The partnership between Nigeria’s election umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and media practitioners in Delta State, was on recently taken a notch higher with the inauguration of INEC Press Corps, IPC, where the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Monday Udoh-Tom, a cleric, charged journalists in the state to help create awareness for registrants to…
Enugu State Labour Party Gubernatorial Crisis Worsens
A gloomy cloud is thickening around the electoral sky of Labour Party, LP, in Enugu State. If not dispersed with wisdom, it will rain disaster for the party in the gubernatorial election as they may not have any candidate to challenge the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate. Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate, may…
Ekiti: Fayemi Out, Oyebanji In
Biodun Oyebanji, the winner of the last governorship election in Ekiti State has taken over from Kayode Fayemi, until recently the chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, whose tenure ended Sunday October 16. Oyebanji won at a recent election, which is one of the off-season elections in Nigeria. He ran on the platform of…
2023: Atiku’s Policy Document, Roadmap to Nigeria’s Recovery- Okowa
Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, on Wednesday posited that the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s policy document signposted the preparedness of a man ready to salvage the country, andremained the hope of recovery for the nation. Okowa, governor of Delta State, who stated this at the inauguration of the…
Obaseki Did Not Endorse LP’s Peter Obi- Edo Governor’s Media Aide Clears the Air
Special Adviser to Edo State Governor on Media Projects, Crusoe Osagie, has refuted the news of his principal’s endorsement of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. The news of Obaseki’s touted endorsement of Obi had been supported with an old viral video in which Governor Obaseki, flanked by Obi and Doyin Okupe,…
Table Turns Against Orbih Faction of Edo PDP As Court Orders INEC to Accept Obaseki’s Candidates
Loyalists of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State are upbeat following the verdict of the Federal High Court, Benin which ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) to recognize and publish the names of candidates produced by his faction of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for the forthcoming 2023 elections. Recall that INEC had…
Boycott by Wike Group: Presidential Campaign Spokesman Clarifies Atiku’s Statement About PDP Moving On
Spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation, Charles Aniagwu, has said that the alleged boycott of the Campaign Council by the Governor Nyesom Wike group does not foreclose reconciliation with other stakeholders, stressing that the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, was still open for further dialogue. The Delta State commissioner of Information,…
2023: No Party Is Sure of Victory Yet- Obaseki
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday warned the political class against taking the electorate for granted, stating that Nigerians are fed up with inefficiencies and failures of government. Governor Obaseki who spoke to journalists in Benin, asserted that “No political party today can beat its chest and say they will win, or have a…
Obaseki Loses Out As INEC Jettisons List of Factional Candidates for Orbih’s
…State Chairman Says Governor’s Faction Awaits Supreme Court The Governor Godwin Obaseki-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State seems to have lost out in the battle for which side produces the candidates for the National and State Assembly elections in the 2023 general election. The list, published on Tuesday by the…
Atiku Set to Win Presidency, Form Government in 2023 – Aniagwu, Blames PDP crisis on personal ambition by certain leaders, not nomination of VP candidate
Delta State Commissioner for Information, Charles Aniagwu, says the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is set to win the 2023 general election and form the next government. Aniagwu says about the crisis rocking the major opposition party, that though a whole lot of issues have been raised, “one beautiful thing about this…
