POLITICS

Tuesday, 07 March 2023 06:02

Polls: Oyo LP candidates fault claim of supporting PDP, APC

The crisis rocking the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo state, has taken another dimension as all the candidates contesting for House of Assembly and the gubernatorial elections in the state, have dissociated themselves from alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC). This disclosure was made in a communique read by one of the House of Assembly candidates representing Ibadan South East Constituency 2, Ayodeji Babalola, at a press conference after a meeting held at Obi/Datti Campaign office, Oke-Ado, Ibadan, the state capital. The communique was signed by other candidates that include Kayode Adejumo-Bello, Ibadan North…

Monday, 06 March 2023 05:53

INEC says Result-viewing portal now working, will work for gov election

Independent National Electoral Commission has given assurance that its result-viewing portal that suffered glitches during the presidential and National Assembly elections is now up and running. It said the IReV portal would be deployed during the governorship and House of Assembly elections on Saturday. Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, said this in an interview with our correspondent on Sunday. INEC had received backlash from political parties, observers, individuals and various interest groups for failing to upload polling unit results to the portal prior to the collation. Some political parties and individuals had relied on the glitch to…

Monday, 06 March 2023 05:51

US carpets INEC, says presidential election failed to meet Nigerians’ expectations

The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, has said that the presidential polls of February 25 failed to meet the expectations of Nigerians. The ambassador acknowledged that many are angry and frustrated with the results, while some others are celebrating victories they believe were hard-fought and well-earned. She, however, commended Nigerians for demonstrating their dedication to democracy. Leonard, therefore, urged Independent National Electoral Commission to promptly address the challenges that can be resolved ahead of the March 11 gubernatorial elections and to undertake a broader review of the problems that transpired during the last elections and what can…

Monday, 06 March 2023 05:50

Nigerians knock Ukrainian President Zelensky after congratulating Tinubu

Some Twitter users, mostly Nigerians, trolled President of war-ravaged Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after he congratulated Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, for winning the February 25, 2023 presidential election. Zelensky in a tweet on Thursday, while congratulating Tinubu, had said his country was ready to work with Nigeria to overcome global challenges including threats to food security. “Congratulations to @officialABAT on winning the Nigerian presidential election. I look forward to close cooperation. I’m convinced that bilateral interaction will be strengthened. (Ukraine) is ready to work together to overcome global challenges, including threats to food security!” he tweeted. However, some tweeps who made…

Monday, 06 March 2023 05:50

Ex-AGF Aondoakaa, Ozekhome, said Tinubu failed to meet constitutional threshold to be declared president. This is their argument

A former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa, has maintained that before a candidate can be declared winner in a presidential election, that candidate must score 25 per cent of the votes cast in the election in 2/3 of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. This is coming as a constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (INEC), faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for going ahead to declare Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the President-elect, having not scored the required 25 per cent in the FCT. Aondoakaa,…

Sunday, 05 March 2023 06:05

Bola Tinubu is Nigeria’s most unpopular president-elect since 1999, voting data show

Nigerians have elected a new leader to assume the office of the president on May 29. Bola Tinubu, candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared winner of the presidential election Wednesday, extending the APC’s rule in Africa’s largest democracy. As he thanked his supporters, Tinubu appealed for reconciliation with his rivals, who are already demanding a cancellation of the poll which they said was marred by voter suppression and the failure of INEC to upload polling unit results from the over 176,000 polling stations to a web portal as stipulated in its guideline. In the election held…

Sunday, 05 March 2023 06:04

INEC chair Yakubu admits conduct of presidential, NASS elections fell short

Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC, has acknowledged challenges that dented last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. Chairman of the commission, Mahmood Yakubu, at a meeting with the Resident Electoral Commissioners on Saturday, acknowledged the challenges but said it would work harder to overcome them in the coming gubernatorial and States Houses of assembly elections scheduled for 11 March. The logistical challenge, which included late arrival of voting materials to polling units and failure of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machine to upload results of the election were widespread during the election last week, resulting in Nigerians questioning the credibility…

