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VIDEO: Senate Minority Leader allegedly confesses to vote buying in 2023 elections
Senate minority leader Olalere Oyewumni has allegedly admitted to engaging in vote buying in the 2023 election. Olalere made the alleged confession in a trending video online. The Osun Senator while receiving defectors into PDP, said “I tried all the tricks I knew to win at Onilu House (Ile Onilu) polling unit but these people didn’t allow me”. View this…
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Open letter to Northern politicians, By Salihu Lukman
The living reality in Northern Nigeria is very explosive. If anyone is interested in finding the practical meaning of the Hobbesian description of life being ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short’, just look at what life is in Northern Nigeria. Indices of poverty, unemployment, inequality are beyond description. Conditions of schools and hospitals is, to say the least, depressing. The…
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LG Polls: KWASIEC insists on supervision of party primaries
By Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWASIEC) has said it must involved in the primaries of the political parties ahead of the local government elections. The election body threatened to invalidate results of primaries its officials do not supervise. Chairman of the Commission, Baba Okanla, made this known in a statement on Friday in Ilorin. “Kwara State…
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FCT Council Chairmen, Councillors will remain in Office till 2026- INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the council chairmen and councillors in the Federal Capital Territory would remain in office till 2026. Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the clarification at a meeting with the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) on Friday in Abuja, following the agitation for the conduct of fresh elections in the FCT.…
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LG Polls: KWASIEC extends deadline for party primaries to July 4
By Mosunmola Ayobami,Ilorin Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWASIEC) has announced the extension in the date of political parties primaries to Thursday July 4th this year. The Umpire has earlier pegged the date for deadline of primaries to Sunday June 30th. This was contained in a statement signed by the Chairman of the Commission Baba Okanla on Thursday in Ilorin.…
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Senate passes bill for Act to amend 2023 supplementary appropriation bill till Dec 31
The Senate on Thursday passed a bill for an Act to amend the implementation of the 2023 supplementary appropriation bill till December 31st, 2024. The passage followed the emergency plenary convened which was presided by the President of the Senate, Senator Godwill Akpabio. After clause by clause consideration of the bill and after the Committee of Supply, the bill was…
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Former Kogi Gov. Bello requests trial in state court
By Innocent Raphael The immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has requested to be tried by the state’s high court, after he was absent from his scheduled arraignment and plea bargain at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday. In a letter presented to the court, Bello expressed a preference to be tried in his home state.…
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LP, best platform for Obi to emerge victorious in 2027- National Vice Chairman
The Labour Party’s National Vice Chairman, Ayo Olorunfemi, has said the party offers the best platform for Peter Obi to contest and emerge victorious in the 2027 presidential election. Olorunfemi said this on Channels TV on Wednesday. He added that true Obidients won’t advise Obi to dump LP. “Well, I will just use the word delusional, those ones that are…
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Rivers: PDP has failed me- Fubara laments
The Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has expressed his disappointment with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stating that the party had failed him and his supporters in the state. Fubara, who was elected governor on the platform of the PDP a year ago, made this statement during a meeting with members of the Senate Committee on Privatisation, led by Senator…
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Rivers Crisis: Fubara urges supporters to remain steadfast
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has called on his supporters to remain steadfast amidst the political developments in the state. He assured them that the current phase of the crisis will equally pass. Fubara stated this on Tuesday during an address to the House of Representatives committee on Ports and Harbours which visited him at the Government House in Port…
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