The Court of Appeal on Wednesday granted INEC permission to reconfigure its Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for the Saturday Governorship and State Assemblies Elections. A three-member panel of the appellate court , led by Justice Joseph Ikyegh, granted leave to the applicant for the purposes of configuring the...
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A lawmaker in Ondo State, Mr Sunday Olajide, has advised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his Labour Party counterpart, Mr Peter Obi, to accept their defeat in the Feb. 25 Presidential election. Olajide, representing Akure South Constituency 2 in the Ondo State...
President-elect Sen. Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday approached the Court of Appeal seeking leave to obtain the election materials for his defence. Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu had declared Tinubu winner of the Feb. 25 presidential election after securing majority of votes cast...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Julius Abure has dissolved the River State Executive Council in Rivers State with immediate effect over alleged anti-party activities and mismanagement of funds. Mr. Abure announced the dissolution in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja....
The Appeal court will on Wednesday deliver ruling in the application by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) seeking leave to configure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for the governorship election. INEC in its motion dated March 4, asked the appellate court to vary the ex parte order...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday in Abuja, assembled a team of highly qualified and experienced lawyers to represent it at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. According to a statement by Ahmad El-Marzuq, APC, National Legal Adviser, the team comprised legal luminaries with vast experience in election petition...
Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has said he was not against the South-East zone voting massively for Mr Peter Obi, during the Feb.25 presidential election. Umahi said this on Monday at the Ebonyi international airport, Onueke, while addressing stakeholders and people of Ezza, the clan where the airport is...
Soludo not after Peter Obi, they are brothers – Aide Mr Chris Aburime, the Press Secretary to Anambra Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, says the governor is not after Mr Peter Obi, a former governor in the state and presidential candidate of the Labour Party. Aburime spoke on Monday in...
The Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has dissociated itself from a trending publication, which said that Peter Obi is not destined to be Nigeria’s president. Its National Publicity Secretary, Dr Alex Ogbonnia, made the expression in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the Court of Appeal to vary the ex parte order made in favour of Labour Party and the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), with regards to inspection of materials used for the presidential election. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that...
Eight days after Nigeria held its presidential poll, the United States, has said that the exercise failed to meet the expectations of Nigerians. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the election after polling 8,794,726 votes, almost two million...
Nigeria’s much anticipated 2023 presidential election has yielded an outcome, leaving behind a thick smoke trail of disquiet and global infamy. Mr. Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has since been announced the winner of the February 25 election. At home, the emotions are unevenly mixed...
Mr Osita Okechukwu, Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubkar, for making false claims about the Feb. 25 presidential poll. Okechukwu in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said Atiku’s desperation and crass opportunism led to PDP’s defeat at...
Mr Ade Omole, the Director of Diaspora Directorate, All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), has called on opposition political leaders to embrace Sen. Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president-elect. He made the appeal while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. Omole urged...
Seven state governments controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have withdrawn the suit they filled against the federal government over the conduct and subsequent collation and announcement of the Feb. 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections. The Notice of Discontinuance signed by their lawyer, Mr. Mike Ozekhome SAN...
The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says there is no law making it mandatory for INEC to transmit electoral results electronically. Mr Dele Alake, Special Adviser on Media and Communications at the PCC made the declaration in Abuja on Friday when he spoke at...
The Court of Appeal on Friday granted leave to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, to inspect documents used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the Feb. 25 Presidential election. The permission was sequel to...
A former APC Presidential aspirant, Chief Stanley Osifo, on appealed to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi to support the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, to move Nigeria forward. Abubakar and Obi, the presidential candidates of the PDP and Labour Party, respectively, had vowed to challenge the outcome of...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it is ready to meet Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate in court over his claim of electoral fraud in Feb. 25 presidential election. Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director Media and Publicity APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) said this in a statement...
The President-Elect, Bola Tinubu has set up committees to meet aggrieved presidential candidates to start the “healing process”. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and a member of the committees disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde. He said a Committee of...