March 11: Senate Sends Message To INEC, Tells Chairman What To Do March 11: Senate Sends Message To INEC, Tells Chairman What To Do Owing to the breach of the constitution and Electoral Act 2022 provisions and its guidelines in the conduct of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, the Nigerian Senate has told the Independent National Electoral Commission to abide by those laws in the conduct of the March 11 governorship and state Houses of Assembly polls. The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, gave the warning at the close of Thursday’s plenary. Lawan, who also suspended…
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Presidential Results: INEC Certificate Only Credential Tinubu Ever Obtained, Says Charly Boy Presidential Results: INEC Certificate Only Credential Tinubu Ever Obtained, Says Charly Boy Charly Boy (Charles Oputa) has derided Nigeria’s President-elect Bola Tinubu in the latest trolling of the APC presidential candidate. Mr Tinubu’s academic qualifications, including his birth records, have often been a contentious issue. INEC declared Mr Tinubu the winner of the February 25 presidential election after polling 8,794,726 votes to beat his closest rivals Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the Labour Party. Messrs Abubakar and Obi, their parties and supporters…
2023 Election Results: PDP Moves Ready To Form Alliance With Peter Obi 2023 Election Results: PDP Moves Ready To Form Alliance With Peter Obi The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the just-concluded general election, Atiku Abubakar, has said they are ready to form an alliance with Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP. Atiku made this claim while speaking during a press conference on Thursday. “I don’t think we will have any problem if he (Obi) wants to dialogue with PDP — either form an alliance or not,” he said. Obi was Atiku’s running mate during…
Buhari Apologises Over Naira Redesign Policy, Tells Nigerians What To Do Buhari Apologises Over Naira Redesign Policy, Tells Nigerians What To Do Apparently disturbed by the performance of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the just concluded presidential and National Assembly election in Kaduna State, President Muhammadu Buhari, has apologised to Nigerians over the cash crunch caused by the naira redesign policy, Vanguard has reported. He also begged the people of Kaduna State to vote for the gubernatorial candidate of the APC, Senator Uba Sani. The President, who spoke in a viral video in Hausa yesterday, said the naira…
INEC Speaks On Shifting Governorship, House Of Assembly Elections INEC Speaks On Shifting Governorship, House Of Assembly Elections The Independent National Electoral Commission says the March 11 governorship and state house of assembly elections will hold as scheduled. INEC gave the assurance in a statement by its spokesman Festus Okoye, in Abuja on Thursday. The electoral umpire said all the processes and procedures leading to the elections were being finalised. “The commission held its regular weekly meeting and deliberated on several issues, including the presidential and National Assembly elections,” said INEC. “It also discussed the governorship and state assembly elections…
Peter Obi Sends Message To His supporters Over March 11 Peter Obi Sends Message To His supporters Over March 11 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi has called on all his supporters to come out en mass and vote for all candidates of the party in the forthcoming Gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections slated for Saturday, March 11. In his fourth public speech since the official results were announced, Obi said he remains absolutely undaunted and deeply committed to this project of a New Nigeria. “Please do not despair at a time when we can still achieve massive victories…
Obi Was Scared, Left PDP To Avoid Losing Presidential Primary Election, Says Atiku Obi Was Scared, Left PDP To Avoid Losing Presidential Primary Election, Says Atiku The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has said his party is open to forming an alliance with Labour Party’s Peter Obi. Atiku disclosed this while addressing journalists on Thursday. It is the first time the former Vice President will speak to the public or address a press conference after losing the 2023 presidential election. According to Atiku, Obi left the PDP because he (Obi) was scared of the governors, adding…
JUST IN: APC Chairman Fires For ‘Voting’ Atiku Information reaching Ibom Focus says that APC Chairman Fires For ‘Voting’ Atiku The Niger State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Haliru Zakari Jikantoro, has been suspended for alleged anti-party activities. In a letter dated March 2, 2023 and jointly signed by the Chairman and Secretary of Kashini Ward in Agwara Local Government Area of the state, Amadu Abdullahi Yagode and Nurudeen Abdullahi, and endorsed by the 21 officials of the party from the ward, the chairman was accused of voting the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and at the same time…
Obi Is Grandstanding, He Should Accept Hand Of Fellowship Offered By Tinubu – APC Obi Is Grandstanding, He Should Accept Hand Of Fellowship Offered By Tinubu – APC The presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, of attempting to delegitimise the mandate given to its candidate, Bola Tinubu. The APC took up Obi on the claim that he won last Saturday’s presidential election, claimed that there was no way Obi could have won, having played the most divisive religious politics in our history. The Independent National Electoral…
INEC Chairman Incompetent, Corrupt – US Professor Blasts Yakubu INEC Chairman Incompetent, Corrupt – US Professor Blasts Yakubu A United States’ Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University, Steve Hanke, has reacted to the outcome of Nigeria’s 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday February 25, 2023. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early hours of Wednesday declared Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the February 25, 2023 presidential election. The electoral umpire amid controversies over the outcome of the elections across the country, said that Tinubu, a 70-year-old former…