The New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) governorship candidate in Ogun, Olufemi Ajadi is confident of victory in Saturday’s governorship election. Ajadi who spoke at a media parley on Wednesday with journalists in Ogun state stressed that both APC governorship candidate, Prince Dapo Abiodun, and PDP’s Oladipupo Adebutu are no match for him, insisting that he…

Gender Action Group in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has asked the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Akali; the Director-General of Department for State Security Service, Yusuf Magaji Bichi; the Nigeria Peace Committee, among others, to be aware of alleged plot by officials of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to manipulate the governorship elections on Saturday in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has sanctioned 25 stations and issued final warnings to 16 others for violating provisions of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code during the February 25,2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections.

• Says Oro festival does not reduce Labour Party's chances of winning Lagos guber election The governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (GRV), has said the commencement of Oro festival in parts of Lagos will not affect his chances of winning the governorship election on Saturday. There are several media reports that Oba…

Ahead of the governorship and House of Assembly polls slated for this weekend, the Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission to improve on the challenges of logistics that slowed down the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections. In a statement issued in Ilorin,…

Scores of protesters under the aegis of The Natives yesterday staged a peaceful protest in Abuja warning the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, against intimidating and harassment of the judiciary and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over their defeat in the recently held presidential poll.

Chairman of, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has declared that the electoral umpire has nothing to hide in regard to making materials and documents used in the February 25 Presidential Election available to political parties. Yakubu stated this on Monday when he received the Labour Party, LP’s legal team led by…

“Nigeria now ranks among the leading democracies in Africa and in the Commonwealth 20 years after it began to experience uninterrupted democratic culture.”

With the 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections having recorded the lowest voters turnout in the history of balloting in Nigeria, stakeholders, leaders of political parties and indeed, candidates in the upcoming governorship polls, are exploring diverse measures to rally the electorate for improved participation next Saturday.

Mixed reactions have continued to trail the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) move to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) ahead of the Governorship and State Assemblies elections, which was shifted from March 11 to 18.

As the President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu savours his victory in the Presidential poll held on February 25, he would remain grateful to the rebellious G5 governors over their role in his emergence and the defeat of the leading opposition parties.

Defying voter fatigue and despair presents as the immediate challenges that the wave-making Labour Party (LP) would confront in the coming days.