Obasanjo is An Expired Man - Gov. Fayose Fires Shots at Former President

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said he is way more politically relevant than elder statesman and former Nigerian president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

The governor added that as the number one citizen of Ekiti State, he wields more power than Obasanjo who “goes to Abuja to beg President Muhammadu Buhari for political favours.” The governor said this during a press conference in Lagos on Sunday.

Kogi: APC may considers replacing Faleke as Deputy

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said the party will not hesitate to find a replacement for the Kogi State Deputy Governor-elect, James Faleke, if the need arises.

Odigie-Oyegun said this in response to questions from newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday.

He explained that as a political party, the APC was saddened by the sudden death of Abubakar Audu, its original standard bearer in the Kogi State governorship election but that it had to move on.

PDP did greatest damage to Nigeria, says APGA chieftain

Former National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, has said that the former ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had no moral ground to cry over any form of injustice.

He said on the contrary, the PDP, should bury its head in shame.

My Victory will be secure at the Election tribunal - Wada

Kogi State Governor, Capt. Idris Ichala Wada has assured his supporters that the election tribunal will do justice to the confusion surrounding the governorship polls. Addressing Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stakeholders at the Government House, Lokoja, Tuesday, the governor said the tribunal will soon decide whether it is legal for a political party to have two candidates in the course of election and whether a person’s votes could be transferred to another person.

Wada said his decision to challenge the result of the election is not personal but in order to seek proper interpretation of the law and relevant sections of the constitution and the Electoral Act in connection with the election.

Benue South rerun: David Mark, Dan Onjeh tear Idoma students apart

The National Association of Idoma Students, NAIS, University of Lagos chapter, has described as unfortunate the endorsement of former Senate President, David Mark by the national body.

NAIS, had in a recent statement endorsed the candidature of Mark for the forthcoming senatorial rerun election in Benue South.

The students' union in a statement jointly signed by its leaders, Igoche Egwa and Tony Onazi, slammed Mark's opponent, Dan Onjeh of the All Progressives Congress for insulting the former senate president whom they claimed paid his school fees.

Benue South rerun: My people would not be cowed to vote me out - Mark boasts

The Immediate past President of the Nigeria Senate, Senator David Mark has assured that Benue South Senatorial zone will remain impenetrable for the opposition, All Progressive Congress (APC) in the forthcoming re-run election.
This he said is anchored on the overwhelming solidarity and support "by my people who are solidly behind me. I can tell you without any fear of contradiction that there is no opposition to my party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in my zone".

Tension heightened in Yenagoa as thousands of APC supporters protest

Tension heightened in Yenagoa the Bayelsa State capital as thousands of All Progressive Congress APC supporters took to the streets in protest of the cancellation of the rescheduled governorship election in Southern Ijaw local government area.

According to one of the Protesters, Preye Apreala, the decision by the Resident Electoral Commissioner Baritor Kpagih, to cancel the election in Southern Ijaw local government area was criminal and a violation of the electoral rights of the over 120,000 voters that participated in the poll in spite of threats.

Nigeria: Independent National Electoral Commission Declares Bayelsa Polls Inconclusive

Independent National Electoral Commission has cancelled Saturday’s Bayelsa State governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area one of the state’s eight LGAs. 

INEC said the decision was taken because of violence, the abduction of electoral officials and ballot box snatching. 

INEC returning officer announced that he could not make a return yet as the result from Southern Ijaw local council, with 120,827 registered voters was not available. 

The INEC resident commissioner then announced that the election in the local council has been cancelled due to violence, ballot box snatching and other electoral offences adding that a new date for the election will be announced later. 

In the results announced for the 7 local councils, incumbent Governor Seriake Dickson has 105,748 votes, while Timipre Sylva of the APC has 72, 594 votes.

Southern Ijaw how ever will voters are expected to decide the winner.

Nigeria: I will reconcile with Audu’s family, Kogi governor-elect says

The Governor-elect of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has stated that he would commence the process of reconciliation with the family members of the late candidate of the party, Abubakar Audu, whom he replaced after getting the nod of the leadership of the party.
Mr. Bello was announced as the winner of the election on Sunday after the results of supplementary election, which held in 19 polling units, were announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
After the death of Mr. Audu, and the announcement by INEC directing the APC to replace its candidate in order to complete the election earlier declared inconclusive, the Kogi State chapter of the party had asked the national leadership of the party to allow the son of the late Mr. Audu, Mohammed Audu, run with the running mate of his father, James Faleke.

Declare me governor elect now – Audu’s running mate, Faleke tells INEC

The running mate of the late Prince Abubakar Audu, who was governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the November 21 poll in Kogi State, Mr. James Faleke, has opposed the proposed supplementary election by the Independent National Electoral Commission in the state on December 5.

In the Saturday election, the APC candidate had polled 240,867 votes, 41,353 votes higher than the Peoples Democratic Party candidate and incumbent state governor, Capt. Idris Wada (retd.), who scored 199,514 votes.

In separate letters on Thursday to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, and the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, Faleke’s lawyer, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), sought the immediate declaration of his client as the governor-elect for Kogi State.

Olanipekun said to the best of his client’s knowledge, information and belief, the November 21 election, having substantially satisfied the requirements of the Electoral Act 2010, was deemed concluded.

He said Faleke saw no reason why INEC should have declared the election inconclusive, adding that the reason adduced by the electoral umpire for its action was alien and unconstitutional.

He believed that by directing the APC to conduct a fresh primary to elect another candidate for an election, which was already concluded, INEC was knowingly or unknowingly instigating political and legal conundrums, which the commission should have distanced itself from.

APC senators walk out as Ekweremadu presides over Senate

The All Progressives Congress (APC) senators yesterday threatened to stay away from the Senate at any session presided over by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu.
Ekweremadu, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker, emerged as the Deputy Senate President in a Senate with APC as the majority party.
The Enugu West senatorial representative for the first time since his controversial election on June 9 presided over Senate session yesterday, following the absence of Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki.
Saraki, it was said, went to the Presidential Villa, Abuja for the inauguration of the ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari.
During the session, some APC lawmakers led by Senators Ahmed Lawan and George Akume stormed out of the chamber immediately they noticed that Ekweremadu was to preside.
It was not clear initially why Lawan and Akume walked out, but a statement by the Secretary of the Senate Unity Forum, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi (Kaduna North), threw light on the development.
Lawan and Akume are leading members of the Senate Unity Forum, a group that supported Lawan to vie for the Senate president.