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Friday, 22 March 2019 04:51

I’ll correct lapses of my first tenure – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to correct lapses of his first tenure in his final lap in office, which begins on May 29. He gave the assurance when he received leadership of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) led by its National President, Mr Chris Isiguzo, in State House, Abuja. The president, while responding to the many issues raised by the journalists bordering on insecurity, lopsided appointments, freedom of speech among others, said that he is going to improve on what he has done in the last four years. Acording to him, “there will be a change, a positive change.” Mr…

Friday, 22 March 2019 04:49

2019 Elections: U.S. condemns vote buying, militarisation

United States government says it is disappointed by the scale of irregularities in the 2019 general elections. U.S. government said from reports it garnered from observers groups; voter intimidation, vote buying, interference by security forces, and violence marred the electoral process in parts of the country. It said this in a statement on Thursday. It, however, urged stakeholders and security services to ensure a free, fair, credible, transparent, and peaceful election process ahead of Saturday supplementary governorship election and in future elections. Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on March 12 announced supplementary governorship elections in states where it declared the…

Thursday, 21 March 2019 05:14

Mark my word, APC’s victory will be short-lived - Saraki

Senate President, Mr Bukola Saraki, has said that the victory of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the just concluded polls will be short-lived. The Senate president stated this on Wednesday at an emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja. Saraki explained that contrary to the views of many Nigerians, the outcome of the February 23 presidential election was a loss to the entire country and not just PDP. INEC had declared President Muhammadu Buhari of APC winner of the election. Mr Buhari, according to the electoral body, scored 15,191,847 votes. Mr Atiku Abubakar…

Thursday, 21 March 2019 05:13

Those manipulating elections run the risk of ending their lives in tragedy - Dogara

Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has cautioned Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against setting dangerous and evil precedence in the political history of Nigeria by declaring elections inconclusive. The speaker, addressing a PDP NEC meeting in Abuja Wednesday, also warned against craving for power at all costs just for the sake of being in power and not for impacting lives positively. Citing examples of elections recently conducted in Ghana and other African countries, he noted that it is only in Nigeria that it is a practice to declare elections inconclusive as there is nothing like that in…

Thursday, 21 March 2019 05:12

Electoral defeat has made PDP, Atiku fall into depression - APC

All Progressives Congress (APC) says Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is suffering from post-election depression over the opposition party’s claim that it won the last presidential election. The ruling party said this in a statement by its publicity secretary, Mr Lanre Issa-Onilu, on Wednesday while reacting to the claim by PDP. PDP and its presidential candidate, Mr Atiku Abubakar, in a petition filed on Monday, said it won the February 23 election with about 1.6 million votes to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari. The party claimed that the computer server of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) revealed this to it. The petition,…

Thursday, 21 March 2019 05:10

Tempers rise in Senate over military’s involvement in polls

Tempers flared on the floor of Senate, yesterday, over plans by lawmakers to investigate alleged militarisation of the general elections. In a motion sponsored by Mr Dino Melaye and seven other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators, Senate condemned the massive use of military forces in the elections. It also directed its committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to investigate all perceived inconsistent application of electoral laws by the electoral umpire in the 2019 elections. It urged President Muhammadu Buhari to give assent to the recent amendment to the Electoral Act to ensure a level playing field and adoption of…

Wednesday, 20 March 2019 05:01

INEC’s computer shows I defeated Buhari with 1.6m votes - Atiku

Some details of the petition filed on Monday by Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in the February 23 election, Mr Atiku Abubakar, to challenge the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress, emerged on Tuesday. The petition, which sought to rely on 50 sets of documents, was filed before Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja against Independent National Electoral Commission, Buhari and APC as first to the third respondents, respectively. INEC had on February 27, 2019 declared that Mr Buhari won the election with 15,191,847 votes to defeat Atiku, whom it said polled 11,262,978 votes.…

