It has come to the knowledge of the All Progressives Congress Delta State, that efforts are being presently made by the Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP and Delta State governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa and the PDP governorship candidate of the state, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, to clandestinely change the outcome of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in Delta State. As a political Party, we are pained that the will of the people to vote for candidates of their choice, is now being subverted through the rewriting of already collated results by, Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa and Sheriff Oborowheri, who…
Author: Spade Nigeria
LBy Rasaq Ibrahim, Toba Adedeji, Ernest Nwokolo, Bisi Olaniyi, Bisi Oladele and Duku Joel Former Ogun State Governor Gbenga Daniel and business magnate Jimoh Ibrahim are among the first set of Senators-elect formally announced yesterday by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC). The others are Solomon Adeola (aka Yayi), Opeyemi Bamidele, Cyril Fasuyi, Yunus Akintunde, Yemi Adaramodu, Jimoh Ibrahim, Lola Ashiru and Nasir Sani-Zango.. But Senate Spokesman Ajibola Bashiru, Biodun Olujimi, Francis Alimekhena and Ahmad Babba-Kaita failed in their bids to return to the Red Chamber were also made formal by the electoral umpire. Bashiru is an APC senator while Olujimi…
(Mrs Funke Egbemode was former Commissioner for Information to immediate past Osun State Governor Oyetola, two terms President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, former Editor of Daily Independent, columnist on the Sun Newspaper and current MD of Telegraph Newspaper.) One man, three, four wives, and a strong home, a marriage that lasted till the end of their lives. How did our grandmothers, and great-grandmothers do it? How did they cope with the sleep roasters, sharing their men’s affection, attention and bodies? Didn’t they ever get jealous, feel betrayed when the men they love bring in new women? Wait, did…
Plans to disrupt the collation of results at Delta South Senatorial District collation Centre, Oleh, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, has been unveiled. An impeccable source at the collation Centre said he overheard some bigwigs in Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of Isoko extraction putting finishing touches on how to mobilize their waiting thugs to invade the venue and chase everybody away. It was gathered that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Delta South Senatorial hopeful, Hon. JOEL-ONOWAKPO Thomas, was already leading in the counted votes. The plan according to our source has it that it was obvious that the…
The Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has been re-elected for the sixth consecutive term in the just concluded 2023 general elections announced by INEC on Sunday. According to the official result declared by the returning officer, Prof. Virgy Onyene at the Surulere local government office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Femi Gbajabiamila of the APC with wide margin of victory defeated his opponents with 19,717 votes to defeat his closest rival Bosun Jeje of the PDP who scored 5,121 votes . The Surulere born lawyer was first elected into the House of Representatives in 2003 and…
The Labour Party vice Presidential candidate Alhaji Datti Baba Ahmed lost his polling unit to the PDP in Tudun Wada Zaria. The PDP won the polling unit with 102 votes followed by the All Progressives Congress’s 98 votes while LP came distant third with 54 votes and the NNPP secured 11 votes. As votes continue to trickle in from various states across the North the Labour Party continue to suffer crushing defeat at the hands of the PDP , APC and the NNPP. Although the Labour Party made a significant in road in the Southeast and the south south parts…
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has expressed confidence of his victory and that of the PDP in today’s Presidential and National Assembly elections. The Minority Leader, who is also the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives, candidate for Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency spoke with Journalists after casting his votes at 11:15 am, in his Unit 3 polling unit, located inside the premises of Kanidima Primary school, Onicha-Uku, in Aniocha North Local Government area, Delta State. The Federal Lawmaker was confident that PDP will coast home to victory, saying the Party has done marvelously well…
The massive operation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to deter vote trading and other financial malfeasance ahead of tomorrow’s presidential and national assembly elections may have begun paying dividends with the interception in Lagos of the sum of N32, 400,000 (Thirty-two Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) allegedly suspected to be used for vote buying in Lagos. The recovery was made by operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Commission. The suspect involved has been taken into custody for further questioning. The Chairman of the Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa has implored all personnel of the Commission deployed for…
A member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Chinyere Igwe, has been arrested with an unspecified amount of foreign currencies. Igwe, who represents Port Harcourt Federal Constituency 2, in the lower chamber of the National Assembly, was arrested on Friday morning along Aba Road in Port Harcourt. Spokesperson of the Rivers State Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, who confirmed the arrest to our correspondent said, “A statement on it will be released soon.
Immediate Past Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, CON, has appealed to stakeholders to be transparent and avoid any form of violence. That we have experienced too much violence in Nigeria and Delta State in particular. Uduaghan stated this in a Press Release dated Thursday, 23 February, 2023, that was made available to pressmen. Appealing to Nigerians to go and vote in peace that a peaceful election is a win for us all, he said the results of the elections would produce mainly fresh hands to occupy the various offices being contested for. And hopefully, the fresh hands would produce…