Just this last weekend, I compared notes with my sources in the Obi and Atiku camps; both of them told me of their plans to stampede the tribunal judges through blackmail, to effect an annulment of the 2023 elections; the most credible elections I have seen in recent times....
2023 Election
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over “the failure to investigate allegations of electoral violence and other electoral offences including bribery against some state governors and their deputies during the 2023 elections.” According...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, says one of the greatest challenges being faced by Nigerians at the moment is beyond any infrastructural development, rather a concerted effort to give the citizens protection to be alive first. Bishop Kukah, who spoke...
The period between a general election and the swearing in of a successor administration ought to be filled with excited anticipation. It is usually a time of pleasant speculations on the new faces that will soon grace television screens and newspaper front pages. For the masses in a polity...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has reiterated the Ministry’s commitment towards ensuring a safe and secure cyberspace for Nigerians before, during, and after the 2023 Presidential Elections. This is according to a statement issued on Tuesday by...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Cross River State Chapter has endorsed the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Professor Sandy Onor. The PFN Chairman, Lawrence Ekwok, while addressing newsmen at the Assembly of God Church, Calabar, said a strategy committee made...
It is fundamental to state at this outset that there is no presidential election yet conducted in 2023 and that this is one moment when one would wish he were not a Nigerian. INEC started the process and there was voting but the collation of the results veered off...
Full speech of President elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu
The Kogi People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday reiterated its stand of total rejection of results of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state. Mr Sam Uhuotu, the state PDP Chairman, made the declaration in a statement issued to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja....
Youths and women in Katsina State have pledged to deliver two million votes to the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the presidential poll billed to hold on Feb 25. Malam Ahmed Adamu, Special Assistant to the Presidential Candidate on Youth and Strategy,...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate in Enugu, Frank Nweke Jnr., has debunked reports making the rounds in some section of the media that he had endorsed APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu,for the 2023 election. Mr. Nweke, who stated this in a...
The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has appealed to Abia governorship aspirant, Uche Ogah, to collapse his political structure and work for Ikechi Emenike. Mr Friday Nwosu, the party’s National Welfare Secretary, in its National Working Committee (NWC), made the appeal while speaking with newsmen at the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi on Friday, received hundreds of defectors from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. The Party’s Gubernatorial candidate, Dr IfeanyiChukwuma Odii, who welcomed the decampees in Abakaliki, said the PDP is ready to win in the forthcoming general elections. “PDP as...
The currency redesign and the cash crisis it has engendered have exposed the treacherous nature of Nigeria’s ruling party(APC) and ruling elites. They have sought power and wealth as ends in themselves and not as means to better the society and lots of ordinary Nigerians. Their rallying points are...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Ahead of the forthcoming general elections, the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assured Nigerians that his government will eliminate kidnapping and bring to an end all other forms of insecurity. “We will eliminate the madness called...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Lobito Support Group for the aspiration of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has distributed campaign vehicles across the 20 local government areas of Bauchi state. Lobito is a grassroots support group, initially formed by the friends of Buhari...
The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Usman Baba, has approved the setting up of an Election Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Team ahead of the general elections. The Force Public Relations, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. He said members of the team would...
The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) of Nigeria has said that the Supreme Court ruling of Wednesday stopping the February 10 deadline for the validity of three old naira notes is designed to enable corrupt politicians to share old N200, N500 and N1,000 notes during the February 25...
On that day in October 2020, there were grim images of blood, wailing, and anguish on the faces of young people at the Lekki toll gate, images that showed no regard for ethnicity, religion, political access, or status—the common fault lines traditionally manipulated by the political elite to divide,...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Delta, Mr Sheriff Oborevwori, has pledged to run a detribalised government, elected as governor of the state. Oborevwori, also the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, made the pledge during an interactive session with members of Nigeria Union of Journalist...