- 2023 general elections
You can’t abort this election like 1993, APC tells PDP, LP
The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has cautioned the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) to desist from pushing for the cancellation of Saturday’s presidential election. This was contained in a statement by the Special Adviser, Media, Public Affairs and Strategic Communications of the PCC, Dele Alake. He said the opposition…
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Of Obasanjo, the Jesus of Owu, and Apostle Peter Fayose, By Bamidele Johnson
The reactions of Obasanjo and Fayose to Saturday’s presidential election outcomes are nothing short of hilarious. Surprising, they are not. They both are typical of the Nigerian politician or Nigerians, even. When a shitty process, as we had on Saturday, delivers an outcome in alignment with our expectations, it is marvellous. When it does not, it is the worst thing…
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FG to Obasanjo: Don’t truncate electoral process
The Federal Government has urged former President Olusegun Obasanjo not to truncate the 2023 general elections with his inciting, self-serving and provocative letter on the elections. In a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said what the former President cunningly framed as an ‘appeal for caution and rectification’ is nothing but a…
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What is democracy? By Temitope Ajayi
Except democracy is no longer about the majority, the tiny minority alleging rigging of this election will be able to impose their will on the rest of us. But if democracy is about the will of the majority as expressed by the ballot, then Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has won the presidential election in a free and fair process with the…
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2023: Teacher Obasanjo wants to teach us nonsense, By Ismail Omipidan
“These elections have not lived up to the hopes and expectations of the Nigerian people and the process cannot be considered to have been credible.” The above quote from Chief EU observer Max van den Berg, in 2007, summed up the outcome of the 2007 presidential election supervised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the country’s President. After May 29…
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National Peace Committee asks INEC to investigate election infractions, iReV failures
The National Peace Committee (NPC) has asked in Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to investigate cases of election infractions and failure of the INEC Result Viewing Portals (IReV) in Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections across the country. The NPC Chairman, General Abdulsalami Abubakar said this in a statement on Monday. He commended Nigerians for coming out to vote during…
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PDP, LP planning to stop election results announcement through court order, APC alleges
The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said it has uncovered plots by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party to throw the country into constitutional crises by surreptitiously obtaining exparte court orders stopping the announcement of the presidential election results which they fear have gone against them. This was contained in a statement…
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Obasanjo asks Buhari, INEC to cancel election results not uploaded on server
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has alleged that Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections conducted nationwide were compromised. In a letter he wrote on Monday, the former president said despite the huge money spent by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to ensure transmission of results to INEC’s server, workers of the commission failed…
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Ortom fails to clinch senate seat, loses to APC’s Titus Zam
Benue State Governo,r Samuel Ortom lost his bid to move to the Senate after his two terms as governor of the state. In the results announced by the returning officer for Benue north-west senatorial election, Rufus Shaato, at the INEC local government collation centre, Makurdi, Zam Titus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) defeated the governor. Zam Titus polled 143,151…
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Election observers laud INEC, security agencies for presidential election
Election Observers, Center For Policy Advocacy and Leadership development (CPALD) and ten other election observer monitors on Monday, commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for conducting what it termed as a much-improved Presidential and National Assemby election in Nigeria. The CSO’s, further commended the professionalism and conduct of the security agencies deployed for election duty. In a statement by…
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