LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi have been given three weeks’ ultimatum to present their petitions against the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The Presidential Tribunal made this known on Tuesday in a declaration made…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, on Saturday, demanded seven weeks to produce witnesses to establish his case at the Presidential Election Petition Court. He also stated that he would present 50 witnesses that would testify and tender evidence to establish that the 2023…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chieftain of the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George, has again given another angle as to why Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, should not have been declared winner of the presidential election. The former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, said the basis of the telephone conversation between Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, and Bola Tinubu, president-elect, is unclear. In a series of tweets posted on Friday, Obi said the US should wait for the presidential election tribunal’s…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday, May 25 confer national honours on President-elect Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, the vice-president-elect. Tinubu will be conferred with the Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (GCFR) while Shettima will be honoured with the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON)….
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil society organization, Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative (ASRADI), has lodged a lawsuit with a Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking to prevent the planned inauguration of Bola Tinubu as the President of Nigeria. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the suit, labelled FHC/ABJ/CS/669/2023, accuses Tinubu of perjury due to…
LAGOS MAY 16H (NEWSRANGERSA BBC investigation has found evidence suggesting some results from Nigeria’s presidential election may have been manipulated. The winner Bola Tinubu is due to be inaugurated on 29 May but the opposition is challenging this. The BBC has uncovered significant anomalies in Rivers state, a key battleground, although not sufficient to change…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, left Nigeria for Europe on a working visit. This is coming Two weeks after he returned to the country from a trip to London, Saudi Arabia and Paris. This was contained in a statement signed by his media aide, Tunde Rahman. According to the statement,…