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Govt orders crackdown as polls violence rages

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Two feared dead in Ekiti, Ondo, Jigawa clashes Supporters dump slain member at Fayemi’s office PDP, CPC secretariats burnt in Hadejia THE Federal Government yesterday declared as unacceptable and non permissible again the current orgy of violence in the polity. To the perpetrators of the mayhem, the Federal Executive Council (FEC), which met in Abuja, […]

Jonathan orders suspension of campaign director

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

For ignoring his directive not to join opposition parties in smear campaigns, the Peoples Democratic Party, [PDP] Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has suffered a casualty as President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, ordered the suspension of the PCC Director of Research and Strategy, Mr. Mike Omeri. A Daily Sun source revealed that at its stormy meeting […]

PICTURE: Concerns over rising pre-election violence

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

POLITICAL parties and activists on Wednesday, expressed concerns at the rising level of political violence across the country. In Ekiti and Ondo States clashes among the supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, the Action Congress of Nigeria and Labour Party left two dead and eight others seriously injured. While the violence raged in the […]

April polls: SSS uncovers gun factory in Enugu, 4 suspects arrested

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Few weeks to the commencement of the 2011 general elections in the country, the State Security Service (SSS) in Enugu State has uncovered an illegal factory where guns are manufactured in Agbada, Nenwe in the Aninri Local Government Area of the state. Four of the five suspects who are believed to run the illegal factory […]

Buhari defies police, shuts down Jos

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Top Stories Monday, March 21st, 2011

Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday, defied police order as he addressed a rally in Jos. Buhari’s action was said to have forced Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang to reschedule his planned rally which was earlier fixed for Monday till Tuesday (today). The police had a hectic […]

Presidential debate: I’ll expose Ribadu, Buhari –Jonathan

Posted by admin 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 […]

I’m still in presidential race —Ribadu

Posted by admin 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 […]

INEC bars govs, deputies, others from monitoring elections

Posted by admin 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 […]

April polls: EU deploys 52 observers

Posted by admin 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 […]

How ACN plans to rig in S’West — PDP

Posted by admin 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 […]