Sentences with phrase «state house of assembly election»

A former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Chibudom Nwuche, on Monday dismissed the governorship and state House of Assembly elections in Rivers State,...

A controversial new Section 25 introduced into the Act changed the sequence of elections by making the National Assembly elections to come first, followed by the governorship and state House of Assembly elections, while the presidential poll will now come last.

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A group known as the Abia Youth Forum, AYF, has berated an All Progressives Congress, APC, aspirant in next year's State's House of Assembly election, Chijioke...

A member of the Bauchi state House of Assembly representing Lere / Bula constituency, Hon. Aminu Tukur says the All Progressives Congress, APC, under Governor Mohammed Abudullahi Abubakar is forcing the House of Reps Speaker, Yakubu Dogara to dump the party for another ahead of the 2019 elections.

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage.

He spoke during the Election Thanksgiving Service in honour of the Majority Whip, of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Evans Bipi, at Saint Martin's Anglican Church, Ogu on Sunday.

Organise, undertake and supervise all elections to the offices of the President and Vice-President, the Governor and Deputy Governor of a State, and to the membership of the Senate, the House of Representatives and the House of Assembly of each state of the federaState, and to the membership of the Senate, the House of Representatives and the House of Assembly of each state of the federastate of the federation;

He told journalists that the death of Mr. Kazeem Alimi, who represented the local government in the Lagos State House of Assembly made it mandatory for the Commission to conduct the by - election.

Gunmen, reportedly hired by politicians, stormed Ilase in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State during the House of Assembly election on Saturday.

For example, the House rejected devolution of powers; approved independent candidacy for elections; autonomy for local government councils; autonomy for state legislature; and immunity for members of the National Assembly.

By the reordered sequence, the national assembly election is expected to come first, followed by governorship and state houses of assembly, and presidential contrary to the timetable released by INEC which put presidential and national assembly elections first and governorship and state assembly to follow.

He said, «lNEC has failed, refused and or neglected to conduct re-run elections in Rivers, into the Senate, House of Representatives and State House of Assembly.

The PDP had dragged the INEC and former Resident Electoral Commissioner, Ambassador Rufus Akeju before the court seeking a reversal of all actions taken by Akeju as REC after an earlier order of March 28th 2011, given by the same court which restrained him from conducting the 2011 elections to National Assembly as well as State House of Assembly.

Already, PDP Senate caucus led by the Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, Benue state House of Representatives caucus, Benue state zone C House of Assembly Caucus, the league of Idoma Professors, the Idoma Dreams, the Idoma Young Professionals, the Idoma Prosperity Group as well as women groups have separately thrown their weights behind Senator Mark for the rerun election.

Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins revealed to the Observer he intends to run to replace Councilwoman Inez Dickens, who won election to the Assembly earlier this month — a move that could leave Democrats a vital vote short on core issues facing the upper house of the State Legislature.

Six weeks to the governorship election in Adamawa State, the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr Sadiq Ibrahim Dasin, has been impeached by a unanimoState, the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr Sadiq Ibrahim Dasin, has been impeached by a unanimostate House of Assembly, Mr Sadiq Ibrahim Dasin, has been impeached by a unanimous...

And, once every 10 years, redraw election district boundaries for the U.S. House of Representatives and the state Senate and Assembly.

The Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Alhaji Kawuwa Malala, has been declared the winner of Dukku North Constituency bye - election into the Gombe State House of Assembly.

Why was my own election the only one that was canceled when the same invalid PDP primaries produced other PDP Senators, Members of the House of Representatives as well as State Assembly Members?

Ajibola stated that the makers of the law, the «State of Osun House of Assembly» and the person who signed it the «Governor of the State of Osun» and the law itself the «State of Osun Local Government Areas (creation and administration) Law, 2015» upon which the processes of the election are based are strangers to the 1999 constitution and are non-existing.

