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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,…

Wednesday, 12 April 2023 03:30

‘What would Awolowo, Azikiwe and Bello be saying about our present abysmal state in the country’, Ayo Adebanjo @ 95 laments

Leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has affirmed that the group will take its case against the outcome of the February 25 presidential election to the Supreme Court. Speaking during his address at a thanksgiving service to commemorate his 95th birthday anniversary, yesterday, at St Phillip’s Anglican Church, Ogbo Ijebu, Ogun State, the nonagenarian maintained that Nigerians should not allow their rights to be trampled upon, citing alleged electoral malpractices and brigandage during the general elections. The elder statesman stated that his advocacy and struggle for a better Nigeria were not self-centred, but aimed at liberating…

Tuesday, 11 April 2023 03:31

AA, APM and APP filed petitions at Presidential Election Tribunal against Tinubu’s election. APC asks tribunal to dismiss them on these grounds

All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss petitions filed by three opposition parties challenging the victory of its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, in the 25 February election. The APC urged the tribunal to discountenance the petitions, in three separate responses filed at PEPC’s Secretariat, Sunday night, by Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team led by Lateef Fagbemi in Abuja. The three political parties; Action Alliance (AA), Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and Action People’s Party (APP) had, in separate petitions, challenged the emergence of Tinubu as president-elect. AA, in…

Tuesday, 11 April 2023 03:30

Peter Obi to ‘Obidients’: See the attacks on you ‘as sacrifice required to create a new Nigeria’

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party (LP), urged his supporters to view the attacks they endure as a sacrifice for the betterment of Nigeria. In a set of tweets posted on Monday, Obi expressed his sadness that his supporters, who call themselves 'Obidients', are being targeted for standing with him and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed. Despite this, the former Anambra governor remains confident that the purported scheme to discredit the "Obidient movement" will not succeed. Here’s in the tweet in full: “My Obidients, a very happy Holy Month of Easter and Ramadan to you all. As…

Tuesday, 11 April 2023 03:29

Protesters in Abuja demand sack of INEC Chair, boycott of Soyinka’s books

Members of the Free Nigeria Movement on Monday protested in Abuja over their displeasure at the outcome of the recently conducted Presidential election and the role played by the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu. The convener of the group, Moses Paul, who spoke during the protest, insisted that the conduct of the election was marred by too many irregularities and pockets of ethnic-inspired violence. Consequently, the outcome was brazenly against the will of the people. Paul, therefore, made four demands on behalf of the group among which was the immediate sack and prosecution of the INEC Chairman.…

Monday, 10 April 2023 03:29

Kukah on 2023 elections: ‘Our swagger is gone. We look like men and women returning from a funeral’

Matthew Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, says Nigerians are frustrated by the outcome of the 2023 election and also believe that justice has eluded them. In a statement on Sunday, Kukah described Nigerians as men and women returning from a funeral with forlorn looks. The cleric condemned the violence that trailed the elections, saying it cannot be accepted as the new ladder to power. “Nigerians are so collectively frustrated that it is almost impossible to convince them that they can find justice,” Kukah said. “Everywhere you turn today, Nigerians look forlorn, disconsolate, lugubrious, and despondent. Our swagger is gone. We…

Sunday, 09 April 2023 03:38

Baba-Ahmed responds to Soyinka’s challenge to a debate, tells Nobel Laureate to present Tinubu instead

The Obi-Datti media office, in a statement released on Saturday, says Datti Baba-Ahmed, the vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), will not engage in a debate with Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate, as Soyinka's offer has been rejected by Baba-Ahmed due to "cultural and political reasons," and not cowardice. Baba-Ahmed's recent comments on the presidential election results, which generated criticism and a fine for Channels TV, led to Soyinka challenging him to a debate. In response, Baba-Ahmed asked Soyinka to present his preferred presidential candidate for a one-on-one debate with him, as he is not interested in debating someone…

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Sunday, 09 April 2023 03:37

Fascism: Soyinka has reduced ‘himself to a boy for criminal politicians’ - Charly Boy

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s recent statement “Fascism on course” continues to elicit mixed reactions and criticisms, primarily by supporters of Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, the Obidients. In the article, Soyinka knocked the Obidient movement and shared his views on the Nigerian electoral process and how unsure he is about the country’s development. In the final part of his article, he subtly addressed the famous entertainer Charly Boy, whom he said he opposes even though he is an independent mind. “Before I take myself off for– well, next port of call – the final word goes to a…

Sunday, 09 April 2023 03:36

Settle your internal squabbles without involving our party, APC replies LP chair Abure

All Progressive Congress (APC) has denied allegations that it was responsible for the leadership crisis in the opposition Labour Party (LP). On Thursday, Lamidi Apapa, deputy national chairman of LP (south), declared himself in charge of the party, shortly after Julius Abure, national chairman of the LP, claimed that thugs sponsored by the APC had invaded the party's headquarters in the federal capital territory (FCT) and damaged property. However, in a statement on Saturday, Felix Morka, national publicity secretary of the APC, dismissed Abure's accusation as "unfathomable and infantile" and stated that the LP was solely responsible for its internal…

Saturday, 08 April 2023 03:33

Tinubu to Biden: Dismiss Adichie’s letter as ‘mere fiction’

Bayo Onanuga, media director for the presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has urged US President Joe Biden to disregard the letter written by Chimamanda Adichie. Adichie, a renowned Nigerian novelist, had written an open letter to Biden on Thursday, raising concerns about manipulation in the 2023 presidential election and alleging that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ignored discrepancies and irregularities in the election. Adichie also criticized the hasty announcement of Bola Tinubu of the APC as winner of the election without proper investigation. She urged Biden to uphold democracy and avoid congratulating Tinubu, stating that…

Friday, 07 April 2023 04:12

2023 elections were a ‘sickening show of shame’ - Obasanjo

During the presentation of a book authored by Tunji Olaopa in Abuja on Thursday, a former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, spoke out about his concerns regarding the outcome of the recent general election, stating that it has left the country more divided than ever before. He went on to describe the election as a "sickening show of shame" and urged the incoming administration to take steps towards fostering national reconciliation. Obasanjo emphasized the need for a common vision in order to rescue the country from its current state and prevent it from descending further into dystopia. He called for…

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