RIGHT from the enthronement of civil rule in Nigeria in 1999, Ebonyi has been a PDP-controlled state which produced the first executive Governor of the state, Dr. Sam Egwu among other elected individuals.

Rising from a town hall meeting ahead of the April 11 governorship election, a group of 22 gubernatorial hopefuls, under the aegis of Coalition of Political Parties,CPP, yesterday, unanimously adopted Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi,governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Enugu State as the their candidate.

IBADAN—TO avoid violence in the Saturday governorship election, the Oyo State police command has made candidates of political parties participating in the election to sign peace accord that would prevent them from engaging in activities capable of disrupting the peaceful atmosphere during and after the polls.

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ABUJA—At least one person died, Monday, as irate youths set ablaze Baptist Church at Gidan Maso village in Rogo Local Government Area of Kano State, while the residence of the pastor, Rev Habila Garba, was also burnt.

There is so much uneasy calm across Benue State following the outcome of the last presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.

ABEOKUTA—The Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Ogun State, yesterday, petitioned Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Department of State Services, DSS, and Commissioner of Police in the state over the alleged existence of fake Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, in the state.

ABUJA—Ahead of Saturday’s gubernatorial and states Houses of Assembly elections, the Police High Command, yesterday, said that Force headquarters will deploy hundreds of additional police officers to states considered volatile such as Rivers and three other states to ensure peaceful conduct of the elections.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, yesterday faulted claims by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its governorship candidate in Rivers State, Mr. Dakuku Peterside, that its members in the state have been subjected to continued attacks and were being killed by its political opponents.

A Lokoja Chief Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, ordered the remand of four persons — two men and two students — in the custody of Medium Security Federal Prisons, Okene, for attacking Alhaji Abdullahi Bello, a former Speaker of Kogi House of Assembly.