Politics

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governors, under the aegis of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) has resolved to work towards solving the problems and challenges facing the country’s democratic space. Gov. Hope Uzodimma of Imo and Chairman of the forum said the resolution was reached at the forum’s meeting which ended at the early hours of Tuesday in Abuja. The News …

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register the All Democratic Alliance (ADA) as a political party. The court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Peter Lifu, equally ordered the electoral body to release its access code to the Akin Ricketts-led leadership of the association within 72 hours. It will be …

Senator Joseph Ikpea, representing Edo Central Senatorial District, has urged candidates in the July 11 Edo State local government election to use council autonomy to deliver development at the grassroots. He warned them against mismanaging public funds, saying elected council chairmen could be investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), while still in office. Senator Ikpea gave the …

‘Emperor’ Tenebe as a chairman of the Edo wing of the so-called biggest ruling party in Africa, that also prides itself as “progressive” and a “congress” has utterly derailed. A man who once allegedly accused his kin of stealing his personal wristwatch worth over a whooping US$250,000 (over N360 million), deserves to be rejected because of impropriety and worldliness, and …

Dr Yakubu Kingsley, the presidential aspirant of Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), on Sunday disagreed with the party’s National Chairman, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, over his call for President Bola Tinubu’s resignation. Baba-Ahmed had, in a statement on June 4, asked President Tinubu to resign from office. Reacting in a statement signed by Kingsley in Abuja, he said he does not support …

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 …