The Supreme Court on Friday, January 19, 2024 delivered final judgements in the governorship election disputes arising from the 2023 general elections in some states of the federation. ADVERTISEMENT The states in which the apex court delivered rulings include Kaduna, Nasarawa, Gombe, Kebbi, Ogun and Delta. A summary of the judgment shows the All Progressives…
In a significant development ahead of the Edo state governorship election slated for September 21, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced the price for its Expression of Interest and Nomination forms. ADVERTISEMENT As per the schedule released in Abuja, aspirants seeking the party’s ticket will have to shell out a whopping N50 million, with the nomination…
27 Rivers PDP Lawmakers have defected to APC. Truetells Nigeria reports that the crisis rocking the Rivers State House of Assembly took a new turn on Monday with twenty-seven members defecting from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the state to the All Progressives Congress. This Nigeria news platform understands that the lawmakers…
An Ikeja High Court in Lagos State has sentenced Wahab Hammed to one-year imprisonment for vote buying during the Presidential and National Assembly Elections held on February 25. Justice Ismail Ijelu, on Thursday, December 7, 2023, sentenced Hammed, to one-year imprisonment and a fine option of N500,000 on each of the two counts preferred…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja today November 17 affirmed the Kano state election Petition tribunal judgment that sacked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State and declared APC’s Nasiru Ganuwa winner of the March1 8 election. The state tribunal in its judgment delivered on September 20, 2023 nullified INEC’s declaration of NNPP’s…
The immediate-past National Vice Chairman, North, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Salihu Lukman, has said the party’s “little democratic credentials” are gradually dwindling, saying the party has descended into money politics. Lukman, in a statement on Monday, also lamented that most leaders of the party had been denied access to see President Bola…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Timipre Sylva and his running mate, Joshua Maciver, are conspicuously missing as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), released the amended final lists of candidates for the November 11 Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo governorship elections on Tuesday evening. The amended list which was uploaded on the commission’s website…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Jigawa State, has suspended the party’s chairman in Roni Local Government Area. This was contained in a statement signed by the State chairman, Hon. Aminu Sani Gumel. Saleh Idris, 56, was arrested for allegedly raping his housegirl. According to the statement, “Following the allegation of rape…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has annouced the the postponement of its official flag-off of the November 11 gubernatorial election campaign. Recall that the party earlier scheduled the flag-off of its campaign in Bayelsa for October 14, 2023. The postponement was announced in a statement by the Director, Media and Publicity, Bayelsa APC Gubernatorial…
Justice Mikhail Abdullah dismissed the petitions on Monday, September 25, 2023. The LP 2023 governorship candidate in Lagos, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, his PDP counterpart, Abdul Azeez Olajide Adediran and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State. [Channels TV] The Lagos Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has dismissed the petitions by Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and the Labour Party, and Olajide…
