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Friday, 26 May 2023 04:41

Appeal Court slams ex-presidential candidate N40m fine for filing ‘frivolous, vexatious and irritating suit’ to stop Tinubu’s inauguration

The court of appeal has ordered Ambrose Owuru, presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP) in the 2019 elections, to pay a fine of N40 million for filing a frivolous suit to stop the inauguration of Bola Tinubu, president-elect. Jamil Tukur, the justice who read the lead judgment of a three-member panel of the court, held that Owuru committed a gross abuse of the court process by filing a frivolous, vexatious and irritating suit to provoke the respondents. Owuru had filed the suit in April challenging the outcome of the 2019 elections. He asked the court to declare the…

Wednesday, 24 May 2023 03:40

PEPC issues guideline, timelines in Obi, Atiku’s petitions against Tinubu’s election

The presidential election petition court (PEPC) has concluded pre-hearing in all three petitions filed against Bola Tinubu, president-elect. Tinubu, standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared winner of the February 25 election after scoring 8,794,726 votes. Aggrieved by the outcome, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) candidate, are challenging Tinubu’s victory. The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) is also challenging Tinubu’s election. At the court session on Tuesday, the five-member panel consolidated all the petitions because of the time-bound nature of the case. The court issues a…

Wednesday, 24 May 2023 03:39

Tinubu meets with ex-British PM Blair in Abuja

President-elect Bola Tinubu hosted ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Defence House, Abuja, on Tuesday. Tinubu’s spokesman, Tunde Rahman, who disclosed this, did not provide details. However, he released pictures with caption, “President-elect Bola Tinubu and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair after a meeting this Tuesday afternoon at Defence House, Abuja.” Tinubu will be inaugurated as 16th President of Nigeria on May 29. Last week while in France, US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, telephoned him to assure Tinubu of US support for Nigeria. Earlier on Tuesday, President Joe Biden unveiled the delegation due to attend Tinubu’s inauguration. Daily…

Wednesday, 24 May 2023 03:38

Another court fixes Friday for judgement in suit seeking to stop Tinubu’s inauguration

A Federal High Court in Abuja has slated Friday for ruling on a suit seeking the disqualification of Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, as a candidate in the 25 February presidential election. The suit, by implication, also seeks to stop Tinubu from taking the oath of office on 29 May. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court had on Monday fixed Friday for judgement in a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party challenging Tinubu’s victory on account of the alleged double nomination of Kashim Shettima as his vice-presidential pick and as a senatorial candidate for the 2023 general elections. The case at the…

Tuesday, 23 May 2023 03:56

S’court fixes May 26 for judgment in PDP’s suit against Tinubu, Shettima over ‘double nomination’

The supreme court has fixed May 26 to deliver judgment in a suit seeking the disqualification of Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima as presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The judgment will be delivered three days before the inauguration of the president-elect and the vice-president-elect. PDP, in the suit filed on July 28, 2022, claimed that Shettima’s nomination as Tinubu’s running mate was in breach of the provisions of sections 29(1), 33, 35, and 84(1)(2) of the electoral act, 2022. The party argued that Shettima’s nomination to contest the position of vice-president and Borno central senatorial…

Tuesday, 23 May 2023 03:55

‘Better to avoid trial by ordeal of live cameras in court’, PEPC says in dismissing Atiku, Obi’s demand for live broadcast of proceedings

Presidential Election Petitions Court has rejected the application for live transmission of proceedings as made by the petitioners in the court. In a unanimous ruling on the interlocutory applications, the five-member panel of justices held that the request hinges on policy decision which can only be made by the judiciary. Both the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, had separately argued that the live transmission of the proceedings had become necessary due to the public interest and concern generated by the outcome of the February 25 presidential election. In…

Sunday, 21 May 2023 03:40

Atiku to call 100 witnesses, Obi 50: This is how evidence against Tinubu in PEPC will go

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it will call 100 witnesses to testify at the presidential election petition court. Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the PDP, had filed a suit challenging the election through which Bola Tinubu emerged as the president-elect. Addressing the court on Saturday, Chris Uche, counsel for Atiku Abubakar and the PDP, said all the parties met and agreed on the number of witnesses that would be presented and the duration. He said the PDP intends to call no more than 100 witnesses, adding that while seven weeks were given to call these witnesses, only three weeks will be…

