LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the petition alleging that the requirement for presidential candidates to be declared winners of the election is that they must secure 25% of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the tribunal chairman, Justice Haruna Simon […]
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LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian election tribunal will on Wednesday deliver its ruling to petitions challenging the result of a presidential vote that brought Bola Tinubu to power, the court registrar said on Monday. The victory in February for Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress, is disputed by his two main opponents. Atiku Abubakar of […]
Sep 4 2023 | Posted in
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LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peter Obi/Yusuf Datti Ahmed camp on Monday accused the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) of attempting to influence the verdict of the tribunal hearing disputes arising from the February 25, 2023 Nigerian presidential election. A statement by the Obi-Datti Media Office entitled “EIU jaundiced Report: A transactional work poorly done” dismissed […]
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LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Renowned politician Babatunde Gbadamosi has ignited a fierce political storm with a recent statement on his verified Twitter account, claiming that undeniable evidence supporting a landslide victory for Peter Obi and the Nigeria Labour Party (NLP) in the last general elections is being presented before Election Petition Tribunals across the nation. The […]
Jun 15 2023 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A legal practitioner, Festus Ogun has condemned a section of the Democracy Day speech President Bola Tinubu delivered on Monday. “It has become imperative to state here that the unnecessary illegal orders used to truncate or abridge democracy will no longer be tolerated,” Tinubu said in his nationwide broadcast. In response, the […]
Jun 13 2023 | Posted in
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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 […]
Jun 9 2023 | Posted in
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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 […]
Jun 9 2023 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 2BD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petition court has admitted some presidential election results presented by the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to support its claim against the victory of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Lead counsel to Obi on Friday informed the court sitting in Abuja that […]
Jun 2 2023 | Posted in
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LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party has claimed that the Bashiru Lamidi Apapa faction of the party, which stormed the Presidential Election Petition Court on Wednesday morning, was disgraced out of the premises. DAILY POST had reported that Apapa and the faction of the suspended National Chairman of the party, Mr Julius Abure clashed […]
May 17 2023 | Posted in
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LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal on Tuesday gave an indication that it would consider the prayer of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party’s demand for a live broadcast of its proceedings. The tribunal presided over by Justice Haruna Tsammani asked the parties in the ongoing petitions to settle and decide […]
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