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Surulere 2 Constituency Step Out to campaign for Sanwo-Olu Elections in Nigeria are usually highly contested and emotionally charged events. Nigerians have a long history of political activism, and the elections provide an opportunity for citizens to express their views and participate in the democratic process.
Dino Melaye has laughed off the nullification of his senatorial election by the Kogi State National Assembly/State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal. A three-man panel, led by Justice A. O. Chijioke, in a unanimous judgment, accepted Smart Adeyemi’s request and ordered a fresh election in Kogi West. Adeyemi, who ran on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had asked the Tribunal to nullify the election on the grounds that there were cases of irregularities including over-voting and non-compliance with the electoral act.
New facts have emerged over the trailer accident that occurred on Saturday night in Iworoko, Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ekiti State, killing many persons. It has been revealed that the truck was transporting branded rice, some of which had posters of a senatorial candidate of the Ondo State All Progressives Congress (APC), Tayo Alasoadura, from Abuja, and was en route the Ifaki-Iworoko road in Ado Ekiti, when the incident occurred. The truck belonged to the Dangote Group and was transiting from Ado Ekiti to Iju/Ita Ogbolu in Ondo State to deliver the rice. It suddenly lost control at about…
Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari has publicly condemned the All Progressives Congress (APC) for its inability to conduct a free and fair party election. The First Lady shared a statement via social media on Sunday morning where she made it known that the party is overridden by impunity despite being run by a comrade, Adams Oshiomole who supposedly fights for the cause of the common man.
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that the emergence of Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will enable an easy victory for the PDP in next year’s governorship election in the state. The party’s Publicity Secretary, Gani Taofik, said the APC and Sanwo-Olu would be beating black and blue. The party also added that a national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, rejected the second term bid of the incumbent governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, because of alleged disagreement in the sharing of the state’s resources.
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly and factional senatorial candidate in the 2019 general election has been expelled with immediate effect from the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by Cyril Abeye Ogodo It was gathered that an emergency meeting of the State Working Committee (SWC ) was held in Asaba on Wednesday, and the party revealed its decision to expel Omo Agege from the party followed his “unabated involvement in anti-party activities”.
Minister of Women Affairs, Senator Aisha Alhassan aka Mama Taraba has reportedly resigned from President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet. She says she received her disqualification with SHOCK and that a great injustice has been done to her and if she is not qualified to contest for governorship under APC then she cannot serve in an APC led government.
The battle for the soul of Lagos State took a strange twist yesterday when Governor Akinwunmi Ambode boldly told a meeting of leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, at the Bourdillon, Ikoyi home of the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, that he will not step down for their preferred candidate in the 2019 governorship race in the state.
Thirty-six out of the 40 lawmakers of the Lagos State House of Assembly have declared their support for Babajide Sanwoolu to emerge as the next governor of the state. The lawmakers took the decision at the parliamentary meeting held on Saturday at the Lagos State House of Assembly Complex.
In what seems to be a slip of tongue, Oshiomhole, might just have said what his mind really thought about the Osun Governorship election. Though he was able to correct his words in a split of a second, it was already out before eating back his word. In the video, Oshiomhole says that, only people who can accept the pain of “rigging”before quickly realising his mistake and changing his statement to “defeat” during a live “victory” speech after the emergence of APC as the winner of the Osun state gubernatorial election. This clip was shared by Dino Melaye some hours back. DOWNLOAD…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PPD), Uche Secondus, has labeled Thursday’s rerun election in Osun as a black day for Nigeria. This he made at a meeting with the National working Committee of the party in Abuja, where they rejected the results announced by INEC which saw Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress emerge winner.
Congratulations are in order for Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, the new governor-elect of Osun state and a politician on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC. On Thursday morning, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Oyetola winner of governorship election. Following his emergence as governor-elect, here are eight things you should know about him.
Report has it that a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, burst into tears during a meeting with leaders of the party over the issues between him and Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode. The meeting saw former governors of Osun and Ogun States, Chief Bisi Akande and Aremo Segun Osoba, leading Ambode to beg Tinubu who is said to have dropped support for his re-election bid. Tinubu is said to be supporting a former Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, ahead of the September 29 primary election to decide the party’s flagbearer. The Guardian…
A last-minute effort by the wife of the Lagos State Governor, Bolanle Ambode, to save her husband’s job was said to have hit a brick wall on Tuesday.
The PDP has described the development Of Senator Dariye picking up a nomination form from Prison as “shocking, strange and embarrassing.” “It is shocking that a convict serving a 14-year jail term will be given a nomination form to contest an election. This is just ridiculous,’’ Mr Ben Shignugul, PDP Vice Chairman (Plateau Central), told NAN.
Senate President Bukola Saraki has assured party members in Lagos State that he will do everything within his reach to ensure the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) produces the next governor of the state. According to Saraki who is a presidential aspirant on the platform of the PDP, he has the medicine of the man who is regarded as the godfather terrorizing Lagos.