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Police Silent Despite Killings During Rivers Election – Magnus Abe
Magnus Abe, Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship candidate in Rivers State, has condemned the silence of the police despite killings during the election. Abe said video evidence in some of the cases shows “at least six persons were murdered” in the violence that characterized the March 18 poll. The Rivers State Police Command has maintained ignorance of any fatality, the SDP...
No Healing Without Justice, Rhodes-Vivour Replies Tinubu
The governorship candidate of Labour Party (LP), Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, yesterday, told the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that healing could not happen without justice. He said that a free and fair election might not be possible under his presidency. Rhodes-Vivour, who spoke in his office in Victoria Island, Lagos, lamented that the outcome of the governorship and House of Assembly elections...
UK Government Vows To Take Decisive Actions Against Perpetrators Of Electoral Violence
The UK Minister of State for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell MP, said yesterday that his government was prepared to take action against those who engaged in or incited electoral violence and other anti-democratic behaviours and action during the just concluded general election. British High Commission in Nigeria, which disclosed this in a statement, said: “We observed improvements around elections...
Don’t Distract Incoming Governor With Endless Litigations, Ikpeazu Appeals, Congratulates Otti
Abia State governor, Dr Okezie Victor Ikpeazu has congratulated the winner of the March 18 governorship election in the state, Dr. Alex Otti, appealing to losing parties not to distract the incoming governor with litigations. The governor said having to deal with court cases when he came on board for about three and half years, he understands the distraction it...
G-5: History Will Be Kind To Ortom, Ikpeazu, Ugwuanyi – Gov. Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said history would be kind to members of the G-5 governors for standing for equity, justice, and fairness despite their losses during the February 25 election. AABN TV reports that some of the governors elected under the Peoples Democratic Party who named themselves G-5 lost their senatorial bids during the election. Governor Samuel Ortom of...
Presidential Election: You’re Daydreaming To Unseat Tinubu – Fayose Tells Obi, Atiku
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has said that anyone who believes they can unseat President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is daydreaming. Fayose stated this while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday. Recall that the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi, headed to the courts...
65 Inmates To Graduate From NOUN, Says Vice Chancellor
Sixty-five inmates from correctional centres will graduate from the forthcoming convocation of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), its Vice Chancellor, Professor Olufemi Peters, has disclosed. He explained that the 65 inmates are among the 28,740 students that will graduate from the university. READ ALSO: Swearing in Tinubu Is As Good As Military Regime – Datti Ahmed Speaking at its 12th...
Swearing in Tinubu Is As Good As Military Regime – Datti Ahmed
The Labour Party vice presidential candidate in the just concluded February 25 elections, Yusuf Datti Baba Ahmed, has insisted that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, can not be sworn in as president of the country. Speaking with Arise TV on Wednesday, Datti declared that swearing in Tinubu would be “as good as swearing in military regime”. According to the vice presidential candidate,...
Don’t Bow To Pressure, Investigate Our Member’s Death – Osun PDP Tells Police
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has asked the Nigeria Police not to succumb to pressures in its investigation of the killing of Gani Dele, its member in Ila local government area of the state. The party while issuing the charge to Peter Abayomi, the Commissioner of Police in charge of election, also warned that the people of...
INEC Fixes Time To Resume Collation Of Abia Governorship Poll Today
Indications have emerged that the suspended collation of the Abia State governorship election will resume by 4:00 pm today ( Wednesday) at the Collation Centre located inside the premises of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, headquarters Umuahia, ABN TV learnt. The newspaper quoted the head of Voter Education and Publicity, Mrs. Rebecca Jim, as saying that the Presiding Officer...
