Tag: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar

PDP extends Damagum’s tenure as Acting National Chairman

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The National Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has extended the tenure of Umar Damagum as the acting National chairman of the party.   The spokesman of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, disclosed this on Thursday while addressing newsmen after the national caucus meeting at Bauchi governor’s lodge, Asokoro, Abuja.   The party’s image maker said Umar Damagum will continue to be the acting national chairperson of the PDP until the next National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting which will be communicated by the party later.   Debo said, “NEC charges…

Full Text of Tinubu’s statement on Supreme Court judgement IT IS TIME FOR US TO BUILD OUR GREAT NATION TOGETHER

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I welcome the verdict of the Justice John I. Okoro-led Panel of the Supreme Court on the Presidential Election petitions filed by the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party, challenging the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. The court has done justice to all issues put up for consideration in the petitions on the merits of the law, without fear or favour. There is no doubt, with the profound judgment of today, that our electoral jurisprudence and constitutional democracy are further consolidated and embedded more…

S’Court upholds Tribunal judgement, says 25% FCT votes not required to become President

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The Supreme Court has upheld the Election Tribunal’s ruling on 25 percent of votes in Abuja needed to win the presidential election.   The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) had declared that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) does not hold a higher status than other States in the country.   The verdict was delivered on Thursday, October 26, 2023, by Justice John Okoro during the hearing of the appeals filed against the victory of Bola Tinubu in the 2023 presidential election.   In his ruling, Justice Okoro said that Section…

HOW ATIKU SLIPPED NIGERIA TO DWARFISM AND BECAME A BEGGAR NATION (Part 1) By Josiah Adedayo

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Since he emerged from a heavily monetized PDP primary election, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar had been trying to fend off a noxious image of a super corrupt and shady politician that he symbolizes, to affirm his legitimacy to wrestle power from APC.   Knowing his heavy baggage, his supporters and those of PDP tried to wrap his emergence as PDP candidate in one noisome euphoria that will substitute the ensuing campaigns and allow Atiku walk away with his many scruples. ‘Atikulate’ and such other warped coinages became their sing-song…

Tinubu’s certificate: Setting the records straight, by Tunde Rahman

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Former Vice President and roundly defeated presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was a pitiful sight to behold on Thursday at the Shehu Yar ‘Adua Centre, Abuja as he sat like a wreck after addressing what he called a world press conference.   He had gone on a wild goose chase to the United States of America in search of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s certificate.     The former vice president however returned empty-handed after spending a fortune. Atiku himself admitted his exploratory journey was at a hefty cost.    …

Fire outbreak won’t affect Peter Obi and Atiku’s petitions – Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court has assured that the fire outbreak that broke out in a section of its complex in Abuja on Monday morning had no connection with the presidential election petitions and will not be affected by it.   The Supreme Court of Nigeria’s spokesman, Festus Akande stated this during an interview on Arise TV on Monday.   It was reported earlier that a wing of the Supreme Court complex situated at the Three-Arm-Zone, Abuja, was engulfed by fire on Monday morning.     While the news broke, some individuals…

Obi, Atiku, Tinubu: Judgment Day beckons By Festus Adedayo

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The Nigerian Presidential Election Petition Court has reserved its judgment. Apprehension and expectation are playing hide and seek in the air. Judgment Day is here. Theologians, writers and musicians have painted poignant colours of the judgment day. From the 1998-direct-to-video film of John Terlesky with that same title – Judgment Day – depicting disaster in the air as a giant meteor that would soon hit the earth, to the Italian Renaissance painter, Michelangelo’s fresco painting which he labeled The Last Judgment, judgment day has never been a tea party. Rastafari-influenced…

Where do we go from here? By Lasisi Olagunju

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Given today’s state of the nation, it is likely that both Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi are thanking their stars that they were not the ones declared as our elected president on March 1, 2023. If they were, each of them would have done what Bola Tinubu did with petrol subsidy with consequences beyond their capacity. They would have done it – they all promised to do it. But, if it was Obi in particular who withdrew fuel subsidy, the North and the West would have exploded in…

Penny Wise, Pound Foolish! By Olaleye Olawale

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Ebonyi State Governor and member of the ruling APC, Dave Umahi, said publicly yesterday that the sacked National Chairman of the PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, actually worked for the President-elect Bola Tinubu, in the just concluded general election. It sounded unbelievable, especially, that many of the governors have lately become unreliable sources of information. But a few people, including this writer, believed him. When Ayu was newly affirmed national chairman of the PDP, the news went out that an old ally of Tinubu had been made PDP chairman and that their…

BREAKING: Atiku withdraws court application against INEC

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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has withdrawn his application over the sorting of the electoral materials he would need to prepare a petition he intends to lodge against the outcome of the February 25 election. It was learnt that Atiku’s decision to discontinue the fresh application comes after a meeting with officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the headquarters of the commission in Abuja on Tuesday.   INEC had promised to allow PDP agents to observe the process of sorting out…