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The US government on Friday expressed concern over the deteriorating political climate in Edo State, which is scheduled to elect a governor on September 19.   It also condemned the role “played by some political actors in the state,” the Political Affairs Unit of the US embassy in Abuja said in a statement.    The […]

  In the harshest words deployed yet in the course of the ongoing political crisis in Edo State, Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, on Friday described Godwin Obaseki, governor of the state, as a coward, dictator and a reminder of Nigeria’s repressive military rule.   In a statement titled ‘In Defence […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday officially endorsed Osagie Ize-Iyamu as the All Progressives Congress candidate for the September 19 governorship election in Edo State.   Buhari met with Ize-Iyamu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, where he presented the party’s flag to him.   However, the People’s Democratic Party in the state has criticized the […]

Like a melodrama in a badly scripted movie, the ominous threat by Christians in the southern part of Kaduna State to take the laws into their hands and embark on self-defence, ostensibly because the state government, to which they submitted their security under the social contract, has failed or refuses to act to protect them, […]

…as Gov vows to deal with those who test will of the State    The political crisis plaguing Edo State deepened Thursday as two factions of the House of Assembly emerged with their Speakers, with each laying claim to the leadership of the legislature.   The factions have their allegiances to the two prominent gladiators […]