Sunday, 05 March 2023 06:03

INEC got ‘A’ in conduct of presidential, NASS elections - NBA

Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has scored the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) high in the conduct of the just concluded presidential and national assembly elections. Speaking on Channels TV on Saturday, Yakubu Maikyau, president of the NBA, said despite challenges, INEC performed well in the delivery of the elections. “I will say that the elections went well. Those who came out were happy to express their franchise,” Maikyau said. “There were challenges, definitely. There were some infractions, some of them actually constituted electoral offences but on the whole, I will score INEC as having performed maybe about 78, 80 percent…

Sunday, 05 March 2023 06:02

Don’t be excited with Nigeria’s elections just yet, US senator advises Biden administration

A US senator representing Idaho, Jim Risch has asked the Joe Biden-led government to exercise restraint in embracing the just concluded presidential elections in Nigeria. The ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a statementon Thursday said, “it is disappointing to see the administration rush to embrace the result while the full picture of what occurred during this electoral process is yet to be seen.” The ongoing electoral process in Nigeria is widely viewed as deeply flawed by election observers and many Nigerians, Risch said. On Wednesday, US Department of State spokesperson, Ned Price, congratulated Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola…

Saturday, 04 March 2023 04:34

Tribunal grants Obi, Atiku’s requests to inspect INEC’s election materials

The court of appeal has granted leave to Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), to have access to all the sensitive materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the conduct of the election held on February 25. The court also granted the same order to Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A panel of the appellate court led by Joseph Ikyegh made the orders on Friday after the court heard two separate ex parte applications filed by the two aggrieved candidates and their political parties. On Wednesday, Mahmood Yakubu, chairperson…

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Saturday, 04 March 2023 04:33

APC constitutes legal team to defend Tinubu, ‘thanks’ PDP, LP for opting to go to court

Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Friday said it had constituted a legal team to defend the mandate given to the party and the president elect, Bola Tinubu. The campaign stated this while addressing a press conference in Abuja, saying it became necessary to respond to both the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party, Peter Obi, following their separate press conferences which held on Thursday. Spokesperson of the Campaign, Festus Keyamo said he was part of the legal team of the ruling party. According to him, “As I am…

Saturday, 04 March 2023 04:32

7 PDP states withdraw case against Tinubu’s election, say suit ‘overtaken by events’

Seven state governments under the control of the Peoples Democratic Party have withdrawn their suit filed before the Supreme Court against the Federal Government challenging the results of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections. The states, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Taraba and Sokoto, discontinued the suit which had their attorneys-general as plaintiffs and the Attorney General of the Federation as the sole defendant. The states had in the originating summons marked, SC/CV/354/2023, sought an order of the apex court directing a wholistic review of all results so far announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission. They…

Friday, 03 March 2023 06:07

Chaotic vote, messy count gave Tinubu victory in Nigeria’s presidential election - The Economist

After a chaotically organised vote and messy count, Bola Tinubu, the candidate of Nigeria’s incumbent ruling party, has been declared winner of the closest presidential election in decades. Tinubu, a 70-year-old former governor of Lagos and longtime kingmaker in Nigerian politics, took 37% of the vote, the electoral commission said on March 1st. This placed him ahead of Atiku Abubakar (29%), a tycoon standing for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the main opposition, and Peter Obi (25%), a wildcard third-party candidate representing the Labour Party. Tinubu’s victory confounded most pollsters, who had put Obi well ahead in the race to…

Friday, 03 March 2023 06:06

Atiku: This is Nigeria’s worst election, I’ll challenge it in court

Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the presidential election that produced Bola Tinubu as the president-elect was marred by “unprecedented fraud”. Abubakar who addressed a press conference in Abuja on Thursday said his “heart is full of sadness” following the election that was conducted on Saturday. He said the fraud that characterised the election must be challenged. He said the “dreams and aspirations of Nigerians who braced all the challenges to go and cast their votes were shattered by the conduct of INEC which failed to live up to expectations”. “The weekend election was neither free…

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