The Elders Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State has asked the House of Assembly to halt impeachment processes against Deputy Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa. It asked the Assembly to stop the impeachment in tandem with the agreement reached with the National Leadership of the APC. The Ondo APC Elders spoke in a communique after their meeting in Akure, the state capital. In the communique signed by its Secretary, Otunba Agboola Kelly, the APC Elders prayed for the speedy and permanent recovery of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu According to the communique, Elders also resolved that the people of Ondo State should resume…
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The Court of Appeal in Abuja upheld the nullification of the election of Yusuf of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) by the state election petition tribunal. However, Yusuf and his party, the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), rejected this judgment and declared their resolve to take the case to the Supreme Court in an effort to retain his seat. Yusuf announced this in a post on his X page. He wrote: “After careful study and rigorous stakeholders engagement, my team and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), have decided to approach the Supreme Court on the miscarriage of justice, delivered…
Chef Maggie concluded a 200-hour cook-a-thon in the early hours of Saturday, November 18. This was announced in a video posted on the Oyo Affairs X page. The video was captioned: ‘Congratulations to Chef Tope Maggie and his team for completing a 200-hour Cook-A-Thon, which came to an end at exactly 3am this morning.’ The cook-a-thon reportedly started on Thursday evening and ended on Saturday morning. It took place at the Ogbomoso Recreation Club in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, across LAUTECH College of Health Sciences in Isale-General. Tope is awaiting confirmation of his record by the GWR as congratulations and celebration…
The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, on Friday, received his certificate of return in Owerri, the state capital, following last Saturday’s governorship election. In his speech, the governor congratulated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for “conducting the freest, fairest, and most peaceful election in the history of Imo State.” The state Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof Abayomi Fashina, declared Uzodimma re-elected on Sunday morning around 10 am after over eight hours of collation of local government area (LGA) results. Uzodimma, 64, swept all the 27 LGAs in the state, defeating Samuel…
The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, has affirmed the victory of Bala Mohammed as the Governor of Bauchi State. The PUNCH had reported that following the declaration of Mohammed as the winner of the gubernatorial election in Bauchi State by the Independent National Electoral Commission, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Sadique Abubakar, approached the governorship election petition tribunal sitting in the State challenging the victory. Chairman of the three-man panel, P T. Kwahar, in his judgment, affirmed the victory of Bala Mohammed, a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory. But not satisfied with the tribunal’s judgment, Abubakar,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has presented certificates of return to the Governor-Elect of Kogi State, Usman Ododo, and his running mate in the election, Joel Salifu. The certificates of return were presented at the INEC headquarters in Lokoja, the state capital on Friday, amid jubilation by a mammoth crowd of supporters. Ododo of the All Progressives Congress had won the November 11 off-season governorship election in Kogi State with a wide margin, having polled 446,237 votes to defeat Murtala Ajaka of the Social Democratic Party, who came second with 259,052 votes. Dino Melaye, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,…
The High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory has ordered that the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, be remanded in the Kuje Correctional Centre pending the determination of his bail request. Emefiele is standing trial on an alleged procurement fraud. The trial which had been stalled on three occasions finally held on Friday. The Federal Government had initially preferred 20 charge on procurement fraud to the tune of N6.5 billion against the former CBN governor. But the FG reduced the charges to six to the tune of over N1bn which he was arraigned on…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has affirmed the tribunal judgment which declared the All Progressive Congress candidate, Nasiru Gawuna winner of the governorship election. The Tribunal led by Justice Oluyemi Osadebay had nullified the election of Governor Abba Yusuf by declaring 165, 663 of his votes were invalid. The tribunal held that the ballot papers were not signed nor stamped by the Independent National Electoral Commission. Displeased by the tribunal verdict, Yusuf appealed against the judgment. Delivering judgment on the matter on Friday, the appeal court held that Yusuf was not qualified to contest the election. The three-member…
The Nigeria Customs Service has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for continuously sustaining collaborative ties with various stakeholders in the anti- corruption fight. This commendation was given on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 in Kaduna by Assistant Comptroller General of Customs, ACG I.Q Ogbudu who led a team of senior officers in the Customs Zone B Headquarters on a courtesy visit to the Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC. Ogbudu says that synergy with the EFCC always encourages and promotes understanding on how best to render support to the Commission in the anti- graft crusade. She explained that…
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the 2023 elections, Omoyele Sowore, on Thursday described the just concluded off-season governorship elections as scam. The elections were conducted on Saturday, November 11, in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa states. Sowore made his position known in a video posted on his official X handle captioned, “Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa off-season election scams by inecnigeria’. In the video Sowore said, “Well, if anything else, I have already predicted that these elections are predetermined. “What they call the PVC is ‘Poverty Verification Card’, it is meant to confirm that you are poor. “What…