Hell was let loose on Monday at the Edo State office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Benin City as hoodlums allegedly stabbed an ad-hoc staff of the electoral body to death and a member of Drivers Welfare Scheme in the state also killed during the mayhem that lasted for about three hours. [...]
The Edo State Chapter of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of colluding with the ICT unit of Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the July 14 governorship election in favour of the PDP. State Chairman of ACN, Thomas Okosun, who addressed the press on Sunday night alleged that [...]
As the July 14, 2012 date for the Edo State governorship election draws near, the democratic space in the state has become tension-soaked and bloody. This is as the main contenders, PDP’s Major General Charles Ehigie Airhiavbere (retd), a former Director, Nigerian Army Finance Corps and the incumbent, ACN’s Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, fine-tune their strategies [...]
A retired INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Sylvester Egbase has advised INEC to improve on its logistics shortcomings before the July 14 governorship election in Edo. Egbase gave the advice while speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Benin. “I am giving this advice since as it seems that [...]
A call has gone to the Federal Government to face the real act of governing the nation and putting in place measures that will reduce the high level of poverty in the country rather than witch hunting the Governor of Osun State, Engineer Rauf Aregbesola, in the name of a spurious security report accusing him [...]
Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Ghana and a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagso State, Ambassador Musiliu Obanikoro, has said that the challenge to reclaim Lagos State from the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, is very huge. Obanikoro stated this during an interview with Political Platform at his Park View Estate residence, Ikoyi, [...]
The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, said arrangement has been concluded toward conducting Saturday’s councillorship re-run election in Ward ‘H’ Oduselu/Ola of Mushin Local Government Area, Lagos, southwest Nigeria. Chairman of the commission, Justice Afolabi Abdulfatai Adeyinka (retd), dropped this hint Monday at a pre-election press conference, held at the commission’s headquaters, Lagos, Justice [...]
