Ahead of the Edo State governorship election, some All Progressives Congress, APC, leaders on Tuesday claimed that the action of governor Godwin Obaseki and other leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lately showed a panic mood in their camp. The leaders, in a statement, accused Governor Obaseki, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the […]
Edo Guber: We won’t vote candidate who needs interpreter – Shaibu tackles Ighodalo
Former Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, has urged residents of the state not to vote for a governorship candidate who relies on an interpreter to address the people. This was as Shaibu urged residents to vote for a “homeboy” as the next governor of the state. He made the appeal in Irrua, the […]
Edo guber: Court strikes out suits challenging Ighodalo’s PDP candidacy
Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has struck out two separate suits questioning the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s primary election that produced Asue Ighodalo as governorship candidate for the coming Edo State gubernatorial poll. The court held that those who instituted the suits from the political camp of former Deputy Governor […]
Edo guber primary: Shaibu, Ojezua drag Ighodalo, PDP, INEC to Court
The crisis over the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the September 21, governorship election in Edo State has assumed a new dimension as the embattled deputy governor of the state, Philip Shaibu, and Anselm Ojezua, have dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, PDP, and Asue Ighodalo to a Federal High […]
Edo 2024: Support Ighodalo as PDP guber candidate – Atiku begs Philip Shaibu, others
The 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has urged aggrieved governorship aspirants in Edo State to bury their hatchet and support the party’s candidate, Asue Ighodalo. Atiku made the appeal amid threats by the Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu to institute legal action against the emergency of Ighodalo as the PDP’s […]
PDP shuns Shaibu, presents certificate of return to Ighodalo Tuesday
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presented a Certificate of Return to its Edo State governorship candidate, Dr Asuerinme Ighodalo, on Tuesday. In a statement, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said “following the successful completion of the Edo State governorship primary election and the ratification of the exercise by the appeal panel, the National […]