Some members of the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State have attributed the victory of the APC in the state to the effort of Governor Nyesom Wike. However, members of the APC PCC loyal to Tony Okocha, the former Chief of Staff to former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, have insisted that Wike is still a member of the Peoples Democratic Party. Okocha who was the State Chairman, Local Organizing Committee of the APC PCC, in a press briefing in Port Harcourt, said they are ready to reciprocate the gesture of Governor Wike in the March 11th…
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Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidates in the just-concluded National Assembly election on Thursday called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to audit and review all collated results with Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in the Lagos West and Lagos Central Senatorial Districts. Addressing a news conference in Lagos, the candidates jointly pointed out that they did not lose the elections going by the results obtained by their agents from each of their polling units in their districts as contained in INEC Form EC8A used to record votes. According to them, INEC must use the window of seven…
Former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Kingsley , has criticised the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over its conduct of the February 25 presidential election. Moghalu, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, also insisted that the INEC needs a complete overhaul. His statement was made available in a post on his verified Twitter handle on Friday. Moghalu also questioned the 28% turnout recorded for the election, insisting that it must be interrogated to know why it happened when about 87 million voters collected their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs. He said, “Without prejudice to whoever…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday said that Moscow has never engaged in playing one country against another but it is “being tried by some other outside players” in the context of so-called Indo- Pacific strategy. “We never engage in playing any country against any other country but this is, unfortunately, being tried by some other outside players in the context of so-called Indo- Pacific strategy, using Quad, not for economical purpose but trying to militarise it,” Lavrov said. It is pertinent to mention that the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, known as the Quad, is a strategic security dialogue between…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has vowed that it would not allow the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to rig again during the governorship election. On Friday, the PDP formed an alliance with nine other political parties to unseat the ruling party at the March 11 gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections. The PDP admitted only an alignment between it and other political parties could defeat the APC. The PDP is joining forces with Accord Party (AP), Allied People’s Movement (APM), Because Of Our Tomorrow (BOOT party), Action Alliance (AA), Action Democratic Party (ADP), All Peoples…
Ekene Enefe, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has given reasons why the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) didn’t transmit election results electronically during last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections. Enefe said some political parties brought in hackers from Israel and Russia to manipulate the result of the 2023 general elections. He spoke on Arise Television’s The Morning Show on Friday. Enefe said, “Each party has a situation room, they have known the results. They knew they were losing and they wanted to cling to something and what they wanted to cling on is the transmission…
The gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Kano State, Sadiq Wali has alleged that the ongoing campaign of calumny against Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau is a ploy to create friction within the party and weaken it ahead of next weekend’s gubernatorial elections. Shekarau defected to PDP from the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP in the build-up to the 2023 elections late last year. Speaking during a media parley in Kano on Thursday night, Wali said there is no iota of truth in the rumour that Shekarau is working against the PDP candidate in the March 11 governorship election…
Chief Stanley Osifo, a former APC presidential aspirant, on Friday appealed to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi to support the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to move Nigeria forward. Abubakar and Obi, the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, respectively, had vowed to challenge the outcome of the Feb. 25 presidential poll in court. Tinubu was on Wednesday declared the winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Osifo, in a statement in Lagos, said that Tinubu won the election as declared by INEC. He said: “Tinubu is willing to accommodate everyone that…
The absence of a US Ambassador to India for more than two years now is an embarrassment, a top Democratic Senator said Thursday, floating the idea of an “equally qualified” candidate if the current nominee Eric Garcetti is not able to get enough votes for a Senatorial confirmation. Garcetti, 52, a former Mayor of Los Angeles, was nominated by President Joe Biden for US Ambassador to India in July 2021. His nomination was not brought to the Senate floor for a vote as the ruling Democratic Party did not have enough support to get him through. “It is an embarrassment…
Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has explained why his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, dumped the main opposition party in the build-up to the PDP’s presidential primary election in 2022. Speaking at a press conference on the outcome of the February 25 Presidential election in Abuja on Thursday, Atiku claimed Obi left the PDP because he was afraid of the demands of the party’s governors, adding that he was in a “rush”. Atiku said, “I think Peter [Obi] was in a rush. When the campaign started, and our PDP governors sat down and said…
