Category: Politics

Proceedings relating to the leadership tursle of the PDP by the Special Panel of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, established to determine all appeals arising from the ongoing PDP leadership disputes has been adjourned indefinitely. A three-man panel of Justices, led by Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, suspended hearing on suit to await the outcome of a related case pending before the Port Harcourt Division of the Court. The panel had on November 18 adjourned indefinitely awaiting decision of the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division on the sister appeal. The Judge also…

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Ike Ekweremadu, the Deputy Senate President, has proposed a single term of six years for incumbent president and governors, just as he raised alarm that the independence of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC was dangerously drifting away. According to him, it has become imperative to go for a single term of office as that would go a long way in reducing the desperation of incumbents, which in turn defiles the electoral process and endangers democracy. Speaking Tuesday at the retreat organised by the presidential Committee in Uyo, Akwa Ibom…

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Nyesome Wike, the Rivers state Governor, has led a victory march across the state after the Independent National Electoral Commission ,INEC, declared the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, winner of the Rivers East and West Senatorial Districts in the state’s re-run elections conducted Saturday, December 10; 2016. Declaring the result for Rivers East Senatorial District , Returning Officer , Prof Onu Ekumankama announced that PDP’s Senator, George Sekibo polled 98, 098 votes to defeat Mr Andrew Uchendu of the APC who polled 34, 193 votes. For Rivers West Senatorial District ,…

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Caretaker committee Chairman of the PDP, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, has warned Sherriff not to destroy the integrity of the Judiciary. This was occasioned by outrageous comments from the Senator Ali Modu Sherriff’s faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on the internal crisis of the party, which is before the courts. Makarfi also accused Sheriff of working behind the scene to plunge the nation into a one party state under the All Progressives Congress (APC). The PDP Caretaker Committee Chairman alleged that the Sheriff faction was deliberately “raising insinuations…

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Human rights lawyer and leader of the opposition party, Nana Akufo-Addo won Ghana’s national election on Friday, tapping into an electorate fed up with a sputtering economy and ready for change. The erudite 72-year-old human rights lawyer cruised to victory winning 53.8 percent of the votes, according to the country’s election agency. “I will not let you down. I will do all in my power to live up to your hopes and expectations,” Akufo-Addo said to an ecstatic crowd at his house in the country’s capital of Accra. “I will…

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One week after he has conceded defeat, Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh said on Friday he would not recognise the results of December 1 elections and called for fresh polls. “In the same way that I accepted the results faithfully believing that the Independent Electoral Commission was independent and honest and reliable, I hereby reject the results in totality,” he said in a statement broadcast on state television. “Let me repeat: I will not accept the results based on what has happened,” he said, condemning “unacceptable errors” on the part of…

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The Gambian president-elect Adama Barrow has been congratulated by President Muhammadu Buhari on his victory in the country’s presidential election. The President also saluted the spirit of statesmanship displayed by the out-going President of the country, Alhaji Yahya Jammeh, by conceding defeat. In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, on Saturday in Abuja, Buhari noted that such uncommon gesture was crucial in calming fears of unrest in the West African nation. While expressing delight at the gallantry shown by Jammeh, President Buhari…

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The Gambian Presidential polls has been won by the opposition candidate Adama Barrow. He won the Gambian presidential polls with 263,515 votes, the electoral commission said on Friday. The commission’s chair, Alieu Njie, said he was followed by President Yahya Jammeh with 212,009 votes, Mama Kandeh, the third candidate in the running, came third with 102,969 votes. “What we see in this result is a change of government. “The incumbent will call the new president to congratulate and wish him well,” Njie said. Reports says Jammeh ruled the country for…

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Mr. Timi Frank, the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said he remains the authentic spokesman of the party. Frank who, is presently at loggerhead with the party`s leadership, stated this in a statement he issued on Thursday in Abuja. Frank was reacting to the APC Zonal Congress meeting that nominated former Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, as the party`s spokesperson to replace its former National Publicity Secretary Alhaji Lai Mohammad. He said that though he was not against Abdullahi as a person, but…

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Reports of feud between President Muhammadu Buhari and a national leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has been denied by the Presidency yesterday. The denial was contained in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, in Abuja. Shehu in the statement, added that the President and the entire APC leadership were not also at odds with Tinubu, describing such rumours as unfounded and mischievous. According to him, President Buhari is highly embarrassed by such “suggestions” and the…

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