2023 Election Result: Labor Party Senatorial Candidate Breaks Record

NewsNigeriaPolitics2023 Election Result: Labor Party Senatorial Candidate Breaks Record

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)March 1, 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Okey Ezea of Labour party, LP, and candidate for Enugu North Senatorial District election winner of the Saturday 25th February election. Ezea won the seat with one hundred and four thousand, four hundred and ninety-two votes (104,492) against the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, the Enugu state Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi who got forty-six thousand, nine hundred and forty-eight (46,948) votes. The Victory of Labour Party in the state...

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‘We will not accept a government built on fraud’, NLC tells INEC

NewsNigeriaPolitics‘We will not accept a government built on fraud’, NLC tells INEC

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 1, 2023

Below is the full text of a statement by the NLC on Monday, signed by its president, Joe Ajaero and titled ‘Build Government on Sovereign Will’: The NLC warns again that any election result that does not reflect the wishes of the people will not only spell doom for democracy but will also render the benefitting government of such heist illegitimate. Sustainable governments are built on sovereign will. The reason is that such government is...

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Presidential, NASS Elections: Ignore Obasanjo’s comment, group tells Nigerians

NewsNigeriaPoliticsPresidential, NASS Elections: Ignore Obasanjo’s comment, group tells Nigerians

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)March 1, 2023

An activist group, Youths for Stable Democracy (YSD), has told Nigerians to ignore the comment by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, stressing that the statement is an insidious attempt to subvert the outcome of the 2023 presidential elections over fears that the former president’s preferred candidate, Peter Obi of the Labour Party is likely to lose the contest. The national coordinator of YSD, Barrister Chinyere Nwadike levelled the allegation in a statement issued to the press...

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Presidential Election: Bode George, Jandor Condemn Attack On Non-Indigenes Resident In Lagos

NewsNigeriaPoliticsPresidential Election: Bode George, Jandor Condemn Attack On Non-Indigenes Resident In Lagos

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)March 1, 2023

The former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George and the Lagos State gubernatorial candidate of the party, Dr. Olajide Adediran, popularly called, Jandor have condemned the attack on non-indigenes, following the results of last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. A press statement by George, signed by his Senior Special Adviser on Media, Olusegun Edwards, condemned the attacks on non-indigenes, particularly the Igbo, stating that such uncivilised act is...

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Presidential, NASS Election: PDP tells INEC to halt continued collation

NewsNigeriaPoliticsPresidential, NASS Election: PDP tells INEC to halt continued collation

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)March 1, 2023

Concerned about what it calls a violation of the electoral act, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to stop further announcement of what it described as manipulated election results. The Spokesman of the party, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, warned that the commission is pushing Nigerians to the wall, stressing that INEC has hugely violated the provision of the Electoral Actm Lamenting what it called manipulation by an umpire that...

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Some Serving Governors Lost Bid To Clinch Senatorial Seats

NewsNigeriaPoliticsSome Serving Governors Lost Bid To Clinch Senatorial Seats

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 1, 2023

Some outgoing Governors who have spent eight years as Executive Governors and contested on the platform of various political parties to represent their Senatorial Districts in the 10th National Assembly have failed in their bids. Among the outgoing Governors that lost are, Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong to represent Plateau South Senatorial District, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State to represent Enugu North Senatorial District, Samuel Ortom of Benue State to represent Benue North West...

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Gov Fintiri Knocks On NGOs, Suspends Its Activities

NewsNigeriaPoliticsGov Fintiri Knocks On NGOs, Suspends Its Activities

PilotnewsMarch 1, 2023

In what looks like he was not satisfied with activities of local and International Non-Governmental Organizations during the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections held on 25th February, 2023, the Adamawa state government has suspended activities of NGOs throughout the state till 15th March, 2023. Governor Fintiri in a statewide broadcastTuesday at the Government House Yola, saying the suspension became necessary, alleging that the NGOs’ have become involved in politics thereby compromising their services to...

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Presidential Election: Afenifere Warns Nigerians Against Truncating Electoral Process

NewsNigeriaPoliticsPresidential Election: Afenifere Warns Nigerians Against Truncating Electoral Process

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)March 1, 2023

The Pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has warned Nigerians against truncating the electoral process, stressing that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should be allowed to  complete its constitutionally-assigned job as anything short of that may constitute a serious danger to the hard-earned civil rule that the country is operating at the moment. Afenifere stated that in a press release signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi on Tuesday. Pointing out that the...

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Presidential Election: Desist from action capable of creating tension, CAN tells politicians

NewsNigeriaPoliticsPresidential Election: Desist from action capable of creating tension, CAN tells politicians

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)March 1, 2023

Archbishop Daniel Okoh, President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has appealed to political parties, their candidates, supporters and the public to desist from acts capable of creating  tensions or stoke any form of violence that could put the country on a precipice. The faith based organisation, urged presidential candidates to abide by the spirit and letter of the Peace Accord they signed before the elections. “We remind them that this is the only country we...

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Tinubu’s Victory is Victory for Democracy, Heralds a New Dawn for Nigeria – Uzuegbuna Okagbue

NewsNigeriaPoliticsTinubu’s Victory is Victory for Democracy, Heralds a New Dawn for Nigeria – Uzuegbuna Okagbue

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)March 1, 2023

Uzuegbuna Okagbue, a former senatorial aspirant in Anambra State and a frontline supporter of Bola Tinubu’s candidacy, has described his emergence as Nigeria’s next President as a victory for democracy. In his congratulatory message to Bola Tinubu the candidate of the APC in last Saturday’s presidential election, which he has now been declared winner, Okagbue described Tinubu as a leader in his own class. One who shall move the country forward toward a desirable future....

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