The president-elect, Bola Tinubu has reacted to the statement made by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi. Obi, during a press conference on Thursday, argued that he won the just concluded presidential election. In a statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs and Chief Spokesperson, Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo advised the former governor of Anambra State to stop misleading the gullible, noting that Tinubu won the election and not him. According to him: ”We make this brief statement in reaction to the Press briefing held earlier today by the defeated candidate of…
Dissatisfied with the polls of February 25, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on Thursday said it will challenge the results of the parliamentary elections in court. The party said it will approach the court to seek redress on results declared for the Senate and House of Representatives, but not the presidential election. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, the chairman of SDP, Alhaji Shehu Gabam, claimed that the party won many seats but was denied, insisting that the results would be challenged in court. Gabam however, congratulated the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was declared the winner by the…
Ahead of the March 11 governorship election, a spokesperson for the Labour Party Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Kenneth Okonkwo has charged party supporters to come out en masse to vote LP. In a statement he issued on Thursday, the famous Nollywood actor allayed fears of being attacked and killed during the election, stating that it is irresponsible to fear death. Contrary to insinuations that the governorship election may also be rigged as allegedly done during the presidential poll, Okonkwo assured the supporters of the Labour Party, known as Obidients that their votes will count. The statement reads partly: “This…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that his government plans to hold the presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14, as the country is still recovering from two devastating earthquakes that struck the country and neighbouring Syria on February 6. “The time is coming. This nation will do what is necessary on May 14. No credit will be given to those who empty talk,” Erdogan told his party members in Parliament. The resident had earlier said that the elections were to be held on May 14 in order to avoid the seasonal migrations of voters and the university exams in…
Following the emergence of Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s President-elect, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has vowed to retire from partisan politics. George said he would retire from active politics after the governorship election on March 11. Featuring on Arise News on Thursday, George lamented over the presidential election that produced Tinubu. The elder statesman accused the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu of not living up to his promises of ensuring a free and fair election. He urged Yakubu to allow the will of the people to prevail during the…
The spokesman of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, APC PCC, Festus Keyamo has said that the failure of other political parties to unite, led to their downfall at the 2023 polls. Keyamo recounted how APC merged in 2015 to kick out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party. He tweeted: “In order to kick out the ruling PDP in 2015, different parties merged to form the APC and it won; but for PDP to kick APC out of power, it fragmented into Labour Party, NNPP and PDP. “If you remove emotions for one moment, it is not difficult to see…
The gubernatorial campaign council of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano has explained why it is highly important and critical for the indigenes of the state to vote for the party in the forthcoming governorship election. The Director General of the campaign council, a former Secretary to the State Government, Rabiu Suleiman Bichi said that with the APC at the top, Kano will enjoy a working relationship with the national government if they are voted into office. “We are optimistic of victory, but nonetheless, our people should be reminded that they should work the extra mile to ensure that…
Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, said the party’s presidential candidate Bola Tinubu won the election fair and square. “Jagaban is the informed choice of the electorate. He clearly won fair and square,” his statement on Thursday reads. The politician noted that with Tinubu’s victory, the people have “renewed the tenancy of our political party in Aso Rock.” Adamu said Nigerians spoke “loud and clear” and congratulated the president-elect as well as party members and supporters “celebrating the resounding victory of our party at the polls.” The former Nasarawa governor commended Buhari for “the peaceful conduct…
Just hours before Secretary of State Antony Blinken reached New Delhi for a meeting of G-20 foreign ministers, the US sought to draw a sharp contrast between its own goals for this group of the world’s most industrialised nations and Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine. The US will engage with G-20 members and other international partners to address the humanitarian crisis emanating from the “full-scale” Russian invasion of Ukraine and will call upon the G-20 countries to hold Russia accountable for resisting UN efforts to reopen sea-routes to allow movement of grain shipments. “In contrast to Russia’s ongoing…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has been told not to put too much energy in celebrating their declaration of victory by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. According to one of the leading figures of the Obidient movement, Aisha Yesufu, there was so much evidence of electoral fraud. According to the activist, the election was rigged, but the riggers forgot that results from polling units must be provided and not what was read out by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, at the national collation centres. Recall that Senator Dino Melaye had led other parties’ collation agents on a walk-out…