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The vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Datti Baba-Ahmed has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to hold the swearing-in of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on May 29. Tinubu, the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared the winner of the presidential election on March 1 by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). But Baba-Ahmed, speaking on Channels […]

The Chief Whip of the Senate and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and winner of the Abia North Senatorial district election, Senator Orji Uzor-Kalu, has said it’s his turn to be the President of the Senate. He said, “Remember I am the only governor, who has never changed my phone number since I became governor 24 years ago. The […]

The governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party in Zamfara state Alhaji Dauda Lawal has defeated governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle in last Saturday’s poll. The returning officer for the election Professor Kasimu Shehu said Lawal scored 377,726 votes to defeat governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle who polled 311, 976 votes. Matawalle is the first of 11 governors in the 2023 poll to […]

Famous Nigerian singer, Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz the bad guy, has reacted to the Lagos State re-elected Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s appreciation post. Governor Sanwo-Olu had on Monday, in a post shared on his official Twitter handle, appreciated Lagosians for believing in him. He wrote: ”I’m deeply humbled and grateful for the overwhelming support and trust of the good […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Similanayi Fubara has been declared winner of the Rivers State governorship election. Announcing the result in Port Harcourt on Monday night, the Returning Officer said Fubara secured 302,614 votes. The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Pastor Tonye Cole, came second with 95,274 votes. Fubara is the anointed candidate of the incumbent Governor, […]

Speaker of the Plateau State of Assembly and member, representing Pengana State Constituency, Hon Yakubu Yakson Sanda has been defeated by a female candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mrs Happiness Mathew Akawu. Akawu polled 9,933 votes to defeat Sanda of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) who polled 9,672 in the elections.Also the Majority Leader of the House of Assembly […]

The PDP has won 12 out of the 24 constituency seats in the Edo State House of Assembly elections. The election results so far declared by INEC showed that APC won six seats and the Labour Party (LP) one. The results of the remaining five constituencies had yet to be announced. Egor, Etsako I, Etsako II, Oredo East and Ovia […]

The Labour Party gubernatorial candidate for Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has announced that he will be challenging the Lagos state electoral results in the court of law, claiming that the recently concluded election was nothing but a sham. Rhodes-Vivour claimed that what was witnessed in the state was “state-backed terrorism”, following the countless instances of electoral violence that was aired […]

Former Minister of Transportation and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Saturday revealed that a member of the camp of the President-elect, Senator Bola Tinubu, nominated the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, for his reappointment for a second term. After voting in his hometown, Ubima Ward 8 Unit 14, […]

Supporters of the two leading political parties in Enugu State have stormed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, headquarters, in Enugu, as tension heightens over the collation of the governorship election results. The Labour Party supporters were the first to storm the commission’s office demanding that the result of the Nkanu East Local Government Area must not be accepted over […]