Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has called into question the credibility of last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections, accusing security personnel, electoral staff, and state governors of undermining the process. “I’ve not been impressed by the very disappointing outing on the part of the Independent National Electoral Commission,” Falana said during an exclusive interview “Nigerians’ had been assured they were going to have a credible election – a peaceful election – whereby votes would count. Regrettably, there was a free rein of thuggery; thugs took over in many places. “There was a compromise on the part of the security…
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has appealed to the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu to save the country from impending danger by rectifying the errors in the recent elections. Obasanjo’s request was contained in a statement he personally signed on Monday. Nigeria held the presidential and National Assembly polls last Saturday where over 80 million Nigerians cast their votes. Two days after what many described as historic presidential and National Assembly polls, results are now pouring in from several parts of the country. “Let me appeal to the Chairman of INEC, if his hands are clean,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has ended the collation of results for the 2023 presidential election at the International Conference Centre in Abuja for the day. Monday’s collation ended a few minutes past 10:00 pm and will be resuming by 11 am tomorrow. The INEC National Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu adjoined the collation to enable the state collation officers for the presidential election (SCOPs) in the remaining states. Already, results have been released for about 11 states with the top parties sharing the wins. For Kwara, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 263,572 votes followed…
The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi has emerged victorious in Edo with a wide margin. Governor Godwin Obaseki’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is in distant third with the All Progressives Congress (APC) in second.LP polled 331,163 votes, APC has 144,471 votes while PDP got 89,585 votes with the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) recording 2,743 votes. The Independent National Elecroral Commission’s (INEC’s) State Collation Officer for Edo, Prof. Nyaudoh Ndaeyo, made the declaration in Benin, Edo State. LP won the presidential election in 12 LGAs of Igueben, Esan Central, Esan North-East, Egor, Esan South-East, Esan West, Uhunmwonde,…
According to a statement on Monday, Nigerian tourists visa applicant are now eligible for five years (60 months) visa as against two years (2years) under the previous visa regime. The new regime, according to the statement, takes effect from Wednesday 1st March, 2023. This follows Nigeria’s recent policy of visa reciprocity with the US. The statement reads: “Effective March 1, 2023, the U.S. Mission will increase visitor visa validity from 24 months to 60 months for Nigerians who want to enter the United States temporarily for business and/or tourism. “The visa validity extension allows Nigerians to use the visa for…
Justice Lokulo Sodipe of the Court of Appeal, Akure Division, has died. He was said to have slumped and died inside his chamber while preparing to attend court session to deliver judgement. Sources said it was his aide that saw him after waiting for several hours. The source said all efforts to revive him failed as he was confirmed dead on arrival at the hospital. Chairman, Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Akure branch, Banjo Ayenakin, said “the news of the demise of Hon Justice Lokulo-Sodipe came to me as a rude shock. My lord was a quintessential judge, very intelligent and…
Governor Nyesom Wike has denied allegations that he moved around to intimidate and cause disruption during the Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday. In a statement by the State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Chris Finebone, Wike said the accusation is derived only from the wicked imagination of failed evil doers. The communique clarified that “Gov. Wike does not have a single soldier in his formal and informal entourage at any time, more so, during election time”. It further explained that after Gov. Wike and his wife managed to cast their votes in Saturday’s election, they quietly returned to their…
Supporters of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi have been thrown into wild jubilation after results released showed Obi victorious in Lagos State. According to the results declared, Obi polled 582,664 while Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC who was a former Lagos state governor scored 541,850. Although the APC candidate won more local government areas, Obi defeated Tinubu with the majority of the votes cast in the state. In reaction, Obi’s supporters have taken delight in the victory, gloating at supporters of the APC who had been boastful of being the owners of Lagos. @Lindadidirelly: Labour…
A former chairman of the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, Dino Melaye has expressed dissatisfaction at the transmission and collation of the electoral results by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Melaye, has expressed dissatisfaction at the transmission and collation of the electoral results by the Independent National Electoral Commission. He raised an observation that the figures of the results announced by INEC were conflicting. Speaking to newsmen, Melaye said that they won’t allow irregularities play out in the announcement of the result of the election. He accused the national chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu of putting his…
Hours after it emerged that the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi polled the highest votes in the presidential election result from Lagos State, the All Progressives Congress APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has appealed to Lagos residents to be calm and eschew any act that can lead to the breakdown of law and order. According to Tinubu, the outcome of the election in Lagos where the Labour Party won the presidential election should not be a source of provocation saying that the beauty of democracy is that people have a right to vote for the candidate…