Osun State Election Petition Tribunal hearing the suit filed by Governor Adegboyega Oyetola has admitted documentary evidence which lend credence to the claim that the governorship election leading to the declaration of Ademola Adeleke as Governor-elect was manipulated. Among the documents admitted in evidence were the INEC Regulation and Guideline for the election, INEC Manual for Electoral Officials, Forms EC8As which are election results for Osogbo, Ede North and Ede South local governments, among others. This was just as Counsel for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Paul…
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Retired DSP presents documents against Nigeria police
The Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other police units, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday accepted in evidence documents presented by Mamman Danladi to substantiate his testimony on the alleged extrajudicial killing of Mr Kennedy Yusuf. Mamman Danladi, a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police made this presentation at the resumed hearing of his petition, in a matter of alleged cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of his nephew, Kennedy Yusuf , which led to his death in the custody of Jikwoyi Police…
EXCLUSIVE: Documents show ex-Gov. Amosun illegally imported arms, ammunition
On the night of June 25, Ibikunle Amosun, a serving senator and former governor of Ogun State, issued a lengthy rebuttal to a PREMIUM TIMES story that exposed his curious surrendering of a massive cache of arms and ammunition to the police in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. It was a day after our publication detailed how he hurriedly handed over 1,000 AK-47 rifles, four million bullets, 1,000 bulletproof vests and an armoured personnel carrier to the state’s police commissioner on May 28 — a day before he was due to…
Why some of my documents contain ‘Sule’ -Gov. Lalong
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau has revealed the reason behind his other surname ‘Sule’. Lalong made the revelation at a memorial Mass for his late uncle, Stephen Sule, and other deceased relations on Saturday in Shendam. He said the late Stephen Sule adopted him as his son. “Late Sule went to his brothers in the village and told them that he wanted a male child to train because there was no primary school in Ajikamai, my village, then. “Quickly my father gave me to him, saying take this one, he…