Nigeria Political news

• I will bequeath free, fair elections as a beneficiary of one ― Buhari

  17-01-2020 21:57
  
  President Muhammadu Buhari
  President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that as a beneficiary of a free and fair election in the country, he would bequeath the same to his successor and the nation in 2023.
  The president, according to a statement by one of his spokesmen, Malam Garba Shehu, spoke at a dinner with members of the legal team for the 2019 presidential election petition on Thursday in Abuja.
  Buhari recounted that the turnout of Nigerians during his presidential campaigns to the 36 states of
  
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• Aisha Buhari, Garba Shehu reconcile at son’s wedding

  17-01-2020 21:36
  
  Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja
  The wedding of Muhammad Garba Shehu and Zuwaira Umar Faruk, on Friday reconciled First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari and Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.
  In December 2019, Mrs. Buhari had accused the president’s media aide of making a mess of communication from the Presidential Villa, meddling in the affairs of her family, starving her of funds to run her office and messing up her marriage.
  In a statement she personally signed, Mrs Buhar
  
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• Pdp To Embark On Nationwide Protest Over S/court Verdicts 

  17-01-2020 20:44
  
  The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the People39;s Democratic Party in her 87th meeting held on Friday 17th January, 2020 has resolved to embark on what she described as a nationwide peaceful demonstration to express dismay over the judgement ...
  
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• Imo Supreme court ruling: Protesters storm NASS in black attire

  17-01-2020 20:07
  
  Ihedioha-Uzodinma
  By Henry Umoru
  Protesters numbering over one hundred under the aegis of concerned Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youth group Friday stormed the National Assembly to protest against Tuesday’s judgment by the Supreme Court which removed Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and declared Senator Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the authentic winner of Imo governorship election.
  The protesters who all appeared in black attire, comprising o
  
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• Sack from Senate: I was denied fair hearing, Ifeanyi Ubah tells Court

  17-01-2020 19:47
  
  ….files 4-ground of appeal, applies for stay of executionBy Ikechukwu Nnochiri
  In a swift reaction, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah of the Young Peoples Party, YPP, on Friday, lodged an appeal to challenge the judgement of an Abuja High Court that sacked him as the lawmaker representing Anambra South Senatorial District.
  In the four-ground of appeal, he filed before the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, Ubah, insisted that he was denied fair hearing by the high court.
  He told the appellate cour
  
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• Sack from Senate: I was denied fair hearing, Ifeanyi Ubah tells Apex Court

  17-01-2020 19:47
  ….files 4-ground of appeal, applies for stay of executionBy Ikechukwu Nnochiri
  In a swift reaction, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah of the Young Peoples Party, YPP, on Friday, lodged an appeal to challenge the judgement of an Abuja High Court that sacked him as the lawmaker representing Anambra South Senatorial District.
  In the four-ground of appeal, he filed before the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, Ubah, insisted that he was denied fair hearing by the high court.
  He told the appellate cour
  
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• Uzodinma suspends all contracts awarded in Imo, dissolves parastatals

  17-01-2020 18:43
  
  Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri
  Governor Hope Uzodinma has ordered the suspension of all contracts awarded before his resumption of office.
  According to the governor, this is in view of nefarious activities of “some government functionaries entering into contract agreements on behalf of the government without reference to the newly-sworn in governor.”
  According to a press statement by the principal secretary to the governor, T.U. C Nwokonkwo, it stated that “particular note has been tak
  
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• Imo: PDP reckless, trying to incite violence ― Oshiomhole

  17-01-2020 17:58
  
  …Says Returning Officer should be arrested, Judges questioned
  By Omeiza Ajayi
  National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has lashed out at the Peoples Democratic Party PDP over what he described as reckless and provocative statements intended to incite violence following it loss of the governorship seat in Imo state.
  Oshiomhole spoke at a news conference Friday in Abuja alongside members of the National Working Committee NWC.
  He said the purpos
  
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• Uzodinma appoints SSG, AG, CPS, others

  17-01-2020 17:50
  
  Hope Uzodinma
  Imo governor Hope Uzodinma on Friday approved the appointment of Mr Cosmos Iwu as the Secretary of the State Government.
  Also appointed were Mr Nnamdi Anyaechie, Chief of Staff, Mr C. O. Akaolisa, Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, and Mr Oguike Nwachukwu, Chief Press Secretary and Media Adviser.
  A statement signed by Mr T. U. Nwankwo, Principal Secretary to the Governor, said that the appointments take immediate effect except for the Attorney-General whose appointment
  
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• Oshiomhole on fire: Declares INEC irresponsible to have pronounced Ihedioha winner in Imo

