The National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, has appealed to the party’s 2023 presidential flag bearer, Peter Obi, Abia State Governor, Alex Otti and other aggrieved bigwigs to return to the party. Abure made the plea in an exclusive interview with Saturday PUNCH. The embattled chairman had been at loggerheads with chieftains and stakeholders of the party …

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has stated that Nigeria would have been better off if the Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi, had won the 2023 presidential election. Abaribe, who represents Abia South in the Senate, made this assertion on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday. According to him, nepotism, which he claims thrives under President Bola Tinubu’s administration, would have been …

The Julius Abure-led Labour Party (LP) on Monday made a move to expand its membership to over 20 million through online membership registration and revalidation in preparation for the 2027 elections. In the same vein, the opposition party announced a timetable for its congresses, starting at the ward and state levels, which will run concurrently with the membership revalidation. This …

The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Bamidele Akingboye and the deputy governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Hon Dayo Awude, have rejected the results by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declaring Hon Lucky Aiyedatiwa, as the Governor- Elect. Aiyedatiwa, who was the candidate of the All Progressive Congress was declared winner of the last Saturday’s governorship election …

The reinstated Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Ondo State, Ayodele Olorunfemi, has bemoaned his failure to win Saturday’s election, blaming former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for his predicament. Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission after sweeping the 18 …

Criticisms have trailed Tuesday’s signing into law of the Anambra Local Government Administration Law 2024 by Governor Chukwuma Soludo. Soludo said that the law was necessitated by the fact that granting absolute autonomy to the 774 Local Government Areas was a recipe for “humongous chaos” and would not lead to a sustainable development. At a press briefing shortly before signing …

The Labour Party’s (LP) candidate in the recent Edo State Governorship election, Olumide Akpata, has attributed the party’s third-place result to a deeply flawed electoral process. On Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Senator Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the Edo State Governorship election. Okpebholo secured 291,667 votes, defeating the PDP’s …

Who governs Edo State from 12 November, this year? From 8:30 am (Saturday), 2.2 million voters with Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) choose among 17 candidates who will step into the office to be vacated by Mr. Godwin Obaseki, who will have completed his two term of four years each as the state governor. But there are three candidates who are …

Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State, the first batch of the 35,000 police officers deployed to ensure law and order during election has arrived in the state, according to The PUNCH. Also in the state are soldiers and officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as moves …

The chances of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the September 21 governorship election in Edo State received yet another major boost on Monday with the defection of hundreds of members of other parties, notably from the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Labour Party (LP), the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and other fringe parties joining the ruling party in …