Tag: Edo

By Seyi Babalola   The Edo State Police Command has arrested and paraded 45 suspects for alleged  involvement in various ...

By Seyi Babalola Barely three months before the Edo State gubernatorial election, the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign committee says ...

By Seyi Babalola The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned Edo and Ondo State governors not to use their power of incumbency to deny opposition parties and candidates access to public facilities for rallies and other campaign activities ahead of the two states' off-cycle governorship elections. The commission also expressed worry that it has been a reoccurring issue in Nigeria's electioneering process for incumbents to victimize opposition parties by imposing various restrictions on their use of public venues for rallies and other campaign activities. INEC’s National Commissioner & Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, handed the warning ...

By Seyi Babalola The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) South-south Zonal Legal Adviser, Alabh George Turner, has nullified the expulsion of ...

By Nefishetu Yakubu   The leadership of Edo chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday announced the expulsion of ...

The immediate past member representing Oredo Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Hon. Ogbiede Ihama Omoregie, has been expelled ...

By Seyi Babalola Monday Okpebholo, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for Edo State's September 2024 election, has accused the current governor, Godwin Obaseki, of ignoring public facilities in the state's 18 LGAs. He claimed that if Obaseki had given attention to this infrastructure, Edo State would have resembled any other urbanized community in different states. Okpebholo told media in Calabar that if he wins the forthcoming governor election, his administration will prioritize health, education, and road maintenance. He promised to re-enact Adams Oshiomhole’s infrastructural revolution when he was governor. ...

The Senator representing Edo Central Senatorial District, Senator Monday Okpebholo on Monday paid a Sallah homage visit to the President, ...

By Ehigimetor Igbaugba   Sen. Monday Okpebholo, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo, says he will run ...

By Seyi Babalola Ahead of Edo State's governorship election on September 21, former deputy governor Philip Shaibu has distanced himself from the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) candidate, Asue Ighodalo. According to Channels TV, Shaibu, who spoke on Sunday on the sidelines of the 2024 Father's Day celebration at Saint Paul's Catholic Church in Benin City, said he likes to support a homeboy. Shaibu, who was impeached by the Edo State House of Assembly a few months ago, said that the PDP candidate is an outsider. "Today, I came in as a homeboy. We have only two ...