Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 21 September governorship election in Edo State, Monday Okpebholo, was again typically missing in action on Saturday as he failed to show up at a town hall meeting organized by the people of Owan nation in the Edo North District. Okpebholo was expected to speak to the people about his plans …

Notwithstanding the mid-morning heavy downpour in Benin City, the coalition of non-indigenes of Edo State made up of several ethnic groups across Nigeria who are residents in the state, on Thursday threw its weight behind Dr Asue Ighodalo, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 21 September governorship election. The endorsement, considered as another significant political gain …

Thursday, 4 July 2024 witnessed an unprecedented distortion, misrepresentation and misinformation of what was the judgement delivered by Justice Iyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in respect of the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State. Contrary to what became the ‘Breaking News’, neither the primary election of 22 February 2024 by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) nor the …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says that its candidate in the 21 September 2024, Edo State governorship election, Dr. Asue Ighodalo remains validly in the race, contrary to erroneous interpretative media reports of the ruling by the Federal High Court, Abuja. According to a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, PDP states that the Court did …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has invalidated the Edo State governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that produced Dr. Asue Ighodalo as the candidate for the 11 September election. In the ruling on Thursday, Justice Inyang Ekwo held that the PDP primary on 22 February failed to comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 and …

Reactions have continued to trail the just concluded engagements with Edo Diaspora in Europe by Dr Asue Ighodalo, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 21 September governorship election in Edo State. Stakeholders, party chieftains and other members of the public spoke glowingly about how successful the Diaspora tour in their reviews. They declared that it clearly …

Edo State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Asue Ighodalo, on Saturday in Nuremberg, Germany, explained why he is running to be the governor of the state. It was at the last lap of week long blitz in which he engaged the Edo Diaspora Community in Europe. It started with Reggio Emilia, in Italy, then moved to …

Edo State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Asue Ighodalo has expressed his sympathy with the President/Founder of LoveWorld Incorporated (popularly known as Christ Embassy), Pastor Chris Oyakhilome over the fire incident that gutted the church’s headquarters in Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos on Sunday morning. In a statement by his media team on Sunday, Ighodalo said that he …

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 21 September governorship election in Edo State, Dr Asue Ighodalo, has asked the electorates to properly interrogate the leaders they intend to elect. He said that the quality of leadership of any state or organization will determine whether it will progress or not. The governorship hopeful made these assertions in …

The late British fiction writer, Edward Morgan Forster, once stated that “spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon”. In other words, a person who is being constantly spoon-fed, in the long run, will never be capable of doing anything on his own. Indeed, in a seminal article titled “Spoon-feeding is bad for students …