Ebonyi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Thursday advocated that all elections, starting from the state house of assemblies to the presidential elections shouState chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Thursday advocated that all elections, starting from the state house of assemblies to the presidential elections shoustate house of assemblies to the presidential elections should...

Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi has congratulated members of the Oyo State House of Assembly on the rancour - free election which led to the emergence of Hon. Olagunju Ojo as the new Speaker.

There is currently low turnout of voters in the gubernatorial and state House of Assembly's elections in Benue Sstate House of Assembly's elections in Benue StateState.

The APC thanked all its candidates in the race for Senatorial, House of Representatives and Rivers State House of Assembly rerun elections and urged them to remain steadfast and resilient and work hard alongside the party to ensure that they win all the forthcoming rerun elections.

DAILY POST has gathered that the ongoing governorship and House of Assembly elections have turned bloody in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.

Former Deputy speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, and the immediate past Chairman Of the Abia State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ASOPADEC), Chief Emeka Stanley on Thursday declared his intention to run for the Abia South Senatorial Seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in 2019 electioof the Abia State House of Assembly, and the immediate past Chairman Of the Abia State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ASOPADEC), Chief Emeka Stanley on Thursday declared his intention to run for the Abia South Senatorial Seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in 2019 electioof Assembly, and the immediate past Chairman Of the Abia State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ASOPADEC), Chief Emeka Stanley on Thursday declared his intention to run for the Abia South Senatorial Seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in 2019 electioOf the Abia State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ASOPADEC), Chief Emeka Stanley on Thursday declared his intention to run for the Abia South Senatorial Seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in 2019 electioof the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in 2019 election.

In a statement signed by its state Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, the party recalled that the struggle to retrieve the mandates of its candidates, including that of the governorship candidate, hijacked in the 2015 sham elections, led to various rulings by the election petition tribunals and Appeal Courts, which annulled and ordered for the rerun elections for 22 State Assembly positions out of 32, all 3 Senatorial seats and 12 out of 13 House of Representatives sstate Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, the party recalled that the struggle to retrieve the mandates of its candidates, including that of the governorship candidate, hijacked in the 2015 sham elections, led to various rulings by the election petition tribunals and Appeal Courts, which annulled and ordered for the rerun elections for 22 State Assembly positions out of 32, all 3 Senatorial seats and 12 out of 13 House of Representatives sState Assembly positions out of 32, all 3 Senatorial seats and 12 out of 13 House of Representatives seats.

Agboke said the by - election was necessitated by the demise of the former Speaker, Michael Adeyemo, representing the constituency in the state House of Assembly.

«As soon as the members of the state house of assembly resumed from their break, we are sure they will pass the law that will enable us conduct the elections.

According to her, SIECOM was currently waiting for the Kaduna State House of Assembly to return from their recess to pass the law that will enable the commission to conduct the election.

Mr. Abunde said, the» umpire body stated that it has no power to nullify the election of the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mr. Terkimbi Ikyange on the basis of last November ruling of the Federal High Court which ordered it to restore the suppressed Mbagwa constituency.

The Chairmen insisted that the last Saturday governorship and House of Assembly elections in Enugu State were transparent, peaceful and free and fair, stressing that as foot - soldiers of the PDP who enjoy the confidence of the overwhelming majority of the electorate at the grassroots, there is no way the APC could have made any positive impact in the elections.

In the Originating Summons marked FHC / ABJ / CS / 232/2018, the plaintiff 8 issues for determination by the court, including: Having regards to the combined provisions of sections 79,116,118,132,153,160 (1) and 178 of the 1999 constitution as amended, the constitution read together with paragraph 15 (a) of the third schedule to the same constitution, whether the 3rd defendant (Independent National Electoral Commission) is not the only institution or body constitutionally vested with the powers and vires to organized, undertake and supervised elections to the offices of the president, the vice president of the federal republic of Nigeria, the Governor and deputy governor of a state, the membership of the Senate, the House of Representatives and the House of Assembly of each state of the federation, including fixing the sequence and dates of the elections to the said offices?