Category: Politics

The Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate for the Ekiti State governorship poll, Kolapo Olusola-Eleka’s appeal challenging  the declaration of Kayode Fayemi of the  All Progressives Congress as the winner of the election has been dismissed by the Supreme Court on Friday. Confirming  Fayemi’s election, the five-man Supreme Court  panel  led by acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad,  unanimously held that the appeal challenging the outcome of the polls lacked merit. Justice John Okoro, who read the lead judgment, affirmed the judgments of both the Ekiti State Election Petitions Tribunal and Abuja…

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Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna State Governor, has said he owes no apologies to anyone regarding his last week’s advice to Lagos residents to discountenance godfathers in the state’s politics, because he knows none of them. Governor El-Rufai, however, did not mention any names, but media pundits view his comment as an attack on former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, who has a strong influence on Lagos State politics. Addressing State House Correspondents after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, the governor maintained…

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One of the political parties that participated in the 2019 election, African Action Congress (AAC) said it has suspended its national chairman and presidential candidate, Mr. Omoyele Sowore. A member of the party’s National Executive Committee, Mazi Okwy, who read the resolution of the party at a press briefing, said the party’s decision against Sowore, Publisher of Saharareporters; and his executive bordered particularly on the inflow of illegal foreign funds into the party, which the suspended officials personally retained in contravention of Section 225 (3)(4) of the 1999 Constitution (as…

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The Appeal court in Abuja has nullified the judgment of the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which had declared the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, as the winner of the September 2018 poll. In a dissenting judgment of four-to-one, the five-man panel led by Justice Jummai Sankey, the Court of Appeal upheld the appeal filed by Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State challenging the verdict of the tribunal and affirmed him as duly elected. Delivering the lead majority judgment of the four members of the…

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Rochas Okorocha, the outgoing Governor of Imo State, on Tuesday lamented that he had been afflicted with more evils in the ruling All Progressives Congress than he would have suffered if he had been a member of the Peoples Democratic Party. He regretted that the APC had inflicted what he called the greatest devilish political machinations against his person 10 times more than what he would have been inflicted with if he were to be a member of the PDP. The embattled governor who spoke in Abuja however said he…

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Senator Ademola Adeleke has been arraigned by police on Tuesday before a Magistrate’s Court in Mpape, Abuja, on charges of forgery. Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in the last governorship election in Osun State, was accused in the fresh five counts of forging academic qualification documents including a letter of attestation and the West African School Certificate from Muslim Grammar School, Ede, Osun State. The police alleged that the senator submitted the forged documents to the Independent National Electoral Commission as the PDP’s candidate in the 2017 Osun West…

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In response to the budget padding allegation leveled against the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Saraki has requested for proof that he has padded the national  budgets since 2015. Former Lagos State governor Tinubu in a statement on Sunday accused Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, of padding national budget since they came to power. “National budgets were delayed and distorted as these actors repeatedly sought to pad budgets with pet projects that would profit them,” Tinubu claimed  in the…

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The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, have been accused by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, of allegedly hijacking and padding national budgets for the four years that the party had been in power. He claimed that the two presiding officers of the National Assembly always padded the budgets with pet projects that profited them while they cut funds appropriated to projects that would have benefited Nigerians. Tinubu made the allegations in a statement…

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Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State on Wednesday in Abakaliki, the state capital, declared that 95 per cent of states in the country cannot pay the proposed N30, 000 minimum wage to workers. Mr Umahi, who is the Chairman of the South East Governors Forum, said this while inaugurating a 36-member fact-finding committee to ascertain the mode of workers’ promotion arrears payment in states across the six geo-political zones of the states. According to Mr Umahi, the payment of the N30, 000 can only be realised if the federation account…

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