PAstor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is the Director-General of the Jonathan/Sambo presidential campaign in Edo State. In this interview with Vanguard, he insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan will win the presidential election despite the seeming popularity of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He also dismissed claims by Governor Adams Oshiomhole that the people of the state will not vote for President Jonathan asserting that the President has impacted positively on the lives of the people of the state and would therefore win the state

DR Austin Nweze, a social commentator and governorship candidate on the platform of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Ebonyi State, in this interview explains why he wants to govern the state.

Tuesday morning’s fire incident in the House of Assembly is couched within the equally blistering crisis in the state that has disconnected Governor Martins Elechi from the power levers in the state.

Voters who do not possess PVC will not be accredited and, consequently, will not be able to vote.

We are in a jet age now, and we have gone beyond party boundaries and it is individuals that matter. People are going to understand that we came from the PDP and we are people to reckon with. They are going to vote for Goodluck Jonathan, PDP for governor. When it gets to the senatorial, they are going to look for Hon. Ochei of Accord because he is a good administrator, he has been tested and everyone knows he is the right person for Delta North. When it comes to House of Representatives in my own domain, people are going to look for Accord. People are voting for individuals not party.

The Presidential and National Assembly Elections have now been rescheduled to hold on March 28, 2015, while Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections are rescheduled to hold on 11th April, 2015.

The Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei, Speaker Emeritus of the Delta State House of Assembly served as the presiding officer of the House from 2011 to 2014 having been elected three times as member of the House representing Aniocha North State Constituency. The bid by Ochei for the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP derailed in the midst of political intrigues that preceded his resignation as speaker and his subsequent designation as speaker emeritus by his colleagues.

Dr Enitan Badru was until recently, a commissioner in Lagos State when he resigned to contest the Lagos Island 1 Constituency seat in the House of Representatives on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, (APC). In this interview, he speaks on his inspiration for the contest, his plans for the constituency and assesses the opposition to his party’s dominance of the polity by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP

The card reader has been hailed as the antidote to election rigging in emerging democracies. It has been extensively used in a number of emerging democracies in Africa with positive reports of its contributory role in stemming election rigging.

The risky situation of Dr. Dakuku Peterside, the All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate in Rivers State was brought to attention last Tuesday on national television when gunmen attacked his campaign rally in Okirika, Rivers State. As the crowd scampered for safety amid unrelenting gunshots, Dr. Peterside stood almost alone on the podium, his flesh and bones seemingly mocking the bestial instincts of the hoodlums.

A Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party and a two-time member of the House of Representatives representing Remo North Federal Constituency, Honourable Dave Salako bares his mind on the steps the national leadership of the party should take to avert loss in the forthcoming governorship poll. He specifically urged the president to ensure he uses his office to intervene in the political imbroglio rocking the PDP

In this concluding part of the interview with Gov. Sule Lamido of Jigawa State, he says his fellow governors who defected from the PDP ought to have followed the honourable path by quitting office. He also speaks on what he calls `the healing process’ for Nigeria.

The near unanimity among the ruling class in Akwa Ibom has given way to an unusual rebellion against perceptions normally dubbed as an uncommon transformation. Akwa-Ibom is ostensibly, one of the states in the federation where it had been predictable for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to sweep the polls. The party had swept the polls in the state in 1999, 2003, 2007 and with some resistance from the opposition in 2011

Veteran broadcast journalist, Umar Kyari, is the director of press in the Jigawa State Government House. From his close working relationship with Governor Sule Lamido, he gives an insight into the policies and programmes of the governor.

Prof. Attahiru Jega, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted that only card readers would be used for accreditation of voters for the general elections.