The Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and his rival, Hon. Ladi Adebutu of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have cast their votes at their respective polling units in Iperu area of Ikenne Local government area of the state. While, Dapo Abiodun voted at his unit 3 ward 1 in Ita Osanyin area of Iperu Read More
Political thugs in Akesan and Ilasamaja, Isolo wards of Oshodi-Isolo Local Government area of Lagos State have unleashed mayhem on intending voters, beating them. It was gathered that voters around Akinyemi street were flogged with their PVCs because they do not bear Yorùbá name. A caller told Blueprint that: “They are chasing and beating us not to vote. They came with Read More
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Lagos state, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour popularly known as GRV has alleged that the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government takes its strength and validity from voter intimidation. According to him, the indigenous of Lagos are informed and exposed, but added that unfortunately the APC government takes its strength from division, violence, intimidation and Read More
As Nigerians round up the 2023 general elections with gubernatorial and state assembly elections, the polls have been fraught with low turnout of voters at the polling units visited in Chikun and Kaduna North local government areas. Though materials arrived most of the polling units with an hour of kickoff of elections, unlike the presidential and National Assembly polls, the Read More
Voting at Jabi Road Polling Unit 009 Kaduna North local government area of Kaduna state was made easy following organised arrangement by the residents in the area. There were three tents in the area one for the electoral officers and men, one for women and the third for youth. Names has been written and numbers listed once a voter comes Read More
The gubernatorial candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Ogun state, Barr. Biyi Otegbeye has cast his vote. Otegbeye cast his vote at about 10:01am at the State hospital, Ilaro, Ward 1, Unit 1, in Egbado South local government area of the state. Speaking with newsmen after casting his vote, Otegbeye commended the electoral process saying that, it is Read More
Gombe state Governorship and State House of Assembly election has recorded a large turnout of female voters in most polling units in the state. Our Correspondent reports that in Gombe and Yamaltu/Deba local government areas, women have come out en masse to cast their vote. Aishatu Muhammad Jibirin of Unguwan Birma in the Liji quarter of Yamaltu/Deba who spoke with Read More
The All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship andidate in Ebonyi state, Rt. Hon Francis Nwifuru, Saturday described the ongoing electoral process in the state as peaceful and calm. He commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for living up to the expectations of the electorates. Nwifuru disclosed this shortly after casting his vote at his polling unit, Edukwu Okenmini 002, Anyawu Read More
President-elect Asíwájú Bola Tinubu casting his vote in the ongoing Governorship/ State House of Assembly election this morning at his polling station on Kadiri Street, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos
Ten members of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) masquerading as election observers in the ongoing governorship and State House of Assembly elections have been apprehended in Fagge Local Government Area of Kano state. PlatinumPost gathered that the arrest came as voters are set to exercise their franchise to elect governor and members of the state House of Assembly. The Read More
Progressives Consultative Forum (PCF) has said that former governor of Bayelsa state and Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre is unfit to fly the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the coming governorship election. The group said Sylvia’s political inconsistency in recent times made him unfit for the party’s ticket. A statement released Friday in Abuja, signed Read More
Following the declaration by the national body of Labour Party that it has no governorship candidate in Ebonyi state for the saturday elections, the state executive has splitted into two factions over the choice of political party to support. While a faction led by the state chairman declared support for the governorship candidate of APC, other executive members led by Read More
The Rebuild Nigeria Movement Worldwide (RNMW) has called on the political class and their supporters against using primordial and religious sentiments for their political campaigns. The national coordinator of the group, Amb. James Erebuoye, made the appeal in a statement Friday in Abuja ahead of Saturday’s Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections. He also warned supporters of some candidates Read More
Barely 24 hours to Saturday March 18, 2023 governorship and state House of Assembly elections, the Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, has called for immediate arrest of top politicians in the state. The governor alleged that 27 politicians in the state are piloting to disrupt the governorship and House of Assembly elections with armed thugs, cultists, and gangsters in military Read More
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, has lambasted the Rivers state governor, Nyesome Wike. He said despite the involvement of Wike in the victory of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, that he can not be brought into governance. The former Vice President said Tinubu cannot invite Wike to his dinner Read More
Ahead Saturday March 18, 2023 governorship election across the country, the national leadership of the Labour Party (LP) has directed its governorship candidate in Plateau State, Dr. Patrick Dakum, to step down for his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Chief Caleb Mutfwang. LP said the move became necessary to “have a better working relationship with Mutfwang, and to join forces Read More
Kano state government has raised the alarm over credible information it received on planned use of suspected election observers by members of the opposition New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in the state to perpetrate a network of election rigging during and after the conduct of Saturday, March 18 governorship and state House of Assembly election. The state commissioner for information Read More
A group under the aegis of Coalition of Nigerian Youths (CNY) has urged the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to consider appointing the Deputy National Youth Coordinator of his presidential campaign council, Dr Nicolas Felix, as one of his ministers. In a statement released Thursday in Abuja by the group convener, Umar Gazali, and titled “Coalition of Nigerian Youth Groups recommend Read More
The President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has rallied Nigerians across political divides to support his incoming administration, even as he ruled out talk of forming a government of national unity when he eventually swear in, adding that he will rather a form a government of ‘national competence.’ Tinubu also declared that in selecting his cabinet he will not be weighed down Read More
In preparation for the 18th March gubernatorial and state assembly elections, the Bauchi State Office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced the distribution of sensitive materials to the 20 LGAs in the state. At the distribution exercise at the Bauchi branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mohammed Nura assured Read More
Osun state governor, Ademola Adeleke, has declared Friday 17th March as a public holiday for the house of assembly election. He said the holiday was to enable residents to travel to their respective polling units to vote on Saturday. In a statement by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, Thursday, Adeleke urged the people to go out and exercise their civic rights. He Read More
National Vice Chairman, North-west of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Mallam Salihu Moh. Lukman, has dismissed threats of a lawsuit made against him by the National Secretary of the party, Senator Iyiola Omisore over alleged allegation of defamation by the former. Lukman said the statements he made in his press statements were fact. In a letter by his lawyers, Read More
A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Thursday condemned in strong terms a statement credited to the outgoing British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, about the recent presidential and National Assembly democratic election in the country. Laing was recently quoted in media reports to have called on Nigerians to be Read More
A group under the aegies of Concerned Niger Youths (CNY), has said allegations bothering on money laundering and other sharp practices against Liman Isah Kantagi, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate are enough to disqualify him as a governorship candidate in the state. The group said the state deserved a personality whose hands are not tainted and soiled by allegations Read More
The ongoing exchange of hot words continued Thursday between the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Secretary, Iyiola Omisore and the party’s National Vice Chairman, Salihu Moh Lukman, over allegation that the former mismanaged the campaign funds allocated for Osun governorship election in 2022. Lukman has, however, responded to Omisore’s letter, saying though wrongly dated his lawyer will respond to the Read More
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