Sentences with phrase «governorship election in the state»

The Anambra State Police Commissioner, Garba Umar has cautioned against any form of procession targeted towards disrupting the forthcoming governorship election in the state as the security agencies will deal decisively with any group that falters.

An Ekiti - based socio - political group, the Ekiti Rebirth Organisation (ERO), has commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the recently released schedule for governorship election in the state.

What is happening is part of an orchestrated plan to destabilise Governor Willie Obiano ahead of the upcoming governorship election in the state.

Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had on Sunday declared Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, winner of the Saturday's governorship election in the state after polling 244,842 votes to beat his closest rival, Eyitayo Jegede of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who polled 150, 380 votes, while Mr Olusola Oke of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, followed with 126, 889 votes.

Dr Sylvster Igwilo, Chairman of United Progressives Party (UPP) in Anambra said that the party was confident of winning the Nov. 18 governorship election in the state if every stakeholder play by the rules.

Abraham, who was rumoured to be Tinubu's preferred candidate lost to former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Rotimi Akeredolu as the party's candidate in the coming governorship election in the state.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is currently announcing the official results of Bayelsa governorship election in the state capital, Yenagoa by 10 am today.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti state has declared that the All Progressives Congress, APC, will be defeated in the July 14 governorship election in the state even if the party deploys N100 billion to prosecute the poll that should produce Governor Ayo Fayose's successor.

Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State, has allegedly revealed how the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, plans to rig governorship elections in his state, Delta and...

Revrend Jacob Bada, Bishop of Etsako Diocese of the Anglican Communion, has urged politicians in Edo state to avoid violence in the incoming governorship election in the state on September 10.

Ondo State Governor - Elect, who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, in this interview with PETER DADA, speaks on the November 26 governorship election in the state among other issues

The Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Willy Obiano, has asked Nigerians not to take the threat of the Indigenous People of Biafra to stop the forthcoming governorship election in the state serious.

Meanwhile, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has accused the APC and the INEC of alleged connivance to rig the July 14 governorship election in the state by using students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti as INEC ad hoc staff for the election, instead of youth corps members.

Scores of former political office holders and Peoples Democratic Party chieftains on Friday condemned the burning of the party flags at the secretariat by supporters of Senator Iyiola Omisore and said that the party would win the September 22 governorship election in the state without the former governorship candidate of the party.

Except for last minute changes, former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore has concluded plans to formally join Social Democratic Party (SDP) to contest forthcoming governorship election in the state.

He was also alleged to have allegedly involved in anti-party activities in the last governorship election in the state, which was won by the party's candidate, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu.

Other issues according to the source include, leadership crises at the National level and the Ondo election that saw the emergence of former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, as the party's candidate in the upcoming governorship election in the state.

Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had on Sunday declared Rotimi Akeredolu of the APC winner of the Saturday's governorship election in the state after polling 244,842 votes to beat his closest rival, Eyitayo Jegede of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who garnered 150, 380 votes, while Mr Olusola Oke of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, followed with 126, 889 votes.

A close ally and former spokesperson of the former deputy governor of Osun State, Sen Iyiola Omisore, Prince Diran Odeyemi has said that his former principal is not a credible candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the 2018 governorship elections in the state.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has announced that 30 political parties have already submitted the names of their candidates for the November 26th, 2016 governorship election in the state.

He said, «In view of our belief in the judiciary and avalanche of evidence against the declaration of Senator Abiola Ajimobi as the duly elected governor in the April 11, 2015 governorship election in the state, Senator Rasheed Ladoja, the gubernatorial candidate of Accord after wide consultations, has resolved to appeal the judgment of Justice Muhammed Mayaki - led tribunal at the Court of Appeal.

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari's claim that the 2014 governorship election in the state was full of «hanky - panky.»

The anti-graft agency claimed the said sum was was paid into the Zenith Bank account of Spotless Investment Limited, a company owned by the First Lady and her husband, on June 17, 2014, less than a week to the June 21 governorship election in the state, Punch reports.

The former Governor of Ekiti State is currently seeking nomination by APC to contest the 2018 governorship election in the state.

There are uncertainties and anxieties as delegates of the All Progressives Congress elect the candidate of the party for the next governorship election in the state.

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed optimism that the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), will win Saturday's governorship election in the state.

There is an ongoing protest at the Independent National Electoral Commission's Office in Benin, venue of the collation of results for Wednesday's governorship election in the state.

Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State was on Sunday declared winner of the November 18, 2017 governorship election in the state.

Powerful said IPOB had uncovered a plot by Nigerian security agencies to link it to series of bomb blasts that would occur during Saturday's governorship election in the state.

Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, says he has no anointed candidate for the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

Mahmood Yakubu, National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission said 18,511 electoral officials had been deployed to Edo ahead of the Saturday's governorship election in the state.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Osun has released timetable for the conduct of the September 22 governorship election in the state.

The President's anger, according to inside sources is coming on the heels of the wide - spread condemnation of the conduct of the APC members in last weekend's governorship election in the State, especially in Southern Ijaw LGA, where no fewer than five persons lost their lives.

In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Idowu Adelusi, on Thursday, the envoy was quoted as saying, «We are here for the monitoring of events leading to the conduct of the governorship election in the state.

The report noted that to make the election possible, voter education is imperative on the part of the political parties and INEC in order to avoid voter apathy and total boycott in the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

However, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, declared that the party would defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the November 26 governorship election in the state.

Appeal court sitting in Jos, Plateau state on Sa - turday upheld the victory of Governor Jonah David Jang in the April 2011 governorship election in the state...

However, despite beingproscribedas a terrorist organization, members of the group staged a demonstration in Onitsha, the Anambra State commercial nerve centre, threatening voters not to come out and vote in the November 18 governorship election in the state.

He will now face Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the September 10 governorship election in the state.

Critical stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State having rose from a meeting held in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday adopted Olusola as the party flagbearer of the party in the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

He denied working for senator Ifeanyi Araraume who is a strong contender for the 2019 governorship election in the state, saying, «he (Araraume) has not discussed his ambition with me.

Sheriff's decision came just few days after the Chairman of the party's Caretaker Committee, Sen Ahmed Makarfi announced Pastor Osagie Ize - Iyamu as the party's flag bearer for the September 10, governorship election in the state.

The governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has called on his opponents in the April 11 governorship election in the state to join him in...

The Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State on Sunday elected new executive team headed by Mr. Soji Adagunodo to direct the affairs of the party barely six months to the governorship election in the state.

Abayomi said since Tinubu allegedly imposed a candidate, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, on the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria in the 2012 governorship election in the state and failed, he should not repeat the same style in the 2016 governorship primary of the APC.

While giving further update on the conduct of the governorship election in the state, INEC said that it had scheduled September 18 as the last day for the submission of names of candidates by the parties.

The governor said the new plot was in furtherance to his earlier allegation that Fayemi, in cahoots with leaders and stalwarts of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti and Abuja, were seeking to return to power through the backdoor, by enlisting a section of the Judiciary to revisit the 2014 governorship election in the state.

Celebrated literary doyen and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described as mystery, the defeat of the outgoing Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, in the June 21 governorship election in the state.