LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Neo Africana Centre has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to stop constituting itself into a stumbling block at the Presidential Election Petitions Court but should, instead, act in ways and manners that can redeem its battered image. The Centre’s admonition came in the wake of complaints by the lawyers…
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 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has refused to produce 70 per cent of the electoral documents he requested to facilitate the prosecution of his petition. Obi, who came third in the February 25 presidential…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amidst the ongoing internal wrangling in Labour Party (LP), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday published the names and particulars of candidates produced by the mainstream Barr. Julius Abure-led faction of the party while ignoring Lamidi Apapa-led National Working Committee. The Julius Abure and Lamidi Apapa factions of the party…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has said server logs and uploads showed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) manipulated the results of the February 25 presidential election. Obi and LP’s submission is contained in a further reply to the preliminary objection by INEC asking the Presidential Election…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi has accused INEC of bias, describing as embarrasing the insistence of the electoral umpire that Tinubu won the election and that the petitions challenging the declaration should be dismissed. Obi said it was bizzare that INEC, which ought to be neutral, filed a preliminary…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRAGERS)-A new suit seeking to halt the inauguration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Nigeria’s new President on May 29, 2023, has been filed at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The suit marked CA/CV/259/2023 filed by Hope Democratic Party (HDP) is praying the court for an order stopping the inauguration. The…
LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, has ordered that the Commissioner of Police on election duty in Adamawa State, Mohammed Barde, withdraw from the state with immediate effect. The IGP also ordered that the Commissioner of Police in charge of Gombe State, CP Etim Equa immediately proceed to Adamawa State…