Steer clear of Adamawa supplementary polls, PDP warns riggers
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has cautionioned riggers allegedly working with the All Progressives Congress, APC, perish the thought of manipulating the Adamawa supplementary elections on Saturday as doing so will be at their own peril.
Lagos INEC sets for supplementary elections in 148 polling units
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday said it would conduct House of Representatives supplementary elections in six federal constituencies alongside the Saturday governorship and state legislative elections.
Army, lawyers bicker over security on polls day
Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, said yesterday that the Nigerian Army is in possession of intelligence showing that some politicians are planning to use mercenaries for acts of assassinations, using farmers/herders clashes as well as ethnic militias to perpetrate violence and bombings during the March 9 governorship/state Houses of Assembly elections.
PDP alleges mass arrest of members in Niger Delta states
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Wednesday night decried what it described as the the on-going mass arrest and detention of its leaders and members in South South states of Rivers, Delta and Akwa-Ibom states by the Nigerian military ahead of the March 9, 2019 governorship and state assembly elections.
Stop Okorocha from rigging Imo polls or Imo’ll boil, Uzodnma tells security agencies
AHEAD this Saturday governorship election in the country, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma has appealed to security agents to ensure that the votes of Imo people counts, alleging that governor Rochas Okorocha has perfected plans to unleash mayhem on APC members during the exercise.
March 9 Polls: Let’s make governorship election better than presidential – Buhari
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerians especially those of voting age to make the forthcoming governorship and house of assembly elections better than the presidential and National Assembly polls.
