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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 […]
Continue ReadingFormer 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 […]
Continue ReadingIn 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) […]
Continue ReadingNational 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. […]
Continue ReadingPresident 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 […]
Continue ReadingPresidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja, Nigeria has admitted certified copies of Academic and work records of President Bola Tinubu tendered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The documents include a B.Sc certificate from the Chicago State University, NYSC Discharge Certificate, and Mobil Nigeria Oil Plc certificate of […]
Continue ReadingMarking the 2023 June 12 Democracy Day, the former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says democracy in Nigeria remains in bondage and it will need the energy of all Nigerians to rescue it. In a statement he released, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25, 2023 election said governing elite must […]
Continue ReadingAsiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has walked into a minefield with which he is very familiar. He had his own mines in the field, of course. They had been well laid out for over two decades, and with verifiable results. Many of his former opponents are either flat on their backs, are nursing injuries, or are […]
Continue ReadingChairman of PDP in FCT, Mohammed Babaji Madaki, witness of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has testified that both the party’s candidate and President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are not qualified to be declared as president for not scoring 25 percent in the Federal Capital Territory […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Tuesday gave the pre-hearing report and also presented the trial schedule on the ongoing petition challenging the outcome of the 2023 presidential election. Chairman of the five-man panel of the court, Justice Haruna Tsammani, read the pre-hearing report, which included the declaration of the court’s decision to consolidate […]
Continue ReadingAs 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, […]
Continue ReadingThere 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 […]
Continue ReadingPresidential 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 […]
Continue ReadingBitter, sweet and curious creature, the honeybee. When the honeybee stings, its abdomen tears up, its mouth opens and closes, hitting the ground in a final kiss of death. That is the fate of the honeybee and its stinger – a weapon it uses for protection and the harbinger of its ultimate death. Hey, the […]
Continue ReadingWhen 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 […]
Continue ReadingI had the privilege of a long conversation with the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, last Saturday morning. I was in the house of a mutual friend when Obi dropped by. For almost two hours he shared interesting insights into why he believes he won the election. But what I enjoyed most […]
Continue ReadingChieftains 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 […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’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 […]
Continue ReadingPresidential 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 […]
Continue ReadingLabour 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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