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Thursday, 13 December 2018 02:13

Rivers APC will field no candidates in 2019 elections, Appeal court rules

A Special Appeal Panel set up by President of Court of Appeal, Mrs Zainab Bulkachuwa, to handle the protracted legal tussle in Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has struck out an appeal by factional chairman of the party, Mr Flag-Amachree Ojukaiye. The panel, headed by Mr Abubakar Yahaya, delivered the judgement on Wednesday at Port-Harcourt division of the Court of Appeal. The court also upheld the earlier high court judgment that APC in Rivers State has no ward, local government and state executives. Delivering his judgement, the judge said the appeal against the High Court judgement…

Thursday, 13 December 2018 02:11

UK’s May wins no-confidence vote by MPs unhappy over Brexit

British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a political crisis over her Brexit deal Wednesday, winning a no-confidence vote by Conservative lawmakers that would have ended her leadership of party and country. But the margin of victory — 200 votes to 117 — leaves May a weakened leader who has lost the support of a big chunk of her party over her handling of Britain’s exit from the European Union. It also came at a steep price as she promised not to run for re-election in 2022. Britain’s Brexit problem, meanwhile, remains unsolved as May seeks changes to her EU divorce…

Wednesday, 12 December 2018 04:55

How we’ll deliver clean elections without new electoral bill — INEC

Irrespective of President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has worked out strategies to deliver a free, fair and credible election in 2019, using enhanced smart card readers. Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill had incorporated card reader for the purpose of giving legal backup to the technology adopted in authenticating Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, of those eligible to vote. The absence of the card reader in the Electoral Act became an issue when the Supreme Court dismissed contentions against the election of some governors on the basis that the card readers deployed were…

Wednesday, 12 December 2018 04:47

Akala vows to declare emergency in education, health sectors in Oyo

Daniel Agbolade Former governor of Oyo State and gubernatorial candidate of Action Democratic Party (ADP) , Mr. Adebayo Alao-Akala, Tuesday said if elected as governor he would declare state of emergencies in education and health sectors in the state. He said this in Ibadan while addressing his supporters at the official launch of his campaign and inauguration of his campaign team. He said the state-owned tertiary institutions that include Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso and The Polytechnic, Ibadan, are in deplorable situations, assuring that they will be rescued and their status in the comity of educationational institutions in…

Tuesday, 11 December 2018 05:12

TraderMoni: Dogara accuses Buhari of vote buying

Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has condemned distribution of cash to Nigerians by the federal government very close to the general elections. Dogara stated this on Monday during a public hearing organised by National Assembly Joint Committee on INEC and Political Parties Matters on Vote-buying and Improving the Electoral Processes in Nigeria. He said no matter how noble the intent may be, such endeavours amount to vote buying and inducement, and can be considered corruption. President of Senate, Mr Bukola Saraki, had made a similar allegation, accusing the federal government of using the TraderMoni programme as a…

Tuesday, 11 December 2018 05:10

We’ve devised means against vote buying - INEC

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has introduced a new measure on ballot paper handling at polling units to check vote buying in 2019 general elections. Its Chairman, Mr Mahmud Yakubu, disclosed this at a public hearing on ‘Vote Buying and Improving Electoral Processes in Nigeria’, conducted by National Assembly Joint Committee on INEC in Abuja on Monday. Yakubu said in 2019 polls, ballot papers would be handed to voters rolled up before they proceed to polling booths to cast their votes. He explained that voters, in turn, must also roll up and flatten the ballot papers before leaving the polling…

Tuesday, 11 December 2018 05:04

CAN to Nigerians: Don’t vote for desperate politicians

President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Mr Samson Ayokunle, on Monday urged Nigerians to avoid desperate politicians by voting only credible candidates in 2019. Ayokunle made the remarks while briefing journalists after a meeting with representatives of 14 presidential candidates in Abuja, on their plans for Nigerians and the church. He said that the church decided to reach out to stakeholders and presidential candidates to ask them their credentials for aspiring to the highest position in the country. According to him, the church cannot keep quiet in this situation because the church can only prosper when a nation prospers.…

Monday, 10 December 2018 04:51

Obasanjo hits Buhari again, says ‘I’m not neutral’

