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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…

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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Friday, 03 March 2023 06:05

It’s a lie, you didn’t win presidential election, Tinubu campaign replies Peter Obi

Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the statement by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, that he won the 25 February presidential election as misleading, noting that the claim of the rigging of the poll was false. Spokesperson of the PCC, Festus Keyamo, in a statement on Thursday, said the claim by Obi is an attempt to delegitimise the mandate given to the president-elect, Bola Tinubu. Obi had during a press conference on Thursday claimed that he won the presidential election and would be challenging the outcome of the election in…

Friday, 03 March 2023 06:04

‘Many people do not believe that they have a president-elect yet’ - Ohaneze

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has faulted the declaration of Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the president-elect, saying it totally rejects the results as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. National vice president of the organization, Damian Okeke-Ogene, in a statement in Awka, on Wednesday said the organization based its stand on what he called monumental irregularities and failure of INEC to follow its guidelines in conducting the election. While urging Nigerians to remain calm, the Ohaneze leader said election involved many processes, adding that the last may not have…

Thursday, 02 March 2023 15:18

‘The good people of Nigeria have again been robbed; I’ll prove I won the election’ - Peter Obi

Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says he will prove to Nigerians that he won the presidential election. Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Wednesday, declared Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as winner of the presidential poll. Tinubu secured 8,794,726 votes while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had the second-highest figure with 6,984,52 and Obi polled 6,101,533 votes. Addressing a press conference on Thursday in Abuja, Obi said he will explore all legal avenues to recover his mandate. The LP standard bearer said the 2023 presidential election is arguably the “most…

Thursday, 02 March 2023 15:16

INEC ‘failed to follow its own guidelines in conducting last week’s elections’ - Gumi

Ahmad Gumi, an Islamic cleric, has asked opposition political parties to address grievances regarding Saturday’s presidential election through legal means instead of violence. On Wednesday, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as winner of the 2023 presidential election. Prior to the announcement of the results, the major opposition parties — Labour Party (LP), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) — called for the cancellation of the election over what they described as irregularities in the conduct of the exercise. The parties have vowed to approach the court…

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