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Osun 2022: INEC Warns Against Vote Buying, Selling
28Apr By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
Elections, News, Nigeria

Osun 2022: INEC Warns Against Vote Buying, Selling

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that voter education and enlightenment about elections is an essential ingredient for a free, fair and credible election. Professor AbdulGaniy Olayinka Raji, the Osun INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) made this known at the Voter Education Implementation Workshop in Osogbo, on Wednesday. Professor Raji also condemned that act of vote buying and selling, adding that INEC does not condone it. The Osun INEC boss stated that the commission has powers to arrest and prosecute any individual found within the polling station engaging in vote buying and selling. Pointing out that the commission, however, had no powers to arrest anybody doing so outside the voting area, he called on politicians to go out and ...
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Voter Registration In Imo Remains Suspended, INEC Tells Uzodimma
27Apr By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
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Voter Registration In Imo Remains Suspended, INEC Tells Uzodimma

Hope Uzodimma The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has debunked the claim by Hope Uzodimma, the Imo State Governor, that the commission has resumed the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in places where the exercise was earlier suspended in the state. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, who gave the clarification in a statement, yesterday, said the position of the commission had not changed. The commission had suspended the CVR exercise in all the 54 additional centres created to facilitate the registration of voters across the state following the attack on its staff in Ihitte Uboma Local Council, and reports of insecurity in other parts of the state. Following the suspension, Uzodimma had,...
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2023: APC Orders Amaechi, Ngige To Resign Within 72 Hours Or Forget Ambition
27Apr By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
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2023: APC Orders Amaechi, Ngige To Resign Within 72 Hours Or Forget Ambition

Chris Ngige A new guideline released by the leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday has stipulated that all political appointees who aspire to participate in its primary elections at all levels must resign at least 30 days after the conduct of the primaries. The new guideline automatically leaves some of President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointees like Transportation Minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and his Labour counterpart, Chris Ngige, who are gunning for the 2023 presidency, with just three days to resign or forget their ambitions. This is in consideration of the fact that the APC primary election for the presidency, according to the ruling party’s timetable has been scheduled to hold between May 30 and June 1. By implication, the new guidelines have als...
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2023: Buhari Made Me See Things – Osinbajo
27Apr By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
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2023: Buhari Made Me See Things – Osinbajo

Yemi Osinbajo Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday, said working under President Muhammadu Buhari has equipped him with the competence to run Nigeria. Mr Osinbajo spoke during a visit to the Alake of Egbaland, Adedotun Gbadebo, at his palace in Abeokuta. The visit was part of the vice president’s consultation with prominent persons and APC delegates to seek support for his presidential ambition ahead of 2023. He arrived in Ogun, his home state, on Tuesday and met Governor Dapo Abiodun, with the governor declaring support for him ahead of the party primaries next month. Mr Osinbajo said although he was not a politician when the party nominated him as Mr Buhari’s running mate in the run-up to the 2015 election; he is now immersed in politics and can lead Nigeria. “By p...
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Supreme Court Voids Andy Uba’s Candidacy In Anambra Gov Election
27Apr By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
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Supreme Court Voids Andy Uba’s Candidacy In Anambra Gov Election

APC The Supreme Court on Tuesday voided Senator Andy Uba’s participation in the last governorship election in Anambra State as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress. A five-member panel of the court held that the APC breached its guidelines for the conduct of primaries and thus failed to conduct a valid primary from which Uba emerged as the party’s candidate. The apex court affirmed the February 23, 2022 judgment of the Court of Appeal, which upheld the December 20, 2021 judgment by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals filed by Uba and the APC – marked: SC/CV/240/2022 and SC/CV/241/2022. Read Also: 2023: APC Releases Full Schedule Of Activities In the December 20, 2021 judgment, Justice Ekwo held that Uba ...
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2023: APC Releases Full Schedule Of Activities
26Apr By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
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2023: APC Releases Full Schedule Of Activities

APC The All Progressives Congress, APC, has released its schedule of activities and timetable for the 2023 general elections. The party said this was done in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 (as amended) and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, timetable. Recall that the National Executive Council (NEC) of the APC had met and transferred its powers to the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party. Following this development, the APC NEC, had fixed N100 million for its presidential nomination and expression of interest forms. The APC governorship form costs N50 million; Senate, N20 million; House of Representatives, N10 million and State Houses of Assembly, N2 million. Read Also: N100m Form: Buhari, APC Corrupting Nigeria’s Demo...
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2023: It’ll Amount To Betrayal If I Refuse To Serve Nigeria –Osinbajo
26Apr By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
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2023: It’ll Amount To Betrayal If I Refuse To Serve Nigeria –Osinbajo

Yemi Osinbajo The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Monday visited the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, and some leaders of the All Progressives Congress, as well as some political office holders in the state as the presidential primary of the party, draws nearer. The visit may not be unconnected to part of the consultation tour being embarked by Osinbajo to the party faithful across the country as the forthcoming presidential primary of the party draws closer. The vice president, who expressed his readiness to contest the presidential election in 2023, said it would amount to an act of betrayal to the country if he failed to serve Nigeria. He said, “Opportunity comes once in a while. It is also a privilege to serve. Our country needs service that will bring the cou...
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2023: Uncertainty Trails Jonathan’s Candidacy In APC
25Apr By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
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2023: Uncertainty Trails Jonathan’s Candidacy In APC

Goodluck Jonathan The consultation between former President Goodluck Jonathan and some leaders of the All Progressives Congress for Jonathan to emerge as the presidential candidate has been rejected by support groups working for some presidential aspirants of the party. Groups loyal to presidential aspirants of the party, including the APC National leader and former Lagos State  Governor, Asiwaju  Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; in separate interviews with The PUNCH, dismissed the consensus plot for the ex-President. It was also gathered that those who were behind the plot and some members of the National Working Committee of the party feared that it might not sail through. It was learnt that although the plan had been announced, opposition to it w...
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2023: Give Ticket To Who Will Not Run Away After Election – Wike To PDP Leaders 
25Apr By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
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2023: Give Ticket To Who Will Not Run Away After Election – Wike To PDP Leaders 

The governor of Rivers State, Mr Nyesom Wike, who is a presidential aspirant under the platform of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the weekend tasked stakeholders and founding fathers of the party to give the presidential ticket to someone who will not run away from the party. The Presidential aspirant equally vowed to put David Umahi’s successor in Ebonyi State during the forthcoming 2023 general election.Wike made this known while addressing stakeholders and political leaders of PDP in Ebonyi State during his consultation visit to the people of the state.According to him: “I’m here in Ebonyi State to let you know that you should not border on the setbacks you have, that the law must take its prepared place at the right time. I don’t want to send any d...
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2023: Aisha Buhari Urges Aspirants To Pick Women As Running Mates
25Apr By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
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2023: Aisha Buhari Urges Aspirants To Pick Women As Running Mates

The first lady, Aisha Buhari, has urged political parties to always consider women as running mates to candidates contesting elections into various positions across the country. Buhari was speaking on Saturday night when she hosted Presidential Aspirants from various political parties to a Ramadan (Iftar) breakfast at the State House, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Iftar was organised by the first lady to provide opportunity for the aspirants to share love and happiness with one another in the spirit of Ramadan and in a quest for nation building. She said, fair-play for women in politics was to ensure their greater participation in elective positions. “ In fact, it is high time women are adopted as running mates at all levels considering their vot...
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