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Know the 5 justices sitting on Atiku, Obi’s presidential election petitions against Tinubu (Photos)

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As the hearings of presidential election petitions started on Monday, DEBORAH TOLU-KOLAWOLE examines the profiles of five justices who are members of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal The Presidential Election Petition Court on Monday began hearing the election petitions filed by five candidates in the last presidential poll. The candidates are challenging the victory of the President-elect, […]

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Why is Nobody Talking about Atiku?, By Simon Kolawole

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There are endless peculiarities, I must here admit, about the 2023 presidential election, the least not being the outing of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). With the post-election brouhaha and hullaballoo, a cursory observer would be forgiven for thinking the February 25 poll was a two-way contest between Asiwaju […]

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Atiku heads to election tribunal, challenges Tinubu’s victory

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Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has also approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to contest the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as President-elect. This came hours after the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, approached same tribunal to challenge Tinubu’s victory. A […]

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Tinubu, Atiku and political obituary (I), By Tunde Odesola

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When cornered by death or stalked by danger, an insect called the Malaysian Exploding Ant turns against its assailant, ruptures its abdominal muscles, causing its poisonous glands to explode. With the explosion of the poisonous glands, the ant releases an irritating substance in all directions. The released secretion is capable of immobilising or entangling the […]

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Atiku leads other PDP chieftains, members in protest to INEC headquarters (Photos)

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Chieftains and members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) wearing black clothes staged a protest in Abuja over the outcome of the February 25, 2023 presidential election. The protesting PDP members were led by the party’s presidential candidate in the last election, Atiku Abubakar, the party’s chairman Iyiocha Ayu, Sokoto state governor Aminu Tambuwal and […]

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INEC approaches election Tribunal to vary inspection order granted Atiku, Obi

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Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged the Presidential Election Petition Court to vary the orders that were granted to the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi respectively, to inspect materials used for the last presidential election. INEC, in a motion on notice filed on March […]

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Atiku insists he won, ready for legal fireworks

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Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, vowed to challenge the victory of All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, in last Saturday’s presidential election. Addressing newsmen at a press conference in Abuja, Atiku described the election that produced Tinubu as president-elect as a “rape of democracy”. “This battle to […]

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Obi defeats Tinubu, Atiku at Presidential Villa

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Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Saturday, defeated the presidential candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and that of the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, at the Presidential Villa, Asokoro, Abuja. Obi won the highest total number of votes cast for the presidential candidates at all […]

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Atiku sent former Heads of State to beg Kwankwaso to step down ―Buba Galadima

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A chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, keeps sending prominent people to Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, the NNPP presidential candidate, to quit the race and support him. This was disclosed by Galadima during an interview aired on Trust TV’s Daily […]

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Atiku/Tinubu: Please, Grow Up!, By Olusegun Adeniyi

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Street wisdom dictates that those in glass houses don’t walk naked. This seems lost on Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate and the flagbearer of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have allowed their media managers to trade damaging allegations that question their own character and […]

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Tinubu vs Atiku’s òjóró cancel òjóró, By Abimbola Adelakun

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In one of those moments of comic relief only Nigeria can throw up, the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign demanded that anti-corruption agencies arrest their opponent, the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over allegations of corruption by his former aide. In an electoral season, it is not unusual for party spokespersons to feign […]

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PDP G-5 govs did not endorse Atiku ―Ortom’s Media aide

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In a statement released on Tuesday, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Terver Akase, has debunked reports which claimed that the G-5 governors has endorsed the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, in the 2023 elections. An online report claimed that the PDP G5 Governors […]

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Obasanjo formally endorses Peter Obi for president, rejects Tinubu, Atiku (Full open letter)

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In an open letter released on Sunday, the former Nigerian president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has formally endorsed Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), as his preferred choice for president in next month’s general election. In the open letter to young Nigerians, Chief Obasanjo gave his formal endorsement of Mr. Peter […]

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Forecast of What Atiku, Tinubu, or Obi Govts Might Be, By Farooq A. Kperogi

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If the general election holds in February next year, one of three people will be declared president: APC’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu, PDP’s Atiku Abubakar, or Labor Party’s Peter Obi. Only a natural disaster, such as death, can change that reality. There is no foretoken of indications at the moment that can reveal with certainty which […]

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Peter Obi, Atiku, Kwankwaso and 2023, By Olusegun Adeniyi

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The editorial board of THISDAY newspaper on Monday hosted the flagbearer of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi in continuation of our presidential dialogue series. After the session, we all came out for group photograph, just as we did when we hosted the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) presidential candidate, Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso in […]

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Atiku, Obi Split “Owners of Nigeria”, By Farooq A. Kperogi

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Ovation publisher Chief Dele Momodu popularized the expression “owners of Nigeria” to denote a coterie of power brokers and traffickers of influence who habitually sit in conclave to teleguide the choice of political leaders, particularly presidents, and to whom everyday Nigerians are helpless political captives. Although they peddle influence and engage in elitist exclusion, “owners […]

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2023: It’s Tinubu or Atiku, not Obi, By Tunde Odesola

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Broken in every bone, life hangs by the thread for 62-year-old comatose patient, Nigeria, inside the intensive care unit of the decrepit Ass-o-Rock hospital, Abuja, where it nurses diseased kidneys, liver cirrhosis and an enlarged heart while the Chief Physician, Dr M. Buhari, stands by with a shroud, clutching a book entitled, ‘From national hero […]

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Supporters of Atiku, Obi, Tinubu take ‘fight’ to New York, US

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The three leading presidential candidates in the 25th February 2023 Nigerian presidential election, Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, took their campaign ‘fight’ to Nigerians in the United States. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the support groups for Messrs Abubakar, Obi and Tinubu converged on New York at the Nigeria […]

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