politics

The National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress for North-West, Mallam Salihu Lukman, on Thursday, carried out his threat to sue the party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and National Secretary, Iyiola Omisore, for alleged breach of the party’s constitution. The development came one week after Lukman issued an ultimatum to Adamu and Omisore to convene an emergency meeting ... Read More »

…Apapa seeking to scuttle Obi’s petition against Tinubu —Abure …Puts judiciary, DSS, Police, others on notice …It’s cheap blackmail — Apapa The mud-fight between the Comrade Julius Abure and Lamidi Apapa factions of the Labour Party, LP, may hurt the petition of the party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, against the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, if mishandled. Peter Obi: ... Read More »

Ahead of the May 29 inauguration, President-elect, Bola Tinubu is expected to return to Nigeria today. Tinubu’s return to Nigeria was confirmed by his Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga on Monday. Onanuga disclosed via Twitter that the President-elect has been on vacation in France. According to reports, Tinubu whose plane is billed to land at the presidential wing ... Read More »

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said a candidate does not need to secure 25% of votes in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to win a presidential election in the country. This is even as it said the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar did not meet the constitutional requirements to be declared winner of ... Read More »

…Obi and LP did not have agents in all the polling units ,,,, Obi failure to plead specific particulars and figures as to how the alleged non-compliance by INEC The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has argued the reliefs being sought in the petition by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, cannot be granted by the ... Read More »

… Election conducted in compliance with Electoral Act, agency insists Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi’s petition before the Election Tribunal lacks merit, All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) submitted yesterday. To the APC and the electoral commission, the petition, which is a waste of time, should be dismissed. LP and Obi are challenging ... Read More »

President-Elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday promised not to disappoint Nigerians at this critical moment of national life. He also told the opposition he was not ready to squander his mandate as the nation’s next president maintaining that “it was a dream that he spent his life perfecting.” In an appreciation statement to Nigerians and all well wishes on ... Read More »

A Makurdi High Court presided over by Justice Wilfred Kpochi has issued an interim order restrainng Dr. Iyorchia Ayu from “parading himself as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.” The order of the court, issued on Monday, followed an ex-parte application brought before the court by a PDP stalwart, Mr. Conrad Utaan against Dr. Ayu and the ... Read More »

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed a csse by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking the disqualification of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Kassim Shettima as the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 25 election. The PDP, had by their appeal marked: CA/ABJ/CV/108/2023 urged the appellate court to reverse the January 13 judgment ... Read More »

Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has congratulated President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress APC for being victorious during the last presidential election in the country. While congratulating the APC winner Tuesday in his statement in Awka, Soludo advised his opponents who lost the election to approach the Court, if they feel aggrieved. But he pledged to ... Read More »