he All Progressives Congress (APC) will not be represented in the Bayelsa governorship election slated for Saturday, November 16 - This follows a Federal High Court declaration that the APC in the state has no candidate for the forthcoming election - The verdict of the court was delivered by Jane Inyang in the case filed by Heineken Lokpobiri, one of the APC governorship aspirants who lost in the primaries The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa on Thursday, November 14, ruled that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has no candidate for the forthcoming governorship poll in the state. In reaction to this, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the court declared that the APC cannot field any candidate ahead of the poll. The PDP, therefore, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to take note of the decision of the Federal H
Pic.2 Gov. Yahaya Bello during his accreditation before voting at Ahache Agassa Okenegba Ward, during the 2019 Kogi governorship election in Okene Local government Area of Kogi on Saturday (16/11/19). 07628/16/11/2019/Jones Bamidele/NAN Executive Director, Justice and Peace Development Initiative, JDPC, Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Rev. Fr. Lawrence Emehel, monitored the last governorship election in Kogi State as a member of Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room. In this interview, he gives gory graphic details of the exercise, concluding that what took place did not qualify to be called an election. Let me begin with the logistics. At previous meetings, Prof. James Apam, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kogi State, made known the commission’s plans to deploy materials to address logistics challenges as was experienced in the general electionS earlier this year. Generally, there was an improvement in terms of preparedness on the part of Independent National Electoral Commissi...
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