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The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has called on former Vice President, Abubakar Atiku, to concede defeat in the just-concluded presidential election and congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari. Similarly, the ACF also called on the President elect, Muhammad Buhari, to ensure his new administration kept to its promise of strengthening the nation’s unity and inclusiveness in government, so that no section or group of the country ”is left behind or left out”. In a statement issued in Kaduna Wednesday by Muhammad Ibrahim Biu, its National Publicity Secretary, the ACF congratulated President Buhari on his victory at the polls, adding that his re-election…

Former president of Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has advised former Vice President, and presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, not to approach the Election Petition Tribunal in efforts to seek redress over what he (Atiku) described as flawed election. Agbakoba also noted that ethnicity played a significant role in the election, warning that same trend would repeated itself in 2023, if something urgent was not done about it. He in a statement signed Wednesday by his Media Assistant, Niyi Odunmorayo, said: ”I understand the PDP is aggrieved about the outcome of the…

The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal Wednesday reserved judgment on four separate appeals suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, lodged before it. A three-man panel of Justices of the appellate court, headed by Justice Stephen Adah, adjourned the cases for judgment after it heard from both Onnoghen and the Federal Government. Represented by a team of lawyers, led by Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, Onnoghen told the appellate court that FG relied on “a questionable ex-parte order” and suspended him from office. He told the court that the Mr. Danladi Umar-led Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT,…

YIAGA AFRICA, a civil society organisation, Wednesday verified the Presidential elections results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, saying they fell within its Parallel Vote Tabulation, PVT, estimated range. Dr Hussaini Abdu, Chairman, YIAGA AFRICA Watching The Vote, WTV, made this known at a news conference on the group’s statement on the 2019 Presidential Election results in Abuja. According to Abdu, for the 2019 Presidential Elections, YIAGA AFRICA’s WTV utilised the PVT methodology; the gold standard citizen observation methodology that uses statistics and ICT. He said that the group deployed 3,030 observer teams in pairs to a random…

Less than 24 hours since President Muhammadu Buhari won the 2019 presidential election to rule Nigeria for another four years, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has presented him with a certificate of return. The commission has also presented a certificate of return to Professor Yemi Osinbajo, the country’s Vice President. The certificates were issued to them at the International Conference Center, ICC, in Abuja by Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman, on Wednesday. INEC, had on Wednesday morning at the ICC Collation Centre in Abuja declared Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner. Buhari…

Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, Tuesday narrated before the Federal High Court in Abuja, how he got N400 million from ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, before the 2015 presidential election. Metuh, who is facing a seven-count money laundering charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against him, said the money was wired into his account, after he exposed some of the challenges that faced Jonathan’s re-election bid. He told the court that Jonathan requested for his account number, after he watched a presentation on strategies the PDP needed to adopt if it…

The UN, African Union, AU, and ECOWAS have urged political parties to exercise restraint as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announces results of the presidential and National Assembly elections. In a statement by the international bodies made by ECOWAS Commission yesterday, they also urged candidates to continue to exercise patience for the complete results. “The attention of the ECOWAS, AU and the UN has been drawn to the rejection of the results of the presidential election of February 23, 2019 by one of the participating political parties, even as they are still in the process of being released. “ECOWAS,…

The two arms of the National Assembly, Senate and House of Representatives, Tuesday adjourned till March 12 due to their inability to form a quorum. While only eight senators showed up for Tuesday’s plenary in the Senate, 10 attended that of the House of Representatives. Consequently, both arms have scheduled to resume sitting after the governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections. Of the eight senators in attendance were the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu. Senate Majority Leader, Ahmed Lawan, APC, Yobe, raised a point of Order that the Senate could not continue the day’s legislative…

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Tuesday said that he was wishing those who won the last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Kwara State, the best of luck, in spite of what he described as reported cases of inadequacies that characterized the polls, noting that the wish of the people would always prevail. In a statement signed by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki said that while the election was generally peaceful, there were inadequacies like the card readers not used in over 70 percent of the polling units while there were multiple voting, over-voting and…

No fewer than 29 persons, including a policemen were Tuesday killed by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen at communities in Kajuru and Kachia local government areas of Kaduna State, in an apparent reprisal attack, following killings in the area two weeks ago. Sources in the communities as well as military men deployed to the area after the attack, said among the dead was a policeman and 26 others, while two police inspectors have also been declared missing. It was gathered that the 29 bodies have been recovered by security men deployed to the area The four communities which suffered the…