Tag: 2023 Elections

Yemi Osinbajo, Bola Tinubu and Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral By Femi Fani-Kayode

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Yemi Osinbajo, a legal guru, a jurisprudential genius, a Professor of Law, a highly-acclaimed Pastor, a well-respected Servant of the Living God, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, a writer and author of many books, an expert on the law of evidence and our nation’s Vice President, came from very humble beginnings and yet has done so well. His story is one that we can legitimately describe as an excellent example of the accomplishment of the Nigerian dream.   God is clearly with this man and no one can take that…

Ahead of #NigeriaDecides2023, INEC must address its credibility deficit – Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

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Seven days after he emerged on 26 March 2022 as the chair of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu resigned from the senate where he had since 2011 represented the people of Nasarawa west senatorial zone. Senate President Ahmed Lawan read his letter on the floor of the senate on April 12, 2022. Senator Adamu’s resignation took effect 330 days before the date of the 2023 presidential election. Section 76(2) of Nigeria’s 1999 constitution empowers the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to organize a by-election to fill such…

Effective Media Coverage of 2023 Election amidst Insecurity: Safety and Security as a Priority for Nigerian Journalists By Professor Adesina Lukuman Azeez

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Introduction Gentlemen of the Press, let me firstly thank you profusely for considering me fit and eligible to stand before you today to present what I will prefer to call an engagement, rather than a lecture, in commemoration of your week. I consider my choice as a great honour because there are thousands of my equals you could have opted for rather than me. I will therefore be ever grateful for giving me this opportunity, privilege and honour not only to be part of your celebration today, but also to…

The Electioneering Handbook for Nigeria – Simon Kolawole

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The best time to enjoy Nigeria is when elections are at hand. Boy, this is what we live for. We were created to play politics, to engage in intense politicking, to create, perform and watch political drama. We forget all our sorrows and dive into the fray headlong, jumping up and down, chit-chatting morning, noon and night. We hardly get to discuss anything else. Not even football can distract us. At every nook and cranny of the country, we gather to discuss the permutations and the intrigues. We know what…

2023: IPOB makes U-turn, says no plan to disrupt elections in Southeast

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    The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that it has no plan to disrupt the 2023 general elections in the southeastern part of the country.   IPOB spokesperson Emma Powerful made this known in a statement to journalists on Saturday, October 8, 2022, in reaction to violent comments made by a breakaway member of IPOB, Simon Ekpa.   The Finland-based resident had threatened that the IPOB faction under his leadership would not allow any election to hold in the region.   But in a press release…

2023: Choose between campaigning for Tinubu publicly or resign-APC tells Ngige, others

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The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Murtala Yakubu Ajaka, has asked the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, and other appointees to campaign openly for the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu or resign their appointments. On Friday, October 7, 2022, Ngige while featuring on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television said he will not disclose his preferred presidential candidate in the 2023 elections. When asked whether he would endorse Bola Tinubu, his party’s presidential candidate, or back Peter Obi, the…

Elections and Role of Police in Electoral Process, by Solomon Arase

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Election is the process whereby the adult citizens choose their representative to govern them (Afolabi 2018). Election encapsulates the mediating institutional and psychological process and anchors for citizens, as adults in an organized and routinised manner to express their choice among those who seek public political office. In the political realm, election is expressed as the formal display of preferences by the governed, either secretly or openly, with the aggregation of the choice collated and transformed into collective decision on who governs based on the majority of the votes cast.…

2023; NOA DG frowns against Electoral Violence, Vote Buying.

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By AàBUBAKAR YUSUF.   The Director -General, National Orientation Agency NOA, Dr Garba Abari has expressed reservations on the two monsters affecting the process of Nigeria’s electoral system, stating that violence and vote buying if not curbed, may mar the forthcoming 2023 general elections.   Abari bare his mind during a one -day summit for political parties and stakeholders organised by the agency towards ensuring a violence free elections as Nigeria prepares for the next year’s general elections.   He appealed to political parties and other stakeholders to go beyond…

2023: APC fires warns President Buhari, Tinubu

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Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned President Muhammadu Buhari; Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate; and the National Executive Committee (NEC), to stop APC South-West leaders from hobnobbing with Governor Nyesom Wike.   Wike is a key member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and has been welcoming opposition party chieftains to Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital since May when the PDP crisis started.   During an interactive session convened by the APC National Vice Chairman, South-South, Victor…

2023 ELECTIONS: IGP trains Pilots, Aircraft Maintenance Officers,holds Colloquy with PMF Leadership, Squadron Commanders

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As part of the build up towards ensuring concrete security arrangements for the nation, particularly as the 2023 General Elections approach, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has approved the training of the first batch of Bell 412EP B1.3 Type-Training Course for Police Airwing Aircraft Maintenance Engineers comprised seventeen (17) officers, whose training is expected to improve the technical expertise of the Aircraft Maintenance Unit of the Police Airwing and prevent operational mishaps during aerial surveillance operations.   Similarly, the IGP has approved the training of more Pilots…