A report has shown that out of 51 candidates vying for the governorship in Kogi, Imo, and Bayelsa states, respectively, only three are women.

The Imo State governorship election, the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and Labour Party, LP), Senators Samuel Anyanwu and Athan Achonu, staged a walkout at a stakeholders’ meeting organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Ahead of the Saturday, November 11, governorship election in Imo, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC said there will be no election in the Polling Units with no registered voters.

The chairman of the Bayelsa Traditional Rulers Council, Bubaraye Dakolo, has claimed that politicians are exploiting the weaknesses of the law enforcement agencies to cause mayhem in the country.

The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Kogi state, Murtala Ajaka,has alleged that he is a target of assassination over the November 11, 2023 governorship election in the state.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it won’t count votes in any polling unit where violence occurs in Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa.

Ahead of the governorship elections held November 11 in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo States, the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun has deployed three Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs) to oversee the security arrangements and ensure the elections run smoothly in the respective states.

Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic party, (PDP), Amb. Umar Damagun, Vice presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa and Governors of the party, Tuesday, stormed Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital to canvass support for the party’s governorship candidate, Senator Douye Diri for the November 11 election.

A total of 1, 017, 613 Bayelsa State residents who have collected their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, will on Saturday go to the ballot to choose the next governor of the state.

Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has said that there will be no movement of vehicles on the roads in the three states – Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa – observing off-season governorship elections.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed confidence that its candidates in Saturday’s governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi States will win convincingly given facts on the ground.

National Publicity Secretary of the party, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, said this at a press briefing, in Abuja, on Tuesday.

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun on Monday 6th November 2023, visited Bayelsa State to engage stakeholders, Police Officers and other security agencies in preparation for the forthcoming guber election in Bayelsa State.

With four days to the off-circle governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States, the Uyi and Rachel Lawani (URL) Foundation, Tuesday, urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to pull its statutory weight to conduct credible and acceptable elections without fear or favour.

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has re-enlisted the candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC in Saturday’s Bayelsa Governorship election, Chief Timipre Sylva.

If the outcome of a recent opinion poll across the seven local councils of Bayelsa State was anything to go by, Governor Douye Diri of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, will be re-elected on November 11.