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Elections 2011
Saturday, March 19th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed the anti-corruption posturing of presidential candidates of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari, and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, saying their submissions on the issue at the Presidential debate on Friday were hypocritical and self-serving. The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the Peoples […]
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Elections 2011
Friday, March 18th, 2011
Presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigerian (ACN), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has said that he is still a candidate in next month’s presidential election. In a statement issued yesterday, on his behalf, the Ribadu Adeola Campaign Organization said it has recently been inundated with calls and queries from the media, friends, associates and teeming […]
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Elections 2011, INEC Politics
Friday, March 18th, 2011
IBADAN- UNLIKE the previous elections when governors, their deputies and other public officers moved about unhindered , the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said such movement and undue influence would not be allowed in the April elections. It said the restriction order did not exclude anybody except those on election duties, pointing out to […]
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Elections 2011
Friday, March 18th, 2011
ABUJA – As part of its contribution towards conduct of free, fair and credible polls during the forthcoming general elections, the European Union Election Observation Mission, EOM, has deployed 52 observers to monitor the conduct of the polls across the country. The team of observers, which had already arrived Nigeria, are expected to be deployed […]
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Elections 2011
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
The Peoples Democratic Party has raised the alarm that the Action Congress of Nigeria is planning to rig elections in the South-West. The PDP, in a statement by a member of the PDP Integrity Vanguard, Mr. Adamu Gwazuwang, accused some leaders of ACN of planning to rig polls by replicating the voter register through […]
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Elections 2011
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
The Nigerian Army is one of the bodies committed to the success of the April elections. Last week, members of the 73 Battalion, (Janguza), Nigerian Army demonstrated their preparedness ahead of the 2011 April polls, during an in- house training code named Sabon Magana. Sabon Magana was framed in line with the Chief of Army […]
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Elections 2011
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
Chairman Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Move Nigeria Project (MNP), Dr. Godwin Akpenlamen Dabo Adzuana on Wednesday explained that he sacrificed his 49-year relationship with former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida for President Goodluck Jonathan in the overall interest of the country. He however, called on Babangida to support Jonathan and vice president Namadi […]
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Elections 2011, Ogun, State News
Saturday, March 12th, 2011
The Ogun State governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, was on Saturday, booed at the presidential rally of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Daniel, who accompanied President Goodluck Jonathan to the MKO Abiola Stadium, venue of the rally, was heckled on the few occasions his name was mentioned by some speakers. […]
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Elections 2011
Friday, March 11th, 2011
TWENTY-one days to the general elections, the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF says it remains unshaken in its position on zoning and rotation of public offices, while asking Nigerians to establish this during the elections. In a communiqué signed by its Chairman and former Minister of Finance, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, the group at the end […]
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Elections 2011
Friday, March 11th, 2011
Barely four weeks to the general elections, President Goodluck Jonathan has taken measures to win over influential political leaders in the North, with the view to garnering support in the zone. Sources revealed that jolted by the massive turnout in campaign rallies of former head of state and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) presidential candidate, […]
