A renowned Constitution Lawyer, Dr Olukayode Ajulo, has counselled lawyers in the country to be wary of politicising the issue of obtaining 25 per cent in FCT as a requirement to win the Presidential election. Ajulo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja against the...
2023 Presidential Election
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of installing a third-party device to “manipulate” results of the February 25 poll in favour of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Bola Tinubu. Atiku lodged the allegation...
Mr Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) and his party have prayed the Election Tribunal to nullify the process that produced the president elect Sen. Bola Tinubu. Obi and his Party in a petition dated March 20 marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 alleged that Tinubu was not the...
In a bid to retain power beyond 2015, former president Goodluck Jonathan ran a campaign with a somewhat foolish and simplistic slogan: “Neighbour to Neighbour”. I believe the aim of it all was to emphasize the sense of communal good neighbourliness that had been the kernel of national unity...
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has threatened to chase away from the party those who made the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lose the recent presidential election. Wike said this at the launch of a road project in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the State. He attributed the PDP’s...
Please permit me to start with response to a twist and contortion done by the lying online medium called Sahara Reporters to my article last week. I had written under the headline, For PMB, it’s Nigeria or Nothing, and the point I made was that President Muhammadu Buhari had...
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal, Abuja, has granted leave to President-elect Bola Tinubu to access sensitive materials used by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the 2023 presidential election. The three-member panel led by justice Joseph Ikyegh granted Tinubu ‘s...
The world over, politicians try to win elections by fair and foul means. That tendency is the reason institutions and laws exist and are operated by men of honour and integrity, who are sticklers to rules and unyielding to pressures from partisan interests. The February 2023 Presidential election in...
The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in Saturday’s polls, Mr Peter Obi, on Thursday said that the party would follow all available legal and peaceful procedures to reclaim its mandate. The LP presidential candidate noted that Nigerians trooped out en-masse to participate in what was promised and expected to...
Sen. Bola Tinubu, the President-elect, says a renewed hope has dawned in Nigeria with his election, promising to be a fair leader to all. Tinubu made this known in his acceptance speech on Wednesday in Abuja. He spoke after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared him winner of...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has congratulated the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu and the Vice President-elect, Sen. Kashim Shettima on their election victory. Lawan stated this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday by his Special Adviser (Media), Mr Ola Awoniyi. He said that...
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the winner of the 2023 Presidential Election, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu. The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday morning declared Tinubu as winner of Feb. 25 presidential election with 8,794,726...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared presidential flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu winner of Feb. 25 presidential election. Tinubu, who was former Governor of Lagos State, garnered a total votes of 8,794,726 to defeat his major rivals; Atiku Abubakar of the...
Leaders in the West African sub-region have called on Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 on the collation of results for the presidential and National Assembly elections held on February 25, 2023. Mahama and other members...
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja 11, has appealed to all stakeholders in the ongoing presidential election to maintain peace in their various areas. He particularly appealed to politicians and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to be matured in their conducts in order for peace to...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has emerged winner of Saturday’s election in Niger by scoring 375,183 votes from the 778,668 valid votes cast in the state. The State Collation Officer for Presidential Election (SCOPE) , Prof. Clement Alawa, the Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC) Academic,...
The Vice Presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa, and Labour Party (LP), Dr Datti Baba-Ahmed, have called for the cancellation of Saturday’s presidential election. Baba-Ahmed and Okowa, at a joint press conference on Tuesday in Abuja, called on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to...
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has called on the Church to pray for the emergence of a President that will use public funds for public good. Mr. Obi stated this at the 17th Biennial Conference of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) holding in...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has promised to improve agriculture, commerce and security if given the mandate in Feb. 25 election. Addressing a crowd of supporters at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano on Thursday, Abubakar said he was not happy...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday called on Sokoto residents of Sokoto State to vote for the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Asuwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the 2023 general elections. Buhari, who spoke at the APC presidential campaign rally in Sokoto said Tinubu was the party’s...