• Crises Rock APC, PDP as Gladiators Scheme Towards 2023

    Crises Rock APC, PDP as Gladiators Scheme Towards 20230

    Unless there is a let-up, the two leading political parties in Nigeria, the All Progressives Party (APC) and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) are heading towards major crises as different interest groups and tendencies within the parties scheme towards having a dominant position ahead of the 2023 election. The APC is embroiled in the politics

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  • Criticisms, Calls for Cancellation Trail Kogi, Bayelsa Elections

    Criticisms, Calls for Cancellation Trail Kogi, Bayelsa Elections0

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    • November 19, 2019

    A deluge of criticisms and strident calls for cancellation have continued to trail last Saturday’s governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states. The Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday 18th November declared the candidates of the All Progressive Congress, Yahaya Bello in Kogi and David Lyon in Bayelsa as winners of the governorship seats in

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  • Governorship: INEC Declares David Lyon, Yahaya Bello Winners in Bayelsa, Kogi States

    Governorship: INEC Declares David Lyon, Yahaya Bello Winners in Bayelsa, Kogi States0

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    • November 18, 2019

    The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Mr. David Lyon and Alhaji Yahaya Bello both of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as winners of the governorship election in Bayelsa and Kogi states respectively. The elections which were dotted with violence, ballot-box snatching and massive vote buying prompting different observer groups to condemn such undemocratic acts

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  • Confusion Reigns as Court Rules APC Out of Bayelsa Governorship Election

    Confusion Reigns as Court Rules APC Out of Bayelsa Governorship Election0

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    • November 14, 2019

    The fate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to participate in Saturday’s governorship election was further sealed on Thursday as a Federal High Court in Bayelsa ruled that the party has no candidate by voiding the primaries organized by the party on September 4, 2019. The case was instituted by a factional leader and a

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  • Bayelsa On the Horns of Dilemma…Election Too Close to Call

    Bayelsa On the Horns of Dilemma…Election Too Close to Call0

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    • November 12, 2019

    Though there are forty-five candidates flying the flags of different political parties in the Saturday, November 16, governorship election in Bayelsa state, in truth, it is a two-horse race contest; between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC). One,the incumbent at the state, the other controls power at the Federal level.

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  • 2015: Intrigues of bidding for power at the centre

    2015: Intrigues of bidding for power at the centre1

    It is no longer news that since the un-interrupted return of democratic rule in Nigeria from 1999 till date, the nation’s political terrain has been dominated by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Having produced the President consecutively since 1999, the party’s leadership once boasted that PDP would rule Nigeria for the next 50 years. Inspite

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