Explaining Bola Tinubu’s absence at last Sunday’s Arise TV town hall meeting for presidential candidates, the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, in a statement by its Chief Spokesman, Festus Keyamo, said: “Tinubu did not attend the Presidential Debate organised by ARISE TV on Sunday, November 6, 2022, for the following reasons: “Firstly, many radio and TV networks in Nigeria have indicated interests to host such debates and out of deference to other TV and radio stations, our candidate will not be making selective appearances in some networks, whilst ignoring others. As President of Nigeria, by the special Grace of God, he…

PDP Presidential Campaign Council has said that Tinubu and Shettima are running away from presidential debates because they are afraid of responding to probing questions from Nigerians. Spokesperson of the Atiku/Okowa PCC, Kola Ologbondiyan, said in a statement that “Tinubu has a record of avoiding debates and public interrogations following a mortal fear that Nigerians will put him to task on his alleged stinking corruption record, reported proxy treasury looting, obvious incompetence, ethnic bigotry as well as his alleged master-minding of APC’s anti-people policies that wrecked our nation in the last seven and half years. “APC presidential candidate and his…

Obi-Datti Campaign organization has threatened to steer clear of future presidential debates/town hall meetings where persons other than candidates of political parties are allowed to stand in for the presidential candidate. Director-General of the Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe said the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi will no longer show up for debates if his counterparts in other parties do not show up. Okupe, who made this known at a press conference in Abuja, yesterday, decried a situation where candidates were unequally yoked with surrogates for such very important engagements and said that Obi will back out…

Olukayode Ariwoola, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), has sworn in 307 judicial officers to preside over petitions which will arise from the 2023 general election. Pursuant to section 285(2) and (3) of the 1999 constitution and section 130 of the Electoral Act, 2022, Monica Dongban-Mensem, president of the court of appeal, has the powers to set up election tribunals. At the swearing-in ceremony on Monday, Ariwoola urged the judicial officers to conduct themselves professionally. “Your lordships should count yourselves worthy to be so entrusted with this humongous responsibility of deciding the fate of those that would be contesting elections into…