LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigeria Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate in 2023 General Election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has commended the role played so far by Economic West African States (ECOWAS) in handling the crisis in Niger Republic. In a statement, Atiku warned that as the ECOWAS continues to work towards reinstating…
LAGOS JULY 23TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has appealed to justices of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PREPEC) in Abuja to exclude the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, and his party in the event of any rerun presidential election, claiming that only him and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party and its standard bearer in the last presidential election, Peter Obi, have kicked against the offer of board slots to state governors, including those elected on the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, by President Bola Tinubu. Kwara State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Adamawa governorship election, Aisha Dahiru, popularly called Binani has filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). INEC declared null and void the purported declaration of Binani by the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) as the winner of the state…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-As the Presidential Election Petitions Court reconvenes on Monday (July 3), the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has lined up witnesses to defend the election victory of President Bola Tinubu and one of them is Dr. Lawrence Bayode, Deputy Director in the ICT Department of the electoral umpire, THE WHISTLER reports. The…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2023 presidential election in Nigeria, which led to Bola Ahmed Tinubu being elected as President, is currently undergoing legal scrutiny at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT). Several Nigerians have raised concerns about the fairness of the election. Igho Akeregha, a member of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, addressed the petitions…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abedemi Joseph on Friday told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that they were instructed by INEC, their employer, not to give copies of election results to political party agents who declined to sign the results. The witness made the revelation while testifying…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two subpoenaed witnesses of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, admitted at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) failed to transmit the results of the election after the collation. In their joint petition before the PEPC, Atiku and PDP acussed…