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Friday, 07 April 2023 04:10

Ohaneze to Buhari: Hold accountable those involved in attacks on Igbos in Lagos

Council of Elders of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to hold accountable all those involved in the attack on Lagos' Igbo residents and the destruction of their properties in the state. In a communique issued after an emergency virtual meeting held on Wednesday and made available to journalists on Thursday, the Council condemned the ethnic profiling of the Igbo in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria, reminding Nigerians and authorities that these events were similar to what led to the 30-month civil war that claimed millions of lives. The Council, which had members from Nigeria, the United…

Thursday, 06 April 2023 02:56

I’m under pressure to go on exile - Peter Obi

Peter Obi, the Labour Party's presidential candidate, has refuted claims that he referred to the 2023 elections as a religious conflict. He stated that he is experiencing pressure to flee the country. Here’s the full text of his latest public statement expressed in a tweet thread last night: “I continue to thank all Nigerians, especially the youths and the Obidients, as they have remained focused on the core mission of a New Nigeria that is POssible even after the February 25, 2023 presidential election. “Before, during, and after the campaign, it is on record that I have maintained my commitment…

Thursday, 06 April 2023 02:50

Atiku Campaign spokesperson Bwala drags APC to court over N120m debt

Daniel Bwala, a spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, has initiated legal action against the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, over an alleged debt of N120 million owed to him for legal services rendered to the party. Bwala has filed a suit marked CV/2009/2023 before a Federal Capital Territory High court, requesting an order compelling the APC and its chairman to pay the debt and an additional N25 million as the cost of the suit. He also requested the court to order the defendants to pay 10 percent interest on the judgment sum until…

Wednesday, 05 April 2023 03:39

FG contradicts INEC, says failure to upload results to IReV caused by cyberattack, not technical issues

According to Nigeria's information minister, Lai Mohammed, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) purposely withheld the real-time uploading of presidential election results from polling units due to a suspected cyberattack. He stated that INEC made the decision to maintain the integrity of the data. However, his statement contradicts what INEC told Nigerians a day after the February 25th election, claiming that its failure to upload results was due to technical difficulties and not sabotage or a cyberattack. Opposition candidates challenging the election results are using INEC's inability to upload results in real-time as one of their bases for the challenge.…

Wednesday, 05 April 2023 03:37

FG accuses Peter Obi of ‘inciting insurrection’

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has accused the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, of inciting violence following the outcome of the Presidential election. The allegation was made during the minister's official engagements with international media organisations in Washington DC, USA. Mohammed criticised Obi for seeking legal recourse while at the same time urging people to take to the street. He further accused Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, of threatening Nigerians by suggesting that the election of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would spell the end of democracy in Nigeria, which…

Wednesday, 05 April 2023 03:36

Obi responds to FG’s accusation of inciting insurrection, says allegation ‘malicious, fictitious’

Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has responded to allegation by the Federal Government of Nigeria of inciting insurrection with a tweet on his verified twitter handle: “In the past few days, I have observed various campaigns of calumny directed at my person, with the latest being allegations attributed to the information Minister, Lai Mohammed from Washington DC. “It is most unfortunate that these consistent efforts to portray me quite contrary to what I am, and my core values, is coming from such high quarters. Minister Lai accusing me of stoking insurrection is totally malicious and fictitious. “I have never…

Wednesday, 05 April 2023 03:35

FG’s agency, NHRC, confirms widespread voter suppression, violence, hate speech during 2023 elections

National Human Rights Commission, an agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria, has released a report detailing incidents of voter suppression and other human rights violations during the 2023 general election. The report identifies Lagos, Rivers, Imo, Ebonyi, and Bayelsa as states where the commission documented cases of voter suppression. The report also notes 22 incidents of hate speech during the elections. The project, organised in collaboration with the United Nations Human Rights Resident in Nigeria, Ford Foundation, and the Legal Defence and Assistance Project, was initiated to tackle voter apathy. According to the Executive Secretary of NHRC, Tony Ojukwu,…

Tuesday, 04 April 2023 03:33

Interim govt: Ex-NBA president Agbakoba urges courts to conclude presidential election matters before May 29

