The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, has revealed the party and Obidients’ next line of action if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, fails to grant them permission to inspect the sensitive materials used in the conduct of the February 25, 2023, ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, said he has no grudges with the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, regarding his declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. Obi stated this while speaking ...

Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Two United States diplomats, Ambassador Mark Green and Johnnie Carson, have said even Nigerian citizens who supported the winners of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections in the country were disappointed with the electoral process. In a joint ...

Abiodun, Amosun renew tussle in Ogun By James Ogunnaike & Deola Badru SATURDAY’S governorship election in Oyo and Ogun states will not be a tea party for Governors Seyi Makinde of Oyo and Dapo Abiodun of Ogun. The outcome of the Presidential and National Assembly elections, in which ...

Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, said comments by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike that he was sipping a 40-year-old whisky while watching him, and others protest on national television confirmed that Wike spoke under the influence of alcohol.In ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has denied the allegation that it has refused to allow aggrieved political parties to inspect election materials as ordered by the Appeal Court. INEC National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, made the ...

The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja will on Monday begin the hearing of the Osun state 2022 governorship election appeal case. The battle to further determine the authentic winner of the July 16 Governorship election in Osun state has shifted to the Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja. Barring any ...

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has declared that he is not going to run for the presidency again. Wike while addressing party supporters during the governorship election campaign rally, said power will shift to the North after eight years in the South. Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives ...

In matters of election petitions, Richard Osuolale Abimbola Akinjide remains a legend. Having successfully determined the letters and spirit of the Electoral Decree of 1977, proving to the courts that Section 34 (A) (l) (c) (ii) of the Electoral Decree, means that two-thirds of a state is ...

Segun James The Labour Party (LP) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of frustrating its petition against the outcome of the 2023 presidential election by not allowing it to inspect election materials as ordered by the Appeal Court. LP also raised the alarm that ...

Ahead of the re-scheduled governorship and state assembly elections, there is apprehension in states where Labour Party, LP, recorded tremendous success at the presidential and National Assembly elections. The anxiety, which is based on the possibility of a repeat of LP’s feat at the polls, has ...

Following the conclusion of the presidential election, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said the emergence of the Labour Party, LP, flag bearer, Peter Obi ensured the emergence of a Southern President-elect. Wike disclosed this while naming Obi as the hero of the presidential election. ...

The Labour Party (LP) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of frustrating its petition against the outcome of the 2023 presidential election by not allowing it to inspect election materials as ordered by the Appeal Court.LP also raised the alarm that INEC had started ...

With the issuance of the certificate of returns to the members-elect of the House of Representatives by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the race for the principal offices, particularly the speaker, has begun, ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly on June 13, ...

Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on drainages, Joe Igbokwe has declared that the president-elect Bola Tinubu will remain Nigeria’s president until 2031 and thereafter, handover power to a northerner who will rule the country till 2039. Igbokwe, who is a chieftain of the ruling All ...

By Egufe Yafugborhi AHEAD of the governorship and state assemblies elections in Rivers state, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party have drifted into hate campaigns at winning the votes of the Igbo community in the state. On Friday at a road project ...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has claimed that former Anambra State Governor, Mr Peter Obi dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Labour Party, LP, because of moves by some politicians in the PDP to make sure power remained in the north. Wike stated this when he hosted, on a ...

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu has said the allegation that he rigged the presidential election could lead to a lawsuit. The electoral chief issued a reply to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, after the leadership, on Friday, asked him ...

Popular Nigerian actor turned politician, Desmond Elliot has again tendered a public apology for his insensitive comments about the youths during October 2020 EndSARS protest. Recall that the Lagos lawmaker representing the Surulere I constituency at the State legislature was dragged on social ...

In Nigeria, transfer of political power from parents to children is not new. Spouses ascending to political power through marital connection is also becoming a trend. Two weeks ago, Nigerians elected members of the National Assembly across the 109 senatorial districts and 360 federal ...

The Supreme Court has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to replace Ibrahim Shekarau with Rufai Hanga as the Kano Central senatorial candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). In a judgment delivered on Friday by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, the Supreme Court ...

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has slammed a former minister, Rotimi Amaechi for saying he loves the Igbo people. Amaechi, while moving around the Diobu area of Port Harcourt, campaigning for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, during the week, said that Igbo blood ...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said he did not support the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi overtly at the Feb. 25 election because nobody discussed Igbo presidency with him. According to NAN, Publicity Secretary of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Dr Alex ...

*Group urges INEC to use March 18 governorship to redeem image, earn Nigerians’ trust Chuks Okocha in Abuja The Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) has criticised foreign heads of states for hurriedly congratulating Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President elect, instead of first enquiring  from ...

The Lagos State Labour Party governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, says Nigerian youths are 90 per cent close to taking over governance and having their dream country materialise. The 40-year-old LP candidate disclosed this at a meeting tagged, “Youth O’ Clock” in Ikeja on Thursday, ...

Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Gift Habib, Dirisu Yakubu and Dirisu Yakubu The Labour Party, on Thursday, knocked the Independent National Electoral Commission, saying the electoral umpire deliberately came up with its idea of reconfiguring the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines after its ...

By Dickson Omobola SOME Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, under the aegis of Democracy Protection Coalition, DPC, yesterday, called on the Board of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to suspend the commission’s Chairman, Prof. Yakubu Mahmoud, over the conduct of the ...

By Ifunanya Obeme-Ndukwe Mixed reactions have continued to trail the ruling of the Court of Appeal in Abuja which gave the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the go ahead to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS. So many Nigerians took to their social media ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has vowed to chase the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, the National Chairman of the PDP, Iyorchia Ayu and some other leaders of the party out of the PDP. Gov. Wike made the vow at the commissioning of a road project ...

Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, Governorship candidate of the Labour Party, LP in Lagos State has chided politicians claiming that the state belongs to Yoruba people. Speaking while featuring on Channels Television Programme on Thursday, the LP candidate declared that politicians are out to divide ...

The Yoruba World Congress (YWC) has enjoined indigenes of Lagos and other residents who are of Yoruba ethnicity not to allow strangers take over the state. The group made the call while addressing a press conference in Ibadan on Thursday. A spokesman for the group, Babatunde Tolase while ...

By  Peter Dada The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has condemned the outcome of the February 25, 2023 Presidential Election, won by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu. The group also faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission on the conduct ...

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere on Wednesday disclosed that the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi was the winner of the just-concluded presidential election. According to the foremost Yoruba group, the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has  announced that it has shifted  the governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections scheduled to hold on Saturday, March 11 to March 18. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Voter Education and Publicity, Festus Okoye in a statement ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday returned to Daura, Katsina State, ahead of Saturday’s governorship election. Buhari travelled to Daura from Doha, Qatar where he spent the last four days. A statement by Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu said: “On arrival in Katsina, at 4.50pm, President ...

The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party LP, Mr Peter Obi has stormed the Court of Appeal, Abuja to witness the Court’s judgment in an application by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) seeking to vary the court’s order for inspection of materials used for the conduct of the ...

The Executive Director of Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo, has said the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, should postpone the forthcoming governorship election due to Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, reconfiguration. Itodo disclosed this on Wednesday in a Channels Television ...

Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election, Asari Dokubo, a former Niger Delta militant leader, has revealed what he wants from the next Governor of Rivers State that will take over from Gov. Nyesom Wike. Speaking on Arise Television’s The Morning Show on Wednesday, Dokubo said he wants the next ...

•Says electoral body learnt no lesson  •Fitch downgrades Nigeria’s short-term social stability, on Tinubu’s ‘weak’ mandate Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Chatham House, an independent policy institute based in London, has stated that from its analysis of the February 25 presidential election, it ...

By Francis Ugwu For the first time in many years, the forthcoming governorship elections appear unpredictable. This is as some State governors seeking reelection or who have positioned their preferred successors, are in a panic mode ahead of the March 11 gubernatorial election. The ...

The Labor Party has dissolved the party’s State Executive Council in Rivers State. The National Chairman of LP, Julius Abure said the decision followed alleged anti-party activities and corruption in the management of party funds in the state. Abure disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, ...

Former Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola has stated that he has no doubt in his mind that he would return to power soon. Oyetola, who stated that his mandate is very much intact and will be reclaimed soon, made this statement while giving a short remark during the 12-year remembrance ...

By  El-Ameen Ibrahim The Spokesperson for the Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Dino Melaye, has claimed the Independent National Electoral Commission spent over N400billion on the presidential election he described as “a caricature show”. The spokesperson disclosed this in a ...

By Dapo Akinrefon & Gabriel Olawale MEMBERS of Omo Eko Pataki, consisting of Olabode George, former deputy governor of Lagos State, Senator Kofoworaola Akerele-Bucknor, and Mrs. Onikepo Oshodi, yesterday, condemned threats to voters who refuse to support a particular political party on March ...

By John Alechenu and Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, were at loggerheads, over the conduct of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the protest embarked upon ...

Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has replied former Chief of Staff to former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, Tony Okocha, for claiming that his principal voted for the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential candidate, ...

The Labour Party presidential candidate in the just concluded February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi, has paid a visit to Jennifer Efedi who was attacked by hoodlums during the election. One of the spokespersons for the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Ndi Kato, disclosed this on ...

With five days to the governorship election, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Joe Igbokwe, has urged Igbos in the state to vote for the APC. Igbokwe urged Igbo communities in Lagos to repay the hospitality extended to them in Lagos State by voting for APC on ...

The Senior Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa, has called on the President-elect, Bola Tinubu to stop rejoicing over his victory at the just-concluded elections. The popular clergy who addressed journalists in Akure, Ondo State, on Sunday, asked Tinubu to ...

The Oyo State chapter of Labour Party has been engulfed in another crisis over the alleged endorsement of Governor Seyi Makinde. Makinde is seeking a second term on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). DAILY POST learnt that Sodiq Atayese, chairman of the Labour Party, and some ...