Gov. Muhammad Yahaya of Gombe State has won the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election held on Thursday.He polled 563 votes through voice affirmation.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that seven delegates could not make it to the venue of the election.Announcing the result, Dr Danjuma Dabo, the Chief Returning Officer, said 563 delegates were accredited out of the 570 people expected to vote.In his acceptance speech, Gov. Yahaya thanked...

As all parties are preparing for the November 11 gubernatorial in Imo State, the ruling APC has re-presented the incumbent governor as their candidate for the election.Hope Uzodinma polled 63,618 votes to emerge winner in yesterday’s special congress in Owerri in which he was the sole candidate. He faces the PDP National Secretary, Nnaemeka Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.Also, Senator Athan Achonu has won the Labour Party ticket for the same ele...

The Labour party returning officer and Abia-State governor-elect Alex Otti has declared Athan Achonu has the winner of the party yesterday primary election in Imo state.Achonu polled 134 votes to beat his closest rival Major General Jack Ogunewe who scored 121.Senator Achonu was elected into the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2015 to represent Imo North on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).However, in October 2015, the Tribunal sittin...