Some documents requested by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) at the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi to be presented as exhibits at the Presidential Election Tribunal are non-existent.inecinwc INEC made the declaration before the court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday. Obi and the Labour Party (LP)...
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Ndigbo in APC, Lagos State chapter has affirmed Mr Joe Igbokwe, former special adviser to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on drainage and water resources, as its authentic apex leader. The State Co-ordinator of the group, Chief Chris Ekwilo, made this affirmation at a news conference in Lagos on Tuesday. The...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his party will on Thursday, close their case at the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) in their joint petition challenging the outcome of the Feb. 25 presidential election.tt The petitioners, according to a pre-hearing report were...
The Labour Party and it’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi on Monday alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) refused to provide documents they asked. Obi and the LP are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu. Respondents are Independent National Electoral...
Three ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) who were Presiding Officers for the Feb. 25 general election have told the Presidential Election Petition Court ( PEPC) that only results of the presidential election refused to upload to IREV. The three presiding officers were subpoenaed by...
Mr Tajudeen Lawal, the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun, has said that members of the party that engaged in anti-party activities during the governorship and general elections in the state will not be spared. Lawal said this during a welcome home party organised by APC...
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has urged former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and his four other friends in the G5 to come up with another aggrieved group within opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to make winning the 2027 presidential election a smooth ride for the ruling All Progressives...
A Social Democratic Party ( SDP) candidate in the Feb. 25 House of Representatives poll, Mr Oluwaseyi Ogundare, has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the right political platform for potential leaders to serve Nigerians. Ogundare, fondly called OGO, stated this at the APC secretariat in Akure on...
Sen. Dino Melaye, a star witness of Alhaji Abubakar Atiku and the Peoples Democratic Party has told the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC) that the final result of the presidential election was wrongly computed and announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Melaye, the 22nd witness of the...
Ms Ijeoma Osamor, Broadcast Journalist with DAAR Communications Plc on Friday testified in the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC). Osamor, who anchors a programme in the Africa Independent Television (AIT) “Democracy Today” was subpoenaed as ‘7th witness (PW 7) for Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) . Obi and...
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Yakubu Mahmood has tendered documents before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in respect of the petition of Alhaji Abubakar Atiku and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The documents were tendered on Thursday through Mrs Morenikeji Tairu, Deputy Director,...
The Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Thursday, disqualified a witness,, Erastus Ofoma, subpoenaed by Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) from testifying against Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat. The Chairman of the three-man tribunal committee, Justice Arum Igyen-Ashom ordered Ofoma to step...
The Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi on Thursday tendered 18,000 blurred polling units results of the Feb 25 election before the presidential election petition court (PEPC). Obi and his Labour Party (LP) are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election which brought president...
The Senate President, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, and a high-powered delegation from the Presidency are expected to attend the burial of former Senate President, Ken Nnamani’s wife, Ezinne Jane Nnamani. “We are also expecting who is who within the Nigerian Senate, the ruling party – All Progressives Congress (APC) as...
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Wednesday admitted in evidence statistics reports of inspectors of the election. In a petition marked CA/PEPC/05/2023, Atiku Abubakar and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are challenging the outcome of the Feb.25 presidential election which brought Tinubu as the winner. The respondents are Independent...
Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Thursday appear before the Presidential Election Petition Court Thursday. This was stated on Tuesday by Chris Uche, SAN lead counsel to Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party in their ongoing petition. In a petition marked...
Gov. Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi has cautioned against incessant congratulatory visits to elected and appointed government functionaries in the state. Nwifuru made the disclosure on Tuesday while swearing-in the new Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Prof. Grace Umezurike. The governor, who also swore-in Prof Emmanuel Echiegu as his...
Mr Osita Okechukwu, Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) says the emergence of Sen. Godswill Akpabio as President of the Senate is a hallmark of APC’s principle of inclusiveness. Okechukwu also congratulated Akpabio on his emergence as senate president of the 10th assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. “The emergence...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the new leadership of the National Assembly, saying that “the election of Distinguished Senator Godswill Akpabio, CON and Rt. Honourable Tajudeen Abbas as the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 10th National...
Senators of Southeast geo-political zone on Monday endorsed Sen. Godswill Akpabio (APC-Akwa-Ibom) and Sen. Barau Jibrin (APC-Kano) as their choice candidates for Senate President and Deputy Senate President of the 10th Assembly, respectively. The 10th Assembly is due for inauguration on Tuesday. Imo’s Gov. Hope Uzodinma made this known in...