Atiku, Wike meet at PDP National Caucus meeting (Photos)

Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, attended the PDP’s national caucus meeting in Abuja on Wednesday evening, April 17. The meeting comes prior to the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, scheduled to take place […]

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Atiku’s Rallying Call to the Opposition, By Simon Kolawole

As I was saying, the 2023 presidential election was won and lost fundamentally because of the fractured opposition, even though you are free to add one million other reasons to that. Confronting a monster like the All Progressives Congress (APC) was already an uphill battle for a united Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the biggest opposition […]

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Atiku holds press conference on Supreme court’s verdict on his election petition appeal (Full text)

Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate in Nigeria’s February 25, 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, addressed a press conference in Abuja on Monday over the Supreme Court’s verdict to dismiss his appeal for lacking in merit and affirmed the victory of President Bola Tinubu. Below is the full text of his speech: Someone asked me what […]

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Nigerian Supreme Court dismisses Atiku, Obi’s appeals against Tinubu

Nigerian Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the presidential election petition tribunal (PEPT) on Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi’s appeals. All other panel members agreed with the lead judgment delivered by John Okoro, dismissing Atiku Abubakar’s appeal and challenging the judgment of the presidential petition tribunal. The six of them also agreed with Okoro […]

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Supreme Court fixes date for judgment in Atiku, Obi’s appeals against Tinubu

Nigerian Supreme Court has fixed Thursday for the judgment in the appeals filed by the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi against President Bola Tinubu. Atiku and Obi are praying the Supreme court to set aside the judgment by the presidential election petition tribunal […]

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Nigerian Supreme Court reserves judgment in Atiku, Obi’s appeals against Tinubu

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, seeking to dismiss and set aside the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) ruling. The court similarly reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter […]

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You are a serial forger and liar, the world knows ―Atiku hits back at Tinubu

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria’s February 25 general election, Atiku Abubakar has described President Bola Tinubu as a serial forger and liar. The ex-Nigerian Vice President, in a statement signed on Sunday, by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, said the world knows President Tinubu as a forger-in-chief on account of […]

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Why my WAEC certificate bears a different name ―Atiku responds to forgery allegation

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has explained the discrepancy in the name in his Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) certificate. Atiku offered the clarification on Tuesday through one of his aides, the CEO of Ovation magazine, Mr. Dele Momodu, in a post on his social media platform, X. According to […]

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The Chicago Bullfight between Atiku and Tinubu, By Simon Kolawole

May I, at this point, humbly retract certain claims I made in my article, ‘Tinubu and Atiku: Birds of a Feather’ (THISDAY, June 12, 2022), months before the 2023 presidential election. In it, I claimed that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar “are friends, associates and two peas in a pod”. I traced […]

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Atiku submits Tinubu’s Chicago University record to Supreme court

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has filed new documents against President Bola Tinubu before the Supreme Court in which he accused the President of forgery and lying under oath, and should therefore be disqualified and removed from office. Evidence filed by the former vice president, according […]

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Atiku holds press conference over Chicago State University’s released documents and deposition on Tinubu

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), presidential candidate in the 2023 general election in Nigeria, Mr. Atiku Abubakar, held a world press conference on Thursday, October 5. Atiku said that there were discrepancies in the Chicago State University (CSU) certificate that President Bola Tinubu submitted to INEC and the other documents discovered at CSU which should have […]

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Chicago State University releases Tinubu’s academic records to Atiku (Full records)

Chicago State University (CSU), has released the school documents of President Bola Tinubu to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. Atiku obtained victory at the court in his fierce legal battle to probe into the academic qualification of Tinubu in the February 25 presidential poll. Tinubu had supplied certificates from […]

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Atiku versus Tinubu and Nigeria at 63, By Lasisi Olagunju

Where witches contend and exchange punches, mere men do not stand by to watch. But part of the job of a journalist is to see and report; sometimes he runs commentaries on bouts – not minding if the pugilists are gods or principalities. There is an ongoing offshore Bola Tinubu versus Atiku Abubakar rumble-in-the-jungle, a […]

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Atiku files reply to Tinubu’s review application at Chicago court

Legal team of Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, has filed a motion to challenge President Bola Tinubu’s plea for Chicago State University not to release privileged documents in his academic records. The Special Adviser to Atiku on Public Communications, Phrank Shaibu, disclosed to newsmen that the legal team had up to […]

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Forgive Tinubu, discontinue your case in Chicago to save Nigeria from shame ―APC youth leader begs Atiku

A youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hyde Kalu has asked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar to drop his case pursuing the validity of President Bola Tinubu’s educational qualifications in the United States. The APC youth leader in Abia State said […]

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Atiku files 35 grounds of appeal against election tribunal’s judgment

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has filed 35 grounds of appeal at the Supreme Court, seeking nullification of the judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) delivered on the 6th of September, which upheld the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 election. In the notice […]

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Wike calls for suspension of Atiku and Tambuwal from PDP

Former Rivers State Governor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike has called for the suspension of Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and former Governor of Sokoto state, Aminu Tambuwal from the party. In an interview on Channels Television on Thursday, September 7, Wike claimed that PDP lost the […]

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PEPC fixes date for judgment in Obi, Atiku’s election petition

In a statement, the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), sitting at the Court of Appeal premises in Abuja, Nigeria, has announced Wednesday, September 6, 2023 date to deliver judgment in the petitions filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi; the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) […]

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Labour Party, Obi deny planned merger with Atiku, Kwankwaso

National Secretary of the Labour Party (LP), Umar Farouk, and Tai Obasi, media aide to the LP flag bearer, Mr. Peter Obi have denied knowledge of any ongoing merger arrangement with the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and his counterpart in the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso. […]

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Tinubu’s final written address in Obi, Atiku’s election petitions

President Bola Tinubu has warned the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), that misinterpreting the law as provided for in the constitution on the 25% of lawful votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, could “lead to absurdity, chaos, anarchy and alteration of the very intention of the legislature.” Tinubu also told the PEPC […]

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