  17-01-2020 17:31
  
  Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
  The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as reckless and madness the statement credited to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Supreme Court judgement, insisting that the opposition party does not have the birthright of benefiting from electoral fraud.
  Apparently reacting to the claims by the PDP disparaging the Supreme Court ruling on Imo State the gubernatorial contest, the national chairman of the ruling party, Adams Oshiomhole, noted at a media briefing
  
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• 2023: I’ll handover quietly to my successor — Buhari

  17-01-2020 17:16
  President Muhammadu Buhari
  By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
  PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has said that he is morally bound to handover quietly to whoever will succeed him in 2023 when he must have completed his second tenure.
  President Buhari also said that he was a beneficiary of a free and fair election in the country and would bequeath same to his successor.
  Speaking at a dinner with members of the legal team for the 2019 presidential election petition on Thursday night in Abuja, the President said that
  
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• Breaking: Fr Mbaka storms Uzodinma’s office in Owerri

  17-01-2020 16:47
  
  Fr. Mbaka
  By Nwafor Sunday
  The Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministries Enugu Nigeria (Amen), Reverend Father Ejike Camillus Anthony, Ebenezer Mbaka, has visited the Imo state governors office and dedicated the office and the entire building to God.
  Mbaka was said to have spent about three hours, cleansing and dedicating the building to God.
  READ ALSO: ICYMI: Ihedioha pack up, Uzodinma is coming ― Mbaka speaks again
  Sources comprising of Security men and civil servants at the State
  
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• Uzodinma, Okorocha’s APC factions in Imo reconcile after Supreme Court victory

  17-01-2020 16:28
  
  Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri
  Following the swearing-in of Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, factions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) loyal to the erstwhile Governor Rochas Okorocha and the incumbent has decided to shelve aside their differences in the interest of the party and unite as one party.
  Marcillinus Nlemigbo, APC chairman loyal to Governor Uzodinma told our correspondent that the “war is over with the emergence of Hope Uzodinma as the governor of the state.
  “What are we
  
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• We shouldn’t take present happenings in Nigeria’s democratic life for granted – Atiku

  17-01-2020 15:56
  
  Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
  Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has charged the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to set up a committee to review the outcome of the 2019 general elections and recommend necessary reforms to the party.
  Atiku stated this at an emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the PDP, on Friday, in Abuja.
  This is coming as 12 governors elected on the platform of the opposition party were conspicuously absent at the crucial NEC meeting convened by the leadershi
  
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• Imo guber ruling painful, yet PDP, Ihedioha should move on ― Abaribe

  17-01-2020 15:48
  
  …Warns against imminent weakening of INEC, others, Says the dark hour will surely pass away
  Imo State Government House
  By Henry Umoru
  Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abia South has warned against imminent weakening of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and some critical agencies of democracy.
  According to Senator Abaribe, if the present trend like the Supreme Court ruling that removed erstwhile Governor of Imo State, Hon E
  
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• APC ‘ll bounce back in Oyo in 2023, Obisesan predicts

  17-01-2020 15:16
  
  Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan
  Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Reformer Reconciliatory Committee in Oyo State, Chief Lowo Obisesan, has said the party will bounce back in the state, despite its electoral loss to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) during 2019 general elections.
  He gave the assurance in an interview with journalists in Ibadan, the state capital, when he briefed them on the progress made so far in the onerous task of reconciling aggrieved members of the party towards ensuri
  
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• Lawal lambasts Oshiomole over alleged imposition

  17-01-2020 15:01
  
  Billy Graham Abel, Yola
  One of APC’s frontline campaigners for power to be returned to the South West in 2023 and an aspirant for the office of the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Lawal, has singled out the embattled APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomole, as the Achilles heel within the APC that would rob the party of victory at the polls in 2023 if he continues with his culture of imposition.
  Lawal said that Oshiomole’s slippery ways since the 2019
  
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• Again, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah Loses In Abuja High Court

  17-01-2020 14:45
  
  A Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked Senator Ifeanyi Ubah of the Young Progressives Party (YPP).Justice Bello Kawu, in a ruling, declined Ubah rsquo;s request to set aside the earlier order issued in a judgment delivered by the court on April ...
  
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• Court reaffirms Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s sack over forged certificate

  17-01-2020 14:35
  
  Godwin Tsa, Abuja
  The High Court of the Federal Capital  Territory (FCT) Abuja, on Friday, reaffirmed its earlier order sacking Ifeanyi Ubah of the Young Peoples Party(YPP) as the senator representing Anambra South.In his ruling, Justice Bello Kawu refused to grant Ubah’s request to set aside the earlier order issued in a judgment delivered by the court on April 11, 2019.
  The judge had, in the April 11  judgment, sacked Ubah for allegedly submitting a forged National Examination
  
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• Breaking News: Court reaffirms Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s sack over forged certificate

