Category: Politics

Court refuses to hear Binani’s motion, orders her to address court on jurisdiction

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A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to hear an ex-parte motion filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s candidate in the Adamawa governorship election, Sen. Aisha Dahiru-Ahmed, popularly called “Binani.”Justice Inyang Ekwo, instead, ordered the APC candidate’s counsel, Mohammed Sheriff, to address the court on issue of jurisdiction before hearing the substantive motion.Upon resumed hearing on the matter, Afeez Matomi, announced appearance for Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri, the 3rd respondent in the suit, shortly after Sheriff mentioned his name.Justice Ekwo then asked Matomi if he had been served.The lawyer…

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Alleged exclusion: INEC insists Al-Mustapha represented AA, defeated by Tinubu in presidential

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja that retired Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha was the duly sponsored presidential candidate of Action Alliance (AA) in the Feb 25 election.INEC, through its team of lawyers led by Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, insisted that though Al-Mustapha participated in the election, he was defeated, alongside16 other candidates, by Sen. Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate.The commission stated this in its reply to a petition marked: CA/PEPC/01/2023 filed by AA and Solomon-David Okanigbuan, the 1st…

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Tinubu: APC asks tribunal to dismiss Obi, LP’s petition with substantial cost

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The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, prayed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, against the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as president-elect in the Feb. 25 election.The APC, the 4th respondent, urged the PEPC to reject the petition in its notice of preliminary objection marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023 and filed at PEPC’s Secretariat, Monday night, by Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team led by Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, in Abuja.The…

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Court orders INEC to paste, transmit Saturday’s poll results electronically

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A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to electronically transmit the Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly’s election results in accordance with its regulations and guidelines.Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a judgment, also ordered the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to upload a scanned copy of the EC8A to INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) immediately after the completion of all the polling units voting and results’ procedures in Akwa Ibom.The judge further directed the commission to conspicuously paste the publication of…

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Trial of ex-Lagos A-G, Shasore, on 14-count money laundering charge stalled

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The trial in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s money laundering suit against former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, Olasupo Shasore, SAN, was on Thursday stalled.The trial of former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, Olasupo Shasore, SAN, at a Federal High Court, Abuja, has been stalled.Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is prosecuting Shasore on a 14-count money laundering charge before Justice Inyang Ekwo.EFCC had, on Nov. 4, 2022, arraigned the ex-commissioner alongside his company, Middlesex Investments Ltd. before Justice Ekwo.While the Federal Republic…

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Eha-Amufu Massacre: Vote Out PDP, NUF Tells Enugu Voters

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Alphonsus Nweze An Igbo socio-political group, the Ndigbo Unity Forum (NUF), has asked the people of Enugu State to vote out the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the State in the March 11, 2023 Governorship Election. The group which spoke through its leader, Dede Uzor A. Uzor, after their executive meeting in Enugu weekend, expressed surprise that up till this moment no single person has been arrested, detained or being prosecuted for the massacre of Eha-Amufu people in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of the State. The forum had issued a…

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Redesignation of Naira: Rights Groups Decries Sufferings of Nigerians

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The Campaign for Democracy (CD) and Human Rights Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE), have asked the Central Bank of Nigeria to ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians over the redesignation of naira. Decrying the sufferings encountered by Nigerians due to their inability to access the new currency from either the banks or POS, the groups in the statement signed by Dede Uzor A, Uzor, chairman, CD in South East and Executive Director (HURIDE), asked the CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, to reduce the sufferings of Nigerians by making the…

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Hand Over To People’s Choice, Cleric Tells Buhari

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A cleric, Evangelist (Dr.) Chris Ikechukwu, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to hand over the reins of power in 2023 to a popularly elected presidential candidate. Dr. Ikechukwu who is the General Overseer of God’s Grace Evangelistic Ministry in a statement made available to newsmen during the weekend in Onitsha, Anambra State, warned that bad eggs among Nigerian political class should not be allowed to hijack the 2023 presidential election. “All those corrupt politicians should be flushed out so that our country can be like other civilised countries of…

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2023 poll: Court dismisses PDP’s suit seeking disqualification of Tinubu, Shettima

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A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’ suit seeking the disqualification of Sen. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), and his vice, Mr Kassim Shettima, for the 2023 general elections.Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo, dismissed the suit on the ground that the PDP lacked locus standi to institute the suit.Justice Ekwo, who held that the case was caught by the principle of issue estoppel, described the suit as an abuse of court process.The PDP, in its originating summons marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1734/2022,…

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Nigerians who fled Country’ll Return If Elected As President – Obi

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Alphonsus Nweze The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has said that if elected the president of Nigeria those Nigerians who escaped abroad because of hardship would return back because he would have made every part of Nigeria to work. Obi who spoke at All Saints Cathedral Field, Onitsha in Anambra State on Tuesday in continuation of his presidential campaigns said that every part of Nigeria would be involved in food production, so that the country would have enough to eat and export. He lamented that in Nigeria…

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