In a statement from the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the APC criticised Yiaga Africa for allegedly attempting to second-guess INEC’s authority. Morka described the group’s actions as overstepping their mandate as election observers. He also stressed that election observers such as Yiaga Africa should respect INEC’s statutory role and refrain from encroaching on […]
Amadi’s statement comes after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared the All Progressives Congress, APC’s Monday Okpebholo as winner of the Edo State governorship election. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had also rejected the result declared by the INEC. PDP’s state collation agent for the party Tony Iyoha, alleged that the results from two […]
Reports say that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC conducted the election on September 21, 2024. Obaseki lost his local government, Oredo, to the main opposition party, APC. The All Progressives Congress polled 30,780 votes while the PDP scored 24,938 votes. Idahosa who is the incumbent lawmaker representing the Ovia Federal constituency in the National […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission ,INEC, has announced the time it will commence the collation of results for Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State. In a statement from the commission’s Resident Electoral Commissioner Anugbum Onuoha, the collation would kick off by 10 am. The collation will take place at INEC head office in Benin, Edo capital. […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission has uploaded over 73.67 per cent of the results from the Edo governorship election onto its Result Viewing Portal. Reports confirmed that 3329 results out of 4,519 polling units where elections held in the state have been uploaded. Recall that Anugbum Onuoha, the Resident Electoral Commissioner ,REC, in Edo, had […]
The OSSIEC chairman, Hashim Abioye revealed that the political parties affected included the All Progressives Congress, APC, Allied Peoples Movement, APM, and Action Peoples Party, APP. OSSIEC has scheduled the local government elections in the state for February 22, 2025. The OSSIEC chairman, Hashim Abioye, while presenting the report of the commission’s verification committee to […]
Abure made this statement at a media briefing by the factional National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja. He also alleged that Obi and Otti had betrayed all that the Labour Party ever stood for, stressing that the duo now take sides with INEC which according to him disappointed Nigerians […]
According to the party chieftains who spoke to newsmen, the postponement of the NEC meeting from the earlier date of September 26 to October 24 is a deliberate move to undermine the party’s engagement on crucial issues. The PDP 99th NEC meeting, initially scheduled for August 15 to discuss issues such as the replacement of […]
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has stated that President Bola Tinubu did not sign a peace accord when he was a presidential candidate in 2023. Kukah, one of the conveners of the National Peace Committee headed by former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar, made this known in Benin City […]
Edo guber: Ighodalo sues Oshiomhole over alleged defamatory comments
Afinju FM 17 September 2024
Ighodalo slammed the former governor with a N20 billion lawsuit. The governorship candidate, through his counsel, Ayo Asala ,SAN, & Associates, also sought an immediate retraction and apology for the false, defamatory, and malicious comments which should be published in at least two National Television Networks and three nationally circulating newspapers. He noted that the […]