Respite has come the way of the embattled national chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Julius Abure, who was in March this year indefinitely suspended by his Uromi Ward 3 constituency in Esan North East local government area of Edo State. An Edo State High Court presided over by Justice Emmanuel Okey Aihamoje on Friday…
Court Judgement: Labour Party May Lose Only Governor, Others
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, presided over by Justice M. N. Yunusa has on Friday, May 19, delivered a judgement that may cancel the victory of Alex Otti, the Abia State Governor-elect, and all the candidates of the Labour Party particularly in Abia and Kano States. The high court ruled that their emergence…
Edo 2024: Governorship Aspirant Raises Alarm Over Malicious Removal of Campaign Billboards Allegedly at Instance of Unnamed Government Official
A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship aspirant in the 2024 governorship election in Edo State, John Ehibhationman Yakubu, has cried out over the removal of his billboards placed at strategic locations in Benin City, the state capital, allegedly orchestrated by an unnamed “top government official”. Yakubu, one-time Esan North-East local government council chairman, while calling…
Edo 2024: Aspirants Promoting Ethnic Agenda Are Lazy Lots – Idahosa
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, and former political aide to former governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has knocked some governirship aspirants jostling to succeed Governor Godwin Obaseki in 2024 for playing the ethnic card, dismissing them as “lazy lots”. In apparent reference to the agitation by Ishan-speaking people of Edo Central…
Oyetola Accepts Defeat, Congratulates Adeleke
Adegboyega Oyetola, former governor of Osun State has accepted the verdict of the Supreme Court , which gave electoral victory at the July 2022 election to Governor Ademola Adeleke. Though he said he and his party presented a good case before the court, the decision of the court, being the final arbiter, had been accepted…
Buhari, Tinubu Congratulate Adeleke
President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, have in separate statements congratulated Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State over his victory at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The president, in a statement by Femi Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity said he recognized the verdict of the apex court as the final in…
Edo 2024: Obaseki Strategises for Crucial Election, Sacks Cabinet, Horde of Political Aides
The Edo State executive council has been dissolved. A terse statement on Wednesday signed by Crusoe Osagie, special adviser to Governor Godwin Obaseki on media projects, terminated the appointments of the commissioners and special advisers who were sworn in October 6, 2021, and February 9, 2022. Also sacked “with immediate effect”, were coterie of aides…
Multi-Tracking Nigeria has become a Compelling Project
For the first time in the history of the country, and also acutely contrasting with simple logic and commonsense, a second runner up in the presidential election February 25, 2023, is making a most laughable claim of having won the election. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, had won the election…
When Experience Negates Development
It is commonplace to hear such cliché as, ‘he has no political experience,’ among political party contestants to political offices. In the majority of cases where this kind of statement is used, it’s when those making such condemnation are feeling threatened by the position and preparation of the one or the ones so described. It’s…
How Low Voter turnout, Vote buying, Violence Ruled Rivers on March 18
Though the governorship and house of assembly elections in Rivers State started relatively earlier on Saturday March 18 2023 than the presidential and national assembly elections that took place on February 25, 2023, it was bogged down by several issues. The turnout was generally low. Many of the voters that turned out to vote during…