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Friday, 30 June 2023 03:01

Obi on Tinubu’s long convoy: Displaying ostentation while asking people to make sacrifices wrong

Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has urged leaders at every level in Nigeria to lead by example. The call came against the background of the outrage being expressed by Nigerians over the “outlandish display of power” by President Bola Tinubu during a recent visit to Lagos State. Head, Obi-Datti Media Office, Diran Onifade, in a statement Thursday, said Tinubu during the visit was escorted by an unprecedented 124-vehicle convoy. According to him, not since the creation of Nigeria by the British has such mindless and embarrassing exhibitionism been purveyed by a politician. Not…

Wednesday, 28 June 2023 04:58

Public trust in INEC severely damaged by its handling of 2023 elections - EU

The 2023 general elections did not ensure a well-run transparent, and inclusive democratic process as assured by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) has said. The EU EOM noted that shortcomings in the law and electoral administration hindered the conduct of well-run and inclusive elections and damaged trust in INEC. In its final report released on Tuesday in Abuja, the EU EOM said public confidence and trust in INEC were severely damaged during the presidential poll and were not restored in state-level elections, leading civil society to call for an independent audit…

Saturday, 24 June 2023 02:46

PEPC: Atiku’s witness tenders Tinubu’s academic records alleging president stole a woman’s identity

Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, on Friday, admitted as exhibitPresident Bola Tinubu’s academic records obtained from the Chicago State University, United States of America. The five-member court headed by Haruna Tsammani admitted the documents as exhibits, while the legal teams of Tinubu, APC, and INEC argued that the documents were not admissible and promised to give their grounds objection in their final addresses. The documents were tendered by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, who is challenging the outcome of the 25 February presidential election. Atiku had filed a petition calling the court to overturn…

Saturday, 24 June 2023 02:45

Obi closes case against Tinubu after loading PEPC with tons of documents, 13 witnesses

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Friday, closed his case at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja with the 13 witnesses he called to prove his case against President Bola Tinubu’s election. Mr Obi had proposed to call 50 witnesses but could only call 13 within the court allotted time. He also tendered tons of electoral documents. Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC, had declared Tinubu winner of the 25 February election. Displeased with the results, Obi, who came third in the election, filed a petition at the court to challenge Tinubu’s victory. He and his party filed…

Friday, 23 June 2023 04:34

Atiku’s witness tells PEPC BVAS machines given to him for inspection by INEC all had presidential results deleted

A witness for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has told the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja that results on all 110 BVAS machines he inspected were deleted. The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine is an electronic device distributed across the over 176,000 polling units in the country by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the accreditation of voters during the 2023 general elections. The device was also designed to promptly upload photographic copies of result sheets to the INEC Results View (IReV) portal after result documentation at the polling units. Atiku…

Friday, 23 June 2023 04:33

Obi features cybersecurity expert as witness against INEC at PEPC

Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Thursday fielded more witnesses in aid of its petition at the Presidential Election Petition Court. The petitioners are protesting the outcome of the last presidential elections wherein the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Bola Tinubu as the elected president. Tinubu contested under the platform of the All Progressives Congress. During the resumed hearing in the matter, Ugwuoke who was led in evidence by the petitioners’ counsel, Patrick Ikweato, insinuated that the Amazon Web Service could not have shut down as it was the responsibility of the service provider to be up…

Thursday, 22 June 2023 02:58

PEPC: Obi tenders PVC records from 32 states, features witnesses on INEC’s IReV

Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Wednesday, tendered tons of electoral documents, including Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) records before the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja. In furtherance of his suit challenging President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the 25 February presidential election, Obi, through his lawyer, Livy Uzoukwu, presented certified true copies (CTCs) of documents detailing the total number of registered voters and PVCs. Uzoukwu said the electoral documents were from the 32 states of the federation. He further listed other documents to include – CTCs of supplementary INEC Results Viewing report regarding three local government areas of Benue…

