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By Casmir Igbokwe At the 62nd Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) conference in August 2022, Mr Kashim Shettima dressed in a manner that got tongues wagging. He was then the vice-presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). His oversized suit and red tie with a pair of sneakers made him look odd in the midst of lawyers who invited ...

Casmir Igbokwe Professor Wole Soyinka is Nigeria’s elder statesman of international repute. As the first and only Nobel laureate in literature from Nigeria, his comments or actions draw global attention. Hence, he is supposed to weigh what he says and does at every point in time. Unfortunately, his recent comments, especially with regard to the February 25, 2023 presidential election, ...

Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, Monday, disclosed how his family conspired against him to vote for the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, during the presidential election. The All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television. Umahi said it was surprising that President Muhammadu Buhari and the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, lost their states to ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has asked the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja to dismiss all the petitions challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the February 25 presidential election. INEC had declared that Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes to win the election. The commission declared that the presidential candidate of the ...

By Raymond Ozoji,  Awka As Nigeria’s President-Elect Bola Tinubu marks his 71st birthday today; Uzuegbunam Okagbue has sent his congratulations to him in a statement released on Wednesday morning. According to Okagbue, a major Tinubu supporter during the campaigns, this birthday is significant because, it “marks Nigerians’ overwhelming support for the President-Elect Bola Tinubu. “So, this 71st birthday is in ...

•Urges Election Tribunal to assert Judiciary’s independence, render justice and rescue Nigeria’s democracy A good governance group, Govindex Leadership, Empowerment and Development Foundation, has come down hard on President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing him of contempt by attempting to teleguide and intimidate the Judiciary with regard to the on-going litigation over the controversial February 25 Presidential election. Govindex in a statement ...

The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, has said that the presidential polls of February 25 failed to meet the expectations of Nigerians. Ms Leonard made this known in an op-ed titled ‘The Elections of February 25’ where she commended Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar for their commitment to take the legal path in contesting the presidential elections ...

  The Labour Party said it had engaged the services of at least 20 senior advocates of Nigeria to challenge the outcome of the February 25 presidential election on behalf of its presidential candidate, Peter Obi. According to sources within the party, the lawyers drawn from different chambers were being furnished with materials that would be used as evidence in court. ...

BEING DRAFT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE READ BY THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE PDP, ATIKU ABUBAKAR AT THE YAR’ADUA CENTER ON THURSDAY, 2 MARCH, 2023 ON THE CONDUCT OF 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Fellow Nigerians, it is with a heart full of sadness that I address you today. I have in the last three decades devoted my life to the battle ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, says he won the presidential election of February 25, saying “if we seek to be called Your Excellency, then the process through which we are elected should also be excellent.” Obi stated this in a press conference today in Abuja. Below is the full text of his conference: PETER OBI’S ...