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Friday, 21 July 2023 04:47

INEC complies with Supreme Court ruling, registers Youth Party

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has registered a new political party, the Youth Party (YP). National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC, Festus Okoye, said this on Thursday in Abuja in a statement. This development raised the number of registered political parties in the country to 19. INEC had on 6 February 2020 deregistered 74 political parties for poor performance in the 2019 general elections and the subsequent re-run elections across the country. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, said that in addition to the extant provision for the registration of political parties, the Fourth Alteration to the…

Thursday, 20 July 2023 03:52

Supreme Court, APC deny alleged phone conversation between Tinubu, CJN

The Supreme Court and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have denied social media posts on an alleged secret phone conversation between the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola, and President Bola Tinubu. They denied the reports in separate statements on Tuesday and Wednesday. They were reacting to a media report suggesting that the two men recently had a phone conversation focusing on how to pressurise the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja to rule in favour of Tinubu and his party, the APC. Tinubu’s victory at the 25 February presidential election is being contested by two leading opposition party…

Thursday, 20 July 2023 03:51

PDP carpets APC-led FG over ‘provocative fuel prices’, says petrol shouldn’t sell for more than N150

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the current price of a litre of petrol is “provocative” and that the product should not be sold for more than N150. On Tuesday, oil marketers increased the pump price of petrol at retail outlets to N617 per litre in Abuja and N568 in Lagos. The development elicited angry reactions from many Nigerians who held that the current price of the product will negatively impact a chunk of the country’s population. Since the announcement of the removal of petrol subsidy by President Bola Tinubu on May 29, the price of the product has continued to…

Wednesday, 19 July 2023 05:14

Fuel price increase continuation of hard times for Nigerians – LP

Labour Party (LP) on Tuesday said that the latest adjustment in the petroleum pump price is a continuation of the hard times Nigerians will be facing under the administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC). LP National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. Petroleum pump prices rose to N617 per litre at Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) outlets in Abuja on Tuesday. Across petrol outlets in different parts of Nigeria, pump prices were also adjusted upwards as Nigerians lamented the effect of the increase on the cost of living. Reacting in its statement, the…

Tuesday, 18 July 2023 04:12

PDP condemns Tinubu over president’s threats of ‘anarchy’ if election nullified by court

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of trying to intimidate the judiciary and trigger crises in the country. Tinubu had asked the election tribunal to dismiss the petition seeking to nullify his election on the grounds that he did not secure 25 percent of lawful votes cast in the federal capital territory (FCT). In a statement on Monday, Debo Ologunagba, PDP spokesperson, said the threat of a crisis and anarchy by the president is not only subversive but an affront to democratic order and an assault on the corporate existence of the nation. “It is…

Tuesday, 18 July 2023 04:10

LP to Tinubu: You’ll be removed from power and ‘nothing will happen’

Labour Party (LP) has told President Bola Tinubu that his removal from office by the court will not cause anarchy in the country. Tinubu had asked the presidential election tribunal to dismiss the petition filed by LP seeking to nullify his victory on the grounds that he did not secure 25 percent of the lawful vote cast in the federal capital territory (FCT). Tinubu, through Wole Olanipekun, his counsel, in a final written address to the tribunal against the petition, said the FCT is the 37th state for electoral purposes and any other interpretation would “lead to absurdity, chaos, anarchy…

Tuesday, 18 July 2023 04:09

APC NWC meets after ‘voluntary resignation’ of national chairman, secretary

All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended its planned national caucus and national executive committee (NEC) meetings. Abubakar Kyari, acting national chairman of the APC, spoke to reporters after an emergency gathering of the party’s national working committee (NWC) on Monday. The NWC sit-down which was held at the party’s headquarters in Abuja was called after the “resignation” of Abdullahi Adamu and Iyiola Omisore as national chairman and national secretary of the ruling party, respectively. Kyari said the change in the party’s leadership necessitated the postponement of the meetings. The acting national chairman said a new date for the meetings would…

