The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has expressed displeasure over the conduct of the ongoing state governorship election in Edo. Obaseki said the Independent National Electoral Commission should have prepared better for the election The governor said this after casting his vote at Polling Unit 19, Ward 4, Oredo Local Government Area. He lamented that he stayed for over one and a half hours in the queue. The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party...

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has expressed concern over likely electoral violence, vote-buying, and spread of fake news ahead during the coming Edo guber election. CDD said trends of claims and counterclaims of victory, delivering polling unit directive given to political party agents are the recipe for violence as they are likely to cause partisan clashes during the election. The organisation disclosed this during a press conference on the pre-election analysis report on...

A former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tom Ikimi has said  Bola Tinubu’s efforts on the upcoming Edo election which comes up on Saturday will be futile. He made the statement on Tuesday while speaking at the mega rally of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benin, Edo state capital. Ikimi who is also the former minister of foreign affairs urged Tinubu  to mind his business, saying Edo his cash-laden bullion vans cannot...

The Chairman of the National Peace Committee, retired Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, on Monday in Benin said that members of his committee were in the state to assist in ensuring that the Sept. 19 gubernatorial election was conducted peacefully. Abubakar stated this while addressing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), governorship candidate, Gov. Godwin Obaseki, ahead of the peace pact by all parties involved in the elections. According to him, the political temperature in the state has...