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party Presidential candidate in last election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, unraveled on Monday at a press conference in Abuja where he finally found his voice after more than 96 hours to respond to his trouncing at the Supreme Court in a landmark judgment on his grossly incompetent election petition appeal.…
Political Crisis erupts in Rivers
…state of emergency looming The seeming peace in the political family of former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has been shattered and is erupting into a crisis that could lead to a state of emergency. Within a few hours, two factions of the House of Assembly had emerged. One under the speakership of Martin Amaewhule,…
Akpata, Ex-NBA President Joins Edo Governorship Race on LP Platform
The immediate past President of the Nigeria Bar Association, (NBA) Olumide Akpata, has thrown his hat into the ring to vie for the governorship of Edo State on the platform of the Labour Party (LP). Formally announcing his ambition on Thursday at the party Secretariat in Benin City shortly after meeting with the leadership of…