Tag: 2023 Presidential Elections

Opposition Calls for New Polls as Tinubu is Declared Nigeria’s President-Elect

1Mar

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Nigeria

Opposition Calls for New Polls as Tinubu is Declared Nigeria’s President-Elect

Bola Ahmed Tinubu emerged as the winner of Nigeria's presidential elections, representing the ruling All Progressives Congress party, with close to 8.8 million votes, about 36.6% of the total, according to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman Mahmood Yakubu. The election, which saw more than 93 million people registered to vote, was fiercely contested, and its results have been widely disputed. Opposition leaders, including Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), have decried the polls as rigged and called for a fresh vote, while many have cited corruption and technical failures in the process. In his acceptance speech, Tinubu thanked voters and said he was "profoundly humbled" and that he represented a promise that he would fulfill with the support ...

Bola Tinubu Declared Winner of the 2023 Presidential Elections

1Mar

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Bola Tinubu Declared Winner of the 2023 Presidential Elections

Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, has been declared the winner of the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, received 8,794,726 votes, surpassing his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), by 1.8 million votes. The announcement was made by the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, at the International Collation Centre in Abuja during the early hours of Wednesday. Tinubu's victory comes after a highly contested election that saw several candidates vying for the presidency, including Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party. The three leading presidential ca...

Opinion: Southern Nigeria and the Delusion of 2023 Presidency

9Jan

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Opinion: Southern Nigeria and the Delusion of 2023 Presidency

Sometime in early 2021, news filtered out that Bola Ahmed Tinubu had assured the northern APC leaders that he would sell a Muslim/Muslim ticket to the Southwest and they would buy it. Report has it that at the meeting where the commitment was made, they asked him how he was going to convince the South-east to vote for same ticket. He was alleged to have responded that the Southeast did not really matter in the calculation, that as long as he could convince his people in Yoruba land and they (northerners) could get the northern support, they would cruise to victory (without the votes of the southeast). We later got to know that the original idea behind the Muslim/Muslim ticket was an attempt to frustrate his presidential ambition. Their thought was that he would object to a Muslim/Musli...

Claims of EndSars Killings False – MC Oluomo (Video)

10Oct

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Claims of EndSars Killings False – MC Oluomo (Video)

Chairman of the Lagos Parks and Garage Management Committee, Musliliu Adesanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo has said that the claims that people were killed at the Lekki toll gate during the EndSars protest were false. He made this claim during the solidarity march he organized in support of the candidacy of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential candidate for the ruling party, the APC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec2gY9aVFpA The transcript of the speech is included below: "I want to speak about EndSars. I want you to listen and hear. They said someone died during EndSars. Where are the corpses? Where were they buried? That is number one. "Number two; do those corpses not have family in Nigeria? "Number three; Has Nigeria bribed the bereaved such that we cannot ...

Peter Obi’s Quiet Inroads into the Muslim North – Farooq Kperogi

8Oct

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Peter Obi’s Quiet Inroads into the Muslim North – Farooq Kperogi

I asked if he had heard of Peter Obi. He hadn’t. Not even remotely. And my uncle isn’t some uneducated, rural bumpkin.- Farooq Kperogi Several weeks ago, my 80-year-old paternal uncle, who is a community leader, called me to ask whom between Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu he should vote and canvass support for. That was a strange request considering that in 2019 he resisted my entreaty to him to not vote or campaign for Buhari because of the danger that a Buhari second term would pose for Nigeria. He apparently sensed that I was hesitant to make any recommendations because the last time I did he balked. He was a true believer in Buhari even when overwhelming evidence had shown that Buhari wasn’t whom he had claimed to be. In response to my hesitation, he said he was asking because a...

Datti Baba-Ahmed Reveals Why He Parted Ways with Buhari

23Aug

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Nigeria

Datti Baba-Ahmed Reveals Why He Parted Ways with Buhari

The presidential running mate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed has revealed the reason why he ditched President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari and Baba-Ahmed were both members of obsolete Party, The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). Baba-Ahmed was formerly elected through the party to represent Kaduna North Senatorial District in 2011. See Also: IPOB Declares No Interest in Peter Obi or Igbo Presidency He reveals that he left Buhari because he later realised the difference in their ideologies, saying that the President lost his bearings and principles. Baba-Ahmed also states that his party is making advancements in the North and efforts are made to ensure the party wins the presidential election in 2023. Source: Daily Post