Tag: 2023 Election

Governorship Poll: Peter Obi tells ‘Obidients’ who to vote as governors

Aminu Imam

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has admonished his supporters to look out for someone whose dispositions and personality align with what the party stands for when they go to the polls on Saturday for the governorship elections. On Saturday, residents of over 20 States will troop out to elect new governors and state assembly lawmakers. Addressing his supporters dubbed Obidients on Thursday, Obi implored his teeming supporters not to vote blindly. He asked them to vote for candidates with proven character, competence, capacity and compassion. The…

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March Election: It must not be LP Peter Obi instructs Obidients

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Peter Obi has told his Obidient movement to vote for governorship candidates with character, competence, capacity, and compassion in the March 18, 2023, gubernatorial elections across Nigeria. Obi said this during an interview on a television programme yesterday, while explaining why the party did not produce governorship candidates in most of the States in the forthcoming governorship election in Nigeria. The LP presidential candidate said it does not matter if such candidates are members of the Labour Party, (LP) or not, insisting that the Obidient movement would support good candidates…

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LP acting like students that want to see exam questions beforehand – INEC

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Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has disclosed that they don’t like the fact that the Labour Party have persistent desire to be present while they’re configuring their BVAS machines for the Governorship elections that are forthcoming. It was added that Labour Party are acting like students that want to see exam questions before the exam takes place. The INECs Chief Press Secretary, Rotimi Oyekanmi, who made this disclosure., disclosed that the Independent National Electoral Commission would not allow the Labour Party participate in reconfiguring their machines because such act is…

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Inspection of Materials: Atiku demands INECs compliance with Court orders

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The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has demanded immediate compliance by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), with court order on access, inspection and examination of electoral materials. Recall that the PDP on Friday, demanded immediate resignation of the INEC Chairman, Mahmoud Yakubu. The Party also called on the Police, DSS to investigate INEC chairman for alleged electoral offences, as well as international sanctions for undermining democracy. The Partys National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunabga, stated that the Party reviewed the widely-condemned infractions, brazen violation of…

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Kaduna 2023: Hunkuyi tasks voters to end divisive politics, injustice

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The Governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Kaduna State, Senator Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi, has called on the people of Kaduna State to shun divisive politics and be careful of antics of individuals and groups of persons bent on religion and tribal sentiment in order to win election or retain power. Hunkuyi, who made this known in an interview with newsmen, reiterated his stand on inclusive government that will see him carry everybody along irrespective of age, religion, tribe and language differences if he wins the March…

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Only INEC can determine mode of collating, transmitting election results – Court rules

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A Federal High Court in Abuja has held that it is only the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that is empowered by law to determine the mode of collating and transmitting election results. The presiding judge, Justice Emeka Nwite, in a judgment, also held that it is only INEC that has the prerogative to direct how Polling Unit Presiding Officer should transfer election results, including the total number of accredited voters and results of the ballot. Justice Nwite further held that the collating and transferring election results manually in the…

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Reconfiguration of BVAS: INEC reassures Nigerians of safety of information

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reassured Nigerians of the safety of the information stored in the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, (BVAS). Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC, Festus Okoye, gave this assurance yesterday as a guest during a television programme. Okoye, while responding to the question of the likely loss of data captured by the BVAS and INEC Result Viewing Portal, (iReV) if it is reconfigured, promised Nigerians that the information inside them wouldnt in any way be lost or tempered with. Prior to…

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2023 Election Coverage: NBC vows to shut down errant broadcast stations

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The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has vowed that it would shut down broadcast stations whose activities are capable of undermining peaceful co-existence in the country. NBC spokesperson, Ekanem Antia, yesterday, said the NBC Director-General, Balarabe Ilelah spoke at a meeting with broadcast stations on the coverage of the February 25 elections. He said, The NBC is giving its last warning to broadcast stations, and will not hesitate to shut or revoke the licence of any when convinced that its activities are capable of undermining the peaceful co-existence of the country.…

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Tinubus victory wont be annulled, go to court, Presidency tells PDP, LP

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The Presidency, on Thursday, said those who were calling for the cancellation of the 2023 presidential election wanted to recreate June 12, 1993 presidential election annulled by former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd). The PDPs presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the LPs presidential candidate, Peter Obi were calling for the cancellation of the poll and sought to stop INEC from announcing the results of the poll won by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, in an issued statement, while reviewing President Muhammadu Buharis trip to Doha, Qatar,…

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2023: Issue of presidency to SEast was never on the table – Wike

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Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide said Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State claimed he was only aware of presidency rotation to the South, and that no one informed him about the south-east project to win the number one seat in 2023. Its Publicity Secretary, Dr. Alex Ogbonnia stated this yesterday, in Enugu, while giving an account of the meeting with Wike in Port Harcourt, on Thursday. Ohanaeze Ndigbo had confronted Wike at the meeting over his alleged role against Obi during the presidential election. Defending himself, the Rivers State Governor explained that…

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