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The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi and his Obidient family along with the national chairman and other members of his entourage visited Benin City, Edo State capital, Saturday 11, 2023, to campaign and rally supporters to vote for the House of Assembly candidates of the party in the state ahead of the March 18 elections across the country. Peter Obi whose convoy drove from Ramat Park, Ikpoba Hill down to the popular New Benin Market, Mission Road, and Sapele Road, was almost mobbed by the crowd of supporters. He begged Edo people to vote all Labour Party…

His thought is for him to go down on his knees, apparently to get the people votes, Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has not relented in his passionate pleadings to Edo people to vote the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the rescheduled March 18 House of Assembly elections. Following the February 25 presidential and National Assembly polls, the party recorded its worst performance since the return to democratic rule in 1999 as it neither scored the mandatory 25 per cent of the votes cast in the presidential election nor win any of the three senatorial and nine House of Representatives…

The presidential and National Assembly elections in Edo State turned into war, as thugs loyal to major political parties in the state went to some polling units in Egor and Ovia North East local government areas, snatched and burnt election materials in various voting centres. In Egor at Uwelu Primary School and Uwelu Maternity polling Centre, some thugs went to the polling units grabbed the ballot papers that the voters had used to vote and started burning all the election materials in the unit. Also, in ward 4, in Idia College at Iyaro in Oredo Local Government Area close to…

The operatives of the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has arrested three persons who were in possession of several permanent voter cards.  Confirming the arrest, the EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren disclosed that one of the suspects, Afekhana Esther, was arrested at Ward 1, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Ikpoba Okha, Benin City with 20 PVCs belonging to different people.  He explained that the suspect confessed that the cards were handed over to her by the duo of Comfort Muoneke, a 73-year-old woman and Segun Osaimokhai. According to Uwujaren, “The suspects have made useful statements and…

…Alleges  PDP Connived With  INEC To Tinker With Edo South Presidential Poll Results Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin Edo State Labour Party (LP), has denied allegations spreading in most parts of the social media that, the party is trying to align with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), led by Governor Godwin Obaseki to win the March 11 governorship and state Assembly elections.  Denying the allegations at a pressing briefing in Benin city, the Edo State LP chairman, Comrade Kelly Ogbaloi, said there no such plan is in the offing. He disclosed the LP is mobilizing massive support for all its…

This is one of the worthy Nigerians, Prof Omieye Briggs who rejected Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike’s N30miilion bribe to change Peter Obi’s vote in Port Harcourt Local Government Area where she was the Electoral Officer. National Point joins Nigerians in celebrating her courage and integrity as we begin the Women’s Month. Prof has earned a space on the pages of the struggle for a new Nigeria. Below is the Presidential Result she protected: Presidential Election Result – Port Harcourt LGA  Omieye Briggs –  Collation officer 480250 –                 Registered voters  81264   …

The Community Initiative for Enhanced Peace and Development (CIEPD), with funding support from Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), implemented the Collaborative Election Violence Prevention and Mitigation Project in Rivers State in the 2023 General Election.  Following the release of the Final result of the Presidential and National Assembly Elections held on the 25th of February 2023 by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Community Initiative for Enhanced Peace and Development in collaboration with PIND Foundation, makes the following statement:  * We commend Nigerians for coming out massively to express their civic duties on Election Day to…

The Civil Liberties Organization, CLO, monitored with keen interest developments in the state prior to the day of the 2023 Presidential Election. We also monitored the events on the day of the election, especially, in relation to the rights of the citizens to their freedom of association, right to expression, security, safety, and exercise of their franchise without fear or intimidation and we observed as follows;   Pre-election: The state witnessed desperate attempts by the state government and its cohorts in collaboration with certain security operatives and hoodlums, to intimidate the opposition, and the electorates. A climate of fear and…

Foremost women focused Niger Delta non-governmental organization, Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Center February 27 and 28, took awareness sensitization on the negative effects of climate change and adaptation and mitigation processes to some communities in the Port Harcourt axis of Rivers State. The exercises packaged through trainings on early warning on climate change, climate change mitigation, waste to wealth and renewable energy and the unveiling of manuals on these, are according to the executive director of Kebetkache, Obomowang Emem Okon, the concluding parts of the Climate Action Consortium, a platform of selected civil society organizations working together for enhanced…

As the 2023 general elections draw close, the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ) wants politicians and candidates participating in the elections to commit to peaceful conduct and avert the bloodletting that greeted previous polls in the state. It was to this end that the chapel, whose membership is drawn from correspondents of national print and electronic media organizations based outside Rivers State, its Correspondents’ Week activities held between Monday January 23rd and Sunday January 29th, 2022 in Port Harcourt. Chairman of the chapel, Comrade Amaechi Okonkwo, said at the opening that politicians and political parties…