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Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure Counsel to the All Progressives Congress and that of the Independent National Electoral Commission, cross-examined the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Eyitayo Jegede SAN, during Tuesday’s sitting of the Election Petition Tribunal, in Akure. Jegede had filed a petition to challenge the outcome of the governorship election in which Governor Rotimi Akeredolu SAN, was declared the winner by the INEC. As part of his grounds for the petition, J...

Oba Darasimi Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the October 10, 2020 governorship election in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) and his party yesterday at the election petition tribunal closed their case against Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) and the All Progressives Congress (APC). At the resumed hearing yesterday, Jegede declined to call any of the 399 witnesses he had listed before the Justice Umar Abubakar-led panel at the petition tribunal to back up his petition ag...

Certificate Forgery Suit: Iyoha Darlington congratulates Obaseki, hails court verdict On Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State FORMER governorship candidate on the platform of the Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN) in the 2020 Edo State governorship election, Iyoha John Darlington, has congratulated Mr Godwin Obaseki, the Governor of Edo State and his Deputy, Rt. Hon. Philip Shiabu on their victory in the certificate forgery suit by the All Progressives Congress. In a statement obtained by Vanguar...

The Catholic Bishop of Abakaliki diocese, Bishop Nnachi Okoro at the weekend waded into the political crisis that ensued between the governor of Ebonyi

GROUP POLITICS EDITOR, KUNLE ODEREMI, furthers the dissection of issues such as restructuring and zoning as well as the personalities whose actions or

Punch Newspapers Sections Ogbonnaya Ikokwu, Umuahia NO fewer than 2,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Aba North Local Government Area of Abia State, on Thursday, defected to the All Progressives Congress. The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Kalu, received them on behalf of the State Chairman of the party, Chief Donatus Nwankpa and Chairman of Caretaker Committee of the APC, Gov. Mai Buni, in his country home in Igbere. Kalu, a former governor of the state, urged the defectors to...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dennis Naku, Port Harcourt Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has urged the federal government not to be ashamed of approaching countries that have the capacity to help Nigeria secure her sovereignty, the citizenry as well as protect its nascent democracy. Ekweremadu stated this when he performed the inauguration of Abonnema Ring Road in Akuku Toru Local Government Area of the State on Thursday. This is as he said Governor Nyesom Wike’s administration ha...

TODAY January 7, 2021 Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has urged the federal government not to be ashamed of approaching countries that have the capacity to help Nigeria secure her sovereignty, the citizenry as well as protect its nascent democracy. Ekweremadu stated this when he performed the inauguration of Abonnema Ring Road in Akuku Toru Local Government Area of the State on Thursday. This is as he said Governor Nyesom Wike’s administration has demonstrated equity and jus...

Punch Newspapers Sections Friday Olokor and Adeyinka Adedipe The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, was on Tuesday cleared by the authorities of the University of Ibadan of alleged forgery of his degree certificate brought against him by the All Progressives Congress. But hearing in the matter continues today (Wednesday) at a Federal High Court in Abuja. The degree certificate was confirmed to have been issued to Obaseki by the institution in 1979 after his formal graduation. The Deputy Chief ...

Governor David Umahi The Indigenous People of Biafra has told the Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, to stop harassing his own people because he has allegedly been promised the position of vice-president in 2023. Umahi recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, on which platform he was elected twice as governor, for the All Progressives Congress. The warning by the proscribed IPOB was contained in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on Tuesday. Powerful said in ...