Results of 18 out of the 25 local government areas in Delta State released Monday night in Asaba by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, indicated that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), Peter Obi, is coasting home to a landslide victory over candidates of the more established parties – Atiku Abubakar of…
Outrage Over INEC’s Conduct of Presidential/NASS Polls
Protests spontaneously broke out in Abuja and Port Harcourt on Monday, February 27, as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, battled with the problems of non-use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS machines across the country.Youths besieged the INEC headquarters at Zambezi Crescent, Abuja, chanting, ‘We no go gree! We no go gree!” At…
LP Shocks PDP, APC in Delta, Sacks Elumelu, Reps Minority Leader
…Defeats Governor Okowa, SSG, APC National Publicity Scribe in LGAs/constituencies The Labour Party, LP has caused a major political upset in Delta State giving the ruling Peoples Democratic Party a bloody nose, and sacking the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu, representing Aniocha and Oshimili Federal Constituency from the lower chamber. Elumelu…
Presidential Election Results not Cancelled in Okowa’s Ika North East LGA, says Aniagwu
Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, Charles Aniagwu, on Monday, debunked reports of the alleged cancellation of presidential results for Ika North-East Local Government Area of Delta. The state governor, Dr. I feanyi Okowa, hails from the local government area. According to initial reports, the results were delayed due to over-voting.Aniagwu,…
2023: Labour Party leads in Edo
The candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi is in a comfortable lead as results of Saturday’s presidential election tricke in. Of the 15 out of the 18 local government areas of the state already declared, Peter Obi is leading Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and Atiku Abubakar of the…
LP Dislodges PDP in Edo South, As Oshiomhole, Akpatasson Win in Edo North
Omosede, Igbinedion’s daughter suffers defeat
Candidate of the Labour Party, LP has been declared the senator-elect for Edo South senatorial district of Edo State, a development considered a political feat by a relatively unknown party. Neda Imasuen, a lawyer, and LP candidate, defeated candidates of the two dominant parties, the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).Announcing…
Concerned Delta REC Seeks Journalists’ Support in Sensitising Registrants to Collect Over 300,000 Unclaimed PVCs As He Inaugurates INEC Press Corps
The partnership between Nigeria’s election umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and media practitioners in Delta State, was on recently taken a notch higher with the inauguration of INEC Press Corps, IPC, where the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Monday Udoh-Tom, a cleric, charged journalists in the state to help create awareness for registrants to…
Enugu State Labour Party Gubernatorial Crisis Worsens
A gloomy cloud is thickening around the electoral sky of Labour Party, LP, in Enugu State. If not dispersed with wisdom, it will rain disaster for the party in the gubernatorial election as they may not have any candidate to challenge the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate. Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate, may…
Ekiti: Fayemi Out, Oyebanji In
Biodun Oyebanji, the winner of the last governorship election in Ekiti State has taken over from Kayode Fayemi, until recently the chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, whose tenure ended Sunday October 16. Oyebanji won at a recent election, which is one of the off-season elections in Nigeria. He ran on the platform of…