Tag: Edo election
No police aides for Obaseki, Ize-Iyamu, Oshiomhole on Edo election day
The Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu has barred security aides from accompanying VIPs and political appointees during the…
INEC’s Lecky to PDP: I am not in cahoots with Edo APC
INEC's national commissioner, Mustafa Lecky has denied the allegations by the PDP that he was working in cahoots with the…
DIG Oyebade, AIG Hassan, 8 CPS for Edo election duties
The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has deployed DIG Adeleye Olusola Oyabade for the governorship election in Edo state…
85 Judges to be sworn in ahead of Ondo, Edo election
Ahead of the Ondo, Edo governorship elections Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, will on Thursday swear in 85…
Security report: Thugs being armed ahead of Edo, Ondo elections
An election security threat analysis submitted by commissioners of police in Edo and Ondo states, ahead of the September and…
Buhari calls for free and fair election in Edo
President Muhammadu Buhari has again warned political actors in the forthcoming Edo governorship elections to shun any act capable of…
More aides desert Obaseki ahead of poll
More aides of Governor Godwin Obaseki are abandoning his boat, some five weeks to the election.
Ize-Iyamu takes campaign to three Etsako LGAs
Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Edo 2020 Governorship election has taken his campaign to all…
APC tells Wike, PDP, Obaseki to calm down, assures fair polls
The days of stolen and procured electoral mandates are fast fading away, the All Progressives Congress declared on Tuesday and…
Edo Election: Group advises Ize-Iyamu to accept defeat
A pressure group, Edo Youths Coalition, has urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the just-concluded governorship poll in…
Labour hails INEC’s decision to go ahead with Edo Election
Mr Issa Aremu, Secretary General, Textile Workers’ Union of Nigeria, on Thursday hailed the decision of the Independent National Electoral…
DSS, police must apologise for demanding postponement of Edo Election-CPPM
The Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) has demanded a public apology from the Nigeria Police Force and…
25,000 policemen, helicopters, 10 APCs, 550 patrol vehicles for Edo election
The Acting Inspector General of Police, (IGP), Ibrahim Idris has deployed additional 25,000 policemen, helicopters, gunboats, 10 Armoured Personnel Carriers,…
Edo Election: INEC begins voter education, to stem apathy
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Edo said on Monday that it had commenced voter education to stem voter…
Oshiomhole receives election certificate
INEC presents Oshiomhole with certificate of return JETHRO IBILEKE, Benin Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has received the certificate…
Varsity teachers to conduct Edo state polls
The Edo State Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is to recruit 5,000 lecturers and undergraduates of the University of Benin…
Jonathan in Edo pledges fair polls
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Saturday in Benin, assured the people of the state of 100 per cent security of their…
ACN rallies for Oshiomhole, welcomes PDP’s Ihonvbere
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has urged the electorate in Nigeria’s Edo state…