By ARMSTRONG ALAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has said that former leaders of the state tried to scuttle his second term electoral victory by making him lose at the Supreme Court. He however said that his persistence which made him spend seven days in Abuja...
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Abia State Governor, Alex Otti says he will now settle down and rebuild Abia because his distractions were over with the Supreme Court affirmation of victory in the 2023 polls. Otti made the declaration at the Thanksgiving Service in his honour held at the Seventh Day Adventist Church...
The founder of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Dr Boniface Aniebonam, has congratulated Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano State on his victory at the Supreme Court on Friday, after losing at lower courts. Aniebonam, in his congratulatory statement on Saturday, said the Supreme Court’s ruling had restored Nigerians’...
The Police Command in Kano State, said it recorded zero crime associated with the outcome of the Supreme Court judgment that affirmed the victory of Gov. Abba Yusuf. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Usaini Gumel, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Kano....
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- The Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bauchi State, Bar. Rabo Shipi, has expressed satisfaction and happiness, over the affirmation of Bala Mohammed as the validly elected Governor of the State in the March 18th, 2023 gubernatorial polls, by the Supreme...
Sen. Jonah Jang, former governor of Plateau, has described the victory of Gov. Caleb Mutfwang at the Supreme Court as victory for democracy. Jang, a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said this in a statement by his Media Consultant, Clinton Garuba, issued on Friday...
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) National Secretary, Dipo Olayoku, has described the Supreme Court judgment affirming the election of Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano State as the restoration of hope for the people of the state. Olayoku in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Deputy Apex leader of Ndigbo in Lagos APC, Mr Jude Idimogu, has said Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s electoral victory at the Supreme Court on Friday is well deserved. Idimogu, a former two-term lawmaker who represented Oshodi-Isolo Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, gave the commendation...
The Joint Action for Good Governance (JAGG) and a Chieftain of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) have applauded the Supreme Court’s ruling reinstating Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano. The Supreme Court reinstated Yusuf’s election on Friday, after loosing at the lower courts. In separate interviews on Friday with the...
By AUSTINE TSENZUGHUL, Bauchi – Bauchi State Police Command has warned the general public that all forms of celebrations and rallies by political party supporters for or against winners/losers of the Gubernatorial Election Petition judgment from Supreme Court, must not infringe on the right of others. The...
The local council chairmen sacked in Oyo State by Gov. Seyi Makinde say his reaction to the Supreme Court judgment on their unpaid allowances is “a clear deception and deliberate misinformation”. The group of sacked chairmen and councilors, led by its chairman, Prince Ayodeji Abass-Aleshinloye, stated this in...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu has warned all those flouting the State Government’s directive on the settled matter of the Obong of Calabar stool not to test the patience of his administration over their unguarded utterances and other actions that could...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says he “is not going away’’, but will continue to work to deepen democracy and rule of law. Abubakar, the former Vice President, said this on Monday in Abuja at a world...
Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has sought for a review of a judgment of the Supreme Court to pay the salaries and allowances of local government chairmen and councilors he sacked upon assuming office on May 29, 2019. Makinde, in a fresh motion and notice of appeal before...
Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, the immediate past governor of Osun has congratulated his successor, Gov. Ademola Adeleke, on the Supreme Court judgment which affirmed him as the winner of July 16, 2022 governorship election. Oyetola in a statement on Wednesday in Osogbo, said:”I accept the court’s verdict which upheld Adeleke’s...
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar,, says Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) has come to stay as a legal instrument for the accreditation and transmission of election results in Nigeria. Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the February 2023 election, said this in a statement by...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has congratulated Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun over his victory at the Supreme Court. Tinubu in a statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos by spokesman, Tunde Rahman, urged the governor to move quickly to unite the state. He said...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun has applauded Tuesday’s judgment by the Supreme Court that Sen. Ademola Adeleke won the July 16, 2022 governorship election in the state. PDP’s spokesman in Osun, Mr Oladele Olabamiji, said at Osogbo on Tuesday that the Supreme Court...
Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun has described the Supreme Court’s judgment revalidated his victory at the July 16, 2022, governorship election as an affirmation of the will of the masses. Reacting to the court’s judgment, on Tuesday in Osogbo, Adeleke said that the panel of justices only revalidated the...
Stakeholders in the energy sector have expressed divergent views on the Supreme Court judgment over extension of the use of old Naira notes till Dec. 31. They expressed their different views in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos. NAN reports that the...