Saturday, 15 July 2023 04:36

Tinubu’s palliative of N53 daily for one poor Nigerian can buy only ‘pure water’ - Atiku

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has described President Bola Tinubu’s plan to hand out N8,000 to 12 million households for six months as a brazen attempt to divert public funds. Special Assistant on Public Communications to Abubakar, Phrank Shaibu, made this known in a statement on Thursday. He said Tinubu’s plan to spend $800m on palliatives under an opaque arrangement was reminiscent of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s conditional cash transfer and Covid-19 intervention initiative which saw politicians keeping food items and provisions in their homes while the poor went hungry. He…

Saturday, 15 July 2023 04:34

PEPC reserves judgement in APM’s case against Tinubu

The presidential election court has reserved judgement in the petition filed by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) against the election of President Bola Tinubu. The five-member panel of the court led by Haruna Tsammani, adjourned for judgement on Friday, after all the parties adopted their final briefs. In the petition marked CA/PEPC/04/2023, the party is contending that Tinubu was improperly sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) since he nominated Kashim Shettima as his vice-presidential candidate for the election. It claims that at the time Shettima accepted to be APC’s vice-presidential candidate, he was still the party’s candidate for Borno…

Friday, 14 July 2023 04:04

Obi condemns sit-at-home in Southeast, says it’s criminal

Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party in Nigeria, has condemned the insecurity in the country’s Southeast, saying the frequent sit-at-home order in the region is criminal. “What is going on in the Southeast is essentially a criminal activity that must be nipped in the bud, with all hands being on deck, security agencies, and the people alike,” Obi tweeted on Thursday via his Twitter handle. Obi, who was making a general comment on the rising insecurity in Nigeria said it was “disturbing” that gunmen enforcing the sit-at-home order in the Southeast have continued to disrupt businesses…

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Tuesday, 11 July 2023 05:12

LP to members: Tinubu is preparing for presidential election rerun; be prepared too

National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, has charged members of the party to be prepared for a presidential rerun. He said he had been informed that President Bola Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress (APC) led government was also getting set for a rerun. Abure also urged millions of party members to be on the alert and get ready to “further humiliate” APC and its government at the polls. H said this during a virtual meeting held with Nigerian-American Coalition for Justice and Democracy led by Eddie Oparaoji, who is the LP Diaspora Chairman in the United States, on Monday.…

Thursday, 06 July 2023 04:32

PEPC: Tinubu, APC open, close defence in Obi’s petition with only one witness

President Bola Tinubu and his party, the All Progressive Congress (APC), have closed their defence in Peter Obi’s suit challenging Tinubu’s victory at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja. Obi of the Labour Party came third in the 25 February presidential election, but he is urging the court to overturn Tinubu’s victory on account of electoral fraud and non-compliance with statutory provisions in the conduct of the poll. Tinubu and the APC had on Wednesday opened their defence after Obi finished presenting his own case on 23 June, Tinubu, APC and Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC, are respondents in the…

Wednesday, 05 July 2023 04:36

INEC opens, closes defence in Peter Obi’s petition at PEPC

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday, closed its defence after calling its only witness to testify in opposition to the petition filed by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC). INEC’s lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, announced the closure of the first respondent’s case after its witness, Lawrence Bayode, a Deputy Director in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Department of the commission, finished testifying. The electoral commission similarly closed its case concerning the petition filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with Bayode also testifying as its sole witness.…

Wednesday, 05 July 2023 04:35

PEPC: Tinubu tenders US embassy’s clearance for criminal conviction, Chicago university certificate

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday presented his academic records before the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja. Tinubu tendered the academic records obtained from the Chicago State University in the United States of America to counter a suit lodged by Atiku Abubakar challenging his victory as Nigeria’s president. The electoral commission, INEC, had declared President Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the presidential election, which was held on 25 February. But Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) disputed the election outcome. Subsequently, he filed a petition before the court on 21 March, urging it to…

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