A Federal High Court sitting in Awka, the Anambra state capital, South East Nigeria, has nullified the nomination and primary election of Mrs Ifeyinwa Anazonowu as the Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Anambra Northeast ward Senatorial district for the 2023 elections. Justice Mohammed of the Federal High Court Awka, who read ...

National Assembly candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State for 2023 general elections yesterday staged a protest against a Federal High Court Judge, Justice Stephen Daylop-Pam, over his refusal to recuse himself from a suit against them by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The APC candidates had pleaded with Justice Daylop-Pam to ...

The Planning and Strategy Committee of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Campaign Organisation has notified the hierarchy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the possibility of about 192 National Assembly (NASS) members defecting from the ruling party to opposition parties. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that this follows the outcome of the party primaries in May and ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the spate of insecurity and the audacity with which terrorists ravage the country unchallenged, under what the party terms a “rudderless” All Progressives Congress (APC) administration. According to the opposition party, the simultaneous terrorist attacks on the advance convoy of President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina State as well ...

An Owerri-based legal prac­titioner and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Con­gress (APC), Gerry Egemba, has warned those kicking against the party’s stipulated N100 million, nomination and expression of interest forms for its presidential aspirants not to cry wolf where there is none. He said that since the party had not made the collection of ...

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has faulted the N100m presidential nomination form fee set by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), describing it as “immoral” since the country’s minimum is N30,000. Falana made the comment on Thursday, days after the APC fixed the prices for nomination forms for those vying for seats in the 2023 ...

A lawsuit seeking the removal of Ben Ayade as Cross River Governor has been dismissed by the  Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Ayade who was elected on the platform of the PDP in 2015 and 2019, but defected to the APC on May 20, 2021, along with his deputy, was dragged to court by ...

Abubakar Malami, the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) and minister of justice, has declared his intention to run for the Kebbi state governorship in 2023. Malami declared his intention to run for the office at an event in Kebbi on Monday. He lost the Kebbi governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the ...

The Cross River State government has approached the Court of Appeal in Abuja seeking a stay of execution against the judgement of a Federal High Court in Abuja which sacked the Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Eteng Williams, and 17 of his colleagues over their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party ...

Was Justice Inyang Ekwo of Federal High Court, Abuja, right to sack David Umahi and Kelechi Igwe as governor and deputy governor of Ebonyi State respectively? Did he err in law by also making a declaration advertising the seats of 15 lawmakers in the state House of Assembly as vacant? Did he do justice to ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sacked Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State and his Deputy, Dr Eric Kelechi Igwe, following their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. The court, in a judgement that was delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo, held that the total ...

Justice I.R Minakiri of a Rivers State High Court has withdrawn from a matter instituted by one Ogechi Ogwu-Edwin and three others against the All Progressives Congress and the former Caretaker Committee Chairman of APC, Isaac Ogbobula. Justice Minakiri also withdrew from a similar suit by one Alaibo Soibibo and three others against the APC ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja has nullified Senator Andy Uba’s participation in the November 6 Anambra State governorship election. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment on Monday, held that Uba was never a candidate in the election having emerged from an illegally conducted primary election by the All Progressives Congress (APC). The judge held ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has suspended the declaration of the Anambra governorship election results. This is because there was no election conducted in Ihiara Local Government Area of the State. Returning Officer, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Florence Obi said she would not announce the result of the election until a supplementary ...

The Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (‘CAC’), Alhaji Garba Abubakar, announced at a stakeholder’s forum on 13 October 2021 that the Administrative Proceedings Committee (‘APC’) has been fully constituted to fulfill its statutory mandate. The APC was introduced by Section 851 of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 (‘CAMA’) as an administrative ...

It must be the fruits of a turbulent spirit. Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo described him more as a man ruled by the cravings of his stomach rather than the demands of mental exegesis. But when you hear him speak, it makes you wonder. His eloquence and the structure of his verbal articulations mesmerise you ...