Following the violent attack on Barrister Olumide Akpata, the Labour Party candidate for the September 21, 2024, governorship election in Edo State, the management of University of Benin, UNIBEN, has suspended the students’ union government of the institution indefinitely. DAILY POST reports that Akpata was attacked by suspected political thugs at the university’s senior staff […]
Police invite Edo Labour Party, guber candidate, Akpata over attack at UNIBEN
The candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the forthcoming September 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo State, Olumide Akpata has been invited by the State Police Command over alleged security breaches, involving shootings at the University of Benin, UNIBEN, last Friday. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Chidi Nwabuzor, disclosed this to newsmen in Benin […]
Edo Guber: Imansuangbon demands Akpata’s disqualification
A Labour Party governorship aspirant in Edo State, Kenneth Imasuangbon, has demanded the disqualification of the governorship candidate of the party in the state, Olumide Akpata, from the September 21 election. In lawsuit No. FHC B/CS/26/2024, filed at the Benin division of the Federal High Court by his counsel A.A. Malik & Co, Imasuangbon said […]
Edo Guber: Ex-Police Chief denies dumping LP for PDP, declares support for Akpata
A retired Commissioner of Police and the Edo Central Senatorial district leader of the Labour Party, LP, Friday Ibadin, has denied dumping the party for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. DAILY POST reports that the former police chief also denied collapsing the Obidient movement structures to the PDP to help its candidate, Asue Ighodalo win […]
Edo Guber: Otti brokers reconciliation between Akpata, LP aspirants
Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has said that he will support the Labour Party governorship candidate in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, to enable him emerge victorious in the gubernatorial election. Otti stated this in Umuahia while addressing the press after a meeting he held with members of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the […]
Edo Guber: Otti congratulates Akpata, says LP primary credible, fair
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has congratulated Olumide Akpata on his emergence as the Labour Party, LP, candidate for the Edo State Governorship Election slated for September 21, 2024. Akpata, a former National President of Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, emerged winner of the LP governorship primary election on Friday, February 23, after scoring 316 votes […]
Edo Guber: Allegations made by Akpata untrue – Labour Party
The Labour Party in Edo State has addressed concerns regarding the perceived lack of preparedness of the Party for the Edo gubernatorial primaries as raised in the letter written to the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, by Olumide Akpata the gubernatorial aspirant for the Edo 2024 election. A statement signed by the state’s Publicity Secretary of […]
Edo Guber: Akpata writes INEC alleging lack of transparency in Labour Party
Labour Party, LP, aspirant for the Edo governorship election, Olumide Akpata has said the political party is not ready for its primary poll. The former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in a letter dated February 18 and addressed to Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, alleged that the party […]
Edo Guber: Akpata denies knowledge of protest, attack on Abure
Labour Party Chieftain and a governorship aspirant in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, has denied involvement and those of his supporters in last Sunday’s protest where the National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure was attacked by aggrieved members. Akpata urged the leadership and members of his party to count him and his supporters out of […]
Edo Guber: If I lose I will go home – LP aspirant Akpata
The Gubernatorial aspirant of Labour Party, LP, in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Edo State, Olumide Akpata, has said he will remain in the party even if rigged out in the primary election. He disclosed this while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. The former president of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, said he believed […]