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The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Uche Secondus, has expressed confidence that the court would overturn the victory of President Muhsmmadu Buhari. He, therefore, warned that nobody would stop the party from contesting the outcome of the Feb. 23 Presidential Election in the court. Secondus told journalists on Friday in Abuja that the party believed that justice would be done at the court. “We will go to court. Nobody will stop us from going to court and bring out all of the facts both the international…

Jimi Agbaje, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, has challenged the ruling All Progressives Congress to be prepared for resistance if the ruling party unleashes violence in the March 9 governorship election. Agbaje, in a series of videos posted on his verified Twitter account on Friday, decried the violence reported at several polling units across the state during the presidential and National Assembly elections last Saturday. He said he had visited some areas affected by voter suppression and violence, adding that it was understandable why…

The governors of Ogun and Imo states, Ibikunle Amosun and Rochas Okorocha, have been suspended by the national working committee, NWC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, over anti-party activities. APC took the decision at its National Working Committee meeting held on Friday in Abuja. The NWC of the party further recommended the expulsion of the duo from the party for brazen anti-party activities. Both governors are supporting different candidates for the governorship election in their states. Okorocha, who won a Senate seat as APC candidate, is backing his son-in-law, Uche…

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has said it would conduct fresh elections in areas where the exercise could not hold last Saturday due to violence or other infractions. The elections would now be conducted in March 9 alongside the Governorship and State Assembly Polls. Although returns have been made in the presidential election and most of the National Assembly seats, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu had stated during the collation of presidential results that the figures from areas where elections could not be conducted were not substantial enough to…

Residents of Ogun State have been urged to troop out enmasse and cast their votes for the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC)in the forthcoming Governorship/State Assembly Elections slated for Saturday 9 March, 2019 across the nation. Making this plea in a statement was the Convener of Gateway Renewal Group, Comrade Babatunde Dada, who commended the people of Ogun State for voting for the candidates of the APC in the Presidential/National Assembly Elections, which held in the country on Saturday 23 February, 2019 all over the country. It will…