A faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State has rejected the Edo State Primary Election Committee headed by Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma. The committee which is to oversee the conduct of the APC primary election scheduled for Monday June 22, was inaugurated on Wednesday in Abuja. In a statement, factional chairman…
Edo APC Can Hold Direct Primary, Appeal Court Rules
The Appeal Court sitting in Benin on Thursday cleared the way for the All Progressives Congress, APC, to conduct its primary election adopting the direct mode to select its governorship candidate for the September 19, 2020 gubernatorial poll in Edo State. By this decision, the appellate court has set aside the June 8, 2020 order…
Octogenarian Professor of Medicine Assassinated in Edo
A Benin-based professor of medicine and orthopaedic surgeon, Christopher Ogiehor was on Wednesday night assassinated. Ogiehor, 80, was until his gruesome murder, the medical director of City Clinic, at No. 34, Ewah Road, Benin, Edo State. Igiehor, who was murdered in his Number 13, Egbor Anene Street, GRA, residence, was the father-in-law to a governorship…
Edo 2020: Ize-Iyamu’s Aspiration Gets a Boost as Governorship Aspirant Steps Down for Him
One of the three governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Edo State cleared to contest the June 22, 2020 primary election of the party has stepped down. Osaro Obazee, former chairman of Oredo local government council, on Wednesday, announced that he was stepping down to support the aspiration of Osagie Ize-Iyamu, a…
Appeal Court Sacks Oshiomhole, Strips Him of His Rights, Security Details
A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has affirmed the suspension of Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole as the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. An Abuja High Court had in March restrained Oshiomhole from parading himself as national chairman of the party following his suspension by his Ward 10…
Breaking News: Embattled Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has Resigned from The Ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Obaseki announced his resignation after meeting with the President, Mohammadu Buhari. The former APC governor has in the past few days been lobbying PDP governors and leaders of the party on his desire to seek reelection on the party’s platform. A crucial meeting is going on about now in Benin between leaderships of both parties…
Edo 2020: Imasuangbon Gives APC Quit Notice
A governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Kenneth Imasuangbon, is confident that his party would wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC come September 19, 2020. Imasuangbon however boasted that this would only be possible if he emerges the flag-bearer at the party’s primaries. Imasuangbon,…
COVID-19: Reject Direct Primary Election, Concerned Edo Citizens Warn Political Parties
The direct mode of primary election adopted by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to select its candidate for the September 19, 2020 governorship election in Edo State is ruffling feathers in the polity in the state. The APC had fixed June 22 for its primary election in which incumbent governor, Godwin Obaseki, and six…
Ize-Iyamu Intervenes in Mass-Production, Free Distribution of Face Masks
As many are convicted for violating order One of the front-runners jostling for the ticket of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, ahead of the September 19, 2020 governorship election In Edo state, Osagie Ize-Iyamu has commissioned local tailors who would mass-produce face masks that would be distributed free to the people of the state.…
APC Flays Task Force on Border Closure in Rivers
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has criticised the decision of the Rivers State Government to set up a task force on the closure of borders in the state. A press statement issued by the former Publicity Secretary of the last executive committee of APC in the state, Chris Finebone, said the task force to be…
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