Sentences with phrase «elections into their offices»

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has maintained that there will be elections into all offices during next month's congresses and convention of the party.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in its 2016 manifesto promised to «oversee the direct election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) within 24 months of election into office, to coincide with the next District Assembly elections in 2019.»

They also urged the court to declare all moves aimed at removing, replacing or conducting fresh elections into their offices as illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional, null and void.

They, therefore, maintained that Akinwonmi, having not been nominated by their executive committee, was not a valid candidate for the election into the office of the National Deputy Chairman (South) of the party.

He explained that since the Ekiti State governor's tenure and his counterpart's in Osun State will expire on 15th October and 26th November 2018 respectively, Section 178 (2) of the country's 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Section 25 (8) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) had stipulated that election into the office of governor should be held not earlier than 150 days and not later than 30 days before the expiration of the term of office of the last holder.

They urged the court to declare all moves aimed at removing, replacing or conducting fresh elections into their offices as illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional, null and void.

The court is further urged to declare that Buhari is legally and constitutionally empowered to contest the 2019 presidential election into the office of the President of Nigeria pursuant to Sections 131 and 137 of the 1999 constitution as amended.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has maintained that there will be elections into all offices during next month's congresses and convention of the party.

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President Donald Trump condemned as «disgraceful» an FBI raid on the office and hotel room of his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who paid $ 130,000 to an adult - film actress and who has been a key figure in the U.S. investigation into Russian election meddling.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a Senate committee on Tuesday that Facebook is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office and that his company may have received subpoenas as part of the investigation into any ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russian election interference.

Amid the continuing investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, there, of course, has been a great deal of discussion and news coverage of the 45th commander in chief not completing his full term in office.

Democratic candidates have outperformed expectations in every special election since President Donald Trump came into office, and it's increasingly looking as if Trump's 2018 nightmare of losing both the House and the Senate in midterm elections could come true.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne went into a 40 - day election campaign facing a Red Sea of troubles: a massive $ 12.5 - billion deficit, several spending scandals and a police investigation that reached all the way to the premier's office.

In an indictment brought Friday by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, PayPal has become the latest tech company pulled into the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

As election day settled into evening on November 8, most of New York City's tech employees bounced from their offices in the Union Square or Flatiron neighborhoods to bite their nails in the company of friends and potent drinks.

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

With the election on Tuesday, voters delivered a verdict on the country's direction, affirming Trump's message about the need for a Washington shake - up and sending a self - described political outsider into the Oval Office.

In early January, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified report documenting the results of the investigation former President Barack Obama had requested into Russian election interference.

Voter turnout was at least double than originally expected during the municipal election that swept him into office in October 2010.

The line represents the number of months between the general election that put the minority government into office, and the next, or subsequent, general election.

West Virginia overwhelmingly voted Republicans into office — with one big exception being the election of Jim Justice, a pro-coal Democrat, as governor.

The FBI's Monday raid of Cohen's offices indicates that the Justice Department is looking at issues beyond special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

IRD believes that the Deep State's plan all along was to use the election of Trump as a stalking horse to «back door» their obedient foot soldier, Mike Pence, into the Oval Office.

As newly selected Progressive Conservative leader Jim Prentice begins his transition into the Premier's Office (having just named his transition team), attention will soon turn to a provincial by - election that will allow the new premier an opportunity to be elected as an MLA.

The second generation was raised in a country whose pervasive popular music idolized guitars and drums and whose culture elevated spiritual authenticity over institutional fidelity, but their fathers got into somber suits to go to church and took election to church office extremely seriously.

However, the then opposition New Patriotic Party in the run - up to the 2016 elections took a different stance by promising to restore the allowance if voted into office.

The attention of the Office of Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has been drawn to posters purporting to indicate that H.E. Dr Bawumia has begun a campaign to lead the New Patriotic Party into the 2020 elections.

Cuomo made the party sweat it out in 2010 while he delayed accepted its endorsement due to a US attorney's office investigation into the actions of its now defunct for - profit arm, Data and Field Services, in the 2009 NYC elections.

Only four months into office, President Obama was signaling that some prisoners would likely never face trial, contrary to his election promises.

