The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has slammed the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) for allegedly plotting to spread false information about the ruling party’s flagbearer, Bola Tinubu. WITHIN NIGERIA previously reported that the APC campaign council has accused the PDP of preparing to use fake news in Hausa to malign, defame, and illegitimize the party and Tinubu ahead of the elections. The APC PCC Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga, said in an Abuja statement on Sunday that the PDP perfected the alleged plot with a team working from the main opposition party’s national headquarters at…
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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday dismissed a suit by a former presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party, HDP, Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru, against the election of President Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2019 presidential election. The suit seeking the outright sack of President Buhari was thrown out by Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo on three major grounds. Parts of the grounds are that the suit constituted a gross abuse of court process, statute barred and was an affront to the supremacy of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Besides, Justice Ekwo…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has alleged that the sacked governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke sponsored protesters to stage demonstrations in some parts of the state against the ruling of the Tribunal. Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Osogbo on Friday sacked Adeleke and withdrew the Certificate of Return issued to him by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Subsequently, protesters had flooded major streets in the state since Saturday to register their grievances against Justice Tertse Kume-led Tribunal that overturned Adeleke’s governorship victory. Reacting to the protests, Osun APC acting chairman, Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will be prejudicial to speak on the outcome of the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Osogbo which overturned the victory of governor Ademola Adeleke at the July 16, 2022 governorship polls. Recall that the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Adegboyega Oyetola had petitioned the victory of Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on two grounds of over-voting and certificate forgery. The tribunal, while noting that APC’s claim of overvoting was not complete, agreed that there was evidence of over voting in the July 16 guber election. The…
The Court of Appeal has overturned the Federal High Court Katsina judgement, which declared the primary election that produced Muritala Shehu as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate for the Malumfashi/Kafur Federal Constituency in Katsina State null and void. Murtala filed an appeal against the ruling of the Federal High Court Katsina, which annulled the primary election in which he defeated Nasiru Sa’ad Ahmed on November 23, 2022. The Court of Appeal, in a unanimous decision delivered on January 27, 2023, set aside in its entirety the judgment of the Federal High Court, affirming the PDP primary election conducted for…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stated Wednesday that it had not suspended Pastor Umo Bassey Eno, the PDP’s governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom State. This was stated by the party in response to what it called a fake letter purportedly signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, and falsely claiming Eno had been suspended from the party. The national publicity secretary, Hon Debo Ologunagba said “The PDP States in clear terms that Pastor Umo Eno remains the Governorship Candidate of our Party in Akwa Ibom State for the 2023 general elections; he is not suspended from the Party;…
Senior Advocate of Nigeria Femi Falana has urged Osun State voters to sue the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for wasting their votes. He stated this on Sunday during an interview on Arise TV. The Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal sacked Governor Ademola Adeleke for overvoting at over 700 polling units in the governorship election. The tribunal asked INEC to give Certificate of Returns to former Governor Gboyega Oyetola. “What the voters in those areas have to do is to sue INEC for damages that you have wasted my votes,” Mr Falana said. Mr Falana also said it will be…
The Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area, where the late Prof. Uche Ikonne lived, has been given the vacant governorship seat by the Abia State PDP chapter. Ikonne, the Abia PDP candidate for governor, passed away on January 25, 2022, and the Independent National Electoral Commission subsequently ordered a new primary to be held within 14 days to elect his replacement. The decision was taken by the Abia PDP State Caucus in a meeting on Sunday, according to a statement by Abia PDP Vice Chairman/Acting State Publicity Secretary, Abraham Amah. The caucus members were drawn from across the State including…
The Deputy Governor Financial System Stability Central Bank of Nigeria, Aisha Ahmad, has said the amount spent on maintaining the naira has increased by N10bn annually. Ahmad, who revealed this on Friday during her appearance before the House of Representatives to defend CBN’s new cash withdrawal limits policy, attributed over 90 per cent of currency management costs to banknote production. Findings by Sunday Insurancenewsng indicate that the apex bank spends about N150bn on the management of the naira annually, which has now increased by N10bn, as declared by Ahmad in her presentation, obtained by one of our correspondents on Friday.…
Shell will pay $15.9 million (15 million euros) to communities in Nigeria that were affected by multiple oil pipeline leaks in the Niger Delta, the oil company on Friday said in a joint statement with the Dutch division of Friends of the Earth. The compensation is the result of a Dutch court case brought by Friends of the Earth, in which Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary SPDC last year was found to be responsible for the oil spills and was ordered to pay for damages to farmers. The money will benefit the communities of Oruma, Goi, and Ikot Ada Udo in Nigeria,…