Governorship Election

May 26 (THEWILL) — Muhammad Sani Abacha, the eldest son of Nigeria's late Head of State, Sani Abacha, has lost the ticket for the PDP governorship in Kano State for the 2027 general elections. Abacha was defeated by Muhammad Bello...

February 20, (THEWILL) - The Kano State Inter-agency Consultative Committee On Election Security (ICCESS), has urged the concerned political parties to contribute to efforts towards a peaceful and hitch-free conduct of the forthcoming inconclusive election of the Kunchi/Tsanyawa State...

January 31, (THEWILL) - The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cleared all the 10 aspirants who obtained its nomination form for the February 22 Edo State governorship primary. National Organising Secretary of the Party, Capt. Umar Bature (rtd), disclosed this...

January 28, (THEWILL) - Ahead of the September Governorship election in Edo State, one of the major parties in the election, the Labour Party, (LP) and its governorship aspirants are at loggerhead as they have rejected the N30m charged...

January 20, (THEWILL) - The Supreme Court on Friday in its determination of several appeals from the Court of Appeal affirmed the position of the governors of Delta, Gombe, Kebbi, Ogun, Nasarawa and Kaduna States. Delivering a unanimous judgment, the...

December 24, (THEWILL) - Ahead of the Edo State Governorship Election slated for next year, the Esan Okpa Initiative (EOI), the Esan pan socio-cultural and non-partisan group, has strongly restated the need for all political parties to pick their...

December 10, (THEWILL) - The Kogi State Governorship Election was one of the three off-cycle governorship elections held on November 11, 2023, the first to be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) after the last General Election. Nigerians...

December 03, (THEWILL) - Come April 2024, about five months from now, political parties will hold primaries to choose candidates for Ondo State Governorship Election, which is coming up in November. The ongoing political crisis within the governing All Progressives...

November 27, (THEWILL) - Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has officially declared his ambition to run for the 2024 governorship election in the State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Shaibu declared his ambition to join the...

September 24, (THEWILL) - The relationship usually starts on a buoyant note with lots of backslapping, clinking of champagne flutes after securing their party’s nomination and, of course, mutual respect between both parties. They speak with one voice at...