Sen. Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto North) has congratulated the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu over his landslide victory at the Feb 25, presidential election. Wamakko, in a statement issued to newsmen in Sokoto on Friday by Bashar Abubakar, his Special Assistant, Media and Publicity said the victory was a sign of...
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The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says there is no law making it mandatory for INEC to transmit electoral results electronically. Mr Dele Alake, Special Adviser on Media and Communications at the PCC made the declaration in Abuja on Friday when he spoke at...
The Court of Appeal on Friday granted leave to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, to inspect documents used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the Feb. 25 Presidential election. The permission was sequel to...
A former APC Presidential aspirant, Chief Stanley Osifo, on appealed to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi to support the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, to move Nigeria forward. Abubakar and Obi, the presidential candidates of the PDP and Labour Party, respectively, had vowed to challenge the outcome of...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sokoto State has described the just- concluded presidential election as a positive sign of maturity in the Nigeria’s democracy. Alhaji Isa Sadiq-Achida, the state APC Chairman made the recommendation while addressing a news briefing in Sokoto on Thursday. Sadiq-Achida said the 2023 presidential...
It is fundamental to state at this outset that there is no presidential election yet conducted in 2023 and that this is one moment when one would wish he were not a Nigerian. INEC started the process and there was voting but the collation of the results veered off...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared the Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu, winner of the Feb. 25 Presidential election in Rivers. Prof. Charles Adias,the State Collation Officer for the Presidential election, who presented the result on Tuesday at the INEC headquarter in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu has won the presidential election in Borno State by scoring a total of 252, 282 votes. The Borno State INEC Collation- Returning Officer of 2023 Presidential and National Assembly Election, Professor Jude Tsammani...
Mr Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) on Thursday tasked Nigerians to join him in building a nation they will be proud of. Obi said this at the LP Mega Rally in Abuja urging Nigerians to hold them responsible for a better and new Nigeria. He...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) says its Presidential Candidate, Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, has neither met nor discussed with his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) opponent, Atiku Abubakar or his representatives, on any working relationship on 2023 presidential election. The spokesperson, Kwankwaso/NNPP Presidential Campaign Council, Ladipo...
Zimbabwean police on Saturday fired teargas at an opposition party gathering in Harare and arrested 25 of its members, including two members of parliament, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) said. The arrests come after a wave of politically motivated violence against opposition supporters in rural Zimbabwe, raising fears...
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has called on all Nigerians to unite their efforts in the journey of taking back the nation. “We should arise to take back our country from the cold hands of corruption, insecurity and unproductivity,” Obi said in his New...
A constitution lawyer, Mr Kayode Ajulo, says three governors from the North are willing to support the presidential bid of Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) candidate. Ajulo made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday, ahead of the...
By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI The political terrain in the country is truly tensed up and filled with a lot of intrigues. Only those strong hearted politicians will be able to wade through the political landmine and come out successful. Even the electorates are not equally taking the preparation for 2023...
The Presidency says no classified report against the All Progressives Congress (APC) Muslim-Muslim ticket in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election by the Department of State Service (DSS) has been submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that an online newspaper, Peoples Gazette, on Friday...
Former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has ruled out the possibility of the Labour Party winning the presidential election in 2023. Kwankwaso, who is contesting the election on the platform of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), made the comment during his appearance on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. Rather,...
The grandson of India’s independence leader Mahatma Gandhi has dropped out of the race to become president after his name was proposed by an alliance of opposition parties. Gopalkrishna Gandhi, 77, a diplomat turned politician said he had declined the request of the 17-party alliance to be their nominee...
Presidential aspirant, Peter Obi has congratulated former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on his emergence as the flagbearer for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming presidential election. Obi who was Atiku’s running mate in the 2019 election, took to Twitter on Sunday to share a warm message of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- A leading presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has congratulated former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on his victory at the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Tinubu in his congratulatory message on Sunday, however, said the emergence of Atiku,...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Saturday in Abuja emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for 2023 presidential election. Abubakar scored 371 votes to emerge as the party flagbearer defeating his close contender, Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers, who polled 237 votes. Sen. David Mark, the Chairman...