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Wednesday, 19 April 2023 03:23

PDP’s Fintiri defeats APC’s Binani to win Adamawa governorship election

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Ahmadu Fintiri, governor of Adamawa, winner of the state governorship election. Mele Lamido, the returning officer for the election, declared Fintiri as the winner after collation of the supplementary election results. The final results showed that Aisha ‘Binani’ Dahiru, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), scored 398,788 votes, while Fintiri, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had 430,861 votes to win the poll. BACKGROUND On March 20, INEC declared the March 18 Adamawa governorship election inconclusive. The collation officer had announced that Fintiri scored 421,524 votes while Binani polled 390, 275…

Tuesday, 18 April 2023 03:29

INEC suspends Adamawa REC who announced APC candidate Binani winner of gov election

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Adamawa, to stay away from its office in the state. The directive was conveyed in a letter on Monday signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, secretary to the commission. The REC had declared Aisha ‘Binani’ Dahiru, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as winner of the Adamawa state governorship election when results from 10 LGAs had not been announced. Oriaran-Anthony in the letter, said the administrative secretary has been asked to take full charge of the office in Adamawa with immediate effect. “I hereby convey the…

Monday, 17 April 2023 03:18

Atiku to INEC: Resume collation of Adamawa gov election results immediately

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately resume collation of Adamawa governorship election. INEC had suspended the process after the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) declared the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Aisha Binani as winner of the election. Atiku in a statement by Paul Ibe, his Media Adviser, therefore called on Nigerians to the “game plan of trying to up-turn the democratic wishes of the people of Adamawa State in the governorship election in the state.” Atiku said the initial decision of the Resident Electoral Commissioner…

Monday, 17 April 2023 03:17

Dino Melaye emerges PDP governorship candidate in Kogi

Dino Melaye, a former senator, has been declared the winner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election in Kogi state. Melaye secured 313 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Idoko Ilonah, who got 124 votes. Ahmed Makarfi, former governor of Kaduna and chairman of the PDP’s electoral committee for Kogi governorship primary, announced the result on Sunday. Melaye will face Ahmed Ododo, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the governorship election scheduled to take place on November 11. Last week, Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, said Melaye does not have what it takes to be governor.…

Sunday, 16 April 2023 03:21

Killings, arson, thuggery characterise supplementary polls in Rivers, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, others

The supplementary elections held in some states on Saturday were marred by violence, with four persons killed in Kano and Kebbi states, and pockets of violence and low turnout of voters recorded in other states. Apart from the killings in the two states, the exercise in Edo, Ekiti, Adamawa, Rivers and Anambra states was characterised by voter apathy, vote-buying and late arrival of election materials. This was just as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission announced the arrest of 12 persons in Kano and Katsina states for alleged involvement in vote-buying. Three persons were feared killed when thugs invaded the…

Saturday, 15 April 2023 03:41

Tinubu resting in Europe, ‘reaching out to heads of government’ - APC

President-elect, Bola Tinubu, is currently taking a rest in Europe ahead of his inauguration on May 29, according to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Felix Morka, National Publicity Secretary of the ruling party, said this during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. According to Morka, Tinubu is doing well and will swing into action immediately he returns from Europe. Morka stated, “He is probably in Europe. He’s fine. After the elections and all of the energy expended, he just decided to take a moment of rest. “Once he returns and is inaugurated on May 29, there will be…

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…

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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,…

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