The lifting of the embargo yesterday, November 18, 2018, for campaigns to commence for the presidential and National Assembly (NASS) elections scheduled for February, 2019, is significant in the annals of political landmarks in the country. The governorship and State Assembly campaigns would follow in two weeks time. Here comes another familiar season of high-wire…

Mr Tunji Olawuyi has said that his victory at Saturday’s Ekiti/Isin/Oke-Ero and Irepodun federal constituency bye-election in Kwara as a victory for the people of the state. Olawuyi said that the success was a sign of more victories to come for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 general elections in Kwara. He said…

Sir: The decision of the Peoples Democratic Party, Benue State chapter, which welcomed and ticketed Governor Samuel Ortom as its governorship candidate for the next coming general elections has shown how flippant (unserious) the party is towards the coming governorship election in the state. Instead of the party to learn from its previous mistakes, the…

Rep Anayo Nnebe (PDP-Anambra), has dismissed the call by leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on the people of the South East to boycott the 2019 general elections. Nnebe, who represents Awka North/South Constituency in the House of Representatives, spoke on Monday with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in…

Former Madagascar president Andry Rajoelina was leading after last week's presidential election aimed at ending a political crisis, ahead of rival Marc Ravalomanana, according to preliminary results released on Sunday. Rajoelina and Ravalomanana were frontrunners in the Nov. 7 vote in the poor Indian Ocean island that has struggled with instability since independence from France…

Bangladesh's main opposition party said Sunday it would not boycott next month's general election and would challenge Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the polls, despite its leader being in jail. "We have announced that we will participate in the election," Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain told AFP. The BNP boycotted the…

The Osun Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has relocated its sittings to Abuja. The notice of the relocation signed by the Secretary to the tribunal , Adamu Aliyu, was pasted on the information board of the tribunal in Osogbo on Saturday. Reason for the relocation of the sittings of the three-man panel to Abuja was not…

We begin with a proposition which may be framed this way: “The question as to how Nigerian Leftists should vote in the 2019 general elections will not arise if there are in existence, and participating in the elections, political parties that are serious, clearly Leftist, ideologically anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist and categorical on each of the…

The Osun Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied that the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Osun State, Segun Agbaje, was humiliated and beaten to a coma by some angry youths at the First Baptist Church, Oke Owode, Ikirun, at the burial ceremony of Timothy Ibitoye a former REC of Ogun State . The electoral body in…

Veteran Nigerian Comedian Ali Baba has said money is the only factor that determines who wins an election in Nigeria. According to the ace comedian, once a politician gets elected into office, he has to make people "chop the money" or become an enemy of the system Read what he wrote below: “The life of…

Events across the country in the past few months have tended to question our preparedness to have free, fair, transparent, credible and violence-free elections in 2019. Elections are said to be the central feature of democracy. And for people to be able to exercise their franchise, they must be able to make their choice of…

Next year’s election in the Plateau will be decided by a combination of factors. Top in the agenda is the security situation in the state. People of Plateau are not happy with the ruling party (All Progressives Congress). They complain of hunger, indiscriminate killings and attacks without government, particularly the Federal Government coming to their…