The Supreme Court will hear PDP presidential contender Atiku Abubakar’s case to nullify President Bola Tinubu’s victory. On the same day, the Supreme Court will hear Atiku’s plea to present new evidence alleging President Tinubu submitted a fraudulent certificate to INEC. Nigeria’s highest court scheduled a 9am hearing for Atiku’s and President Tinubu’s lawyers to ...

The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Cross River State on Tuesday struck out the petition of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Sandy Onor, against the election of Bassey Otu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). According to the judgment delivered by the panel, the petition was dismissed for lack of merit. The ...

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal has restored the vote buying allegations made by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate, Oladipupo Adebutu, against Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The appellate court gave the ruling Wednesday in an appeal marked: CA/IB/EPT/GOV/OG/03/2023, filed by Adebutu and PDP on the ...

The National Executive Committee NEC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has confirmed the appointment of the immediate-past Governor of Kano state, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje as National Chairman of the party. NEC took the decision at its 12th meeting held Thursday in Abuja while also appointing spokesperson for the ninth Senate, Senator Ajibola Basiru ...

Worried by the judgment of an Area Court that ordered the unsealing of the Secretariats of the 17 local government areas in Plateau State, the All Progressive Congress (APC) has called for the immediate sanctioning of the Area Court judge for availing himself to give the cheap order. Recall that Area Court judge Hon. H.H. ...

  A lawyer, R. T Agbanyi, Esq. has petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun, to direct a full scale investigation into the circumstances leading to the issuance of an alleged fraudulently procured Primary School Leaving Certificate issued to one Aminu A. Bande and appropriated by Major General Aminu Bade (rtd) Agbanyi who ...

  Benue State Governor, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia has said the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) lacks the moral justification to question why he attended the remembrance service of the late son of the President, Appeal Court, Justice Monica Bolna’an Dongban-Mensem. He made this known in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Sir ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State said it is considering approaching a court of competent jurisdiction to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission to produce Certified True Copies of documents used in the last governorship election at the tribunal. This is as the party disclosed that seven of its house of assembly candidates ...

Two Cardinal Principles There are two cardinal principles which a large number of non-Lawyers seem to be unaware of, while many of our learned colleagues have simply chosen to ignore them and throw caution to the wind, particularly because some of them may be peeved with the outcome of the elections: 1) the court of ...

  Daniel Bwala, the spokesman for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council in the 2023 election, has sued the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu over an unpaid debt of N125 million. Bwala said the debt was accumulated money accruing from legal services rendered to the party, which ...

Rivers State Police Command has reacted to the arrest of three lawyers and five support staff handling All Progressives Congress, (APC) petition at the election tribunal billed to commence today. The Command, through its spokesperson, Grace Iringe-Koko, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, yesterday, said operatives of the Command received credible intelligence on March ...

A group of Ogun indigenes on Thursday called for the suspension of the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ogun State, Niyi Ijalaye, for allegedly doctoring and rigging the result of Saturday’s governorship election in the state. The group, under the aegis of the Ogun Assembly of Patriots International, also ...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has won the February 25 presidential election in Osun State. The state’s collation officer for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Folashade Ogunsola, announced the development on Sunday. The former Vice President defeated his closest rivals – Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), ...

The ruling party in Cross River State, All Progressives Congress, APC, has called for the arrest of the governorship candidate of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Sandy Onor, as well as former Assistant Inspector General of Police, Joseph Mbu for allegedly masterminding violence in the state. But in a counter statement, ...

Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday dismissed a suit seeking disqualification of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Bola Ahmed Tinubu over their Muslim-Muslim candidacy for the 2023 presidential election. The suit instituted by an Abuja-based legal practitioner, Mr Osigwe Ahmed Momoh was thrown out by the Judge ...

Former minister of state for mines and steel development, Uche Ogah has been convicted by an Abia state magistrate court in Umuahia for forgery. In a lawsuit marked UMSC/362/2022 and filed by Abia state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), it was alleged that Ogah fabricated the party’s direct primary result sheet “with intent ...