LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two years after Samuel Ashola was shot in the leg during a peaceful protest in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos, the unemployed artist boils with anger as he prepares to vote. “My blood is hot,” said the 30-year-old, before campaigning for the 2023 general elections starts later in September. “I’m from the ghetto,…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), might have ruled out a former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, from the 2023 presidential run, because they would be in their 70s by the next election. Although IBB as Babangida is fondly called…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Atiku Abubakar, the 2019 Presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Pary (PDP), will file a 70-point appeal at the Supreme Court against President Muhammadu Buhari‘s victory. I will be recall that the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) dismissed the petition of the PDP and Atiku on Wednesday, September 11. Delivering judgment,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The expected and awaited judgement from the presidential election petitions tribunal has reportedly put the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) camp on edge. In a recent press statement, the PDP says the country is anxiously waiting for the judiciary to…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of its final address before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, the Supreme Court has struck out an appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar. The apex court struck out the appeal filed against a ruling of the Presidential Election Petition…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained that there was no way Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential election, could have won. INEC said Atiku was not declared winner of the exercise because it was satisfied that the PDP candidate did not secure majority…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, and his party has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari was not qualified to have contested the poll and as such, should be disqualified by the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal. Besides, the petitioners in their final address to…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A West African Examination Council (WAEC) official, Henry Adewunmi, who said he has worked with examination board for 30 years told the Presidential election tribunal that the assessment result issued to President Muhammadu Buhari by Cambridge Assessment Center is not a document from WAEC. Adewunmi said this on Wednesday when President Muhammadu…