By  Segun Adewole A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has described Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections in Lagos State as a disgrace to the country. The governorship election was a three-horse race among incumbent Governor ...

By Evelyn Usman, LAGOS Pandemonium broke out, yesterday, at Omonile, Abule-Ado community in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State, after thugs launched an attack on residents of the area, leaving many of them injured. Some shops were destroyed while windscreens of cars parked on ...

By Muhammad Bukar The Kano State government has imposed dawn to dusk curfew with a view to avoid breakdown of law and order following tensions generated from the collation of results of the governorship and state Assembly elections. The state commissioner for information and internal ...

Kenneth Okonkwo, one of the spokespersons for Peter Obi, the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in the February 25 election, has vowed that it shall never be well with the enemies of Nigeria. Okonkwo made the declaration in a post via his Twitter handle on Sunday. Okonkwo, a veteran ...

Thugs, in the wee hours of Monday, went wild in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, smashing cars and inflicting injuries on motorists and other passersby. The youths who had expected that the APC governorship candidate in Adamawa State, Senator Aishatu Ahmed Binani would be declared ...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has been declared winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Lagos state. He was declared winner by the INEC returning officer at 01.15am Monday. The Governor won 19  of the 20 local government councils in the state, scoring 762,134 votes. His closest rival ...

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara state as the winner of the 2023 governorship election in the state. The governor won the poll to serve a second term of another four years in office under the platform of the All ...

Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC Dapo Abiodun has won the Ogun State Governorship election. Abiodun was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday. The incumbent governor, who is standing for a second and final term, beat his closest ...

The Labour Party, LP, has threatened to mobilize protests around Nigeria, alleging that election results are being manipulated by the opposition in Abia and Enugu States. This was made known in a statement signed by the party’s national chairman, Julius Abure, on Sunday. Abure claimed that ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has announced the results of the Saturday gubernatorial elections in 15 local government areas of Lagos State. According to the commission, the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate and the incumbent governor of the state Babajide Sanwo-Olu ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has won the gubernatorial election in the state for another term. The election was conducted in all the 33 local government areas of the state on Saturday. Makinde who contested on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared the winner ...

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Peter Nweke is dead. Nweke’s died from injuries sustained from an attack by hoodlums suspected to be political thugs during the Gubernatorial and Assembly elections on Saturday. Onome ...

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State is currently leading all other candidates in the gubernatorial election in the state. The election was held in all 33 local government areas of the state on Saturday. DAILY POST reports that three major candidates contested the election, they include ...

Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo failed to show up at his polling unit 22, Ward 11, Olusomi compound, Totoro, area of Abeokuta-North local government area of the state, Ogun State, during Saturday’s governorship and state House of Assembly elections. This was the first time since ...

By Gabriel Ewepu AN election observer, Yiaga Africa, Saturday, expressed displeasure and pain over eruption of violence recorded in polling units of some States, secrecy of ballot compromised, and other critical incidences during the governorship and State Assembly elections conducted by the ...

Former federal lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani has alleged that some politicians are using the old naira notes to buy votes in Kaduna State. In a tweet on Saturday night, the former governorship aspirant in Kaduna State, said people were being paid N1000 to N2000 to vote for a particular party. ...

A former minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has lamented the activities of thugs in the ongoing governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections, particularly in Lagos State. The 2023 Lagos State gubernatorial election was marred by highly level of violence and intimidation and the ...

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom on Saturday lost the two polling units in Benue State Government House in Makurdi, the state capital to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Ortom’s anointed candidate and the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the ongoing gubernatorial ...

The governorship candidate of the Labour Party has lost his polling unit 045, OSHIFILA/Abule Igbira of Ikeja Local Government, to the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in Saturday’s Lagos State gubernatorial poll. See results: LP: 18 APC: 29 PDP: 2 Void: 1 Registered voters: ...

Nollywood Actress, Chioma Akpotha on Saturday said she was attacked by thugs in Lagos State. The actress who was at the polling unit when the incident occurred made this known in a video on her Instagram page. She said the thugs destroyed her side mirror and she ran for her life. “They ...

At least three persons suspected to be political thugs have been killed in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State. DAILY POST gathered that the thugs invaded the polling units 026 and 004, Gboko South while electoral processes were ongoing and attempted to snatch ballot boxes and the Bimodal ...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council has accused Peter Obi, the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, of making inflammatory comments. The ruling party in a statement on Friday knocked the former Anambra governor for repeatedly condemning the victory of ...

There is currently an abysmal turnout of voters in Anambra State, after the huge number of people that thronged polling centres for the Presidential election, last three weeks. Polling centres visited in Awka, the State capital, showed near empty units as staff of the Independent National ...

By  Dennis Naku Governorship candidates of some political parties in Rivers State on Friday stormed the state police headquarters, protesting alleged intimidation by Governor Nyesom Wike ahead of Saturday’s election. The candidates are Senator Magnus Abe of the Social Democratic Party, Tonye ...

