Two policemen in the convoy of Adams Oshiomhole, former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), lost their lives in an accident on Tuesday. The former governor and a campaign team of the APC were on their way to Usen in Ovia south east local government area of Edo state when the accident occurred. […]
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Adams Oshiomhole, former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has assured the party’s loyalists of victory in the forthcoming Edo governorship election. Addressing his supporters in Edo during the weekend, he expressed the confidence that the APC would win the September 19 election. In a veiled reference to Godwin Obaseki, incumbent governor of […]
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The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for September 19th governorship election in Edo State, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, will appear in court on today (Tuesday) Ize-Iyamu is standing trial for eight counts of money laundering to the tune of N700m meant to prosecute the general election of 2015, in a case preferred against him by […]
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One of the governorship candidates of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has emerged winner of the party’s direct primary conducted on Monday. Chairman of the Edo State APC Primary Election Committee, Hope Uzodinma, declared Ize-Iyamu winner of the election after collating the results turned in by the returning officers […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it will arraign a former PDP governorship candidate in Edo, Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu; an ex-deputy governor of the state, Mr Lucky Imasuen, and three others on Thursday. The accused, according to the commission’s spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, will appear in a Federal High Court in Benin City […]
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The election of Godwin Obaseki as governor of Edo State was unanimously upheld by a seven-man panel of judges of the Supreme Court on Monday. The panel of judges led by Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria, dismissed the appeal filed by Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the […]
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Members of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State are in high spirit, as the Edo Election Petition Tribunal on Friday upheld the election of Mr Godwin Obaseki as governor of Edo. In a two-hour ruling read by the Chairman of the three-man panel, Justice Ahmed Badamasi, the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party […]
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The People’s Democratic Party and its candidate at the September 28, 2016 Edo gubernatorial election, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, have lost their bid at the Court of Appeal for a continuation of the halted ballot recount. The Court, sitting in Benin City, threw out the appeal, which included a request by the petitioners that the time spent […]
Continue ReadingAt the completion of collation of results by INEC, Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress has been declared winner of the election, with Osagie Ize-Iyamu, his Peoples Democratic Party rival coming second. Figures computed following official declaration of results by the Independent National Electoral Commission shows that Obaseki has won 319,484 votes, ahead of […]
Continue ReadingGovernor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state, has alleged that Osagie Ize-Iyamu, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the ongoing governorship election, is already smelling defeat and has therefore employed lying as a trick.Ize-Iyamu is a pastor, however, Oshiomhole believes his former ally is not worthy of the honour for claiming that some All […]
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