Five opposition political parties in Rivers State have vowed to resist any attempt to rig the March 18 governorship and State House of Assembly elections in the state. The parties at a joint press briefing in Port Harcourt on Wednesday accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of colluding with the state government to compromise […]
Iyiola Omisore, national secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has demanded payment of N500 million from Salihu Lukman, vice-chairman of the party in the north-west, over alleged libel. Omisore and Lukman are members of the national working committee (NWC) of the ruling party. On Tuesday, Lukman, while speaking during a programme on African […]
The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have withdrawn an application they filed to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission to allow their agents to participate in the process of sorting out ballot papers that were used for the February 25 presidential election. Both the PDP and Atiku, who are separately […]
Peter Obi, on Monday, commenced the inspection of election materials used for the February 25 presidential election as directed by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. The LP’s lawyers as well as their People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) counterparts met with the Independent National Electoral Commission’s lawyers in Abuja Tuesday. It […]
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State says zoning should be used to determine the leadership of the National Assembly. The governor stated this after meeting privately with President Muhammadu Buhari in his Abuja office on Tuesday. Governor Umahi who also recently got elected into the Senate to represent Ebonyi South District, told State House […]
With few days to the March 18 Governorship and House of Assembly polls, political parties and their supporters have been urged to shun violence. Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu and the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Moguno, gave the appeal on Tuesday during the Inter-Agency Consultative […]
The president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said that he has not endorsed anyone for the leadership of the National Assembly. He said this at a meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) with National Assembly members-elect held at the Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja. Scheming for […]
The Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has assured the Labour Party (LP’s) legal team of the commission’s readiness to provide all documents the party requested to prosecute its case at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT). Yakubu gave the assurance when he received the 60 lawyers legal team of the […]
The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, on Monday evening admitted that the conduct of the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly poll was not ‘perfect.’ Adamu made the statement while giving his speech at the parley of APC National Working Committee with the president-elect, Bola Tinubu; vice president-elect, Senator Kashim […]
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Monday reserved judgement on the Osun State governorship appeal filed by Governor Ademola Adeleke. The appeal filed by Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party is against a judgment of the tribunal which invalidated his election as governor of Osun State. The three-member panel of justices led […]
