Asue Ighodalo, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Edo State governorship election, has described the election as potentially the worst in Nigeria’s history, citing numerous alleged irregularities. Speaking during a live press conference on Sunday, organised by the Edo PDP National Campaign Council and led by Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it reserves the power to review results declared under duress. The commission said this in a statement on Sunday morning. Following the upload of results on its portal, different political parties have been laying claim to victory. But in the statement, Mohammed Haruna, National Commissioner & Member,…
Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo, said he was at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early of Sunday for information on what was stalling the collation of results of the governorship election. In a press conference alongside Ahmadu Fintiri, governor of Adamawa; and Asue Ighodalo, governorship candidate of the Peoples…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan, Oyo State, has been reportedly engulfed by a fire outbreak. Although authorities have yet to confirm the incident. A blaze is believed to have started on Sunday in an office on the third floor of the South West 3 block. Emergency responders from the…
President Bola Tinubu says Nigeria’s daily consumption of premium motor spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, reduced to about 30 million litres after subsidy removal. Tinubu spoke on Friday during a meeting with a group of former lawmakers at the State House in Abuja. He said although Nigerians are complaining about the current “petroleum crisis”,…
It was a dramatic scene at about 4:10 am when Governor Godwin Obaseki was forced out of the premises of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Benin by the DIG Frank Mba. Obaseki had entered the promises unannounced at around 2 am allegedly to protest some anomalies in the collation of results of some local…
Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) stormed the Independent National Electoral Commission’s office at about 3.30 am on Sunday demanding that state governor Godwin Obesity should leave the office because he has no reason to be there when results were yet to be. Announced The governor was said to have gained entrance into…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has issued a statement warning the public to disregard circulating reports of fake vote tallies in the ongoing Edo State Gubernatorial Election. According to Felix Morka, Esq., National APC Publicity Secretary on Saturday night these reports are bogus and highly speculative. The APC clarified that ward-level collation is still underway…
Daniel Dubois was too strong and good for Anthony Joshua, winning all five rounds and knocking down Joshua in four of them to retain the IBF world heavyweight title. The defect makes it the second knockout defeat of his career, falling to Daniel Dubois in their all-British heavyweight title fight at Wembley Stadium. Dubois,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has uploaded results from 4,173 of 4,519 polling units in the Edo State governorship election. This translates to 92.34 per cent of the results from the election already in the INEC Result Viewing, IREV, portal. – PDP Urges Supporters To ‘Follow The Results’ Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,…