Author: Lekan Adeyeye

THE President-Elect, Bola Tinubu is seeking an order by the Court of Appeal to access sensitive materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the February 25 presidential election. His counsel, Akintola Makinde, said he would need to inspect, scan and make photocopies of some of the electoral materials to enable him to prepare his defence against petitions that seek to nullify Tinubu’s election. Makinde stated this on Tuesday at the day’s sitting in Abuja, the nation’s capital. INEC had asked the Presidential Election Petition Court to vary the orders which were earlier granted to…

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed 12 Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) to defend the mandate of its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu in the just concluded polls. News Point Nigeria reports that, inubu polled 8,794,726 votes in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states, almost two million votes more than his closest rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). While Atiku came second with 6,984,520 votes, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, finished the race with 6,101,533. Both Atiku and Obi have rejected the outcome of the election, vowing to challenge the result…

AN election observer group, Coalition of Civil Societies for Good Governance, yesterday, warned that the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections, scheduled for Saturday, may not hold, except the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, vacated the order of the election petition tribunal restricting the commission from tempering with the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, machines. The Presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party had approached the Election Petition Tribunal to seek an order restraining INEC from tempering with the BVAS machines pending the inspection of the machines and other documents used for the presidential…

PRESIDENT-ELECT, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has asked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to respect himself and stop following court jesters like Dino Melaye to dance ‘skelewu’ and causing traffic snarls within the nation’s capital, Abuja. Tinubu was reacting to Monday’s protest to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, by Atiku and some leaders of PDP. ‘Skelewu’ is a dance form established by the musician, David Adeleke (Davido) in his song of the same title. Describing the action as a new low and a theatre of the absurd, Tinubu said it was…

THE Intergovernmental Group of 24 on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G24) has announced the appointment of Dr Iyabo Masha, as its Director. The international organization stated this in a statement issued in Washington DC on Friday and made available to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja. News Point Nigeria reports that, the G-24 was established in 1971 as a representative grouping of developing countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The group in the statement said that Masha was the first African to occupy the position. The G-24 also said that Masha, who was appointed on Feb. 24,…

CONTROVERSY has trailed the purported endorsement of Governor Seyi Makinde by the Labour Party for reelection in the state. Reports have it that the Chairman of the Labour Party in the state, Mr. Sadiq Atayese, endorsed Makinde during a news conference at the party office, Molete, Ibadan on Sunday. He said Makinde was adopted due to the similarity of ideology, competence, compassion for the masses and numerous achievements of the governor in many sectors. He said, “The last presidential election was keenly contested by the three major parties in the country and the result of the election as announced by…

FEDERAL high court in Lagos has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to electronically transmit results during the March 11 governorship and house of assembly elections in the state. The order was issued on Friday by Peter Lifu, the presiding judge. The judge mandated the electoral body to use the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to upload a scanned copy of the EC8A to INEC’s result viewing portal (IReV). According to the judge, the results must be uploaded immediately after the completion of voting in all polling units, adding that the results sheet should be pasted in each PU…

NO fewer than 105 buildings were destroyed by a rainstorm at Oke-Ako in the Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State on Saturday evening. The heavy downpour, which lasted for over two hours, also destroyed some electricity infrastructure across the town, thereby subjecting the residents to total blackout. The Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, who condoled with residents of the community, described the occurrence as highly devastating. Oyebanji, who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Mrs Monisade Afuye, on Saturday, during a on-the-spot assessment of the level of the havoc wreaked on the town, assured the victims that government would…

THE Ogun State Police Command has warned politicians and their supporters to play by the rules in the build-up to the March 11 governorship and state house of assembly elections in the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Frank Mba, gave the warning on Friday during a one-day interactive parley with members of political parties, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and other partners. While assuring residents and other critical stakeholders of utmost professionalism and impartiality, he however warned that the long arm of the law will be made to catch up with would-be criminals bent on scuttling the electoral…

THE 15-year-old son of a senior officer serving at the Lagos State Police Command has been confirmed dead after a fire outbreak at Falamo Police Barracks in Ikoyi area of Lagos. Reports say the inferno gutted Room 24, Block 1 occupied by one Assistant Superintendent of Police Godspower David attached to Bar Beach Division in Victoria Island. Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Lagos, Benjamin Hundeyin recalled that the incident was reported to the Divisional Police Officer in Ikoyi while a team of emergency responders were drafted to the scene and successfully put out the fire.…

