The governorship election in Edo State is not scheduled to hold until 2016 but the forthcoming presidential and National Assembly elections would be a strong contest between the two dominant parties in the state, the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Indications to that were shown yesterday when the women coordinator of the Goodluck Campaign in the state, Mrs. Evelyn Igbafe, three term member of the House of Representatives, Hon Ehiogie West-Idahosa and several other PDP members defected to the APC

Opinion polls commissioned by ANAP Foundation and conducted by NOI Polls (using Gallup methodology) show that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) and his main challenger, Major-General Mohammadu Buhari (Buhari) are currently running neck-to-neck in the 2015 Presidential race. The difference between them in terms of potential votes nation wide is statistically insignificant because it is dwarfed considerably by the much larger percentage of voters who remain “Undecided” – and so the race is truly too close to call

Coalition of civil society groups under the umbrella of Say No Campaign Nigeria, SNCN, yesterday, took a swipe at the peace accord signed on Wednesday, January 14, in Abuja, by the 14 presidential candidates in the February 14 presidential election.

THE Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday said that if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC goes ahead to conduct the Febuary 14 general election with almost 30 million voters cards yet to be distributed, the exercise will not be credible.

FORMER Secretary to Akwa Ibom State Government and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Umana Umana, in this interview ventilates his mastery of the key issues on governance in the state, concluding that a different approach to governance would be adopted if he emerges victorious in the forthcoming governorship election.

Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Chief Nyesom Wike, has described claims by the Rivers State Government and All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, that he (Wike) cloned the APC blueprint as an admission of Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s failure.

Former governor of Anambra state, Mr Peter Obi has dismissed Soludo as a man hunted by his past for stating that he (Obi) built no signature project in Anambra State during his tenure.

FORMER Deputy National Chairman (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George; erstwhile Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro and governorship candidate of the PDP, Mr Jimi Agbaje yesterday flagged-off the party’s governorship campaign lambasting the current state government of running a government without human face.

Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Mr. Nyesom Wike, has formally presented his developmental blueprint, aimed at repositioning Rivers State for the advantage of residents of the state.

AHEAD of next month’s presidential and general elections, the European Union, EU, yesterday, declared that its observers would not monitor elections in North East states of the country, citing insurgency in the zone as reason.