Tag: 2023 Election

Kaduna: Shehu Sani urges APC to stop intimidating opposition parties

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… Kicks, as Nigerian Police arrest PDP Campaign Director, 2 others A former Senator in the 8th Assembly, Shehu Sani, has urged the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) to stop intimidating the opposition parties. According to Senator Sani, who represented Kaduna-Central Senatorial district, the ruling party is currently attempting to use security as a means of intimidating members of the opposition because of Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly polls. He said the security agents also arrested two other youth leaders, identified as El Abbas Muhammed and Talib Muhammed. The…

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2023: Court to rule today on Obi, INEC’s BVAS case

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The Court of Appeal, Abuja has fixed today, Wednesday to consider the merit of the application the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), filed to be allowed to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, (BVAS) used for the just-concluded presidential election. Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), Peter Obi and LP, through their team of lawyers led by Onyechi Ikpeazu, (SAN), said the essence of the application was to enable them to extract data embedded in the BVAS, “which represent the actual results from Polling Units.” They equally applied to…

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2023 Kaduna Guber: “We’re in discussion” – PDP candidate, Ashiru speaks on working with LP

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Kaduna State gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Isa Mohammed Ashiru, has insisted that his Party is in discussion with the Labour Party (LP) to defeat the All Progressives Congress, (APC), during this weekend’s Governorship election. Ashiru stated this while fielding questions on a television programme, yesterday. He said the Labour Party is a force to reckon with in Kaduna, noting that the PDP is exploring the option of working with LP to gather votes that will change the present government under the leadership of the APC in…

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‘Declaration made under duress’: INEC removes Doguwa’s name from Reps-elect list amid murder allegations

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has removed the name of Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, from the list of elected House members. Doguwa’s was missing on the list of elected members released by INEC on Monday. INEC remarked on the election result of Doguwa was “declaration made under duress.” The Commission had earlier announced Doguwa, a member of the All Progressives Congress, as the winner of the February 25 election in the Doguwa/Tudun-Wada constituency. He polled 39,732 votes to defeat the candidate of the…

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2023: “Don’t involve us in your political grievances”, Police, DSS warn politicians

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The Police Command in Sokoto State and the Department of State Security (DSS) have warned politicians in the State not to involve them in their political squabbles. This is contained in an issued statement on Sunday, jointly signed by the state Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Gumel, and the State Director of DSS, Yahaya Hassan, made available to the newsmen by the Spokesman of Sokoto Police command, DSP Sanusi Abubakar. It informed members of the public, particularly residents of the state, that the security agencies have dissociated themselves from the misconstrued…

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2023 Presidential Poll: Atiku leads PDP protest, submits petition to INEC

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…“We don’t have any allegiance to any candidate’- Commission Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, yesterday led Governors elected on the platform of the Party and other leaders on a protest to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to submit a petition on the conduct of the February 25 presidential election. The party accused the electoral body of manipulating the exercise in favour of the APC. Other top party chieftains who were part of the protest include the PDP national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu,…

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NASS Election: APC retains control of N’Assembly with 57 seats in Senate, 162 in House of Reps. – INEC

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the breakdown of seats won by political parties in the National Assembly, held on Saturday, February 25. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, in his remarks during a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioner (RECs) in Abuja yesterday, said election into 423 out of 469 national legislative seats have been concluded and results declared. The electoral body said eight political parties out of the 18 recognised parties in the country produced lawmakers in the election. The parties are: the All Progressives Congress, (APC); the…

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INEC reviews presidential election, promises use of BVAS in Gov. election

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) will be used in the forthcoming governorship and State legislature elections. The Chairman of the commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, gave the assurance yesterday, during a meeting with all Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) at the INEC headquarters in Abuja. He confirmed that the BVAS machines are being worked on, to avoid a repeat of the glitches recorded during the Presidential and National Assembly elections. Speaking further, Yakubu noted that the meeting was to review performances…

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Kaduna 2023: “24hrs realignment enough to chase out APC” – NNPP Guber candidate, Hun?uyi

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The Governorship candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in Kaduna State, Senator Suleiman Othman Hun?uyi, has said that realignment within 24 hours among the opposition political parties was possible, and enough to chase out the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) government in Kaduna State at next Saturday’s election. Speaking in an interview with newsmen ahead of the governorship election, Hun?uyi however, called on the people of the State to be mindful of the danger of money politics and actions that will result into political miscarriage The governorship hopeful…

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2023: ‘Peter Obi is Nigeria’s most dangerous, divisive politician’ – Tinubu’s campaign council

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The All Progressives Congress, (APC’s Presidential Campaign Council, (APC-PCC) has described Labour Party, (LP)’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi as Nigeria’s most dangerous and divisive politician. Special adviser on Media and Communication, APC-PCC, Dele Alake, at a news conference in Abuja, said, “For Obi, he would go down as Nigeria’s most dangerous and divisive politician. He elevated his well-known clannish mentality to a most unfortunate height by openly anchoring his campaign on religion and ethnicity”. According to him, “Obi presented himself as a poster boy for and a champion of our…

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