Ahead of the September 22 governorship election in Osun, the police on Wednesday warned political parties against flouting the Electoral Act.
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A bill for an Act to Amend the Public Holiday Act to give legal backing to the declaration of June 12 as Democracy Day on Wednesday scaled through the First Reading on the floor of the House of Representatives.
Members of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Osun on Wednesday elected Munirudeen Atanda as their candidate for the September 22 governorship election.
The Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday deplored the Presidency’s request for N242 billion for 2019 elections from the 2018 Budget, saying it constituted a threat to the polls.
Abdullahi Muhammadu, Commandant General of NSCDC, gave the warning on Wednesday in Osogbo, at a town hall meeting with stakeholders ahead of the governorship election.
Suspected political thugs on Wednesday destroyed some constituency projects of Senator Dino Melaye at two Locations in Lokoja metropolis, few hours to their inauguration.
Fayemi gave the assurance in Ado-Ekiti shortly after he received the Certificate of Return as the governor-elect from the Independent National Electoral Commission.
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Prince Abayomi Adesanya, on Wednesday lauded the decision of the party to adopt the direct primary system to pick its governorship candidate in Osun on July 19.
Thirty-nine political parties, including the PDP and Social Democratic Party on July 9, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form the alliance and agreed to produce a common candidate for the presidential election in 2019.
Iyiola Oyedepo, the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara, says no injunction has been served on the party restraining its executives.
The outgoing Governor of Ekiti State, Peter Ayodele Fayose, is the poster boy of everything wrong with Nigerian politics. To that end, like President Muhammadu Buhari, I should be celebrating the defeat of Fayose’s candidate Olusola Eleka
The Media Office of the Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has dismissed the report of the observer groups slated for publication on Wednesday as a concoction fabricated and facilitated by the Ekiti State Government to discredit the July 14, 2018 election that returned Fayemi as the winner.
Members of the Ekiti House of Assembly have condemned and rejected the result of the July 14, 2018 governorship election as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Umahi said this sequel to a news report that made the rounds on Tuesday claiming he had dumped the PDP
The ADC chieftain made this claim at a news conference on Tuesday in Ibadan
Uzodinma, who made this known to newsmen after the caucus’ meeting in Abuja, said the association’s membership is voluntary and committed
The organization made the request in a congratulatory message signed by its Director, Ishaq Akintola, on Wednesday
Former Nigeria Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has disclosed that he his endorsing a former Minister for Special Duties during the Administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, as the right aspirant for president come 2019 because of his agenda in ensuring Nigeria’s unity.
Its National Commissioner and chairman, Legal Services Committee, May Agbamuche-Mbu, gave the commendation at the side line of training for legal officers of the commission, organised by European Union Centre for Electoral Support.
“When the history of this moment is written, those looking back on this decision will say that it was an inevitable natural consequence of party evolution,” he said.