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The Labour Party, LP, candidate in the Edo State governorship election, Olumide Akpata on Monday said he has no sympathy for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for crying foul after losing the poll. DAILY POST reports that Akpata, who came a distant third in the election with 22,763 votes made the remark at a press conference in Benin City. He read a statement titled, ‘Unbowed, unbent and unbroken: Statement on the 2024 Edo State gubernatorial election results’. Akpata said the ruling party in the state was allegedly crying foul after being outmanoeuvred in the macabre game of thrones. He claimed…

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the just concluded Edo State governorship election, Asue Ighodalo, says his aspiration was never about power but a genuine desire to serve Edo people. Ighodalo made this statement in his thank you message to Edo people on Monday in Benin, saying he was determined to create prosperity for all. “My good people of Edo State, in all things, we must first give thanks to God. “We are grateful for the gift of life, health, and your overwhelming love and support throughout this journey. “I extend my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who…

The All Progressives Congress candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, is leading in the total results of Saturday’s Edo State governorship election announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Returning Officer, Prof. Faruk Adamu Kuta, the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, is yet to officially announce the winner of the poll as of filing the report. Meanwhile, the results from all 18 local government areas of the state showed that APC won 11 LGAs compared to the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Asue Ighodalo and Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party. Okpebholo garnered 291,667 votes while Ighodalo and…

President Bola Tinubu has assured that Nigeria will continue to work with its international partners to ensure that cyber criminals and organised crime groups involved in transnational car thefts are deprived of the benefits of their illegal activities. To this end, Tinubu directed security and law enforcement agencies—including the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Nigeria Police Force, NPF, and Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, to intensify efforts in cracking down on individuals in possession of and trafficking in stolen vehicles. The president’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said on Sunday that Tinubu is…

The Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, his Deputy, Godwins Omobayo, Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku and Dennis Idahosa, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Deputy governorship candidate have all lost their various local governments at Saturday’s election in the state. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC conducted the election on September 21, 2024. Obaseki lost his local government, Oredo, to the main opposition party, APC. The All Progressives Congress polled 30,780 votes while the PDP scored 24,938 votes. Idahosa who is the incumbent lawmaker representing the Ovia Federal constituency in the National Assembly lost the election…

Any crises in Nigeria that have the potential to lead to another civil war must be discouraged. Two octogenarians who commanded the Biafra sector of Onitsha during the Nigeria civil war gave strong advice in Calabar during separate interviews. Both recalled the terrible experiences of the 1967-1970 war and said it is not something that should be repeated in the country. Col. Lekam Offem Okoi, rtd, former ADC to the head of the defunct Biafra nation and Col. Afaha Assam Nsudoh, rtd, spoke to our correspondent. Lekam Okoi, now a lawyer, said, “I advise that agitators take constitutional means, not…

At least 17 members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) drowned while attempting to cross a river along the Nigeria-Niger Republic border, according to a counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama. The incident occurred between the Kafetoa and Bulabulin Gaidam communities in Yobe State, Nigeria. The insurgents were reportedly en route to Tam village in Niger Republic, near the Kannamma settlement in Yobe, when they were caught by strong water currents and swept away. Makama stated that the fighters had been displaced from key bases, including Bulabulin Geidam, Chettimari, and Diffan, all along the Nigeria-Niger border regions. ISWAP has…

Abia North senator, Orji Uzor-Kalu, has revealed why he stopped using his private jet. In a video making the rounds on social media, the senator explained that the current economic hardship forced him to stop using the jet. Lamenting the difficulties in fueling the jet, the former Abia State governor said he has opted for commercial flights. He added that he has contracted out the private jet to an oil company. Kalu said he stopped using the private jet since August this year, apparently due to hike in the price of aviation fuel, otherwise known as Jet A1. “Buying fuel…

Reinstated Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu has been captured in a viral video celebrating the results of the ongoing governorship election in the state. DAILY POST reports that electoral officials started uploading results from polling units across the state as early as 3 pm. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, 90.33 percent of the results from the polling units have been successfully uploaded to its Result Viewing Portal. Most of the polling units announced so far were won by Monday Okpebholo, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC. This has triggered celebration in some quarters…

Amid the ongoing collation of results from the Edo governorship election, the All Progressives Congress, APC, said it is comfortably in an early lead. This is even as the party said that its attention has been drawn to some reports circulating in sections of social media by unnamed political parties peddling bogus figures of vote tallies. In a statement on Saturday by Felix Morka, APC National Publicity Secretary, the party urged members of the public to disregard what it called attempted misrepresentation and await INEC’s final verdict on the election. According to the party, collation of election results at the…