Category: Politics

The 10th Oyo State House of Assembly will be dominated by members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), DAILY POST reports. The state House of Assembly has thirty-two (32) seats. The results obtained by DAILY POST on Monday showed that PDP, which is the ruling party in the state, cleared twenty-eight (28) out of the […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Plateau State is set for victory after Saturday’s governorship election. The Collation Officers and Electoral Officers from the 17 Local Government Areas presented their results at the capital, Jos. The opposition PDP is leading in 10 LGAs, while the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, won in 7 […]

The Kaduna State Government has informed citizens that security agencies are on high alert to contain threats to law and order throughout the state. Samuel Aruwan, the Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, in a statement on Monday, said, “This development follows intelligence reports indicating plans by some individuals and groups to spread […]

The Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, has sacked 64 development centre coordinators and over 100 board members and commissions. Umahi made this known in a statement signed and issued to newsmen in Abakaliki by the Secretary to the State government, SSG, and Coordinating Commissioner, Mr. Ugbala Kenneth Igwe. DAILY POST gathered that the sack […]

Former Director General of the Labour Party campaign organisation, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has listed seven problems bedevilling Nigeria’s democracy. Okupe in a tweet on Monday identified pervasive corruption, illiteracy, crippling poverty, massive youth unemployment, lack of respect for rule of law, the malleability of the judiciary and the absence of the fear of God as […]

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader in Lagos, Bode George, has condemned attacks by All Progressives Congress (APC) members and followers during Saturday’s election. He said the crimes against peaceful people trying to exercise their rights “is no different from war crimes and should be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC)”. The politician called the […]

The All Progressives Congress has accused the Peoples Democratic Party of attempts to influence election results against its governorship candidate, Senator Aishatu Dahiru (Binani), in Adamawa State. In a statement released on Monday by the APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the party called on the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies to prevent […]

The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress in Oyo State, Teslim Folarin, on Monday, congratulated the state governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Seyi Makinde, for his re-election in the just-concluded Saturday election. It was reported that Makinde polled 563,756 votes to defeat his closest rival, Folarin of APC, who scored 256,685 votes, […]

The senator representing Enugu East in the National Assembly, Chimaroke Nnamani, on Monday said the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, had “set the Igbo political trajectory 24 years back”. The senator who lost his senatorial return bid to the Labour Party’s candidate, Kelvin Chukwu, the sibling of the slain candidate, Oyibo Chukwu, […]