Category: POLITICS

1. The Supreme Court issued a hearing notice dated 25th October 2023, notifying the Labour Party (LP) and its candidate in the Presidential Election, Mr Peter Obi, that judgment would be delivered in their appeal to the Supreme Court in Appeal No. SC/CV/937/2023 on Thursday, 26th October, 2023. 2. On the 26th of October, 2023, LP and her lawyers were in Court. The Supreme Court proceeded to read the judgment in Appeal No. SC/CV/935/2023 filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). After that, the Presiding Justice, His Lordship John Inyang…

Rivers state governor, Siminalayi Fubara of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has defeated the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Tinye Cole at the appeal court. The appellate Court sitting in Lagos State on Tuesday dismissed the petition filed by the APC governorship candidate against Fubara and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The APC candidate, who was present in the courtroom on Tuesday, wanted the court to direct INEC to declare him the winner of the March governorship election in Rivers. The Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal…

Court of Appeal Lagos Division on Friday affirmed the election of Governor Dapo Abiodun of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), as winner of the March 18, poll, in Ogun State. In a majority judgement delivered by Justices J.S.  Ikyegh and Muhammed Mustapha, the appellate court dismissed the appeal brought before it by Hon. Ladi Adebutu, the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. The court held that the appeal lacked merit as it found no substance in it and subsequently dismissed it, affirming the earlier…

The Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has said that the ongoing legal battles surrounding his tenure are not merely personal attacks but rather attempts to undermine the political legacy of his mentor, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. He stated this late Sunday during a stakeholder meeting of the ‘Kwankwasiyya Movement,’ and other party supporters in Kano. Yusuf who spoke at length for the first time since the appellate court affirmed the judgement of the tribunal that sacked him, said, “All his political travails including his losses at the Elections Petition…

Usman Ododo, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, has been declared winner of the 2023 Kogi State Governorship Election held on Saturday, November 11. The State Returning Officer, Prof Johnson Urama, a Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics) of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, announced Ododo as the winner at 10:23p.m. on Sunday. “Ahmed Usman Ododo of APC, having satisfied the requirement of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” Urama declared in a room crowded with party agents and election observers. Ododo won with 446,237 votes, defeating his…