Nasir El-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State, has come under fire from Tony Ehilebo, the head of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) digital media, for his recent remark that a presidential cabal was plotting to win the upcoming election for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Aisha Buhari, the First Lady, may have supported the assertion […]
Nigerians, especially bank customers, were baffled and uncertain about whether the Central Bank of Nigeria’s deadline for the phase-out of the old naira notes was still in effect or had been suspended as a result of the injunction that some northern governors had obtained from the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had decided on Wednesday […]
With only two weeks until the election, a new poll by Bloomberg finds that Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s nominee for president, continues to be the top choice to lead the country moving forward. On Friday, Premise Data Corporation released the survey results for Bloomberg News. Two-thirds of those polled said they planned to support […]
Senator Jim Nwobodo, a former governor of the former Anambra State, has denounced the opposition politicians in Enugu State for engaging in a campaign of slander. In response to the certificate forgery accusation against Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, gubernatorial candidate Barr. Peter Mbah, Nwobodo reportedly spoke to journalists in his Amaechi country home. Mbah is […]
On Friday, the Court of Appeal in Kano State overturned a High Court decision that had recognized Muhammad Abacha as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for governor in Kano State. However, the Appeal Court ruled that Sadiq Wali, who had previously been acknowledged by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), should continue to serve […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission has guaranteed that the Bimodal Voter Registration System cannot be manipulated with less than 16 days until the general elections. On Wednesday, Lawrence Bayode, INEC’s deputy director of information and communications technology, appeared on Channels Television’s special election program, The 2023 Verdict. Elections in the past have included violence by […]
Before the general elections, a monitoring and evaluation team will be deployed throughout the states of the federation to identify, analyze, and mitigate threats as well as conduct on-the-spot assessments of the security emplacements. According to the police, this was done to support the IGP’s efforts to ensure credible, safe, and secure general elections as […]
Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday to immediately remove Olusegun Agbaje, the REC in Lagos State, for alleged partisanship, alarmed by a potential threat to the conduct of free, fair, and credible elections on February 25. Agbaje had previously insisted on working […]
It has been made clear by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that it does not favour any one candidate or political party. The clarification follows the Commission’s endorsement of a tweet by Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate for the African Action Congress (AAC), in which Sowore referred to Peter Obi, a member of the […]
According to Chief Franklin Ekechukwu, the founder of the Atiku Diaspora Support Group based in the US, Nigeria needs a president who is well-known internationally as well as versatile and experienced in executive and business roles. In a statement released on Wednesday in Lagos and titled “Last Appeal and Submission Before the 2023 Presidential Election,” […]