Author: Safiu Kehinde

Safiu Kehinde Britain’s Daniel Dubois has trashed Anthony Joshua’s dream of becoming a three-time heavyweight world champion with a fifth-round knockout to retain his IBF belt at a packed Wembley Stadium on Saturday. In the opening round, Dubois dropped Joshua to the canvas with a stinging right, the referee delivering a standing eight count. The 27 year-old proceeded to tear up the pre-fight predictions as swiftly as he ripped into his opponent. Joshua, 34, took another hammering from the dominant opponent in round two but managed to ride out the storm before round three came crashing down around him again.…

Safiu Kehinde The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has shifted their focus to the upcoming Ondo gubernatorial election as Edo poll heads towards conclusion. Expressing confidence in the Edo poll, the party, in a post on their official X handle on Sunday, vowed to replicate their achievement in Edo at the Ondo election. The Ondo election which is set to hold on the 16th of November, 2024, will see PDP’s candidate, Agboola Ajayi, lock horns with incumbent governor and the All Progressive Congress’ (APC) candidate, Lucky Aiyedatiwa. PDP, however, expressed their commitment to promoting democratic values while stressing on engaging voters…

Safiu Kehinde  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended collation of Edo state governship election results over security concern. The Resident Electoral Commissioner for the state, Anugbum Onuoha, made this announcement in a statement issued on Sunday. The suspension, according to the statement, came as a result of alleged pressure from the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) supporters demanding strict adherence to the electoral law. Meanwhile, the REC announced the resumption of collation exercise by 10am on Sunday. “This is to inform the general public, political stakeholders and observers that the collation of results for the ongoing Edo State Governorship…

Safiu Kehinde YIAGA Africa has disclosed the alleged disruption of result collation as observers and INEC officials were reportedly tear-gassed. The election monitoring group made this disclosure in a statement on the official X handle yesterday. According to the statement, while there was disruption at Oredo collation centre, observers and officials of the electoral body were tear-gassed at Ikpoba/Okha. YIAGA warned against the violation of the results collation procedure while maintaining that electoral law permits accredited observers, media, and party agents to monitor results collation at all levels. The statement read in part; “Reports from our LGA collation center observers…

Safiu Kehinde Edo state’s Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Nigerian Police Force of complicity over the collation of results. Following the conclusion of polls across the state yesterday, Ighodalo visited one of the coalition centres on Sunday where he decried the shadiness of the exercise. He narrated how the party agents were denied access to the INEC headquarters following a directive to transfer all the results to the headquarters. “We are not quite sure if what is happening. There supposed to have been some collation in some of…

Safiu Kehinde  Nigerian singer, David Adeleke (Davido) has labelled the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the most dangerous institution in Nigeria. Reacting to the Edo gubernatorial election held today, Davido took to his official X handle to call out the electoral body. “The most dangerous institution in Nigeria @inecnigeria” Davido had posted. This was one of the many tweets he posted in regards to the Edo election. Having declared his support for the People’s Democratic Party’s candidate, Asue Ighodalo, Davido had been actively engaged on X, calling out INEC in most cases. While urging Edo voters to keep watch…

Safiu Kehinde As the Edo governorship election draws to a conclusion across all poliing units, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the All Progressive Congress (APC) to respect the will of the people. This was contained in a statement issued PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba. While charging their supporters to follow the results of the election, PDP warned against manipulation of the election result bt the APC. “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) @OfficialPDPNig directs its members and supporters in Edo State to follow the results of the Edo State governorship election from the Polling Units to the Ward,…

Safiu Kehinde Nigerian Music artiste, Adeleke David (Davido) has blasted the Senior Special Assistant on New Media to Lagos State Governor, Jubril Gawat, on his remark on a comment earlier posted by the artist against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). In a post on his X handle, Davido had earlier labelled INEC as the most dangerous institiution in Nigeria which led to Gawat’s comment. “This tweet means ONLY one thing…” Gawat had commented. In reaction, Davido blasted the Lagos governor’s aide. “U go Dey here Dey tweet nonsense but any time I’m around ur principal nah u go first…

Safiu Kehinde Nigerian music artiste David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has charged Edo voters to follow their polling units ballots to the collation centres. Davido made this charge in a post on his X handle in reaction to the ongoing governorship election at the state. “We already know that @inecnigeria will not transmit results electronically so everyone should be ready to follow the vote/result from the polling unit up until state collation center.” He wrote. The artist had earlier drummed support for PDP’s Edo governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo.

Safiu Kehinde The Nigerian Police Force has confirmed the arrest of suspected political thugs and vote buyers. The was disclosed in a statement issued by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, . According to the Police spokesperson, operatives of the Force also arrested two key suspects, who are alleged members of the PDP, Emotingham Godspower (25) and Farawei Isaac (27), both from Ufunama community, Ovia Southwest Local Government Area, Edo state in a comprehensive operation. “The suspects, connected to a larger network involving one “Atiku” and a kingpin known as “the boss”, were apprehended at So Cash guest house…