Finally, about 20 days after INEC declared Buhari the, winner of the presidential election, Atiku and the PDP last night filed their petition before the tribunal, praying that they be declared the winners of the presidential election instead Buhari and the APC. In the alternative, the two petitioners prayed the …
Read More »EFCC Stopped From Probing Plane Loaded With Cash
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been barred from investigating a private jet loaded with money on February 15, 2019, the eve of the aborted presidential and National Assembly elections, Saturday PUNCH learnt on Friday. Our correspondent gathered that the plane which was billed to fly to Ilorin, Kwara …
Read More »Democracy Will Not Be Emasculated in Nigeria
I thank the Nigerian people who trooped out in their millions to perform their civic duty this past Saturday. The patriotism of Nigerians is heartwarming and affirms my oft-repeated statement that we are brothers and sisters born from the womb of one mother Nigeria. With regards to the Presidential elections …
Read More »I Am Voting Atiku – And This Is Why
We are not electing a pastor. We are electing a President. We are not seeking a messiah- we are seeking a man who understands the fundamentals of a modern society and has the requisite wherewithal to provide leadership to a nation. Nigerians are not looking for angels to vote for. …
Read More »The Hypocracy of Buhari and APC over the use of Security Forces During Election
Nigerians, just look at this matter and judge for yourselves how hypocritical your so called leaders are. 1) In 2015, the PDP government was ordered by the courts not to deploy the soldiers for 2015 elections. Here’s an excerpt from that order: “The armed forces have no role in elections. …
Read More »Tinubu Caught On Tape Promising To ‘Pay Money That Will Surprise’ Voters
Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been captured on audio saying President Muhammadu Buhari doesn’t have the kind of money he can steal. The former Lagos Governor said this in an audio recording of an event that seemed to have taken place on February 14, …
Read More »“Owned By An APC Candidate” — PDP Asks INEC To Re-evaluate Card Readers
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for a re-evaluation of the card readers expected to be used in the elections scheduled to hold on February 23 and March 9, 2019, respectively. Uche Secondus, the PDP National Chairman, made the request in a letter addressed to Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman …
Read More »Pendulum: Four Years After, We Are Back to Square One – Dele Momodu Reacts To Postponement Of 2019 Elections
Dele Momodu has joined other Nigerians in reacting to the postponement of elections by the Independent Nigeria Electoral Commission (INEC). The media personality who had earlier persuaded the electoral commission’s chairman to react to rumours of the postponement of elections, stated that he pities the pity the foreigners, media crew, …
Read More »My transactions with Tinubu – Tambuwal
Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal the immediate past speaker of the House of Representatives became the second person in the Fourth Republic to spend a full term of four years as Speaker of the House. He also became the first person in that office to defect from the party on …
Read More »NJC may sack Onnoghen, Mohammed to end crisis
The National Judicial Council (NJC) yesterday gave the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen and the one acting, Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed, a-week ultimatum to respond to the allegations of corruption and professional misconduct levelled against them. Due to the gravity of the allegations, the NJC abridged the time …
Read More »Buhari’s Ag. CJN Appoints 10 Dead Judges Among Newly Appointed Election Petition Tribunals’ Members
Lawyers in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, have alerted on the appointment of dead and retired judges as members of the recently sworn-in 250 election tribunal members. The group of concerned lawyers who declined being identified faulted the list of the recently sworn in 250-tribunal members as parading over …
Read More »CJN: “Executive Lawlessness” – Atiku State Of The Nation Address
“Yet again, our dear country is passing through a difficult moment. How we react to this challenge in the following days will determine the fate of our democracy, which has been brought to great peril by this needless crisis engineered by a government that is unwilling to subject its conducts …
Read More »Onnoghen: Time To Halt Nigeria’s Slide To Anarchy
On Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. He immediately swore in Justice Tanko Muhammad as his interim replacement in a development that had precedence in what happened over four decades ago under military rule. The president said his action followed an order he obtained …
Read More »The Hypocrisy of Justice Mohammed
Can the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Mohammed, who was a critical member of the National Judicial Council, which sanctioned Justice Obisike Orji by forcing him to go on a compulsory retirement for allowing himself to be sworn in as the Acting Chief Judge of Abia State without …
Read More »State of the Nation Address by Former President Olusegun Obasanjo
I am concerned as a democrat who believes that with faithful and diligent practice of democracy, we can get over most of our political problems and move steadfastly and surefootedly on the course of stability, unity of purpose, socio-economic growth and progress for all. Democracy becomes a sham if elections …
Read More »2019: PDP Rejects Inec’s Move To Accommodate APC In Rivers
019: PDP Rejects INEC’s Move To Accommodate APC in Rivers The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) totally and vehemently rejects contemplations by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accommodate the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the general elections in Rivers state. PDP’s position is predicated on the unacceptable and compromising …
Read More »Corruption Allegations: In Case FG Has Forgotten These Cases
The victory of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2015 Presidential elections elicited hope of the unusual variant. For well-meaning Nigerians and friends of the nation, the emergence of a man seen by many as an incorruptible left-wing politician was the beginning of good things to come for Africa’s …
Read More »Northerners will not vote for Buhari in 2019 – Shettima
National President, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Alhaji Yerima Shettima has said the North will not vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the coming general elections as his administration has not benefitted people of the region. In this interview with WILLY EYA and TUNDE THOMAS, he poke on various issues. …
Read More »Olisa Agbakoba SAN drags AGF to court over Chief Justice of Nigeria’s trial
Constitutional lawyer and former President of Nigerian Bar Association, Chief Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has dragged the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, to court over moves to arraign the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, over his alleged non-declaration of assets. …
Read More »Trumped-up allegation: PDP dares Buhari over threats to arrest Atiku
The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO) describes as laughable, President Muhammadu Buhari’s heinous plot to frame the PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, out of fear that he is already coasting to victory in the February 16 Presidential election. While we understand that President Buhari and his dysfunctional All …
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