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday denied a report which indicated that he had dropped his support for Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Mr Atiku Abubakar. He faulted the report which also stated that he had no preferred presidential candidate. Mr Obasanjo said only a fool would sit on the fence. The ex-President said these in a statement by his media aide, Mr Kehinde Akinyemi, made available to journalists in Abeokuta. In the statement titled, “2019 elections and reports of Mr Olusegun Obasanjo’s neutrality”, Obasanjo said he was in Cairo to attend the maiden edition of Intra-African Trade Fair where…

Monday, 10 December 2018 04:48

2019: Christian elders meet today on consensus presidential candidate

National Christian Elders Forum, led by a former Minister of Defence, Mr Theophilus Danjuma and Mr Solomon Asemota, will meet on Monday (today) to take a position on whether or not it should endorse a presidential candidate among the ‘new entrants’ for 2019 elections. The Monday’s meeting follows an earlier one in Lagos which the forum held with those it described as “13 new presidential candidates.” The forum had earlier said that rather than propose “two evils” from which Nigerians should choose, righteousness should be the basis for a new President for the country in 2019. Secretary of NCEF, Mr…

Sunday, 09 December 2018 04:29

Electoral Act: N’Assembly plans to override Buhari this week

There were strong indications on Saturday evening that Senate would, this week, begin the process to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to withhold his assent to 2018 Electoral Act amendment bill. Senate spokesperson, Mr Ben Murray-Bruce, said the red chamber had rejected Buhari’s reasons for declining assent to the legislation and would do everything possible to override his action. A cross-section of senators, who spoke with our correspondents on the issue on Saturday, vowed to make Mr Buhari’s position a major issue on resumption of plenary on Tuesday. They vowed to ensure that all amendments made to the new electoral…

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Sunday, 09 December 2018 04:25

Northern leaders disagree over Buhari’s re-election

Barely two months to next year’s elections, some northern leaders say they will not support President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election. They, however, shied away from announcing their preferred presidential candidate in the elections, insisting that the candidate to support remained one of their own from the list of 71 presidential hopeful cleared by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to contest 2019 elections. The only other high profile candidate in 2019 presidential election is Mr Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Convener of Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Mr Ango Abdullahi, spoke the mind of northern leaders in Kaduna. However, three key…

Friday, 07 December 2018 05:18

APC, PDP renew attacks as campaigns take shape

Two issues will drive All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign for 2019 elections, it was learnt yesterday. The issues are: character of the contestants, including President Muhammadu Buhari; andBuhari administration’s achievements. But main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is stressing restructuring as magic pill for Nigeria’s ailments. Its presidential candidate, Mr Atiku Abubakar yesterday promised to initiate restructuring within the first six months should the party win the election. He spoke in Ibadan at the opening of PDP’s campaign in the Southwest. In Abuja, APC National Working Committee (NWC) met with its governorship candidates as a prelude to take-off of its…

Friday, 07 December 2018 05:17

APC leaders are ‘poorer in human qualities than the poorest of men’ - Ghali Na’abba

A former Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Ghali Na’abba, has resigned his membership of All Progressives Congress (APC). Na’abba, from Kano State, was speaker between 1999 and 2003. He announced his resignation in a letter addressed to APC Chairman of his Sharada Ward of Kano Municipal Local Government. “This is to notify you of my resolve to resign from All Progressives Congress (APC), effective today 5th December 2018,” he wrote. “My decision to resign from the party follows the cavalier manner in which both the Federal Government, States controlled by APC and APC itself are being run, as a…

Thursday, 06 December 2018 04:38

Saraki to Buhari: Don’t listen to anti-democracy elements, sign Electoral Bill now

PRESS RELEASE Senate President, Mr Bukola Saraki has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to heed the advice of the anti-democracy elements who have now populated the political space and putting pressure on him not to give assent to 2018 Electoral Bill. Saraki in a statement in Ilorin Wednesday signed by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Mr Yusuph Olaniyonu, urged the President to rise above petty politics and act without further delay in the best interest of the country and its democracy by signing the Electoral Bill into law. Saraki noted that he had been inundated with telephone calls and…

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