edo election

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In an appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, challenging the ruling of the Edo State Election Petitions Tribunal on the September 2016 governorship poll, the Appeal Court sitting in Benin will on Friday deliver its judgement. The PDP and...

Governor Godwin Obaseki is reviewing the campaign promises he made a couple of months ago to the Edo people. In a meeting with top Edo state government officials and leaders of the APC, he explained that he has started taking stock both at the Government House and the different ministries in...

The Ali Sheriff faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said it has identified impunity and lack of respect for the party’s constitution and the rule of law as the major problems that led to the its failure in the Edo and Ondo governorship elections. Many have expressed the belief that...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate in the just concluded Edo state election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, this morning led some members of his party in a protest over the results from the Sept. 28th governorship election as announced by INEC. Addressing the crowd, Ize-Iyamu said: "I thank...

After receiving certificates of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Thursday, winner of the Edo gubernatorial election, Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shuaibu, took to the streets to celebrate victory. The governor and his deputy were seen standing on a...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday in Benin, presented certificates of return to Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shuaibu, winners of Edo gubernatorial election. Dr Mustafa Muhammed, INEC National Commissioner in charge of South-South zone, presented the...

The Centre for Patriotic Leadership Initiative (CPL) has said it will start a 100-day protest action in Edo State. The action, the CPL said, was intended to show its members’ displeasure with the outcome of last week’s gubernatorial election in Edo State. The protest, tagged: “Mother of...

Governorship candidates of five of the 19 political parties that contested governorship election in Edo State have called for the cancellation of the results declared by INEC. They insisted that the figures INEC declared and displayed on national television were at complete variance with...

Supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Pastor Ize Iyamu stormed the city of Edo state to demand the immeidate announcement of their candidate as the Governor of Edo state. See photos:

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has called for collective efforts towards addressing inducement of voters with money by political parties and their candidates during elections. Nick Dazang, the commission’s deputy director on voter education and publicity, said this in...

The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), one of the political parties that took part in Edo State governorship election on Wednesday, has condemned the outcome of the election. The National Chairman of APGA, Dr. Victor Oye, condemned the outcome of the election, describing the way his party...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has stated that the refusal of some political party agents to sign the Edo governorship election result sheet did not invalidate the poll. INEC National Commissioner in Charge of Publicity, Prince Solomon Soyebi, stated this in an...

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Adams Oshiomhole, Godwin Obaseki, and the people of Edo State over APC's victory in the recent governorship election in the state. Buhari, in a telephone call to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, commended the well-articulated campaign programme of the APC...

There was bedlam at Abico Market unit 10 ward eight in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State on Wednesday when an elderly man, Mr. Solomon Omorogbe, an agent of the All Progressives Congress reportedly slumped and died at the polling unit. It was gathered that the 58 years old man...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that results released by the Indipendent Nation Electoria Commission (INEC) are fake and that the figures contradict the once announced at various units and as collated at various wards across the state. The PDP in a press statemen said that its...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Thursday, Seeptemeber 29th, 2016 declared the Candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has winner in the Edo gubernatorial election. Here are few things you you should know about the Governor-elect - Mr. Godwin Obaseki...

Security has been beefed up at Edo Government House,Benin, and other public institutions as the result of the governorship election in the state is being announced. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some people had protested in front of the Independent National Electoral Commission...

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Edo State gubernatorial election, Godwin Obaseki has accused the People’s Democratic and its flagbearer, Osagie ize-Iyamu of mobilising supporters to perpetrate violence. The Godwin Obaseki Campaign Organisation in a statement alleged that...

All Progressives Congress in Edo state its chairman described Peoples Democratic Party, PDP's protest as laughable. The APC Chairman said: “they already knew they will never win because as we said Edo people have rejected them. They have a bad produce while we have a good product which has won...