The governorship election for Ekiti State will take place on June 21, 2014, while that of Osun State is scheduled for August 9, 2014
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Tambuwal stated this on Friday when he paid a condolence visit to the governor on the passage of Queen Esther Erediauwa, the wife of the Benin Monarch, Omo n’Oba Erediauwa, at the Government House, Benin City
It said it was part of the move to mislead the public
He said the call violated some of the requirements for continued registration as a political party and as such should be deregistered
The spokesman of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, said in Lagos that the directive was tantamount to shutting down the country
Rising from its meeting in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on Friday, the group said in a statement signed by its President, Ebenezer Olaleye, that it was miffed by an article sponsored in a national newspaper by one of the aspirants, Senator Gbenga Aluko
Princewill used the example of the United States of America in 2013 when the Republicans tried to use their strength to hold the country ransom
Ogar said the attention of the service had been drawn to incessant provocative statements by some Nigerians threatening violence ahead of the election
The party, on Thursday, said it has reached a point where it will ask its members to react in the face of alleged police bias in the political crisis in Rivers State
Aliyu said President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan consulted him as the leader of the party in Niger State when the recent ministerial nominee from the state, Hajia Asabe Abubakar, was to be chosen
The DSIEC chairman said that the main task of the commission in 2014 remained the elections for local government chairmen and councillors in the 25 local government areas of the state
Mohammed said that the reservation was necessitated because the originating summons filed by the plaintiffs’ counsel was not ripe for hearing
The National chairman urged the five PDP governors who defected to the opposition to have a rethink and return to the party’s fold, adding that the PDP made them what they were today
This postponement is contained in a statement issued by the PLASIEC Chairman, Peter Dalyop, in Jos on Wednesday
Thousands of youths from Ubima and the four Ikwerre speaking Local Government Areas namely Ikwerre, Emuoha, Obio/Akpor and Port Harcourt, staged a peaceful protest on Tuesday in support of Commissioner of Police Joseph Mbu, President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP
Ake observed that the hostile approach deployed by the Police in disrupting several rallies in parts of the state had enormous implication for the whole country
Tumsah said anytime the decision to inaugurate the executive is taken, it will be the responsibility of the Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, to nominate the chairman
Atunwa, who read the letter of the defecting members in the Kwara State House of Assembly, said the defectors moved to the APC as a result of the crisis rocking the PDP
In a statement by his Personal Assistant (Media and Publicity), Wabiye Idoniboye-obu, Princewill encouraged the National assembly to screen and approve the “well thought out” candidates
This information was contained in Tukur’s congratulatory message to the new chairman on in Abuja on Tuesday