Last Saturday’s local government election in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, has come and gone but its results have continued to attract controversies. A major feature of the election which was clearly demonstrated by Lagosians was voter apathy. Observers of the exercise had expected that voters would troop out in large numbers to elect those that [...]
People of ward ‘H’ Community, in Itire, Muslim local government area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, have describe as shameful, local council election election results declared by chairman of Lagos state independent electoral commission (LASIEC) , Justice Fatai Afolabi Adeyinka (rtd). The community was particularly piqued by a statement credit to the LASIEC chairman, to [...]
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), has congratulated the Lagos ACN for its victory in the council polls but warned that it was time to celebrate less and get back to work. But he also put the Lagos Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other parties on notice: ACN would [...]
The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, on Tuesday said the developments at the Lagos council polls had strengthened the call for a state police in line with “true federalism”. The party made the call in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria [...]
The ACN has alleged that the PDP in Eti-Osa, Ikoyi/Obalende and its environs at a meeting last night planned to attack the ACN leaders, elected officials and the party members. “This is because they find it difficult to come to terms with the painful and obvious fact that they lost woefully in an election that [...]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has accused the PDP-led federal government of using the security agencies to subvert democracy in Lagos State, saying the federal government must be held responsible for the pre-meditated crisis trailing the just-concluded local government elections in the state. In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its National [...]
The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN has won by landslide the Chairmanship and Councillorship elections held in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria at the weekend. In the results announced officially by the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC this evening, the ACN won all the Chairmanship seats in the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council [...]
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