Sunday, 21 May 2023 03:35

We lost Kano gov because of Tinubu, but president-elect now parleying Kwakwanso as alternative to us - Ganduje

The meeting between President-elect Bola Tinubu and Rabiu Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has continued to raise dust, especially among leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano. It would be recalled that Tinubu and Kwankwaso met for four hours in France, discussing a wide range of issues, including the possibility of the NNPP Presidential Candidate joining the incoming cabinet. Responding, Abdulmajid Kwamanda, an APC leader in Kano, said Tinubu must not give any appointment to Kwankwaso, not even that of a messenger. “We in the Northwest do not welcome Rabiu Kwankwaso to…

Saturday, 20 May 2023 04:26

Appeal Court adjourns for judgment in suit to stop Tinubu's inauguration

The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday adjourned indefinitely a suit seeking to stop Bola Tinubu from being sworn-in as president on 29 May. It comes barely 10 days to the scheduled swearing-in of the president-elect. Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won Nigeria’s 25 February presidential election, defeating former vice president Atiku Abubakar of the PDP and Labour Party’s Peter Obi. But a former presidential candidate of the defunct Hope Democratic Party (HDP), Ambrose Owuru, who claimed he was deprived of his victory in the 2019 election, filed a suit that asked for a court order to…

Friday, 19 May 2023 05:08

PEPC fixes Monday for ruling on Tinubu, APC and INEC’s objections to live broadcast of proceedings

Presidential Election Petitions Court has fixed May 22 to rule on the modalities for the conduct of the main hearing in the petition by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM). Presiding justice of the court, Haruna Tsammani, on Thursday adjourned the petition of the APM on the date, which is also meant to hear agreements by parties on the number of witnesses and time to be allocated for their examination and cross-examination. Lawyers to the parties in the APM petition, INEC, APC, Tinubu, Shettima, and Kabiru Masari confirmed that they agreed not to object to any documents certified by INEC to…

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Friday, 19 May 2023 05:02

Abure announces return as LP national chairman after Appeal Court ruling

National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, and three other national executive members, on Thursday, announced their return to the party secretariat. The development is coming one month after they were barred by Hamza Muazu of Federal High Court in Abuja from parading themselves as national officers of the party. The judge ruled that Abure; his National Secretary, Farouk Ibrahim; National Organising Secretary, Clement Ojukwu and one other, should no longer be given recognition as party executives. The order was granted in an ex parte application argued by James Ogwu Onoja, in which he informed the court the affected national…

Thursday, 18 May 2023 04:16

Obi to PEPC: INEC still hasn’t given legal team 70% of election documents ordered by court

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has told the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja of his predicament in accessing electoral documents from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Obi, who came third in the February presidential election, is challenging the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Bola Tinubu. He alleged that INEC manipulated the presidential election in favour of Tinubu. At the resumed hearing of Mr Obi’s petition on Wednesday, his lawyer, Livy Uzoukwu, informed the five-member panel of the court led by Haruna Tsammani that INEC “stubbornly refused to produce…

Thursday, 18 May 2023 04:15

INEC opposes live streaming of PEPC proceedings

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the presidential election petition court (PEPC) to dismiss an application filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, seeking to have the proceeding televised. Speaking with journalists after the tribunal pre-hearing session on Wednesday, Levy Ozoukwu, counsel to Obi and LP, said INEC opposed their application for a live broadcast. “Surprisingly, INEC is objecting,” the senior lawyer said. “A public institution that is being funded by the government and representing the people is saying they don’t want the people to enjoy live streaming. What are they hiding? “INEC sees…

Thursday, 18 May 2023 04:14

PDP, LP express concern over US Secretary of State Blinken, Tinubu phone call

Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party on Wednesday expressed anger over the telephone conversation between the United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken and the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. Blinken pledged stronger ties between the US and Nigeria during a 20-minute telephone call to Tinubu, who is in France. The US Department of State spokesperson, Matthew Miller, in a statement said Blinken spoke with the president-elect on Tuesday. The development came 24 hours after the Joe Biden administration announced the imposition of visa restrictions on Nigerians who allegedly disrupted the recently concluded elections. The US said the affected persons were…

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