Nine senators decamp to ADC

Nine Senators from different political parties on Thursday, on the floor of the Nigerian Senate, formally announced their defection to the African Democratic Congress (ADC). The Senators who defected to the ADC are Aminu Tambuwal, representing Sokoto South; Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South); Binos Yaroe (Adamawa South); Victor Umeh (Anambra Central); Tony Nwoye (Anambra North); Lawal […]

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Senate didn’t reject e-transmission of results ―Senator Abaribe says (Video)

Nigeria’s Senate Minority Caucus on Thursday clarified that the Senate did not reject the electronic transmission of election results before passing the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, contrary to widespread media reports. Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, in company of Senator Aminu Tambuwal, Senator Ireti Kingibe and some other Senators made the clarification to set the record straight. […]

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Joe Igbokwe attacks Abaribe for wearing ‘dot nation’ t-shirt, calls him ‘ethnic bigot and elder for nothing’

Joe Igbokwe, former spokesperson of Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Special Adviser for Drainage & Water Resources to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has attacked Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe for wearing a ‘dot nation’ t-shirt. This platform reported earlier that the controversial ‘Dot nation’ phrase became popular following President Muhammadu Buhari’s […]

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Nigerian Bar Association, judiciary disappointed Onnoghen —Abaribe

Nigeria’s Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinaya Abaribe, knocked the Nigerian Bar Association on Tuesday for “failing to speak up” when President Muhammadu Buhari suspended former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. Abaribe stated that the Senate waited in vain for the NBA and the judiciary to act in order to save the situation, because […]

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