Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, former Governor of Enugu State has lost senatorial bid to Kelvin Chukwu of the Labour Party (LP). The LP candidate polled 69, 136 to beat Nnamani of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 48, 701 votes. Kelvin replaced his brother, Oyibo Chukwu, who was murdered a few days to the Feb. 25 presidential and National Assembly elections. Meanwhile, the former Governor who is representing Enugu East in the Senate, has sent...

National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure has vowed that the plot to upturn governorship and House of Assembly election results in some states where Labour Party is winning, particularly Abia and Enugu states will be resisted by the party. The party called on INEC to address the situation immediately, stressing that failure, will leave the party with no other option than to mobilise OBIdients movement all over the country to take over...

Former Deputy National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George has described the Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Lagos State as sham and utter disgrace to democracy in Nigeria The PDP leader in a press statement on Sunday said that he felt so shattered, so heartbroken that Nigeria’s democracy is now in shambles. “What a disgrace! I am close to 80 years now but never in my life have I seen such a despicable...

Professor Joachim Omeje has declared Chukwu Kelvin Chizoba, Senatorial candidate for Enugu East Senatorial zone under Labour Party winner of election conducted on Saturday 18th March 2023. Chukwu Kelvin gathered a total of sixty-nine thousand, one hundred and thirty-six (69,136) votes while Chimaroke Nnamani of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, got a total of forty-eight thousand, seven hundred and one (48,701) votes. Chukwu Kelvin is the younger brother to Oyibo Chukwu who was gruesomely murdered and...

In some states, results of Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections conducted nationwide have been declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). In Adamawa State, the Resident Electoral Commissioner for the State, Barr Hudu Yunusa-Ari suspended the coalition of the remaining Fufore local government from Sunday to midday Monday following conflicting results. The suspension followed conflicting results from the local government. Similarly, the INEC Administrative Secretary for Ebonyi, Mr. Charles Ezema on Sunday...

The deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos state, Olufunke Akindele, has deleted all posts relating to politics and her campaign from her Instagram page. As of Monday morning, the only visible posts on her page were her movie promotion and other personal posts. This is coming a few hours after the incumbent governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was announced as the winner of...

There has been a chorus of public indignation at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Nigeria Police Force over the reported cases of violence in some areas of Lagos during Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly election Yesterday, social media was awash with reports and videos of hoodlums disrupting the law and order in various polling units across the state. Igbo residents from the southeastern part of the country were intimidated and bullied...

Nollywood actor Desmond Elliot has won his third term bid to represent the Surulere 1 constituency at the Lagos State house of assembly. Elliot who has occupied the position in the last eight years under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, defeated his colleague Olumide Oworu, a firebrand ‘Obidient’ that contested on the platform of the Labour Party (LP), at the polls. In a Facebook post on Sunday, Elliot appreciated his constituents for...

Bayo Onanuga, director of media of the presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says Igbo are aliens in Lagos state and should be excluded from the politics of the state. Onanuga made the comment on Saturday night as his contribution to the ethnic controversies that marred Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly election in Lagos. Yesterday’s election in Lagos witnessed an unprecedented level of violence and voter intimidation spurred by ethnic sentiments....

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 65 suspects across the 28 states, during the governorship and State House of Assembly elections on Saturday. According to a press statement by Wilson Uwujaren, the EFCC Spokesperson, 20 of the suspects were arrested by operatives from the Ilorin zonal command while 13 suspects were nabbed by operatives on election monitoring duty at the Kaduna zonal command. Uwujaren noted that the teams monitoring the polls in...