The Labour Party on Saturday got the majority of votes cast in Enugu on the Presidential and House of Representatives 2023 election. Despite all the hitches experienced at the beginning of the elections, the people patiently waited to exercise their civic responsibility. In most polling units in the state, the Independent National Electoral Commission ad hoc staff arrived the venue by 11:30am while in some cases as late as 2pm on Saturday 25th February 2023....

Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan says politicians who resort to violence or vote buying to win elections are not different from ‘armed robbers’ and ‘con men’. Jonathan, who spoke with journalists after casting his vote in Bayelsa, his home state, on Saturday evening, said he expects the elections to be peaceful while hoping that politicians will project Nigerian politics as a ‘clean business’. “My wish for Nigeria is for us to conduct a peaceful election,” the former...

■ Election: INEC advises, polls will commence as schedule ■ Postpones Enugu East-Senatorial election to March 11 ■ Police, security agencies deploy 425,106 personnel, 74 armoured,  carriers, drones, others ■ Confrms threats persists from IPOB, bandits, Boko Haram, insists election must go on ■ Constitute election offenses investigation unit in states ■ Restricts movement nationwide Prof Mahmood Yakubu , chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that polls will open nationwide as...

Simon Ekpa, the spokesperson of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has maintained that elections will not hold in the southeast after being freed by the Finnish police. Ekpa was reportedly arrested on Thursday morning by officers from the Finnish Central Criminal Police due to his constant threats to boycott elections in southeastern states in order to actualise the liberation of Biafra. However, he was released from police custody after hours of cross-examination. Earlier this...