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The affected states, Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Kogi, Ondo and Osun, will not be participating because their governorship elections held at different times or off season. This was mainly due to court judgments that nullified the election of their governors at different times in the past. However, the State Houses of Assembly elections will be […]
Nigeria will conduct governorship elections on Saturday March 9, 2019 in 29 States of the federation. Here are the front-line candidates in all the states where the elections will hold, except for states where candidates of political parties have been excluded because of litigation. Delta State Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa (PDP) Great Ovedje Ogboru (APC) Abia […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to do his best to improve Nigeria before he retires to his native Daura, Katsina State after the end of his second term. The president won the recently-conducted presidential election and will be sworn in for a second term on May 29, 2019 even though his victory is being contested […]
Justice Abdul Aboki, Chairman of the tribunal led two other justices to give the ruling in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the PDP is listed as the second applicant. Aboki, however, turned down the applicants prayer for access to scan and conduct forensic audit on all the electoral materials, including technology […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has filed an ex parte application before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to give it access to inspect materials used for the 2019 presidential election. The party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, lost the February 23 election to President Muhammadu Buhari of the […]
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has finally reacted to rumours that he has been asked by President Muhammadu Buhari to begin packing his wares out of his office, ahead of a sack announcement. The social media space has been rife with rumours that Buhari has fired Emefiele, pending a statement […]
APC’s woeful outing in Ajimobi’s expected stronghold has prompted protests from party leaders, with Bola Tinubu, the National leader, now personally overseeing the campaigns in a desperate bid to prevent a potential surrendering of the governorship to the PDP. Abiola Ajimobi, the outgoing Governor of Oyo State, can no longer attend governorship campaign events of […]
Women leaders in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have banned the party chairman, Adams Oshiomhole from Imo state. The women made this known while protesting the suspension of the Imo state Governor, Rochas Okorocha by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling party. The NWC announced the suspension of Okorocha and some others […]
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, has for the umpteenth time slammed publications insinuating that he is working behind the scenes to enthrone Mr. Jimi Agbaje, PDP governorship candidate in the state, as his successor. Ambode lost a bitter APC governorship primary election to Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, in October of 2018. The loss would automatically […]
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended both Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, and Imo governor, Rochas Okorocha, for anti-party activities. The Adams Oshiomhole-led committee reached its decision during a meeting in Abuja on Friday, March 1, 2019, and has forwarded a recommendation to the party’s national executive committee […]