According to INEC scribe, political parties are expected to commence campaign on November 16, 2014 for presidential and National Assembly elections, while campaigns for governorship and state houses of assembly will start November 30, 2014
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The governorship election for Ekiti State will take place on June 21, 2014, while that of Osun State is scheduled for August 9, 2014
He said the call violated some of the requirements for continued registration as a political party and as such should be deregistered
Mohammed said that the reservation was necessitated because the originating summons filed by the plaintiffs’ counsel was not ripe for hearing
Jega, who was receiving in audience, the United States of America Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, at the INEC headquarters, Abuja, said the Commission would only try its best but may be far from being perfect
The party members, who spoke to newsmen in Abuja, opined that the mutilation of the constitution may be a plot by the Interim NEC members to perpetuate themselves in office
The governor, in his own comments on the resignation of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, told journalists that it would not affect the gains of the APC
The stunning take-over of the House of Representatives by opposition Action Peoples Congress at the expense of the ruling Peoples…
Nwoye made the disclosure on Monday in Awka, during an interactive session with stakeholders of the party
On the status of the 2014 budget, Abaribe said that the Conference Committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives met on Tuesday to resolve the matter
Epoke said Tony Nwonye of the Peoples Democratic Party and Senator Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress scored 97,700 and 95,963 votes to emerge second and third respectively
The National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, expressed dissatisfaction at the presence of the armed policemen
Prior to the date for the Election, the ominous signs of an election that was pre-determined to favour specific interests against the run of the electorate support were already clear
The party, based on its last position on the election, insisted that only the total cancellation of the election, which it termed grossly-tainted and widely-manipulated, will be acceptable
No fewer than 113,113 were cancelled, a number that denied any of the candidates the required number of votes to be declared the winner
Ngige, who spoke on their behalf at a joint news conference in Awka on Sunday, urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a fresh poll in the state
The women, who gathered at Arroma Junction, marched through Alex Ekwueme Square to the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in the state capital
Nasarawa told the News Agency of Nigeria in Awka that the state Police Command was interrogating the official of the Independent National Electoral Commission but declined to mention the presumed offence
Addressing a news conference in Awka on Sunday, Nwoye alleged that the poll was manipulated by the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies for a particular political party
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the call for total cancellation supersedes its early call for a rerun in four local government areas and is based on the report it received from its agents as well as from local and foreign observers during the poll