POLITICS

Saturday, 15 April 2023 03:40

Time magazine, Reporter face backlash for naming Tinubu among 2023 most influential people

Astha Rajvanshi, a Time’s reporter, has come under fire for writing the citation of Bola Tinubu, the president-elect of Nigeria, in the 2023 issue of the magazine’s 100 most influential people. In the report, Rajvanshi described Tinubu as a “longtime political power broker”, who has had nearly two decades to prepare for the presidential election. She said the former governor of Lagos is “aware of his inheritance” in the form of a “litany of crises in a fractured nation, including deep-rooted corruption, religious insurgencies, and shortages of cash, fuel, and power in a crumbling economy”. But at the release of…

Friday, 14 April 2023 03:47

I won because Obi, Kwankwaso shared Atiku’s votes, Tinubu tells Election Tribunal

Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Bola Tinubu, says Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party could not have won the February 25 presidential poll because part of the votes he should have garnerned were taken by the candidates of Labour Party, Peter Obi, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party, who were formerly members of Atiku’s party, the PDP. Tinubu made this assertion in his preliminary objection to Atiku’s petition, seeking the nullification of the result of the February 25 presidential election. Independent National Electoral Commission had declared that Tinubu won the election with 8,794,726 votes.…

Thursday, 13 April 2023 03:22

APC asks Election Tribunal to dismiss PDP, Atiku’s petition against Tinubu on these grounds

All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday prayed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the PDP challenging the election of Bola Tinubu in the 25 February poll. APC, the 4th respondent, urged the PEPC to reject the petition in its notice of preliminary objection marked: CA/PEPC/A/05/2023. The party said that the court had no jurisdiction to adjudicate on the petitioners’ allegation predicated on ground (D) in paragraph 16 of the petition and the related paragraph 146 which lacks necessary facts or particulars as required by paragraph 4 (1)(d) of the rules of procedure…

Thursday, 13 April 2023 03:21

INEC takes on Atiku at Election Tribunal, says PDP candidate roundly defeated by Tinubu

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) that a candidate doesn’t have to secure 25 per cent votes in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja to be declared winner in a presidential election. This is as the electoral umpire has also submitted that neither the Electoral Act nor its guidelines contemplated electronic collation of results, transmission and uploading of electronic result as a condition precedent to the announcement of winner of the February 25 presidential election. It therefore said the return of Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of…

Thursday, 13 April 2023 03:19

Buhari, Yakubu lost chance to be heroes of democracy by the terrible way 2023 elections turned out - Chimamanda

Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian novelist, says many Nigerians feel cheated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the 2023 presidential election. Speaking on Tuesday on Arise Television, Adichie said as far as Nigerians are concerned, INEC lost its credibility for failing to upload results immediately as promised. “I had been assured that technology would save us and we should also talk about how difficult it was to collect PVCs and how that in itself is a form of voter disenfranchisement,” she said. “We can’t see them (results) in real time. We cannot see them as Prof. Yakubu Mahmood said.…

Thursday, 13 April 2023 03:18

TUC backs Abure as LP chair, says infighting ‘fallout of party’s success in 2023 elections’

Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has sought support for Labour Party (LP) national leadership, led by Julius Abure, urging members to be calm over the infighting. The labour centre urged supporters to back the national chairman in delivering until a convention holds to either elect a new set of officers or have the current executive returned. TUC President, Festus Osifo, in a statement, pointed out that in the past few weeks, wrangling within the party has spilled into the public space. The internal strife, the statement noted, has resulted in multiple court orders, deployment of undemocratic means to seize…

Wednesday, 12 April 2023 03:33

APC, INEC ask Presidential Election Tribunal to dismiss Obi, LP’s petition against Tinubu on these grounds

All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the emergence of Bola Tinubu as the president-elect in the 25 February election. APC, the 4th respondent, urged the PEPC to reject the petition in its notice of preliminary objection marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023 and filed at PEPC’s Secretariat, Monday night, by Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team led by Lateef Fagbemi in Abuja. The party asked the tribunal to dismiss the petition with substantial cost on…