  17-01-2020 14:35
  
  Godwin Tsa, Abuja
  The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, on Friday, reaffirmed its earlier order sacking Ifeanyi Ubah of the Young People’s Party (YPP) as the senator representing Anambra South.
  In his ruling, Justice Bello Kawu, refused to grant Ubah’s request to set aside the earlier order issued in a judgment delivered by the court on April 11, 2019.
  The judge had, in the said earlier judgment, sacked Ubah for allegedly submitting a forged National Examinatio
  
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• Imo guber: Abaribe punctures Supreme Court ruling

  17-01-2020 14:08
  
  Senator elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the party not to despair over the Supreme Court ruling that removed erstwhile governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, saying this is not the time for blame game as “this dark hour will surely pass away.”
  Minority Leader of the Senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe, who bemoaned the outcome of the judgment in a statement released in Abuja by his Media Adviser, Uchenna Awom, advised that the ruling should be take
  
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• Cleric prophesies another political upheaval

  17-01-2020 14:01
  
  Romanus Okoye
  Few days after Fr. Ejike Mbaka’s prophecy came through in Imo State, the General Overseer, Shepherd Towers International Church, Lagos, popularly known as Spit Fire Ministries, Prophet Chineductus, has warned that many who are positioning for 2023 presidential position may not live to be part of it.
  In a message titled “Government of Hell”, the prophet said that although 2023 is far away, many who are occupying positions of authority now and have opportunities to
  
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• Appointment seekers beseech Imo government house

  17-01-2020 13:32
  
  …As Uzodinma makes first appointment
  Imo State Government House
  By Chinonso Alozie – Owerri
  Members of different political parties in Imo state are said to have expanded their lobbying strategy to get appointments in the new government of Hope Uzodinma.
  Also, Vanguard gathered in Owerri, that governor Uzodinma has made his first appointments with the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, now Cosmas Iwu.
  While Mr Oguike Nwachukwu, is now the Chief Press Secretary to the governor.
  I
  
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• I will give Yorubas 1million IPOB members to support Amotekun – NNAMDI KANU

  17-01-2020 13:03
  
  Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra
  By Nwafor Sunday
  The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has in a live broadcast on the 15th of January 2020, backed the South West security outfit called Operation Amotekun, saying that his group would do anything to ensure that Amotekun stays in Yoruba land.
  Exhibiting his seriousness, the outspoken Kanu, promised to give about one million IPOB members to support the Yorubas.
  READ ALSO: Amotekun: You a
  
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• PDP to set up committee to review 2019 elections

  17-01-2020 12:28
  
  By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja
  The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Friday, resolved to set up a committee to review the outcome of the 2019 general elections.
  The resolution followed a recommendation by former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar at the party’s 87th National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting which held in Abuja on Friday.
  Atiku in a brief remark condemned what he called the gradual erosion of democratic ethos in the past five years, even as he called on
  
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• 2023 and Governor David Umahi’s Politics of Self-Preservation

  17-01-2020 11:24
  
  If there is any state governor that knows the power of federal might and courts it that governor must be the Ebonyi State rsquo;s Chief Executive, Mr. David Nweze Umahi. As a politician who began his career as acting state chairman of Peoples Democra ...
  
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• PDP National Working Committee (NWC) Rejects Supreme Court Judgement On Imo Governorship Election

  17-01-2020 08:07
  
  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday alleged that the Supreme Court under Justice Tanko Muhammad, as Chief Justice of Nigeria, had been heavily compromised.The PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus, during a media briefing in Abuja, adde ...
  
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• Rebuilding Imo: Tasks before Uzodinma

  17-01-2020 07:51
  
  By Chinonso Alozie
  Ihedioha-Uzodinma
  WHEN the euphoria of his swearing-in dies down Governor Hope Uzodinma will be faced with critical challenges in Imo State. Some of them are daunting and need immediate attention. The challenges include: addressing the issue of decayed and decaying infrastructure particularly roads, paying the new minimum wage, controversies over payment of pensions, generating more revenues to accelerate development, and carrying critical stakeholders along.
  Other challenges
  
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• INEC to involve EFCC, ICPC in Sokoto rerun elections

  17-01-2020 05:08
  
  Tunde Omolehin. Sokoto
  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed  its readiness to partner the anti-graft and other security stakeholders in conducting free and fair elections in Sokoto State.
  Th Resident Electoral Commissioner, in the stsate, Malam Sadiq Abubakar disclosed this yesterday  during a stakeholders forum meeting.
  He said two anti-corruption agencies namely: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission
  
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• Biafra: 50 years of no healing

  17-01-2020 04:13
  
  Wilfred Eya,Magnus Eze, Chukwudi Nweje, Sunday Ani and Okey Sampson
  This week, precisely on Wednesday, January 13, echoes of the Nigerian Civil War, reverberated like never before in the country. Though it was nationally glossed over as the Federal Government did nothing to commemmorate the sad event but it was impossible for many to suppress the memories. In some parts of Nigeria and particularly Lagos which was the nation’s capital during the ugly era, prominent Nigerians literally embar
  