To take into account the aspects explained above, I introduce the following control variables: MP received an office budget uplift; MP is a London MP; MP held a frontbench position in 2014 - 15 [12]; MP stood down at the next election; the time it takes to drive from the constituency to Westminster; and the MP's party affiliation.

He came into office on the ticket of the People's National Party (PNP) after winning democratic elections organised by the Rawlings - led Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), which overthrew the Supreme Military Council (SMC) led by General Akuffo, on June 4, 1979.

As the election into various offices of the national body of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is around the corner, no fewer than 31 persons have shown interest in replacing the current President, Mr. Augustine Alegeh (SAN).

There has previously been some speculation that if the Conservatives win the general election and David Cameron becomes Prime Minister, he might combine the Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices into a single «Department for the Nations» or such like, with one minister sitting in the Cabinet.

On Wednesday, Schneiderman tweeted a screenshot of a statement announcing that his office will also open an investigation «into alleged improprieties in yesterday's voting by the New York City Board of Elections.»

These results imply that the New York Times article detailing ways the governor's office tried to control the commission and the ongoing federal investigation have not caused serious damage to the governor's campaign heading into election season.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman later said his office has opened an investigation into «allege improprieties» in Tuesday voting by the city Board of Elections.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. joined the ongoing federal investigation into de Blasio's fundraising tactics last January after the Board of Elections» chief investigative officer sent a «criminal referral» to Vance's office alleging the efforts of the mayor's nonprofit to unseat the Republicans violated campaign finance laws, Vance has said.

Nationally, leading into the November 2010 election, Republicans controled the governor's office, state House and state Senate in 9 nine states, while Democrats enjoy what is called «total control» in 16.

Going into the 2014 elections, the battleground races for the state Senate and governor's office threatened Colorado's trifecta status.

ALBANY — The state Inspector General's office has launched a probe into who leaked the bombshell Board of Elections criminal referral involving Mayor de Blasio's fund - raising operation, the Daily News has learned.

This is just the latest step in our renaissance, over the last few weeks with the Legislature's partnership we have passed and signed bond resolutions to fund the relocation and upgrading of our Medical Examiner's Office; funding for the new Sheriff's Police Academy; money to turn more of Building «A» into useable office space; funds for the relocation of the District Attorney's Special Victims Unit; plans for construction of a Board of Elections Storage Building and a bond to fund the replacement of the Samsondale Avenue Bridge in West HaverOffice; funding for the new Sheriff's Police Academy; money to turn more of Building «A» into useable office space; funds for the relocation of the District Attorney's Special Victims Unit; plans for construction of a Board of Elections Storage Building and a bond to fund the replacement of the Samsondale Avenue Bridge in West Haveroffice space; funds for the relocation of the District Attorney's Special Victims Unit; plans for construction of a Board of Elections Storage Building and a bond to fund the replacement of the Samsondale Avenue Bridge in West Haverstraw.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was established by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to, among other things, organize elections into various political offices in the country.

Already, the countdown to the next general elections is on and with the recent declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to seek re-election into office in 2019, it seems to be gathering momentum with each passing day.

A Democrat has now won the county's highest office three straight elections, but Democrats were doing everything they could Tuesday night to distance themselves from Mr. Levy, who surrendered $ 4 million in campaign cash and didn't seek reelection after prosecutors made inquiries into his fundraising practices.

The state Inspector General's office has launched a probe into who leaked the bombshell Board of Elections criminal referral involving NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's fund - raising operation.

Having resigned on two occasions during Tony Blair's first term of office, his third resignation only weeks before the April 2010 general election plunged the Labour Party into two decades of infighting, from which it only recently recovered fifteen years later with the election of teenage glamour model Princess Tiaamii Andre - Price as leader.

In the months leading up to Election Day, Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson was reluctant to commit to bringing the marriage bill back to the floor for a vote, despite the fact that now Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo said seeing the measure passed and signed into law would be a «priority» for his first year in office.

The political ramifications of Mangano's arrest could start with next month's competitive state Senate elections and stretch into next year's races for nearly all county and Oyster Bay town offices.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's office spent $ 3.2 million during the first few months of his investigation into Russian election interference.

The Brigades moved into the space above the Beacon Cinema, which served as a joint campaign office and local headquarters in April 2013 during the run - up to June's special election that saw Democrat Ed Markey take the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by fellow Democrat John Kerry.