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….Congratulates APC candidate, Tinubu over election victory –Tells those who believe there is fraud to bring evidence —-Urges candidates to honour signed peace accord President Muhammadu Buhari early hours of Wednesday, congratulated the winner of the 2023 Presidential Election, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The President also told candidates that lost the election and their supporters to take their grievances to court and not to the streets Reacting to the results just announced, President Buhari in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said: “I congratulate His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his victory. Elected by the people, he is the best person for the job. I shall now work with him and his team to ensure an orderly handover of power. “The election was Africa’s largest democratic exercise. In a region that has undergone backsliding and military coups in recent years, this election...

The president-elect, Bola Tinubu, Wednesday, assured Nigerians that he would be the chief servant and serve Nigeria with all he’s got. This is as he also appealed to opposition parties and his challengers to join him in his mission to achieve the desired country. “Let’s collaborate and work together. I promise to work with you,” Tinubu said while giving his acceptance speech in Abuja. At the event were his vice-president-elect, Kashim Shettima, All Progressives Congress National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and APC governors, among others. Speaking further, the former Lagos State governor, commended Nigerians, particularly those who voted for opposition parties, saying their move helped in deepening democracy in Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission during the early hours of Wednesday declared Tinubu, who is the APC presidential candidate during Saturday’s election, as the president-elect. Tinubu was declared the president-elect after the 70-year-old polled 8,794,726 vot...

Argentina and Paris St-Germain forward Lionel Messi has been named men’s player of the year at the 2022 Best Fifa Awards. The 35-year-old beat French forwards Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema to the prize. Messi captained Argentina to World Cup glory in Qatar, and scored 27 goals in 49 games for club and country in 2021-22. Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas was named women’s player of the year. Messi, who won the award for a second time, said: “It’s amazing. It’s been a tremendous year and it’s an honour for me to be here and win this award. Without my team-mates I wouldn’t be here. “I achieved the dream I had been hoping for for so long. Very few people can achieve that and I have been lucky to do so.” At the ceremony in Paris, Lionel Scaloni, who led Argentina to their third World Cup title, was named men’s coach of the year. Scaloni beat Pep Guardiola – who guided Manchester City to a sixth Premier League title – and Real Madrid’s Champions League-winning boss Carlo Ancelotti to the honour...

Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has said former President Olusegun Obasanjo lacks credibility to talk about fraudulent elections. The activist and politician was reacting to Obasanjo’s call to cancel Saturday’s elections in areas where the exercise was disrupted. Obasanjo, in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had compromised the conduct of the elections. He said the results being declared by INEC do not correspond with the wish of the Nigerian people. Reacting to Obasanjo’s stance, Sowore in a tweet via his verified Tweeter handle accused the former President of laying the ‘foundation for the shambolic election that has become Nigeria’s lot  now.’  Vanguard Newspaper.

The Presidential Campaign Council of Labour Party, LP, has expressed disappointment over what it described as the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to bequeath a legacy of credible elections after being a beneficiary of one which brought him into office. Director General of the LP PCC, Akin Osuntokun, said this at a media briefing in Abuja, yesterday. Osuntokun explained that both President Buhari and the Independent National Electoral Commission failed to live up to their promise to let the votes of Nigerians count despite several assurances. He said:  “We wish to place the following on the record: The President promised Nigerians free and fair elections with the passage of the new Electoral Act and indeed has repeated this promise multiple times. “The INEC Chairman also came before Nigerians and the Global community to promise free and fair elections and severally reiterated its readiness to conduct the elections. “What has become glaring is that none of these promises have b...

Actress Ruth Kadiri-Ezerika has said it’s almost impossible for politicians to rig elections without the help of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). She accused the electoral commission of being excessively fraudulent and corrupt.  In a video, the mother of two demanded INEC released exact results according to polling units. The film star stated that election rigging would not be accepted by the people this year, warning they’ll sue the commission if they did. She said: “INEC has proven to be the most fraudulent, corrupt, in fact; politicians cannot rig election without INEC.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has displayed “mischief and hypocrisy” by calling for the cancellation of already conducted elections, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC) said yesterday. It warned that Obasanjo was recklessly trying to endanger and derail the country’s democratic process out of selfishness, ego and malice. APC PCC Special Adviser on Media, Communications and Public Affairs, Mr. Dele Alake, who reacted to Obasanjo’s letter urging President Muhammadu Buhari to cancel the presidential and National Assembly elections for not passing the credibility and transparency test, said the former leader acted in bad faith. Obasanjo urged President Buhari to reschedule such cancelled election along with areas where elections were disrupted for next Saturday, March 4, 2023 He further argued that the BVAS and server officials for the elections should also be changed. The elder statesman also recommended that a committee of Independent National Elect...

