The Appeal court will on Wednesday deliver ruling in the application by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) seeking leave to configure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for the governorship election. INEC in its motion dated March 4, asked the appellate court to vary the ex parte order...
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday in Abuja, assembled a team of highly qualified and experienced lawyers to represent it at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. According to a statement by Ahmad El-Marzuq, APC, National Legal Adviser, the team comprised legal luminaries with vast experience in election petition...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the Court of Appeal to vary the ex parte order made in favour of Labour Party and the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), with regards to inspection of materials used for the presidential election. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that...
Sen. Florence Ita-Giwa a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says she is convinced that the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu will address the Bakassi resettlement problem when he assume office in May 29. Ita-Giwa said this on Monday in Calabar while celebrating the victory of the president-elect. Popularly...
A former presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Moses Ayom, has appealed to Benue residents to replicate the victory recorded by the party in the Presidential and National Assembly elections on March 11. Ayom made the call while inaugurating the Independent Campaign Council...
Eight days after Nigeria held its presidential poll, the United States, has said that the exercise failed to meet the expectations of Nigerians. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the election after polling 8,794,726 votes, almost two million...
Nigeria’s much anticipated 2023 presidential election has yielded an outcome, leaving behind a thick smoke trail of disquiet and global infamy. Mr. Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has since been announced the winner of the February 25 election. At home, the emotions are unevenly mixed...
Mr Osita Okechukwu, Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubkar, for making false claims about the Feb. 25 presidential poll. Okechukwu in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said Atiku’s desperation and crass opportunism led to PDP’s defeat at...
Seven state governments controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have withdrawn the suit they filled against the federal government over the conduct and subsequent collation and announcement of the Feb. 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections. The Notice of Discontinuance signed by their lawyer, Mr. Mike Ozekhome SAN...
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 Social Democratic Party (SDP) has accepted the result of the Saturday presidential election result as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Party’s National Chairman, Shehu Gabam, stated this at a news conference on the outcome of the presidential election, in Abuja on Thursday. Gabam said...
Presidential Candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, says he will challenge Saturday’s presidential election result in Court. Abubakar, at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja, said the decision was not about himself but for the democracy of Nigeria. “The weekend election was neither free nor...
Dr Kayode Ajulo, a constitutional lawyer, has advised the Labour Party (LP) not to partner the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in seeking legal redress in the just-concluded presidential election. Ajulo said this on Thursday in Abuja during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The LP and...
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Wednesday said the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria would open a new chapter of leadership in Africa. Sanwo-Olu, in his congratulatory message, said that the nation’s democracy had recorded another major victory, following the...
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The flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu is in the lead in Nigeria’s keenly contested presidential election with official results coming in from 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. According to results presented by state collation officers for the presidential election (SCOPs)...
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...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has emerged winner of Saturday’s election in Niger by scoring 375,183 votes from the 778,668 valid votes cast in the state. The State Collation Officer for Presidential Election (SCOPE) , Prof. Clement Alawa, the Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC) Academic,...
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...