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• Why healing process is very slow –Iwuanyanwu

  17-01-2020 04:11
  
  Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri
  Elder statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu who fought during the civil war explained why the wound left by the war will continue to fester despite promises by the Federal Government to ameliorate the sufferings of the people after the war.
  He recalled that the policy of 3Rs-Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation by the government were not fully implemented and that led to many people in the old Eastern region, Middle belt and parts of  Bendel, greatly impov
  
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• Nothing has changed 50 years after –Col. Iheanacho

  17-01-2020 04:11
  
  George Onyejiuwa, Owerri
  Colonel Lambert Iheanacho who was retired from the Nigerian Army in 1990, was the  last Biafra Army field commander and had commanded the famous 63 Infantry Brigade which recaptured Owerri from the federal forces in 1969. He stated that nothing has changed since after the war as the South East has not been really reintegrated into the political structure.
  He pointed out that the civil war was imposed on the then Eastern region by the Federal Government led by Genera
  
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• What Army lost after 1966 coup –Nwankwo, War veteran

  17-01-2020 04:09
  
  Obinna Odogwu, Awka
  Chairman of the Nigerian Legion, Anambra State Council, Elder Ifeanyichukwu Nwankwo, has said that part of the reasons why the ‘no victor, no vanquished’ declaration by the former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, after the Nigeria-Biafra war did not make any impact was because the military has lost discipline, control and order while he reigned. He said while Gowon dished out orders, those who felt they own the country did whatever they liked. He says much mor
  
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• Plight of forgotten Biafra heroes

  17-01-2020 04:09
  
  Jude Chinedu, Enugu
  As prominent Nigerians marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the bloody 30-month civil war which almost ended the corporate existence of Nigeria from 1967 to 1970, some soldiers who fought on the side of the defunct Republic of Biafra are still reeling in deprivation, hunger and abandonment.
  Daily Sun which visited to the Disabled Biafran War Veterans’ Camp, located inside the Leprosy Settlement Centre in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State, captured the
  
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• Imo: Supreme Court judgment clear coup –PDP

  17-01-2020 03:36
  
  Romanus Ugwu and Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja and Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Onitsha
  The Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) , yesterday,  described the judgment of the Supreme Court on the Imo State governorship election dispute as a coup against the people of the state and Nigerians at large.
  PDP National chairman, Uche Secondus, at a press briefing in Abuja, described the  judgment as a miscarriage of justice, saying it must not be allowed to stand.
  Secondus who said the judgment was a recipe for cris
  
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• Nobody is indispensable in Rivers APC –Abe

  17-01-2020 02:23
  
  Tony John, Port Harcourt
  Immediate past representative of the Rivers South East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Magnus Abe, has said no member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State is dispensable or indispensable.
  Abe, in a statement by his media aide, Party Benson, said for the party to rise above its current predicament, it required all hands to be on deck.
  He bemoaned a situation where party’ stakeholders throw tantrums at one another, stating that such be
  
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• Edo APC guber aspirants condemn crisis, forge front against Obaseki

  17-01-2020 02:22
  
  Tony Osauzo, Benin
  Four Edo State gubernatorial aspirants on All Progressives Congress (APC) platform, yesterday, condemned what they described as needless crisis that has engulfed the party since the middle of 2018.
  The governorship aspirants, including former deputy governor, Pius Odubu; Charles Airhiavbere, Osagie Ize-Iyamu and Chris Ogiemwonyi, spoke at a joint press conference in Benin.
  They blamed the crisis on the deliberate alienation of party leaders and members by the government which
  
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• APGA pushes for electronic voting, transmission of results

  17-01-2020 02:13
  
  Fred Itua, Abuja
  National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Edozie Njoku, yesterday, called for the reformation of the electoral process in the country.
  He said the use of electronic voting and transmission of results in subsequent elections, including the 2023 polls, will clean up the process.
  Njoku stated these while reacting to the judgment of the FCT High Court, Abuja yesterday, after being returned as APGA national chairman.
  He also promised to rebuild the party and br
  
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• I’m not against being probed — Okorocha reacts to Uzodinma’s move to investigate him

  17-01-2020 02:06
  
  George Onyejiuwa, Owerri
  Former Imo Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has dared Governor Hope Uzodinma to make good his threat to investigate him, saying he had no reservations about being probed.
  Okorocha was reacting to the order by Uzodinma that financial status of the state from May 2010 be sent to him.
  Governors who ruled the state within the time span are Ikedi Ohakim (2007-2011), Okorocha (2011-2019) and Emeka Ihedioha (May 2019-Jan 2020).
  Uzodinma, while delivering his inaugural speechs after t
  
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