Alhaji Ahmed Biambo, Director, Voter Education and Publicity, INEC office, Lokoja, disclosed this on Wednesday on the sideline of a one- day sensitisation forum organised by the commission for persons living with disabilities.
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Idibia made the call at a Peace Concert on “Vote Not Fight, Election No Be War”, organised by participation Initiative for Behavioural Change in Development in collaboration with National Democratic Institute on Tuesday in Lokoja.
The Peoples Democratic Party has urged the National Assembly to invoke its statutory powers and directly channel the N10.069 billion presidential funds for payment of salaries and pensions of suffering Kogi State workers.
The request is contained in a letter addressed to President of Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan by President Muhammadu Buhari.
This was contained in a letter forwarded to the National Assembly by Buharu.It was read during plenary on Tuesday by the Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan.
The Peoples Democratic Party has said the “rejected All Progressives Congress and their unpopular governorship candidates” cannot score up 20 per cent of the votes in the November 16 Kogi and Bayelsa States governorship elections.
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, fixed October 22 for ruling on an application filed by the Social Democratic Party and its governorship candidate, Natasha Akpoti.
Festus Okoye, INEC Federal Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education, disclosed this on Tuesday during a sensitisation programme at the Federal College of Education, Okene.
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, gave the warning in a statement in Lokoja, saying the divisive politics on the basis of ethnicity would not in any way take the APC too far.
Smart Adeyemi, Director- General, Bello/Onoja Campaign Organisation, says that the All Progressives Congress does not believe in violence and has no thugs.
Festus Okoye, Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, INEC said this on Thursday during a “Youth Campus” sensitisation programme organised by the Commission at the Niger-Delta University, Amassoma, Bayelsa.
In a statement issued by her Media Office in Abuja on Wednesday, Audu said that with her experience in grassroots politics, she had what it “takes to set up a workable and result-oriented system”.
The Kogi State Police Command said that it had recovered a Toyota Corola car recently snatched by a three-man robbery gang in Anambra.
Festus Okoye, the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja.
The 24-year old student, a fresher, was allegedly attacked and killed by the gunmen on Thursday.
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Friday said it had rejected 14 invalid submitted nominations by political parties for the November 16, 2019 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States.
The Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the disclosure on Thursday in Lagos during the Anniversary Colloquium marking the Press Week of the Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists.
Ahead of the November Governorship election in Kogi, Umar Bamaiyi of the All Blending Party says he has no plan to step down for any candidates contesting the election.
Yahaya made the disclosure while addressing newsmen after a stakeholders meeting at the state emergency operation centre on Saturday in Lokoja.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has directed its officials to identify any risk or threat that may disrupt the conduct of the November 16 governorship election in Kogi.