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By Halimah Olamide The Headquarters of the Nigeria Police on Sunday said its men are ready for any post-election violence in Edo state. Its statement came amidst fears of violence which was contained in a statement released by the Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday. The party had said that there would be violence should its victory be awarded to the All Progressive Congress in the Saturday governorship election. The police, via statement by the Force PRO, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the DIG in charge of the election in Edo, Frank Mba has activated a post-election crisis squad which also embarked on…

Safiu Kehinde The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Governors Forum, has denied claims of usurping the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) role following a announcement of Edo state governorship election results by Adamawa state governor, Ahmadu Fintiri. This was contained in a statement signed by the forum’s chairman, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state. While commending the people of Edo state for their massive turn out, the forum expressed satisfaction with the role played by the PDP governors during the election. They also backed the announcement of some collated local results by Fintiri earlier today while denying claim of an attempt…

By Safiu Kehinde Warns Against Awarding Victory to APC The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday warned of dire consequences should the victory of its candidate in the Saturday’s governorship election, Asue Ighodalo be awarded to that of the All Progressive Congress, Monday Okpebhollo. The party reminded the Independent National Electoral Commission of the Adamawa state saga of 2023 which it said led to the death of some INEC officials. The party said worst consequences await any move to change the result in favour of the APC They stressed further that any contrary declaration by INEC especially in favour of the…

As APC, PDP Await Final Declaration of Winner of Edo Election BY Safiu Kehinde and Halimah Olamide The much awaited last local government result for Ikpoba Okha in Edo State has been released. The announcement at about 8:48pm on Sunday marked the end of the release of results of the Saturday’s governorship poll in the state. The result showed that PDP won the local government with 26,382 votes while the APC scored a total of 16,338 votes. The Labour Party won a total of 4,026 votes in the election. The conclusion of collation from all the 18 local governments will…

Safiu Kehinde Hours after the conclusion of election across polling units in Edo state, tension has risen over the results collation as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors in the early part of Sunday took over declaration of results. The governors, led by Umaru Fintiri, held a Press Briefing on Sunday where they declared results collated from some local government areas before the transfer of the collation to INEC’s headquarters. While accusing Independent National Electoral Commission of irregularities in the collation process, Fintiri announced results of the local governments he claimed were recorded by PDP’s agents. “At the point of the…

Confirms One Injured Office Stampede Safiu Kehinde The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed surprise and anger at the presence of some political gladiators at its office in Benin in the wee hours of Sunday. This was just as the commission confirmed that one person sustained injury as stampede ensued at the electoral body’s office over collation of Edo governorship election results. This was confirmed in a statement issued on Sunday by INEC. Expressing their concern over the disturbing incident, INEC condemned the disruption of the results collation process as they alleged the heavy presence and of Peoples Democratic…

Vows Voters Will Resist Rigging By Safiu Kehinde The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the ongoing election in Edo State, Asue Ighodalo, has vowed that the people of Edo state will resist alleged attempts to manipulate the outcome of the election on favour of the All Progressive Congress. Ighodalo, who had gone to the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in the wee hours of Sunday said results coming from some parts of the state showed deliberate attempts to rig the APC into power in the state. He siad there were supposed to be collation of…

By Halimah Olamide Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki was in the wee hours of today, ordered out of the head office of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC in Benin, the Edo State capital. This was after Obaseki had stormed the commission’s state office to protests alleged manipulation of the results of Saturday’s governorship poll which is going in favour of the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Senator Monday Okpebhollo. But an enraged Obaseki, who kept asking questions without getting answers was ushered out of the office at about 5am by a combined force of security agents manning…

Reviews Procedures for Recall By Halimah Olamide The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday revealed that more Nigerians are now fed up with their elected representatives and want to recall them. INEC however said that contrary to what many are thinking, the commission cannot initiate the process of recall of senators, House of Representatives members, or other elected representatives. It has therefore reviewed and made public the revised procedure for voters to follow to achieve the recall of representatives they are no longer interested in. Sam Olumekun, National Commissioner & Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee of the Commission said…

By Halimah Olamide Former Minister of Transport under the Muhammadu Buhari administration, Rotimi Amaechi on Tuesday said there is no difference between the experiences of Nigerians under military dictatorship and what they are experiencing now under a democratically elected government. Amaechi, who made a brief remark at the unveiling of a book, The Catalysts, written by the former Editor of The PUNCH, Dayo Oketola, said he found it disinginous for anyone to refer to the trenches of the military era when, according to him, there is no difference between those era and what Nigerians are experiencing today. Nigeria left military…