Tag: Presidential Election Tribunal

Akpabio congratulates Tinubu, Shettima, APC over victory at Presidential Election tribunal

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The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has lauded the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), which on Wednesday unanimously affirmed the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima in the 2023 presidential election. Akpabio described the Court verdict as an affirmation of the popular mandate of the Nigerian people for the Tinubu/Shettima ticket of the All Progressives Congress(APC) as delivered at the polls in February. The Senate President heartily congratulated President Tinubu and Vice President Shettima on the resounding affirmation of their popular mandate by…

Appeal Court debunks resignation of Presidential Election Tribunal member, Justice Ugo

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Appeal Court debunks resignation of Presidential Election Tribunal member, Justice Ugo The Court of Appeal has debunked the news making its rounds that a member of the five-member panel, Justice Boloukuoromo Moses Ugo that is handling petitions seeking to nullify the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, resigned. A report emanated on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, saying Justice resigned from the bench, citing demands from the executive branch that he believes would destroy the country’s democracy. In the report, Justice Ugo said that siding with the government on this matter…

#ServerGate: Whose Interest Is INEC Serving? By Ifeanyi Izeze

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The news today, Monday 29th July, 2019, that the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, failed to call witnesses to counter claims of malpractices against the commission by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate in the February 23 presidential poll Atiku Abubakar, must have come as a rude shock to all Nigerians seeking to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in this #ServerGate controversy. The electoral body, the first Respondent, was supposed to call its witnesses, Monday but rather announced to the court that…

Police React To Bandits Attack On PDP, Atiku’s Witnesses

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Zamfara State Police Command in a release signed by its Spokesman, SP Mohammed Shehu,has reacted to a captioned story published by one of the national dailies of Saturday 13th July, 2019, in which some witnesses who were traveling to Abuja from Zamfara claimed to have been attacked by bandits, a situation that forced them to scampered into the bush. Police stated that based on the crime statistics of Zamfara state, there was no any attack by bandits either on villages or on any person or group of persons traveling on…