Tag: Lagos Council Polls
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Lagos Council polls, a sham, disgraceful -Onitiri
Renowned Lagos-based socio-political activist and critic, Chief Adesunbo Onitiri, has faulted as disgraceful and a sham, the last Saturday’s Lagos council polls, held all over the state. ln a press statement obtained by TheNewsGuru, Chief Onitiri said the election was not free and fair, but an assault to our fledgling democracy. “It was neither free…
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Lagos council polls: 22 candidates appeal tribunal’s verdict
No fewer than 22 candidates, who contested the July 22 Lagos State Council polls, have appealed the decisions of the Lagos State Local Government Election Petition Tribunals at the Appeal Tribunal. Justice G. M. Onyeabo, the Chairperson of the 2017 Local Government Election Petitions Appeal Tribunal, announced this on Wednesday at the tribunal’s inaugural sitting.…
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Lagos council polls: LASIEC directs candidates to sign undertaking on peaceful conduct
Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) on Saturday said it had directed all candidates for the July 22 council elections to sign an undertaking, pledging orderly conduct before, during and after the polls. The chairman of the commission, Retired Justice Ayotunde Phillips, said a “Memorandum of Understanding” would be signed at the commission’s head office…
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Lagos council polls: BNPP cedes 25 chairmanship slots to women
The Better Nigeria Progressive Party (BNPP) says it will field female chairmanship candidates in 25 of the 35 councils in which it will contest in the local government elections in Lagos State. The state Chairman of the party, Miss Wunmi Lawal made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen in Lagos on Tuesday. She said…
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Lagos Council Polls: LASIEC bows to pressure, agrees to reduce administration charges
Lagos – The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) at the weekend bowed to pressure mounted on it by some of the political parties over what they termed exorbitant and illegal administration charges fixed for the July 22, 2017 Lagos council polls and agreed to review the fees. The decision followed a consultative meeting between…
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Lagos Council polls: We are watching, you won’t have your way, PDP replies Tinubu
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had said it won’t allow the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to have its way in the forthcoming Lagos Council polls scheduled for July 22. Mr Taofik Gani, Publicity Secretary of the PDP in Lagos State, told newsmen in Lagos on Friday that the…