The two leading political parties in Nigeria have condemned the postponement of the 2019 general elections by INEC. Festus Keyamo, the spokesperson for the APC Presidential Campaign council said in a statement that the party “received with great disappointment and disillusionment the announcement” about the postponement. “We
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed disappointment over the postponement of the 2019 general elections which was supposed to commence today. The president made this known in a statement posted on his official Facebook page just before noon today. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had shifted the date
Barely hours to the commencement of the 2019 polls, Anambra state has recorded cases of election related violence. A member of House of Representatives, Mr. Gabriel Onyenweife, who defected from All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, after failing to secure
The two “potential suspects” arrested in the Jussie Smollett attack, Olabinjo “Ola” and Abimbola “Abel” Osundairo have now been released. Chicago police spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi confirmed earlier today on Twitter that they were released without charge. Ola and Abel had been picked up by the police as persons of interest in the attack of Empire star,
President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the postponement of the presidential and National Assembly elections billed for Saturday, saying he was “deeply disappointed” by the move. The Independent National Electoral Commission announced the shocking decision early Saturday, just hours before the opening of the polls, after repeatedly
Kingsley Moghalu, the presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) has urged Nigerians to remain calm following the postponement of the general elections. Mr Moghalu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday, that INEC’s postponement of the elections signposted the recycling of
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday postponed the presidential and national assembly elections. The announcement by INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja came hours before Nigerians were slated to head to the polling units. The announcement was made at about 2:30