Another presidential candidate, Mr Ambrose Oworu, and his party, Hope Democratic Party (HDP), have dragged President Muhammadu Buhari and presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Atiku Abubakar, to court over the February 23 election. The petitioners are challenging the legality of the election earlier slated for February 16 but later shifted to February 23. Oworu and his party in the petition marked CA/EPT/PRE/001/2019 are praying the tribunal to nullify the presidential election and the declaration of Mr Buhari as winner. They added that Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has no power under any law to shift the February…

Convener of “OurMumuDonDo” Movement, Mr Charles Oputa, popularly referred to as Charly Boy, has contradicted his earlier statement that he received millions of naira from President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign team. Charly Boy in an interview with Oak TV on Tuesday said he could not have used the song where he abused All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to get money from Mr Festus Keyamo. Oputa was accused by co-convener of the movement, Mr Deji Adeyanju, that while he was in prison for 78 days, APC through Keyamo gave Charly Boy money. An audio conversation was released to…

Mr Ahmad Lawan is the favourite for Senate President – courtesy of his “rich legislative experience” and character – it was learnt yesterday. President Muhammadu Buhari, All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership and most APC governors have endorsed the Senate Leader after consultations. The leaders were said to have considered Lawan’s “qualifications, prudence, accountability, loyalty and rich legislative experience” which will assist APC government to have a robust Executive-Legislative relationship to fast-track development. Lawan is believed to be a “leader with much focus on accountability”. It was also learnt that Mr Buhari preferred Lawan because he repeatedly told senators-elect that he…

A former Senate Leader, Mr Ali Ndume, has described as unconstitutional, endorsement of Mr Ahmad Lawan as APC candidate for the position of Senate President of the 9th National Assembly. Ndume, who addressed journalists in Abuja, also said that the choice of Lawan was an unpopular decision, unilaterally taken by Oshiomhole. He said, “It was Adams Oshiomhole that said that Lawan should be our next Senate President. I don’t believe that that is truly the position of Mr President. “Before I went into this contest, I consulted with Mr President and he gave me the go-ahead. I consulted with Mr…