Nigerian human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu has condemned the just concluded Gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections. She cried out over the rate of tribal sentiments employed by politicians in the 2023 general elections. Yesufu gave her expression in a post via her verified Twitter handle on Sunday. Recall that some persons in Lagos,…
Security agencies have been called out by presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore over their actions and performance in the 2023 governorship and State Houses of Assembly Elections. Sowore accused the police and other security agencies of working against the voters during the February 25 and March 18 elections. Sowore wondered…
Spokesperson for the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Festus Keyamo, has congratulated Desmond Elliot for emerging winner of the Surulere 1 constituency seat. Desmond reportedly defeated the youthful Olumide Oworu of the Labor Party. LP Supporters, popularly known as Obidients, had vowed to vote for Oworu to defeat Desmond…
A 26-year-old lady, Rukayat Shittu, contesting for the Owode/Onire Constituency in Asa Local Government Area in the Kwara State House of Assembly election has been declared winner. Shittu is a former Senate President of the Congress of Students at the National Open University of Nigeria. In the result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s…
Arumodum Julius Akoi, an ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been gunned down by political thugs in Ward 7 Abua Central, Abua-Odual local government area of Rivers State. The incident happened during the governorship and House of Assembly election on Saturday, March 18, 2023. According to the GIOTV, the ad hoc…
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Peter Nweke, is dead. He died from injuries he sustained during attacks by hoodlums on the governorship and Assembly elections day. Ebonyi State Police Public Relations Officer, Onome Onovwakpoyeya, who confirmed Nweke’s death, said the PDP chairman was…
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday declared the Oyo State Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Seyi Makinde, as the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the state. The state Resident Electoral Commission, Tella Adeniran, declared Makinde the winner of the poll on Sunday. Details later…
Ex-Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo did not 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 1999 that the two-time Nigerian leader will not vote in…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has stated that there were improvements by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the conduct of the governorship and House of Assembly elections. The NBA President, Mr Yakubu Maikyau, SAN, said this at a virtual news conference from Kebbi, where he observed the elections. Maikyau said that from the…
Bayo Onanuga, the spokesperson for Bola Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council, on Sunday pushed an outright exclusion of Nigerians of Igbo extraction from Lagos political power, marking an escalation of ethnic controversies that enveloped the governorship election of March 18. “Let 2023 be the last time of Igbo interference in Lagos politics,” Mr Onanuga said, tweeting…