Wednesday, 12 April 2023 03:32

APC defends Tinubu at Election Tribunal against alleged drug conviction in US

All Progressives Congress has offered more insight into the circumstances that led to its candidate in the just-concluded presidential election and President-elect, Bola Tinubu, forfeiting $460,000 to the government of the United States of America, in 1993 following a drug trafficking allegation. Tinubu, who was declared the winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission, scored a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election. Obi had challenged the announcement of Tinubu as the winner of the election,…

Wednesday, 12 April 2023 03:30

‘What would Awolowo, Azikiwe and Bello be saying about our present abysmal state in the country’, Ayo Adebanjo @ 95 laments

Leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has affirmed that the group will take its case against the outcome of the February 25 presidential election to the Supreme Court. Speaking during his address at a thanksgiving service to commemorate his 95th birthday anniversary, yesterday, at St Phillip’s Anglican Church, Ogbo Ijebu, Ogun State, the nonagenarian maintained that Nigerians should not allow their rights to be trampled upon, citing alleged electoral malpractices and brigandage during the general elections. The elder statesman stated that his advocacy and struggle for a better Nigeria were not self-centred, but aimed at liberating…

Tuesday, 11 April 2023 03:31

AA, APM and APP filed petitions at Presidential Election Tribunal against Tinubu’s election. APC asks tribunal to dismiss them on these grounds

All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss petitions filed by three opposition parties challenging the victory of its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, in the 25 February election. The APC urged the tribunal to discountenance the petitions, in three separate responses filed at PEPC’s Secretariat, Sunday night, by Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team led by Lateef Fagbemi in Abuja. The three political parties; Action Alliance (AA), Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and Action People’s Party (APP) had, in separate petitions, challenged the emergence of Tinubu as president-elect. AA, in…

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Tuesday, 11 April 2023 03:30

Peter Obi to ‘Obidients’: See the attacks on you ‘as sacrifice required to create a new Nigeria’

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party (LP), urged his supporters to view the attacks they endure as a sacrifice for the betterment of Nigeria. In a set of tweets posted on Monday, Obi expressed his sadness that his supporters, who call themselves 'Obidients', are being targeted for standing with him and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed. Despite this, the former Anambra governor remains confident that the purported scheme to discredit the "Obidient movement" will not succeed. Here’s in the tweet in full: “My Obidients, a very happy Holy Month of Easter and Ramadan to you all. As…

Tuesday, 11 April 2023 03:29

Protesters in Abuja demand sack of INEC Chair, boycott of Soyinka’s books

Members of the Free Nigeria Movement on Monday protested in Abuja over their displeasure at the outcome of the recently conducted Presidential election and the role played by the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu. The convener of the group, Moses Paul, who spoke during the protest, insisted that the conduct of the election was marred by too many irregularities and pockets of ethnic-inspired violence. Consequently, the outcome was brazenly against the will of the people. Paul, therefore, made four demands on behalf of the group among which was the immediate sack and prosecution of the INEC Chairman.…

Monday, 10 April 2023 03:29

Kukah on 2023 elections: ‘Our swagger is gone. We look like men and women returning from a funeral’

Matthew Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, says Nigerians are frustrated by the outcome of the 2023 election and also believe that justice has eluded them. In a statement on Sunday, Kukah described Nigerians as men and women returning from a funeral with forlorn looks. The cleric condemned the violence that trailed the elections, saying it cannot be accepted as the new ladder to power. “Nigerians are so collectively frustrated that it is almost impossible to convince them that they can find justice,” Kukah said. “Everywhere you turn today, Nigerians look forlorn, disconsolate, lugubrious, and despondent. Our swagger is gone. We…

Sunday, 09 April 2023 03:38

Baba-Ahmed responds to Soyinka’s challenge to a debate, tells Nobel Laureate to present Tinubu instead

The Obi-Datti media office, in a statement released on Saturday, says Datti Baba-Ahmed, the vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), will not engage in a debate with Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate, as Soyinka's offer has been rejected by Baba-Ahmed due to "cultural and political reasons," and not cowardice. Baba-Ahmed's recent comments on the presidential election results, which generated criticism and a fine for Channels TV, led to Soyinka challenging him to a debate. In response, Baba-Ahmed asked Soyinka to present his preferred presidential candidate for a one-on-one debate with him, as he is not interested in debating someone…

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