The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has again raised fresh fears that the forthcoming general election faces serious threats of cancellation and postponement if security challenges across parts of the country fails to improve. Its Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, who expressed the concerns, also warned that the cancellation or postponement of elections due to insecurity in … [Read more…]
About 48 days to the presidential election, there are fresh concerns over the perceived harassment by some security agencies of some key figures of government with key responsibilities in the conduct of the polls. Such harassment, it was gathered, might be to force such officials to step down from their positions, an act that might … [Read more…]
Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi has given insight into why the collection of the, Permanent Voters Cards, PVC and voting in the forthcoming elections on February 25, 2023 is critical to Nigeria and Nigerians. In a special broadcast he made via the social media, on Thursday, Obi said every Nigerian … [Read more…]
The Sokoto Division of the Court of Appeal has reinstated Dauda Lawal as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Zamfara State. Earlier, a high court sitting in Gusau, Zamfara State, presided over by Justice Aminu Bappa-Aliyu had nullified the primaries that produced Dauda Lawal as PDP governorship candidate and instead, ruled that the … [Read more…]
Five governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic (PDP), known as G-5 Governors, or Integrity Group, yesterday, kept silence on their preferred presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections. The five governors comprising Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) and Seyi Makinde (Oyo), however, said they remain committed … [Read more…]
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, yesterday approved the request of the state chapter of Labour Party to use the Pa Ngele Oruta Township Stadium in Abakaliki for it’s rally slated to hold on 11 January,2022. Presidential candidate of the Labour party, Mr. Peter Obi, and his team are expected in Ebonyi for his presidential rally … [Read more…]
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has disclosed his biggest joy is that his preferred successor, Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, who is the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will perform better than him in office if elected. He said the recent actualisation of his administration’s struggle for Enugu State to join the league of states enjoying oil … [Read more…]
The Presidential Campaign Council of the Labour Party has welcomed the decision of foremost Ijaw leader and Nigerian statesman Chief Edwin Clark. Chief Spokesman for the LP PCC, Dr. Yunusa Tanko said this in a telephone interview with Vanguard in Abuja, on Tuesday. He said the LP campaign was delighted that statesmen were speaking up … [Read more…]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disassociated itself from a fake website/blog advertising recruitment of ad hoc staff for next month’s general election. INEC further warned that the genuine portal used to advertise the recruitment of ad hoc staff was shot down on December 14, 2022, emphasising that it is no longer recruiting such … [Read more…]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has vowed to apprehend underage voters and their parents if they attempt to vote during the 2023 elections. Its National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, stated this, yesterday, during an interview on a live television programme monitored in Lagos. He decried the issue of underage voters … [Read more…]
A former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 general elections, Chief Charles Udeogaranya has called on the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to abandon their presidential campaigns with immediate effect, as their chances of winning … [Read more…]
Leader of Pan-Yoruba sociopolitical group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, says Nigeria will be in trouble if any candidate other than the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, is elected President. Adebanjo also hailed Obi’s endorsement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He however said he was not surprised by Obasanjo’s action, saying the … [Read more…]