The United States has condemned voter intimidation and increased violence that marred Saturday’s governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections in Nigeria. The rescheduled governorship and Houses of Assembly elections was held in 28 states of the federation, with incidences of violence and voter intimidation. The US Embassy in a
President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has expressed hurt over cases of ethnic slurs which overshadowed the 2023 general elections. He stated that such were capable of creating needless mis-characterisation reported in some locations. Tinubu, speaking via a signed statement on Tuesday titled, “Elections are over: Healing process must begin,’’ added he
Four presidential candidates on Tuesday approached the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja with separate petitions, seeking the nullification of the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as winner of the February 25 presidential poll. The petitioners, seeking nullification of Tinubu’s emergence as President-elect as Atiku Abubakar
A former governor of Ekiti State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ayodele Fayose, has vowed that he will never join the ruling All Progressives Congress. Fayose who spoke on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ on Tuesday night, said, “Many people in Nigeria have been confronted with what they
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has stated the Senate will investigate the 19 Constitution Alteration Bills rejected by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Lawan made this known during plenary on Tuesday. The National Assembly had in January transmitted 35 Constitutional Alteration bills to the President for assent. But
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said the parliament will revisit laws on the prosecution of electoral offenders as well as those that will encourage more women participation in politics and governance. Gbajabiamila made this known in his opening address at the plenary on Tuesday, as
The Edo chapter of the Labour Party on Tuesday frowned on the declaration that Saturday’s House of Assemby election in the state was inconclusive in areas it identified as its strongholds. The LP also alleged that officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission were compromised in the election. Addressing newsmen
The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to challenge the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the February 25th presidential elections. The filing which was confirmed by Tuesday evening is marked CA/PEPC/05/2023 and
A civil society organisation, Connected Development, says it recorded 30 incidents of ballot box hijacking and 50 cases of vote-buying during the just concluded governorship polls across the country. The Chief Executive Officer of the organisation, Hamzat Lawal, revealed the statistics during a post-election briefing in Abuja, on Tuesday. According
…APC wins 23 seats, PDP secures one Five women have been elected into the Kwara State House of Assembly and will partake in the 10th legislative session of the Assembly which will be inaugurated in June this year. The women who got elected during the last Saturday’s House of Assembly