Category: Politics

Urge National Assembly to override President The Leadership of the Northern Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has flayed the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to refuse signing the Amended Electoral Bill into Law. “If Mr President feels Nigeria is not safe for direct primaries, we wish to further buttress our call for him to resign […]

The national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party has assured members that it will not impose its position on the 17 aspirants in the run-up for the 2022 governorship elections. This is as the aspirants met with stakeholders at a two-day reconciliation meeting to reach a truce concerning the 2022 governorship elections. The meeting convened […]

Senators have vowed to override the veto of President Muhammadu Buhari on the Electoral Act amendment bill. This is just as Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, moves to prevent the embarrassment of the President. But the Nigeria Governors’ Forum supported Buhari for not assenting to the bill, saying his reasons were cogent. The President had withheld […]

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan; and Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the opening of plenary on Tuesday, read the communication from President Muhammadu Buhari on his rejection of the Electoral Act 2010 (Amendment) Bill. The letter, dated December 13, 2021, which was received by the House on December 21, 2021, was […]

Nigeria’s ruling party, All Progressives Congress, APC, has berated the opposing People’s Democratic Party, for “politicking” with the rising cases of banditry in the North; calling it “callous and insensitive to victims and troops”. This is as it said the activities of bandits, insurgents and other criminal rings had their roots in PDP’s “shabby handling” […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has again expressed its preference for the deployment of technology in managing Nigeria’s complex electoral process, saying it is better than the best manual process. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu who disclosed this Tuesday in Abuja during a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners RECs said with its Automatic Biometric […]

The Senate on Tuesday went into a closed session to take a position on President Muhammdu Buhari refusal to assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill. Senate President Ahmad Lawan arrived the Chambers, took the opening prayers at 10.42am and announced that the upper chamber would go into a closed session. Buhari had rejected the […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, condemned what it called “the indefensible insensitivity of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Federal Government to the escalated killings in Sokoto, Niger, Katsina, Kaduna, Plateau states and other parts of the country by terrorists.” It alleged that “the manifest numbness of the APC leaders to bloodletting, as […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja has nullified the All Progressives Congress governorship primary in Anambra State, insisting that Andy Uba’s emergence as the winner was illegal. Justice Inyang Ekwo, therefore, stated that Uba’s participation in the November 6 governorship election was void. Justice Ekwo added that the plaintiff, George Moghalu, succeeded in proving that […]

Judge orders APC to refund Moghalu’s N22.5m fees The Federal High Court in Abuja has nullified Senator Andy Uba’s participation in the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State. 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 […]