LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More prominent lawyers are lining up on the side of the argument championed by former President of the Nigerian Bar Association( NBA), Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) that a presidential candidate must obtain 25 percent in the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), as a requirement to be declared winner of an election at that category. The contentious issue which…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has appointed nine Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) to defend the results of the February 25 presidential election. The team of lawyers will be led by Abubakar Mahmoud, former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Other members of the legal team include Stephen Adehi (SAN),…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Tuesday received a letter from Nigerian youths asking it to prevail on the federal government to nullify the February 25 presidential election. The youth group had stormed the ECOWAS headquarters in Abuja to protest the manner in which the Independent National Electoral Commission,…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A good governance group, Govindex Leadership, Empowerment and Development Foundation, has come down hard on President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing him of contempt by attempting to teleguide and intimidate the Judiciary with regard to the on-going litigation over the controversial February 25 Presidential election. Govindex in a statement issued on Wednesday slammed the…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has granted the Labour Party (LP) access to the election materials that were used for the February 25, 2023 presidential and the National Assembly elections. LEADERSHIP reports that the Labour Party officials were inspecting the election materials at the Commission’s headquarters in Maitama, Abuja. The LP…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chatham House, an independent policy institute based in London, has stated in an analysis by one of its fellows that the February 25 presidential election showed that the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC failed to learn new lessons. The London-based institute stressed that the electoral umpire failed to adhere to its own…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has insisted that the presidential election held on February 25 was won by the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, and not the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. It, therefore, said that the decision of Obi to challenge the results…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has vowed to punish its officials, including ad-hoc or collation personnel, who may have been found wanting in the conduct of the Saturday, February 25 Presidential and National Assembly Elections. INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja at a meeting with Resident Electoral…