Elections
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted the claim by Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, that the Supreme Court judgment on the 2023 presidential election was doctored in favour of President Bola Tinubu. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, in a statement in Abuja, said court cases are not won…
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Pakistani President Arif Alvi said that general elections in the South Asian country “seem difficult” to be held in January next year. During an interview late Wednesday with a local news channel, Alvi called for free and fair elections. “I don’t believe the elections (will take place in the last week of January). I think…
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Abia State election petition tribunal sitting in Umuahia has dismissed three grounds of prayers brought by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Okey Ahaiwe against Governor Alex Otti. The tribunal which delivered the Judgement at about 1:20 pm, dismissed Ahaiwe’s case for lack of merit. Ahaiwe had challenged the declaration of Otti as…
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In this piece, John Alechenu takes a cursory look at PDP’s rise to power, downfall and current struggle to return to winning ways after losing power in 2015. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which came into existence as a political entity on August 31st, 1998, celebrated its silver jubilee without fanfare on August 31st, 2023. Observers…
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As liberal media blares headlines about the use of the 14th Amendment to bar a president from running in an election, former President Donald Trump struck back at President Joe Biden’s abuse of power and “election interference.” “The Fake Indictments and lawsuits against me, 8 of them all come out of the Biden Campaign for…
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Thai voters began heading to the polling stations on Sunday morning in the Southeast Asian country’s general election. The polls started at 8:00 a.m. (0100 GMT) and will continue until 5:00 p.m. local time (1000 GMT) on Sunday. More than 52 million Thai citizens are eligible to vote in the election. Under the two-ballot system…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday issued a public apology via its Twitter handle for unintentionally liking a post criticizing one of the 18 presidential candidates. Earlier in the day, INEC liked a Premium Times report written by Afrobeat maestro Seun Kuti, in which he dismissed Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has relocated the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to the nation’s 8,809 registration areas/wards. The commission had set December 12, 2022 to January 22, 2023 as the collection dates for PVCs in all 774 LGAs. INEC stated at the time that PVC collection would be devolved to the 8,809 registration…
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A few days after the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was set ablaze by unknown gunmen in IMO State, another facility belonging to the commission has been burnt down. The development was disclosed on Sunday by the National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye. In a statement, Okoye…
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The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has vowed that those ganging up against him in the battle to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming election would be defeated. Atiku, who spoke through the Spokesperson, PDP Presidential Campaign Management Committee, Dino Melaye, also accused the presidential flagbearer of the All…
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Prophet Elijah Success Igweze, the general overseer and lead pastor of Greater Promise Land Covenant Ministry, has asked Nigerian electorates to vote wisely. Igweze made the call during this year’s annual programme tagged, ‘Altar Versus Altar’. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced September 28 as a flag-off date for the electioneering campaign ahead…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has said its portal for recruitment of ad-hoc staff for the 2023 general elections would be opened from September 14. The commission disclosed this in a letter signed by A.T Yusuf, for the INEC Secretary, on Wednesday. Yusuf said the portal would be closed on December 14, 2022 by 8:00pm.…
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Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, a Nigerian economist and politician was officially unveiled as the running mate of Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in the 2023 general election on Friday, July 8, 2022. Here are some things to know about Datti Baba-Ahmed. Baba-Ahmed was born on July 7 1969 in Zaria to a large family comprising 33…
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As the people of Osun elect a new governor for the next four years, there is a heavy deployment of security operatives in major towns of the state. Not less than 1,955,657 registered voters are expected to exercise their franchise across the 3,763 polling units. Meanwhile, residents have vowed to collect greedy politicians’ money and…
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The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has alleged that Nigeria is rapidly descending into strife, violence and lawlessness. The pan Northern organisation said the descent was getting to a point at which it could no longer afford to tell the President only that which he wanted to hear. ACF said the vast amount of money and other…
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Amnesty International said Thursday it has independently confirmed that powerful spyware from the Israeli surveillance software maker NSO Group was used to hack a Polish senator multiple times in 2019 when he was running the opposition’s parliamentary election campaign. The Associated Press reported last month that Citizen Lab, an internet watchdog group at the University of Toronto,…
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