Category: POLITICAL

Governorship Elections: Anybody who wants to disrupt the system should be ready to die – Police warns

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The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has warned anybody who wants to disrupt the governorship and state assembly elections on Saturday. There is heightened tension ahead of the elections, with political parties and their supporters, fuelling fears of election-day violence. Police commands across different states have however assured Nigerians of adequate security as they troop out to […]

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INEC urge political parties to warn supports to refrain from acts of violence

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged political parties to prevail on their supporters to refrain from acts of violence during the governorship and state assembly polls. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, spoke on Tuesday during a meeting of the inter-agency consultative committee on election security. The INEC chairman thanked security agencies for the professionalism […]

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BREAKING NEWS: Rivers state Accord Party house of assembly candidate abducted

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Mr. Chukwudi Ogbonna, the Accord Party (AP) candidate for Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni state constituency for Rivers state assembly, has been abducted by gunmen. The abduction was confirmed on Tuesday by Ifeaka Nwakiri, a relative of the politician. It is understood that Ogbonna was kidnapped on Monday at Rumuigbo, near Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital. Nwakiri said the abduction […]

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Official statement from INEC as governorship and state assembly polls are postponed to March 18

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released an official statement, shifting the conduct of the governorship and houses of assembly elections from March 11 to March 18. On Wednesday, the court of appeal refused an application by Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), to restrain INEC from reconfiguring the bimodal voter […]

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Full List: Atiku enlists Ozekhome, Gadzama, 17 other SANs to challenge Tinubu’s victory in the 2023 presidential election

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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has inaugurated the legal team to challenge the outcome of the February 25 presidential election. The former vice-president of Nigeria briefed the team at his campaign headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday. He mandated them to “establish the claim of illegality in the February […]

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Nigerian Bar Association seeks exclusion of corrupt INEC staff from governorship elections

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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to exclude its corrupt staff engaged in malpractices during the Feb. 25 elections from participating in the March 11 governorship and State assemblies elections. The NBA made the call on Wednesday in Abuja in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, […]

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FULL TEXT of Tinubu’s acceptance speech: ‘Renewed hope has landed in Nigeria’

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Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, delivered an acceptance speech in the early hours of Wednesday after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared him the winner of the presidential election. Read the full speech below. My fellow Nigerians, I am profoundly humbled that you have elected me to serve as the 16th president of our beloved […]

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