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Alhaji Yahaya Bello of the APC has been sworn-in as the authentic governor of Kogi State. According to DailyPost, Bello who was sworn-in without a deputy signed the oath of office at the Lokoja New stadium today. More details shortly…

Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello will tomorrow, at the Confluence Stadium, Lokoja, the state capital, be sworn-in as Governor of Kogi State. Two motions for the interlocutory injunction to stop the inauguration were thrown out by the Kogi State governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in...

Barely nine days into the new year, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has listed 20 things Nigerians should expect to happen under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government in 2016. These are: 1. Workers Strike: There will be so much industrial unrest, especially in the first quarter...

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has assured Nigerians that he is working to ensure that future elections are conclusive. He gave the assurance yesterday while speaking at the 11th Public Lecture of The Electoral Institute (TEI) with the topic...

‎Gabriel Kolawole, Justice of the federal high court, Abuja, on Friday ruled that the court had no jurisdiction to hear‎ the cases involving the Kogi governorship election, which was declared inconclusive on November 22. The court held that only the election petition tribunal had the...

Protesters clamouring for the declaration of Hon. Abiodun Faleke today, laid siege to the INEC headquarters in Abuja. They called on the electoral commission to shelve its proposed supplementary poll in the state and declare Faleke as governor-elect. The protesters who arrived the...

Protest in Kogi state over the replacement of late Abubakar Audu with Yahya Bello of Ebira. See photos:

According to Vanguard newspaper, strong indications have shown that Yahaya Bello may be declared as the candidate of the party ahead of the December 5 supplementary poll of the party ahead of the historic decision to be announced by the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress...

From the last APC Primary election in Kogi state where late Abubakar Audu emerged as the flag bearer of the party, here are the names and votes of other candidates in the primaries. Who do you hink should be the next flagbearer of the party? Ocholi James – 90 Obadofin – 15 Zakari Jiya – 0...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is to conduct supplementary elections on December 5 in the 59 polling units where the governorship election was cancelled in Kogi State last Saturday. You can read - Audu's Death: INEC Announces 3 Major Decisions Besides, the All...

Governor Rochas Okorocha and Chairman of he Progressive Governors Forum said he was disgusted when he read the tale full of thrash and libel told by enemies of democracy on the death of Abubakar Audu last weekend. Okorocha denied the allegation where he was accused of labelling the former...

Members of the All Progress Congress in the United Kingdom, APCUK, has mourned the death of its candidate in the inconclusive Kogi State governorship election, Prince Abubakar Audu. Reacting to the shocking news via its Twitter handle, “@APCUKingdom tweeted: “We extend our deepest sympathies...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared the governorship election held in Kogi on Saturday as inconclusive. - Number of cancelled votes that was higher than the margin between the leading candidate and the runner-up. Read - INEC Declares Kogi Elections...

The Transition Monitoring Group has released an interim report of its Kogi election monitoring. ‎According to TMG Quick Count observers, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials arrived by 7:30am at 75 percent of polling units. “At 92 percent of polling units, Quick...

SaharaReporters citizen journalists have submitted unconfirmed voter tallies from across Kogi State. These early vote tabulations indicate that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has a slight lead over the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State. Unconfirmed election results can be viewed...

Idris Wada, governor of Kogi state and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the ongoing governorship election, has stormed out of his polling unit in annoyance after the voter card reader of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed to accredit him. At polling...

After months of intense and tension-soaked campaigns by all the political gladiators in Kogi state, the long awaited day has come. Today the electorate in the confluence state will take their destiny in their own hands. Presidency has also assured that Kogi people will be allowed to choose their...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government has pulled in partisan military operatives to assist it in rigging Saturday’s Kogi state governorship election, instead of allowing the forces to concentrate on their statutory role of providing...

Prince Abubakar Audu, first Executive Governor of Kogi State was born on 27 October 1947, to the family of his Royal Highness, the late Pa Audu Oyidi, Orego Atta of Igala Land and the paramount ruler of Ogbonicha-Alloma in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State. Life and Career - Prince...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kogi State chapter, has reacted to the words of the former governor of Lagos state and National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu that governor Idris Wada of the PDP is a goner in Saturday poll. The PDP, through its State...