The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published the final list of candidates for the October 10 Governorship election in Ondo State. Festus Okoye, the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, revealed in a statement that four political parties that had made valid nominations have substituted names of candidates. “Four political parties that earlier made valid nominations have substituted their candidates. The African Democratic Congress (ADC), Action Democratic Party (ADP) and the...

The Chairman of Ikere Local Government in Ekiti State, Femi Ayodele, has been suspended by the State House of Assembly for sponsoring presidential campaign poster for Kayode Fayemi without authorisation. The campaign poster was widely shared on social media, prompting Governor Fayemi to dissociate himself from it. Denying knowledge of the campaign poster, the governor said he was focused on actualising his promises to the people of Ekiti. The poster read: Support His Excellency Dr....

Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Thursday said that the Sept. 19 governorship election would put a final end to godfatherism in the state. Obaseki, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said this during his ward to ward campaign tour across the 10 wards in Esan North East Local Government Area. He said that the election was very vital for, not just the state, but the country at large, as the decision had...

More than two hundred members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday, decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Kuje Area Council, FCT. The APC decampees were received at the Kuje Area Council Government House in Kuje by Alhaji Mohammed Ismaila, PDP Chairman of Kuje Area Council. They handed over their APC membership cards, brooms and posters in replacement for those of the PDP. Mohammed Gambo, the leader of the decampees, in an...