Politics

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has disowned the purported official list of successful candidates from its recently-held primaries in circulation, describing it as fake and unauthorised. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the party had not released any official list of winners of its primaries. “The APC hereby informs the …

Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has rejected Friday’s ruling of the Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi, setting aside an earlier judgment that had compelled Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register it as a political party. The party said that it remained legally recognised and would immediately challenge the decision at the Court of Appeal. The party’s National Chairman, Sen. …

The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on Thursday adjourned until July 7 hearing in an appeal challenging the deregistration of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Accord Party and three other political parties. The appellate court shifted hearing to enable parties file and exchange their briefs of argument ahead of the substantive hearing. At the proceedings, counsel to the Accord Party, …

Prof. Haruna Ayuba, Vice-Chancellor of Bingham University, Karu Nasarawa State, said that the burden of proof in election petition cases often posed significant challenges, delays, ambiguities, procedural hurdles and sometimes injustices in the electoral system. Ayuba said this at the 13th Inaugural Lecture delivered by Prof. Magdalyne Dura, Professor of Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence and Dean of the Faculty of …

The Presidency has dismissed Mr Peter Obi’s call for President Bola Tinubu’s resignation, describing it as misplaced and based on what it called a selective interpretation of developments in Nigeria since 2023. This is contained in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja by the Presidential Spokesperson, Mr Bayo Onanuga, who said Obi’s position failed to reflect the country’s constitutional …

  The reproach of Mr Lifu’s judgment should not only end with the reprimand of the Court of Appeal. Nigeria’s democratic process received yet another jolt in the build-up to the 2027 general elections recently, with a Federal High Court, Abuja, judgment that ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister five political parties for purportedly failing to meet …

A civil society organisation (CSO), Yiaga Africa says the official results of Saturday’s Ekiti governorship election announced by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are consistent with its Process and Results Verification for Transparency (PRVT) estimates. The CSO made this known in its post-election news conference on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti. The News Agency of Nigeria (BAN) reports that the news conference …

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) governorship candidate, Mr Dare Bejide, has rejected the Ekiti State election result. Speaking in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, Bejide described the election as lacking credibility. He alleged tnat the exercise was conducted in “an atmosphere replica of a war zone”. The ADC candidate accused the ruling party of engaging in vote buying through money and food …

The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) loyal to the FCT Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike, has appealed to Chief Bode George to rejoin the “party’s mainstream leadership structure” in order to reposition it ahead of 2027. Mr Hakeem Olalemi,State Organising Secretary of the faction, made the appeal in interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in …

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti, Gov. Biodun Oyebanji, has emerged winner with 319,224 votes. Oyebanji defeated his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Wole Oluyede, who scored 40,543 vote Mrs Adenike Oladiji, INEC’s Chief Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Akure, announced the …