Thursday, 22 June 2023 02:57

APM closes case against Tinubu after calling one witness to testify at PEPC

Allied Peoples Movement (APM) has closed its case against President Bola Tinubu’s election, after calling one witness to support its petition. Chichi Ojei, APM’s candidate, had scored 25,961 votes during the February 25 presidential election. The party is contending that Tinubu was improperly sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) since he nominated Kashim Shettima as his vice-presidential candidate for the election. It claims that at the time Shettima accepted to be APC’s vice-presidential candidate, he was still the party’s candidate for Borno central senatorial district. At the court session on Wednesday, the party called its sole witness, Aisha Abubakar,…

Wednesday, 21 June 2023 04:50

Atiku, PDP to close case against Tinubu at PEPC on Friday

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have indicated that they would close their case at the Presidential Election Petition Court on Friday. According to the pre-hearing report, the petitioners ought to close their case on Tuesday. However, at the session on Tuesday, Chris Uche, petitioners’ counsel told the court that his team lost two days out of the days allotted to them. One of the lost days was a public holiday to mark Democracy Day. He prayed the court for an extension of time by two days which the court agreed. Earlier, Uche applied to tender…

Tuesday, 20 June 2023 04:47

Obi brings staff of INEC’s website host to PEPC to refute claims of IReV glitches during presidential election

A witness of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Monday, told the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja that the INEC’s IReV portal did not experience any glitches to justify the failure to upload real time the polling unit results of the 25 February presidential election. INEC had, in a statement issued a day after the polls by its Commissioner for Voter Education, Festus Okoye, blamed unexpected technical glitches for the commission’s inability to ensure real-time uploading of results to IReV portal as provided in the guidelines for the election. Voting ended in most of the over 176,000…

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Tuesday, 20 June 2023 04:46

APM asks for just one day to open, close its case against Tinubu

Allied Peoples Movement (APM) has told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that it will need only one day to open and close its case challenging the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the 25 presidential polls. The party says it has only one witness, who will testify and be cross-examined in just one day. Addressing the five-member panel of the court Monday, Gideon Idiagbonya, lawyer to the party, said: “My lords, we intended to open our case today but in the cause of having a pre-trial conference with our sole witness, but we realised that certain documents we intend…

Saturday, 17 June 2023 04:42

Melaye testifies for Atiku at PEPC, lists 3 grounds to support allegations of election rigging for Tinubu

A former senator, Dino Melaye, on Friday, appeared before the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja as a witness in the petition filed by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to challenge the outcome of the February presidential poll. Melaye, dubbed as a star witness of the petitioners, told the court that the final result of the presidential election announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was wrongly computed. The former senator, who is also the PDP candidate in the forthcoming Kogi State governorship election, is the 23rd witness the petitioners have called so far to challenge…

Friday, 16 June 2023 03:47

Peter Obi’s data analyst tells PEPC 18,000 result sheets from IReV blurred

On Thursday, the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja admitted over 18,000 polling unit results sheets as exhibits in Peter Obi’s petition challenging President Bola Tinubu’s victory. A data analyst subpoenaed to testify as Obi’s fourth witness said the about 18,000 result sheets obtained from INEC’s IReV were blurred. Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 25 February presidential election, is contesting INEC’s declaration of Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the race, on various grounds. The candidate, who came third in the polls, accused Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC, of rigging the election in favour…

Friday, 16 June 2023 03:45

INEC chair sent representative to PEPC in response to Atiku’s subpoena. This is how it went

A representative of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, on Thursday, appeared on a subpoena to tender electoral documents in the case filed by Atiku Abubakar to challenge the outcome of the 25 February presidential election. The witness tendered tons of electoral documents before the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, which is conducting a hearing on the case. The documents were used in the conduct of the 25 February presidential election. Atiku, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had, through a subpoena, sought Yakubu’s appearance before the court regarding his petition challenging…

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