Via: THISDAY TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2023   4:05am YPP Rejects A’Ibom Guber, House of Assembly Election Results Okon Bassey in Uyo The Young Progressives Party (YPP), Akwa Ibom State, has totally condemned and rejected  the conduct of the governorship and State House of ...

By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor AFTER one week of postponement, the stage is finally set. The Governorship and State Assembly elections will be held today. There will also be 11 senatorial and 35 House of Representatives polls that were not concluded or conducted on February 25. In spite ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has banned party agents or anyone affiliated to political parties from taking Point of Sale (POS) machines to polling units across Anambra State. Also banned from being taken into polling centres are any material that are capable of being used ...

Musiliu Akinsanya a.k.a. MC Oluomo said his warning to Igbos not supporting the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Lagos election, was a joke. The Chairman of Lagos State Parks Management Committee issued a subtle threat at a gathering on Thursday. Oluomo had told the people of Southeast ...

As the electoral battle for the soul of Lagos State  gathers momentum, the Director-general of Labour Party’s Presidential Campaign, Akin Osuntokun, yesterday, accused the All Progressives Party (APC) in Lagos State of playing the ethnic card  ahead of the saturday’s governorship and state house of ...

This is seen in a viral video in which the loyalist to Bola Tinubu was addressing a gathering and warning their Igbo neighbours not to bother going to the polling units on Saturday if they intended to vote for candidates other than the ruling party's flag bearers. The Lagos State ...

In recent years, the black community has become more and more involved in politics. With the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the election of Barack Obama, the black community has shown that it is a force to be reckoned with. However, some believe that politics is a tool that is used to ...

Security operatives attached to the convoy of the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai on Thursday evening, clashed with Shi’ite members in Bakin Ruwa Area of Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The development, according to reports, resorted to the death of at least four persons, ...

Bola Tinubu, the President-elect, has said his focus is to form a government of national competence rather than that of national unity to address Nigeria’s challenges. Tinubu said this in a statement personally signed on Thursday in Abuja. The statement read in part, “As your incoming ...

No fewer than three people have reportedly lost their lives as a result of a clash between supporters of two political parties in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The three people reportedly lost their lives when supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ...

Some Nigerians are still not accepting the outcome of the February 25 presidential election, two weeks after the winner was announced. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on March 1 declared Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the President-elect. But the ...

A chieftain of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo socio-political organization, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, on Thursday, informed the President-elect, Bola Tinubu why Igbos would vote for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State during Saturday’s governorship election. Isiguzoro assured Tinubu that Igbos would vote ...

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said Saturday’s governorship election would decide who owns Lagos State. This was as Fani-Kayode said Lagos State would face the stiffest test and challenge on the identity of the state. In a tweet, he urged Yorubas and ...

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said he would not accept any offer to be part of Bola Tinubu’s Government of National Unity. Tinubu, the president-elect and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been dragged to court by Obi over the outcome of the ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu Weeks after the presidential election, many Nigerians have kept hopes alive, believing that their preferred candidate can still be declared winner, this time, not by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, but by the court- the last hope of the common man. ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it did not remove the names of Igbo and South South people from the list of ad hoc staff for Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections in Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that rumours making the ...

The founder of Anap Foundation, Atedo Peterside, on Wednesday, said those rushing to congratulate the president-elect, Bola Tinubu are doing so because they have not seen available evidence alleging that the presidential election was rigged. The foremost economist, who spoke in an interview with ...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has claimed that his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, left the main opposition party because of constant insults from Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. Atiku, who spoke through Phrank Shaibu, his ...

The Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja on Wednesday dismissed two motions filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), President-elect, Mr Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives ...

The founder of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Atedo Peterside has said that he is completely disappointed with the Independent National Electoral Commission’s performance, which produced Ahmed Bola Tinubu as the president-elect, saying that the result uploaded by the commission during the presidential ...

By Henry Umoru ABUJA-Outgoing British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Catriona Laing, has said though there were set backs in the Saturday, February, 25, presidential and National Assembly elections, there were positive developments to take out of the polls. According to her, there is a ...

By Seun Opejobi As Nigerians file out on Saturday, certain factors might play a major role in deciding the governorship candidates they would vote for during the polls. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had rescheduled the governorship and state Houses of Assembly ...

Seven states have been identified as potential hotspots of violence ahead of Saturday’s rescheduled governorship and state assembly elections. Following the pre-election violence occasioned by clashes between supporters of the major political parties in the seven states, fear has enveloped ...

Segun James Barely five days to the gubernatorial election, nine governorship candidates and the leadership of their political parties in Lagos State have stepped and declared support for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The candidates under the auspices of Alliance of Registered Political ...

By Omeiza Ajayi, John Alechenu & Olayinka Ajayi,ABUJA The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has asked Nigerians not to accept the outcome of a rigged election as the will of God. He said the problem of Nigerians over the years was accepting what was wrong and ...

Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of imputing wrong figures while transferring results to the backend server. Melaye, a spokesperson to the presidential candidate of the PDP in the just concluded February 25 ...