2019 general election news

Youths of the All Progressive Congress and Peoples Democratic Party in Zamfara state, exchanged blows inside the Supreme court premises today after the apex court this morning, ruled PDP winner of the Zamfara state governorship election. The post Zamfara APC and PDP youths exchange blows...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has held a meeting over the judgement by the Supreme Court on the elections held in the state.... Read more via Tori News – http://bit.ly/2WmAwlO Get More Nigeria Political News

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has commended the Supreme Court judgement which nullified the elections of all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara in the last general elections. Abubakar in a statement issued by his Media...

Spokesman to former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the 2019 elections, Segun Sowunmi has dismissed insinuations in some quarters that some President aspirants of the worked against the victory of Atiku Abubakar in the February 23 … Read more...

The slowdown in economic activities is taking its toll on the insurance businesses, some chief executive officers (CEOs) of companies in the sector have said. Speaking in separate interview with THISDAY, the CEOs said the sector was still reeling under the effects of the lull in the … Read...

Arewa youths and supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have admonished members of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to be firm, fast, independent and resolute as they handle the complaints of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar arising from … Read more via The Guardian...

The Zamfara Independent Electoral Commission (ZSIEC) has declared the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winners of the Local Government Council election in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 42 political parties participated in the polls, … Read more...

Former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic party, Atiku has been attacked by the Presidency over the outcome of the 2019 election..... Read more via Tori News – http://bit.ly/2GxZhkZ Get More Nigeria Political News

The Court of appeal sitting in Abuja has reserved judgment in the election petition filed by the governor of Osun challenging the verdict of the State’s election petition tribunal which nullified his election. After taking arguments from parties in the appeals, Justice Jummai Sankey announced...

How come INEC has been claiming that there’s NO SERVER RESULT? Some presiding officers in Borno and Yobe states have revealed that they indeed transmitted results of the February 23 presidential election to the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The APC had tackled...

The Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has urged candidates of political parties and politicians who did not emerge victorious during the last elections not to lose hope. Amaechi said with wisdom and patience, they will still achieve their political dreams in the future. This is...

The Senator representing Kaduna Central District in the National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has dared members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to take up the challenge by spokesman for the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Buba Galadima, to swear by the Holy … Read more via Naijaloaded |...

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Buba Galadima, has hit out at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), saying it will enter the Guinness book of records for organising the worst election in history. … Read more via Vanguard News – http://bit.ly/2UQXUrL Get More...

The number of women elected to public offices in Nigeria did not increase after this year’s election. Instead, there was a decline to any progress made in women’s previous outings since the inception of the fourth republic, analyses by PREMIUM TIMES and the Centre for Democracy and … Read...

Shehu Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna Central has reacted to a statement by Prof. Attahiru Jega, former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), faulting the conduct of some university lecturers during the 2019 general election. DAILY POST reports that Jega while...

THE Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan has said that rigging of election in whichever means was worse than stealing billions of money that belong to the people. Cardinal Onaiyekan also appealed to the President Muhammadu Buhari-led executive arm of government to refrain from...

The Independent National Electoral Commission and the All Progressives Congress have till Thursday to file their responses to the election petition jointly filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the outcome of the … Read more...

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to claims made by a former chieftain of the party, Alhaji Buba Galadima, about the 2019 general elections. Galadima had claimed that the APC and the presidency used the military and other state actors to rig the just-concluded presidential...

Popular Nigerian journalist, Kadaria Ahmed was one of the conveners of the #MatchforZamfara on Saturday in Abuja. Mrs Ahmed who had interviewed presidential candidates before the 2019 general elections took to the street with fellow compatriots to demand that government fulfil its most...

A former Commissioner for Information in Edo State, Hon. Charles Idahosa, spoke with OJIEVA EHIOSUN on the 2019 general elections, among other issues. .... Read more via Newtelegraph – http://bit.ly/2Uma0Zk Get More Nigeria Political News