Labour Party
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi has officially filed petitions at the presidential election tribunal. Obi filed the petition to challenge the outcome of the 2023 presidential election. The former Anambra State governor lost the presidential election after he came third. Obi trailed Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and winner, Bola […]
Few days to Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections, the Labour Party in Kwara State has suspended its governorship candidate Comrade Basambo Abubakar, until further notice for alleged anti-party activities and disseminating misleading information to members of the public. Addressing journalists in Ilorin alongside leaders, candidates, support groups and members of the party on […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday presented Certificates of Return to senators-elect. The Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, presented the certificates to the winners of the just concluded senatorial elections held on February 25 at the National Collation Centre. In the list of senatorial seats for the 10th Assembly, the ruling All Progressives Congress has fifty-seven […]
The Leaders of Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State have dumped the party’s governorship candidate, Tawfiq Akinwale, and adopted Governor Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Saturday’s governorship election in the state. However, Mr Akinwale has said he has not stepped down for Mr Makinde despite the position of his party’s leaders. […]
Three days after announcing Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the president-elect, the Independent National Electoral Commission has so far uploaded 159,509 results from 176, 846 polling units, seven days after the presidential poll. The figure represents 90 percent of results from all the polling units. According to the Commission, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives […]
The Nigeria Police Force has said it doesn’t envisage post-election violence in the country following the conclusion of the 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday. Saturday Punch reports that the announcement of the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, as the president-elect, […]
The candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi today secured leave of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja to have access to all the sensitive materials the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, deployed for the conduct of the presidential election held on February 25. The appellate court, which will sit as the Presidential […]
The Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party and the African Democratic Party have asked the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, to step aside. The three parties in a joint press conference today, alleged that the February 2023 presidential election was marred by violence, rigging and intimidation of voters. In a Tuesday morning […]
A few weeks before the general election, members and chieftains of some major political parties in Ondo State have defected to the Labour Party. The defectors are from the All Progressives Congress, the Peoples Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party in the Akoko South-East/Akoko South-West Federal Constituency of the state. The Labour Party’s state […]
The Bauchi State Labour Party campaign director, Alhassan Bawu, has dumped the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi, for the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar. This is coming barely three weeks before the presidential election slated to hold on February 25. Speaking with newsmen on Tuesday in Bauchi, Bawu said his defection to […]