Tuesday, 19 March 2019 03:56

Atiku, PDP file petition against Buhari’s election

Nineteen days after declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as winner of February 23 presidential election by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the election, Mr Atiku Abubakar, has finally filed his petition against the victory of Mr Buhari at the poll. Atiku and his party are challenging the election of Buhari and his party, All Progressives Congress (APC), on the grounds of alleged massive rigging, malpractices and non compliance substantially with the electoral laws. In the petition filed Monday night, Atiku and PDP are praying that they be declared winner of the February 23…

Monday, 18 March 2019 04:04

Buhari to APC candidates in run-off states: I won’t cheat for you

Presidency on Sunday warned All Progressives Congress candidates in states where supplementary elections would hold on Saturday that President Muhammadu Buhari would not manipulate Independent National Electoral Commission in their favour. It also warned political leaders making inflammatory statements capable of inciting the citizenry to violence ahead of Saturday’s supplementary elections to desist from such acts immediately. It also noted that INEC was fully in charge of electoral matters in the country, not Mr Buhari, who would neither interfere with the process nor change results in favour of ruling APC. In a statement on Sunday, the Presidency said some party…

Monday, 18 March 2019 04:03

INEC’s decision on Rivers, Bauchi illegal - APC

All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed its opposition to what it called illegal decisions on Rivers and Bauchi States by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr Lanre Issa-Onilu, said in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja that the electoral process was suspended in Rivers state in a very fraudulent circumstance. Issa-Onilu, however, voiced confidence that APC would be victorious in forthcoming supplementary elections in Kano, Sokoto, Benue, Plateau, and Adamawa States. APC attacks CP Singham Wakili, says ‘he helped PDP to rig Kano guber poll’ “We are concerned and deeply troubled by the unfolding events…

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Monday, 18 March 2019 04:01

Supplementary polls: We’ll win all remaining 5 states - PDP

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said yesterday it will win all the supplementary elections scheduled for Saturday. The polls are holding in Sokoto, Kano, Adamawa, Benue and Plateau State. In statement by its spokesman, Mr Kola Ologbodiyan, PDP says the electorate will resist the alleged plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to manipulate the elections. “It is ludicrous that the APC could seek to play the victim when all material facts have established that APC militarised, perpetuated violence and unleashed mayhem in the elections so far held,” the statement said. PDP claimed that a United States (U.S.) States Department’s Bureau…

Sunday, 17 March 2019 04:43

APC, PDP strategise as supplementary polls draw near in 5 states

Two leading political parties – ruling All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party – are said to be at their wits’ end on the strategies to adopt in outwitting Independent National Electoral Commission in the supplementary polls holding in five states on Saturday. The states where elections were declared inconclusive after the governorship/state House of Assembly polls that held on March 9 were Plateau, Kano, Benue, Sokoto, and Adamawa. It was however learnt on Saturday that much as the two leading parties had mobilised resources for the political battle on Saturday, they had become apprehensive of plans by INEC to…

Sunday, 17 March 2019 04:42

INEC denying Atiku access to election materials – PDP

Peoples Democratic Party has accused leadership of Independent National Electoral Commission of disobeying the March 6, 2019 ruling of the Appeal Court, which directed it to allow the party and its presidential candidate, Mr Atiku Abubakar, to inspect documents and materials used in the February 23, 2019 presidential election. It described the action of the commission as a deliberate and wicked ploy to frustrate the plan by the party and Atiku to file their petition at the presidential election tribunal, and by so doing, ambush the case. National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement in Abuja…

Saturday, 16 March 2019 04:37

Catholic Bishops say ‘2019 elections fall short of global standards’

Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has faulted the outcome of 2019 general elections, insisting that challenges that affected the credibility of the polls were as a result of weak electoral laws which made the conduct of free and fair elections impossible. The bishops said that weakness of the Electoral Act, in some cases, created several lacunae, which evil-minded politicians exploited for their own advantage. They were unhappy that even where the rules were clear, they were never adhered to, thus making it difficult for credible process that would produce winners genuinely elected by the people. The Catholic Bishops, in…

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