EIGHT days to the first round of elections, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, urged Christians in the country to take a stand against rigging and other forms of electoral malpractices, including political violence.

Security at the headquarters of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was yesterday beefed up with the deployment of officers and men of the Anti-terrorism Squad, ATS, of the Nigeria Police.

THE Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, for Cross River State, Mr Mike Igini, has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, over alleged threat to his life.

A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, has directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to accept the list of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidates for the forthcoming general elections.

Anambra State chapter of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has described the arrest of Kingsley Ezenwenyi for being in possession of electoral materials of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as a set up orchestrated by the state government.

THERE is political tension in Edo State, as the leadership of the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are trading words over reports that PDP wanted to invite police from Abuja to arrest frontline senatorial candidates of the ACN and some of its leaders prior to the April elections

The All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in Ebonyi State yesterday dragged Governor Martin Elechi to an Abakaliki High Court over the ban of flag-off of its presidential rally in the state.

How did a suspect in connection with March 3, Suleja bomb blast that claimed several lives with scores of other people injured escape from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA custody?

GOVERNOR Gabriel Suswam of Benue state embroiled in a political face-off with some prominent
political figures from the state that he had hitherto co-habited with. Among them are his immediate
predecessor, Senator George Akume and former Senate President, Iyorcha Ayu, who have become patrons of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

THE Police, on the orders of Ebonyi State government, yesterday arrested some political aides to the governorship candidate of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in the state, Ambassador Frank Ogbuewu, over alleged dangerous overtaking of Governor Elechi’s convoy at Emene, near Enugu.