The Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Abdulaziz Garba Gafasa and the House Majority Leader, Kabiru Hassan Dashi, have resigned their positions. Member representing Doguwa, Salisu Ibrahim Riruwai, confirmed the resignation of the duo. No specific reason has been given for the decisions. The resignation letters were received […]
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A former candidate of the House of Representatives, Fatai Aborode, has been shot dead in Oyo State. The Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Olugbenga Fadeyi, disclosed this in a statement copied signed on Saturday. According to the statement copied channelstv, the incident happened at about 17:50om on Friday. […]
Rivers state governor Nyesom Wike has accused the national working committee of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of only being interested in extending their stay in office and not win elections in 2023. Speaking during an exclusive interview with AIT on Friday, Wike accused the national working committee of causing […]
Five people have been killed in violence linked to Ghana’s elections, the police said on Wednesday. “Sixty-one electoral and post-electoral incidents nationwide” were reported, they said in a statement issued two days after the vote. Of these, 21 “are true cases of electoral violence, six of which involve gunshots resulting […]
Professor Mahmood Yakubu was on Wednesday sworn in for a second term as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and believes elections in the country are getting better. “We have clearly demonstrated in recent elections that elections are getting better and better and elections will continue to […]
Governor of Ekiti State Dr. Kayode Fayemi has said that he is not an advocate of zoning. Fayemi’s comment comes on the heels of various calls to have a President of Southeastern extraction. Many from the region have over the years felt marginalized and believe that 2023 is the year […]
Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson has won Saturday’s Bayelsa West Senatorial bye-election by a landslide. Dickson, who represents the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, polled 115,257 votes to defeat his rival, Peremobowei Ebebi of the All Progressives Congress who got 17,500 votes. The former governor was thus declared winner […]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has congratulated the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Mr. Tokunbo Abiru, on his emergence as the Senator-elect for Lagos East Senatorial District. The Governor also congratulated the APC candidate for Kosofe State Constituency II, Mr. Obafemi Saheed, who emerged victorious in last Saturday’s by-election. […]
Bauchi State governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, on Sunday called on members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and their supporters to accept the party’s defeat in Saturday’s state House of Assembly bye election in Dass constituency with dignity and spirit of sportsmanship. The governor, who described PDP’s loss of […]
The senator-elect for Lagos-East senatorial district and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tokunbo Abiru, has promised to live up to the expectations of his constituents who gave him the mandate. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had earlier on Sunday announced that Abiru polled a total of 89,204 […]
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