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Edo 2024: I’m Candidate To Beat,’ LP’s Imansuagbon Boasts

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2 years ago

November 3, 2023

Barrister Kenneth Imansuangbon, a governorship aspirant on the platform of the Labour Party (LP) in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Edo State yesterday boasted that he remains the candidate to beat if he emerge the party’s flag.

Imansuagbon, popularly called the ‘riceman’ said this in a chat with journalists on the sideline of a Colloquium and Hall of Fame organised by Edo Policy Roundtable in association with Mudiame University, Irrua.

The programme held in Benin was in honour of the National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Barrister Julius Abure.

Imansuangbon promised to bring his passion, experience, capacity, love, doggedness and consistency of over 20 years to bear in his desire to govern Edo State.

He said: “With due respects to all the other aspirants, none of them has my acceptability, my expansion, my love for the people. Edo people know who love them. Since 2003, I have shown my love for Edo people.

“I visited the Otaru of Auchi recently and he expressed that ‘the prayer you need is the good works you do.’

“Let all the aspirants in the three major political parties show their good works to the people in the last 20 years. Where have they been in the last 20 years.

“How have they affected education? How have they affected feeding? How have they affected security? How have they affected families? I have been consistent.

“I pray that Labour Party demons should not enter into them. If they give me the ticket, it is over for PDP and APC. They know. The people are with me. The only way you will check Oshiomhole, Tinubu and Obaseki is through the people. There is no other way.

“Can I over spend Tinubu and Oshiomhole? Can I over spend Obaseki and Ogie? I cannot. The only strength I have is God Almighty, my father in heaven and the people. The people know those who love them.

“I have shown capacity, love, passion. I have given everything. God bless my wife and my kids who have supported me all these while. Edo people have been with me but the godfathers have said no. But this time with Peter Obi I hope for a free and fair primaries.

“When I get a free and fair primary, it is all over for the two political parties(APC and PDP).”

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Dino Melaye Reacts To Malami’s Arraignment For Money Laundering

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4 days ago

December 30, 2025

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Ex-Kogi West senator, Dino Melaye, has reacted to the arraignment of a former Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami, before an Abuja Federal High Court.

Melaye wished Malami well as he began his trial for corruption.

Posting on X, the former lawmaker recalled how he was prosecuted by Malami over what he described as frivolous cases while he was the AGF.

He wrote: “Reminded me of how I was appearing in different courts when Malami as AGF was prosecuting me over frivolous cases including taking over one of the police cases against me. Wish him.well.”

Malami, his son Abdulaziz, and another individual are facing a 16-count charge of money laundering.

They were arraigned on allegations of unlawful acquisition and concealment of funds.

They all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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What PDP Said About Wike’s Media Parley

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4 days ago

December 29, 2025

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, of being a constant agent of provocation in the political space, alleging that he creates trouble to mask selfish intentions.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, stated this in a statement issued on Monday in response to Wike’s media parley with selected journalists in Port Harcourt, also held on Monday.

According to the PDP, remarks made by the minister on several occasions are proof that he falls short of being a locus classicus of anti-democratic adventurism.

The party said Wike’s conduct was not new, stressing that he has consistently acted as an agent provocateur in the political arena, stirring controversy to advance personal interests.

The PDP further stated that since Wike assumed office as Governor of Rivers State in 2015, he has remained a recurrent source of trouble within the party’s leadership.

“From the Sheriff era, where he was a forerunner in the Sheriff-for-National Chairman movement and later turned to fight and remove Sheriff; later he championed the Uche Secondus-for-National Chairman movement (in fact, he granted a very combustible interview that polarized the party just before the convention) and then was the same person fighting to remove Secondus.

“The same Wike led the movement to produce Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as National Chairman against the advice of many party leaders, and so soon thereafter, it was Wike again who led the Ayu-must-go struggle.

“By his end-of-year media chat, Minister Nyesom Wike has reiterated his support for, and in fact declared that he is the ‘number one supporter’ of the presumptive candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2027 Presidential election, while remaining a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, confirming the basis of his expulsion from the PDP, for anti-party activities,” the statement said.

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JUST IN: INEC Excludes PDP From Ekiti Governorship Election

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4 days ago

December 29, 2025

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The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the 2026 Ekiti governorship election, Dr Wole Oluyede, and his deputy were conspicuously absent as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, released the provisional list of party candidates ahead of the election.

INEC on Monday posted the list of candidates from 12 political parties vying for the state’s top job at its office on New Iyin Road, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

The list shows that the All Progressives Congress, APC, is fielding the incumbent governor, Biodun Oyebanji, with Monisade Afuye as his running mate.

Other candidates include Opeyemi Falegan of the Accord Party, with Omoyemi Olaleye as deputy; Akande Oluwasegun of the African Action Congress, paired with Oluwasanmi Fajuyigbe; and Ayodeji Ojo of the Action Democratic Party, with Itunu Ibitoye as running mate.

Similarly, the African Democratic Congress is presenting Oluwadare Bejide and Paul Olowoyeye, while the Action Peoples Party has Bidemi Awogbemi and Akinyemi Adewumi on its ticket.

The PDP’s absence may not be unconnected with the leadership crisis currently rocking the party at the national level.