Dikko Umar Radda, an All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, won the governorship election on March 18 on Saturday. Dikko, a former director of the SMEDA, received 859,892 votes, defeating PDP candidate Garba Yakubu Lado, who received 486,620. However, Prof. Ma’azu Abubakar Gusau, the returning officer for the Katsina governorship election, has not yet made the […]
In response to the alleged tampering with election results, the national leadership of the Labour Party (LP) on Sunday threatened to organize party supporters across the nation for a national protest. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is allegedly planning to rig the election results in the states of Abia and Enugu, according to a statement […]
An alleged attack on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Collation Center of the Ogoja State Constituency in Cross Rivers State was carried out by suspected political thugs of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In addition to beating numerous collation officers at the center, the thugs also vandalized voting equipment and louvres and took phones […]
Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has been called for arrest by Timi Frank, a former APC deputy national publicity secretary. In a previously reported brief video clip that was circulated online, Rotimi Amaechi, a former minister of transportation, claimed that the APC was not running against the People’s Democratic […]
Oyo State’s Governor Seyi Makinde has been re-elected to office for another term. On Saturday, voting took place in each of the state’s 33 local government areas. Makinde, who ran for office on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform, has been named the election’s victor. Makinde, who is running for reelection, defeated all other candidates, […]
At their various polling places in Eti-Osa LGA, Lagos, Chioma Akpotha, Kate Henshaw, and Waje are allegedly the targets of verbal and physical assaults. The celebrities took to their various social media platforms a few hours into the start of the governorship and state house of assembly elections on Saturday to describe their unpleasant experiences […]
Leloonu Nwibubasa, a PDP leader, claimed that Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike is intolerant of divergent opinions and is afraid of competition. In response to Wike’s declaration that he and 27 other state politicians were wanted, the spokesman for the PDP Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State made this clear in a statement on Friday. […]
During the ongoing Anambra State assembly election, thugs allegedly attacked Joseph Chukwujekwu Okeke, a Labour Party candidate for the Awka South II constituency. It was discovered that the thugs had broken into the Nibo neighborhood on Saturday in the state’s Awka South Local Government Area. In a widely shared video, the state assembly candidate could […]
Obiora Obeagu, the executive chairman of the Isi-Uzo Local Government Area in Enugu State, escaped being killed on Saturday by the youths in his village. The chairman and an unnamed woman were almost surrounded after they allegedly tried to buy votes in his polling place during the governorship and House of Assembly elections. Obeagu and […]
10 voting units in the state’s Victoria Garden City, Lekki area will not participate in the governor and house of assembly elections scheduled for this Saturday. This was said by Segun Agbaje, the Lagos State resident electoral commissioner for INEC, during a press conference on Saturday at the VGC. Agbaje claimed that members of the […]