Waiting for election results is never easy, especially with so many variables at this period, increasing the growing concerns among people. Even people who take very little interest in politics are most likely affected by the political climate as friends, families, and co-workers are discussing their thoughts and anxieties about the situation. While staying connected to what is going on in the nation, here are ways to prevent it from having negative consequences on your well-being: 1. Acknowledge your fear The first step to overcoming your fears is acknowledging them. When you get to the root of the problem, conquering fear comes naturally. According to a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Dr. Charles Umeh, “What affects people the more is the unknown fear and like it is is now, there is unknown fear all over, and you don’t even know what you are afraid of, and that is where the danger is and you know some people are more vulnerab...

Peoples Democratic Party has charged the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) to cancel elections in parts of Borno State, where BVAS were not used in last Saturday’s election. The PDP campaign council, in a statement by its spokesman, Daniel Bwala said that the party takes exception to results, which were not announced at the collation centres , will be allowed to be presented at the national collation centre. According to him, “in specific reference to Borno State, we reject in totality all areas where elections were conducted without the use of BVAS in compliance with the provisions of the new electoral act. We have concrete evidence our disposal to confirm these facts. “Consequently, elections results produced from such areas will not be accepted by our parties and therefore call for outright cancellations of votes produced from such areas like Southern Borno Senatorial District: “The entire results of Bayo and Shani local government areas where there was gross violati...

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) FCT Council has condemned the arrest and subsequent detention of the editor and a reporter of an online newspaper, 'TheNewsGuru.com', Mr. Ediri Oyibo and Mr. Paul Utebor respectively by the police in Abuja. This was contained in a statement signed by the Chairman, Comrade Emmanuel Ogbeche on Friday describing the arrest as unwarranted, absurd and unacceptable. The statement said, "Oyibo and Utebor were invited and eventually detained on Wednesday, February 22, through a letter dated February 18, 2023 for an interview with the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Zonal Criminal Investigation Department. "The invitation letter was signed by DCP Kabiru A. Shehu. The police claimed in the letter that they were investigating a case of criminal conspiracy, defamation of character, giving false information and threat to life against the journalists over a story on the paternity of a child. "The journalists were detained upon ...

INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission has threatened to cancel election results of crisis-ridden areas during the presidential and National Assembly elections in Kogi State. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Hale Longpet, sounded the warning while reacting to the crises that erupted in some Local Government Areas while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lokoja. The PUNCH reports that there were reports of interference of thugs in some polling units in Anyigba and Dekina in the Kogi East and Mopa in the Kogi West as well as parts of Kogi Central, where voting materials were allegedly carted away by the thugs. Reacting to the issues, the REC said, “You know the electoral Law says that where there are disruptions to the process, the result will be cancelled, the very particular units’ results will be cancelled. The issues initially were only in the Kogi East and Central but I can’t tell exactly where and where in the state hav...

  The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Saturday slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for what it considered the anomalies associated with the presidential and national Assembly election. The NLC president, Joe Ajaero vowed that the labour centre will hold INEC directly responsible for all the anomalies associated with the election. “All eligible voters must be given the opportunity to exercise their democratic rights to vote for the candidates of their choice. Anything short of this will be unacceptable to Nigerian workers,” he said. Ajaero said the NLC had hoped that the ills of electioneering in Nigeria would have been largely dealt with and corrected in this year’s election so that Nigerians can have a more credible and valid election. But the labour leader lamented that the report reaching the Congress thus far from around the country was contrary to the high hopes which it earlier had for the exercise. “INEC should immediately sit up and correct what is...

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, cautioned the security agencies, especially the Army, Police and Department of State Services (DSS) not to commit extralegal execution of citizens including those of ballot box snatchers. HURIWA said it was concerned about trending videos on the social media in which soldiers were threatening to kill snatchers of ballot boxes during the poll, saying it is unlawful, unconstitutional and a crime against humanity for security forces to disregard their rules of engagements governing all Internal Security Operations and go ahead in trigger happy episodes of extrajudicial killings of Nigerians on the election as a demonstration of the so-called show of strength. The group said Section 33(1) of the 1999 Constitution makes right to life sacrosanct and prohibits unlawful execution of offenders absolutely unless authorised by Courts of law. HURIWA also blasted the Inspector General of Police Usman Alkal...