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Friday thanked Nigerians for supporting the return of power to Southern Nigeria. News Point Nigeria reports that, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governor said the issue of rotational presidency has been settled for good with the emergence of a President-Elect, Bola Tinubu, who is from the southern region of the country. Wike spoke today when he joined his Oyo State counterpart, Seyi Makinde to commission the Oyo State 5,000,000-litre Aviation Fuel Dispensing Depot at the Ibadan Airport in the Alakia area of the state. In the buildup to the February 25 presidential poll,…

IN what appears like a copy-cat replay of an ongoing suit over the move by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ban the use of some denomination of old currencies, six states of the federation; Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo and Sokoto have dragged the federal government before the Supreme Court over the conduct, collation and announcement of the February 25, 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections. News Point Nigeria reports that, the States want the apex court to declare that the pronouncement of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as winner of the February…

PRESIDENT-ELECT, Bola Tinubu, will be moving to the Defence Guest House in Maitama District of Abuja. He will function at the Defence Guest House until he is sworn-in as President on May 29, 2023. “The President-elect will be moving into Defence House, in Maitama, FCT, where he will spend the next couple of months, and from where he will move into the Presidential Villa,” a tweet by the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council read on Thursday. The notice came barely 78 hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential elections.…

THE National Judicial Council (NJC) has reinstated Justice Babajide Aladejana of Ekiti State High Court to office after 16 years of suspension. Aladejana was suspended from office in 2006 with the state’s former Chief Judge, Justice Kayode Bamisile, under the administration of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore. The duo were suspended for their alleged roles in the political crisis that led to the impeachment of the former Governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose.October 16, 2006, over alleged N1.4 billion poultry scandal, abuse of office and illegal operation of a foreign account. However, Aladejana officially resumed work…

THE President-Elect, Bola Tinubu has set up committees to meet aggrieved presidential candidates to start the “healing process”. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and a member of the committees disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde. He said a Committee of Elders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would soon begin to meet with co-contestants of the President-elect in a bid to assuage their loss in the just concluded poll. He stressed that every aggrieved person will be met for reconciliation. “The President-elect has set up committees to meet with the gentlemen…

FORMER Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Wednesday, announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party and also quit partisan politics. This is coming hours after his party, the PDP lost the presidential election to the All Progressives Congress. Fayose, who announced his resignation while appearing as a guest on ARISE TV revealed that the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar rejected the offer of one term in office to get the G5 governors’ support. Atiku lost the G5 governors’ states to APC’s Tinubu who won three and Labour Party candidate, Obi won two states. Announcing his resignation, Fayose said, “From…

THE Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has appealed to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the just concluded election, Bola Tinubu, to ensure he doesn’t disappoint Nigerians and the people of Africa after been declared Nigeria’s president-elect. The foremost Yoruba monarch made the appeal in a congratulatory message to Tinubu released on Wednesday by the his Palace Director of Media and Public Affairs, Otunba Moses Olafare. The Ooni described Tinubu as a man of destiny, a game changer and a progressive workaholic who does not only merit the victory but also has adequate proven capacity to…

VICE-PRESIDENT Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday paid President-elect Bola Tinubu compliments on his victory at the recently concluded 2023 presidential election. Tinubu, who campaigned on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the small hours of the same day. After a hard-fought battle, the former Lagos State governor defeated Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 poll. Before Tinubu’s emergence as the party’s candidate, Osinbajo was one of his major challengers at the June 6, 2022…

THE President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has vowed to make Nigeria great. Tinubu disclosed this on Wednesday moments after he received the Certificate of Return. The Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu handed the Certificate of Return to Tinubu having declared him the winner of the presidential election. Tinubu won 12 states, his closest rival Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic PDP, also won 12 states. The candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi won 11 states including FCT while the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso won one state. However,…

THE Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said the nation’s democracy has recorded another major victory, following the emergence of his predecessor and leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the just concluded presidential election. Governor Sanwo-Olu, in a swift reaction to the announcement of presidential election results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early hours of Wednesday, said Tinubu contested and won a fiercely-fought democratic battle, stressing that the victory reflected the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate’s belief in deepening democracy in the country. The Governor said the choice…