Olisa Agbakoba, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, has called on the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal to conclude the petitions regarding the February 25 presidential election before the inauguration of a new president on May 29. Although the Independent National Electoral Commission declared All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu the winner, the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi respectively, who came in second and third, rejected the outcome and filed petitions to challenge it. In a statement released to the media on Monday, Agbakoba urged the tribunal to adopt procedures…

Tuesday, 04 April 2023 03:32

Rivers APC gov candidate Tonye Cole injured as supporters clash with PDP protesters in Port Harcourt

Clashes between supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State resulted in multiple injuries. Among the injured was the APC governorship candidate, Tonye Cole, who sustained a neck injury. Earlier, PDP members had protested outside the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office demanding a joint inspection of election materials. On Monday, APC supporters, led by Cole and state chairman Emeka Beke, also gathered at the INEC office to demand the release of certified true copies of documents used in the March 18th governorship election. When PDP protesters spotted Cole, they…

Sunday, 02 April 2023 12:20

I didn’t campaign for Obi or any other candidate - Oyedepo

During a sermon yesterday at the Living Faith Church headquarters in Ogun State, the presiding Bishop, David Oyedepo denied claims that he campaigned for the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, before the February 25, elections. This comes after an online newspaper, Peoples Gazette, released an audio recording where former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi solicited Oyedepo's support to secure votes from Christians in the Southwest for the 2023 presidential election. In the recording, Obi urged Oyedepo to use his influence to encourage Christians to vote for him. However, in response to these claims, Oyedepo stated that he had never…

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Sunday, 02 April 2023 12:11

Obi speaks on leaked audio with Oyedepo

The Labour Party (LP) campaign council has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of attempting to discredit Peter Obi, the LP's presidential candidate. The council responded to a leaked audio clip that purportedly features Obi and David Oyedepo, the founder of Winners Chapel. In the audio clip, a voice that sounds similar to Obi's can be heard asking the cleric to persuade Christians in the southwest and Kwara to vote for him in the presidential election, describing the contest as a "religious war." In a statement issued on Sunday, the LP campaign's head, Diran Onifade, and chief spokesperson, Yunusa Tanko,…

Sunday, 02 April 2023 12:08

INEC announces senior lawyers to tackle Atiku, Obi, others at Election Tribunals

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has selected a team of legal experts to defend the results of Nigeria's February 25 presidential election. Nine Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) have been appointed for the task, with former Nigerian Bar Association President Abubakar Mahmoud leading the team. Other members of the team include Stephen Adehi, Oluwakemi Pinheiro, Miannaya Essien, and Abdullahi Aliyu. In addition, four SANs from INEC’s legal department, Garba Hassan, Musa Attah, and Patricia Obi, have also been selected. The commission has allocated over N3 billion for the defense of the results of both the presidential and national assembly elections…

Friday, 31 March 2023 02:02

DSS’ alarm of Interim Govt plot fake; it’s ploy to arrest PDP, LP presidential candidates - Atiku

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged the Department of State Services (DSS) to disclose identities of those planning to instal an interim government. On Wednesday, the secret police, in a statement by its spokesman, Peter Afunaya, said it had confirmed a plot by some key players to install an interim government and stop the president-elect, Bola Tinubu from being inaugurated on May 29. The DSS said the plot includes embarking on violent protests nationwide to engineer the declaration of a state of emergency as well as securing frivolous court injunctions to stall the inauguration. But Atiku,…

Friday, 31 March 2023 02:01

Attempts to characterize OBIdient movement in ethnic, religious terms will fail - Obi

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has stressed that every attempt by his traducers to ascribe religious or ethnic colouration to the ‘Obidient’ movement would not see the light of the day. Obi, in series of tweets on his verified Twitter handle, yesterday, said there was no going back on the movement’s goal of repositioning Nigeria. He wrote: “In the life of every nation, there is a turning point. For Nigeria, that time is now; a time to save Nigeria, save our democracy, and give the Nigerian youths hope. “The OBIdient Movement has been the arrowhead in the…

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