Candidate of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NPP), Tracy Ebun and the candidate of All Peoples Party (APP), Osalumese Areloegbe, have revealed their intentions to challenge the outcome of the just-concluded Edo State governorship election. They said they were already consulting their political parties before deciding whether or not to approach the Election Petition Tribunal. Agol … Read more
Will President Donald Trump would leave the White House quietly if he were to lose reelection in November With questions swirling about whether President Donald Trump would leave the White House quietly if he were to lose reelection in November, several scenarios could play out between Election Day and Inauguration Day. FiveThirtyEight’s Geoffrey Skelley spoke … Read more
As a way of carrying out a peaceful election, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said the 14 political parties participating in the governorship elections in Edo state scheduled for September 19 would sign a peace accord in the coming days. The Chairman of INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, represented by his Chief Press Secretary, Rotimi … Read more
– Bayelsa Former Gov, Dickson says Diri remains the Governor of the state – Ekohotblog had earlier reported that the Bayelsa state governorship election tribunal sitting in Abuja cancelled the election of Duoye Diri, governor of Bayelsa state. – The tribunal ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a fresh election in Bayelsa … Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party, Lagos State chapter, has warned the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu not spend funds or use any resource that belongs to the state on the upcoming governorship elections in Ondo and Edo states. This was released in a press statement by the Lagos PDP’s spokesperson, Mr Gani Taofik. The party urged the Lagos … Read more
The Edo State People of Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Mr Chris Osa, the PDP’s Publicity Secretary in the state, Nehikhare said the meeting between Buhari and Ize-Iyamu was ill-advised and could dent … Read more
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are currently working out the guidelines and protocols for the forthcoming elections in Nigeria. Mr Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman PTF on COVID-19, made this known on Monday in Abuja. Read Also: Edo PDP … Read more
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has implored political parties to adopt virtual rallies where necessary. The agency issued the advisory in election guidelines published on Monday. The guidelines are to be followed for the conduct of elections in Nigeria amid COVID-19 pandemic. It said when such is not feasible, every individual attending rallies … Read more
The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello’s election in November 2019 governorship poll has been affirmed by the court in Abuja on Saturday, after dismissing four appeals challenging his victory. A five-man panel of justices of the court upheld Governor Bello’s election in a judgment. The court had dismissed the appeals filed by four political parties … Read more
Malawian voters defied COVID-19 on Tuesday to return to the polls for the second time in just over a year after President Peter Mutharika’s re-election was annulled in a dramatic court ruling. The hotly-anticipated re-run was ordered by the Constitutional Court, which declared that the May 2019 vote, narrowly won by Mutharika, was fraught with “grave … Read more
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released a framework for the conduct of elections during the COVID-19 pandemic. The elections at hand are the governorship polls in Edo and Ondo States holding on September the 19th and October the 10th this year. Apart from the governorship polls, the electoral umpire has also fixed dates … Read more
The electoral commission said on Friday that Ex-prime minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won Algeria’s widely unpopular presidential election without any need for a second-round runoff. Tebboune, 74, scored 58.15 percent of the vote, trouncing his four fellow contenders, commission chairman Mohamed Charfi announced. Like him, they all served under the two-decade rule of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday stepped up his accusations against Google, claiming without offering evidence that the technology company worked to subvert his 2016 presidential campaign. He also warned he was watching it “very closely’’, ahead of the 2020 election. Mr Trump, in a series of early posts on Twitter, also slammed Google’s Chief … Read more
Former Presiden, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, arrived South Africa, on Wednesday, where he will lead an observer mission to monitor the country’s general election scheduled for May 8. In a series of tweets, Jonathan said he would be heading the election observer mission of the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA). The former president … Read more
Jimi Agbaje, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the just concluded Lagos State governorship elections lost 68.75 per cent of the votes he polled in 2015. Agbaje, who lost to Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday, had contested and lost against the incumbent, Akinwunmi Ambode in 2015. He polled 659,738 … Read more
Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, the member representing Kwara South senatorial district at the National Assembly, has been arrested by the Police. Ibrahim, who is seeking a second term in office, was arrested by the Kwara State Police Command on Thursday. The Senator’s arrest is coming less than 24 hours to the rescheduled presidential and National Assembly … Read more
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