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2023 Elections: This Is Not Democracy, Let’s Do Selection Instead — J. S. Okutepa, SAN

LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Elections constitute a livewire that gives real meaning to democracy on which great nations have been built but a popular known lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Jubril Samuel Okutepa, SAN, said that Nigerian case is the reverse. The learned Silk, also said that the conduct of elections in Nigeria is a…

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INEC Publishes 17% Of Poll Count As Observers Criticize Slow Progress

LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission published results from just 17% of polling stations, prompting observers to censure the agency for the slow progress. The INEC’s website showed results from only 30,422 of the 176,846 polling stations, which were supposed transmit the count as soon as they were tallied, as of 10:51 a.m….

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Emerging Election Crisis: Pat Utomi, Others Held Hostage By Thugs At Lagos Collation Centres

LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Contact and Mobilisation/Special Duties of Labour Party and Head of Grassroots Mobilisation of the Obi-Datti 2023 Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, Veteran Olawale Okunniyi, otherwise known as the National Chief Mobiliser of the Labour Party and Obi-dient Movement under the banner of the Big Tent of the 3rd Force Movement of…

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Nation Release Of Election Result: Call Tinubu To Order Momodu Tells President Buhari

LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Our attention has just been drawn to the recklessly dangerous publication unilaterally awarding an impossible victory to the APC Presidential candidate Chief Bola Tinubu. The said newspaper is owned by Tinubu. Only yesterday, we all saw how thugs of the APC Chieftains and his allies took over the streets of Lagos burning…

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Vote Buying: EFCC Nabs 17 Suspects With Bags Of Semovita, Rice In Kano

LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC said its operatives have arrested 17 suspects over alleged vote buying in Katsina and Kano states. EFCC zonal commander in Kano, Farul Dogondaji, announced the development in an interview with NAN on Saturday. Dogondaji said six suspects were arrested in Tofa and Ungogo LGAs of…

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Group   Raises The Alarm Over Moves To Compromise Presidential, NASS Elections, Calls For Intervention

LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has raised alarm over what it described as obvious and deliberate moves to compromise the on-going Presidential and National elections. It charged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies to intervene immediately so as to prevent crisis. POSN in a statement issued on…

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After Delays, Anxious Nigerians Keep Watch For Key Vote’s Outcome

LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some frustrated Nigerians cast their ballots with flashlights while others stood watch at their polling stations as counting got under way late Saturday amid fears of vote tampering after a day of delays in Africa’s most populous nation. Election officials blamed the delays on logistical issues, though other observers pointed to the…

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Okonjo-Iweala Hails Large Numbers Of Voters Turnout, Laments Late Arrival Of INEC Officials

LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has applauded a large number of voters for coming out en masse to vote in the Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday. Okojo-Iweala made the revelation at her polling unit in Umuda Isingwu village, Umuahia, Abia state. The WTO DG, however,…

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