Reuben Abati of Arise TV has characterised Nyesom Wike as a “political mercenary”, a description that may generate considerable debate about the former Rivers State governor’s extraordinary political journey and his evolving relationship with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The metaphor is deliberately provocative. A mercenary, in its conventional sense,...
2023 Presidential Election
A former Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign, Dr Doyin Okupe, has said the 2023 Presidential election was not rigged by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Okupe, a former spokesman for President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the claim by Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, that he did not lose the election but stolen, was most comical. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, said this, in a statement on...
FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday said he has no regret working against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential election. Wike, who spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today, denied engaging in anti-party activities by refusing to support Atiku Abubakar, the then PDP presidential candidate. He defended...
The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has dismissed claims of discrepancies between the results on its website and those presented by returning officers at the National Collation Centre, which were broadcast live. The commission stated this in letter dated Aug. 15 to the Centre for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ),...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says he “is not going away’’, but will continue to work to deepen democracy and rule of law. Abubakar, the former Vice President, said this on Monday in Abuja at a world...
The subdued public anxiety over the final outcome of the 2023 presidential election petitions has ended. Predictably, the Supreme Court has acted faithful to what has become its extant tradition. It has done the obvious and predictable. It simply just turned its back on the minutiae of evidence and...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, and President Bola Tinubu are engaging in bitter words over alleged plot to undermine the country’s judiciary. Alhaji Atiku had accused the current administration of the governing APC...
Rep. Yusuf Gagdi (APC-Plateau) has faulted verbal attacks on former Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau by Mr Dasuki Nakande over the outcome of the 2023 presidential election. Gagdi, who represent Pankshin/ Kanam/ Kanke federal constituency at the National Assembly, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. He...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has been urged to withdraw his case against the victory of President Bola Tinubu. The 2023 Labour Party (LP) governorship aspirant in Plateau, Chief Yohanna Margif, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
Two subpoenaed Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ad hoc officers said the election umpire had difficulty uploading presidential results during the Feb 25 election. The officers, Friday Egwuma and Grace Timothy who testified as subpoenaed witnesses before the presidential election petition court (PEPC) made this known on Thursday. In...
The Action Peoples Party, (APP) has withdrawn its election petition against the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu. At the resumed hearing of the matter at the Presidential Election Petition Court on Wednesday in Abuja, counsel to APP, Mr Obed Agu, told the court that his client wished to withdraw the...
Razaq Abubakre, an Emeritus Professor and former federal Commissioner, says Labour Party Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi could not have beaten President-elect Sen. Bola Tinubu at the last presidential election. Abubakre, also a former Vice Chancellor of Al-Hikmah University Ilorin spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
The Federal Government has described the opposition attacking President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent comment on the 2023 Presidential elections as “shameless sore losers”. In a statement issued on Sunday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the President’s analysis on the reasons for the opposition’s...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday asserted that while the All Progressive Congress, APC was working hard to retain power in the recent elections, the combined opposition was a victim of over confidence- the main reason why he believed they lost. Speaking at his residence...
Labour Party (LP) has called on all election petition tribunals to disregard letters by its suspended National Legal Adviser, Mr Samuel Akingbade, withdrawing all the party’s petitions. The party’s Acting National Publicity Secretary, Mr Obiora Ifoh, stated on Tuesday in Abuja that the presidential election petition tribunal in particular should dismiss the letter. He called on the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja that retired Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha was the duly sponsored presidential candidate of Action Alliance (AA) in the Feb 25 election. INEC, through its team of lawyers led by Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, insisted...
I have read a series of responses to Chimamanda’s odious epistle to her master, President Joe Biden, the President of the United States. Given her professional orientation, she has now tried to make fiction of the 2023 Nigerian election with a view to making some cool wads to support...
Imo Youths for a New Nigeria has urged INEC to correct the mistakes of the 2023 General Elections with upcoming Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa governorship elections. The Convener of the sociopolitical pressure group, Mr Chidiebube Okeoma, said this while addressing newsmen in Owerri, on Saturday. Okeoma, while analysing the...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has condemned the attack on him by pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, for stating Federal Government’s position on the 2023 elections. The minister responded to the organisation’s attack in an interview with newsmen on Thursday in Washington. Afenifere had berated the minister...