The Court of Appeal Sokoto division on Wednesday struck out a suit filed by the PDP in Zamfara by the Governorship candidate, Alhaji Lawal Dare and others for lack of merit. Other appellants are Adamu Maina-Waziri, chairman PDP primary election committee in Zamfara and rtd Col. Bala Mande. The...
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The leaders of the main support group of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto state have joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2023 General Elections. This is contained in a statement issued to newsmen in Sokoto on Wednesday by Mr Bashar Abubakar, the Special Assistant...
A Federal High Sitting in Lafia on Wednesday, nullified the election of Mohammed Omadefu, as All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Keana state constituency in Nasarawa State. Delivering judgement in Lafia, Justice Nehezina Afolabi, declared Mohammed-Mu’azu Atose as the winner of the May 28 APC Keana Constituency primary election....
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has opposed a motion filed by Senator Rochas Okorocha, praying for an order quashing the money laundering charge preferred against him. The EFCC, in a counter affidavit deposed to by Iyabo Daramola, the agency’s senior legal officer, and filed before Justice Inyang Ekwo...
A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 35-year-old man, Eugene Izuchukwu, for allegedly swindling COVID-19 loan applicants of N28.8million in Benue. The police charged Izuchukwu with advance fee fraud and criminal intimation. The Magistrate, Mrs Erdoo Ter, however, did not take the plea of Izuchukwu for want...
Mr Christian Aburime, the Press Secretary to Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra, said there is no rift between his principal and a former governor of the state and the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Aburime who spoke to newsmen on Wednesday, said:”the alleged rift between my principal and...
The Presidential Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewale Adebayo, has advised religious leaders to participate in politics, but shun wrong practice in the system. Adebayo was speaking at the interactive session with the national leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Tuesday in Abuja where...
Dr Mutiu Agboke, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), for Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Osun, says the commission is no longer in possession of Sen. Ademola Adeleke’s Form CF 001 used in the 2018 governorship election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that the tribunal had earlier granted...
The Vice Chairman of Abia PDP, Chief Ama Abraham, has appealed to the electorate to appreciate Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu’s sterling performance and vote for the party’s candidates in 2023. Ama made the appeal at a news briefing in Umuahia on Tuesday to herald the official launch of the party’s...
Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, on Tuesday said he did not interfere in the crisis that engulfed the state’s House of Assembly in the last couple of days because of his belief in separation of powers. The House impeached its former speaker, Mr Gboyega Aribisogan who spent one week...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and his running-mate Ifeanyi Okowa, have agreed to wade into the crisis in the Imo chapter. PDP National Chairman, Dr Iorchia Ayu revealed this after the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) meeting with PDP Imo...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has pledged to provide logistics support for the campaigns of the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso within the state. Wike made this known on Monday when the NNPP candidate inaugurated the Mgbutanwo Internal Roads in the Emohua Local...
A pro-democracy group, the OUK Movement, says Senate Chief whip, Orji Kalu will retain his Abia North seat at National Assembly in the 2023 general election. Chief Chukwuemeka Izuka, Chairman of OUK Movement, Bende Local Government Area chapter said this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of...
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an appeal filed by the PDP on the lingering legal battle on the nomination of its governorship candidate in Ogun State. The apex Court ordered that the suit instituted by Mr Jimi Lawal, a governorship aspirant, be remitted to the Federal High Court...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, invalidated the primary election that produced Rep Sani Galadima as the PDP candidate for the 2023 Kaura Namoda/Birnin Magaji Federal Constituency of Zamfara election. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgement, ordered the conduct of a fresh election within 14 days of the...
The Taraba State Governorship governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha, says the crisis bedeviling the party in the state will soon be over. Sen. Bwacha, who stated this at a media briefing in Jalingo, said all litigations challenging his emergence as the state governorship...
Dr Dikko Radda, Katsina State APC governorship candidate says his quest to secure the mandate of the people to serve as governor, is not a do or die affair. ”My contest is not a do or die affair, wherever the pendulum swings at the end of the elections, I...
A 47- year-old man, Olanrewaju Alonge, was on Monday docked in an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’Court in Ibadan for allegedly stealing an ATM card and withdrawing N36 million. The police charged Alonge, whose address was not given with theft. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Prosecution...
Reports are coming in that the five governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and some aggrieved party leaders have now settled for Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour party (LP) Presidential Candidate in the 2023 election. The group has resolved to support the aspiration of...
A businessman Mr Victor Ora on Monday dragged his wife, Comfort before a Customary Court in jikwoyi Abuja, for alleged secret marriage. Victor, the petitioner in his divorce petition, said:” my wife moved out of our house without informing me. When I found her she confessed that she got...