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POLITICSEdo Decides 2020 results: INECto announce Obaseki as winner

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  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to announce Governor Godwin Obaseki, as the winner of Saturday’s Edo governorship election. According to the results from 17 Local Government Areas confirmed by INEC so far, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate is leading with over 82,000 votes. As it stands after results from 17 LGAs: Ize-Iyamu/APC: 212,983 Obaseki/PDP: 295,296 As of the time of filing this report, there is only one local government area left to collate. However, the total number of voters in Ovia South-West is 73,909. This is lesser than the margin between Obaseki and Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who is his closest rival. Follow us on twitter (ajuede.com) or on Instagram (ajuedeman) for details of the global situation presently.

The Ignored Genocide of Christians in Nigeria

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Earlier this year... [Boko Haram] released a video of a masked Muslim child holding a pistol behind a bound and kneeling Christian hostage, a 22-year-old biology student who was earlier abducted while traveling to his university. After chanting in Arabic and launching into an anti-Christian diatribe, the Muslim child shot the Christian several times in the back of the head. Aside from some of the most grisly incidents... the so-called mainstream media does not report on the bulk of the persecution. Could journalists be worried that a politically incorrect pattern might emerge, in which attacks might appear ideologically driven, as opposed to just "crimes"? The reason formerly simple Fulani herdsmen have, since 2015, managed to kill nearly twice as many Christians as the "professional" terrorists of Boko Haram.... is, to quote Nigerian bishop Matthew Ishaya Audu, "because President Buhari is also of the Fulani ethnic group." "Since the government and i

Edo results: Obaseki winning, godfatherism shamed – Omokri mocks Tinubu, Oshiomhole

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r 2,  Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has mocked the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Adams Oshiomhole as results of Edo governorship election trickle in. Governor Godwin Obaseki, who contested Saturday’s governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is in an early lead as results come in. Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu seems to be behind Obaseki despite support from Oshiomhole and Tinubu. Omokri, reacting to the results announced so far by INEC, said the forces of godfatherism are being shamed in Edo. According to the former presidential aide, results from Edo governorship election proves that Edo is different from Lagos State. NEWS:    Edo Decides 2020: Obaseki in early lead as Ize-Iyamu puts up strong fight Omokri on his Twitter handle wrote: “me The @OfficialPDPNig is coasting to an easy victory in Edo, going by official @INECNigeria results so far released. “The forces of godfatheris