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Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, insisted on Thursday that he won the presidential election last Saturday and was ready to prove it. He claimed that the presidential election, won by All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu, was tainted and scripted to produce predetermined results. Tinubu was declared the president-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission. Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, was declared president-elect after receiving 8,794,726 votes in the 2023 presidential election. The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced Tinubu as the winner at the International Collation Centre in Abuja during the early hours of Wednesday.…

A constitutional lawyer, Dr Kayode Ajulo, has advised the Labour Party (LP) not to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in seeking legal redress in the recently concluded presidential election. The LP and PDP have alleged irregularities in the conduct of the elections that resulted in Sen. Bola Tinubu’s election as president-elect and have expressed interest in filing a legal challenge. “I find it strange that Labour party is parleying with the PDP, whereas when the PDP was supposed to negotiate with the Labour party it did not; LP should be wary of this alliance”, he said. As a result,…

Kwara police are investigating a homicide in which a police officer shot and killed a woman on the grounds of a school in Ilorin on Thursday. Following the murder, the police officer shot himself to death. The murdered woman was thought to be the officer’s mistress. According to an eyewitness, the police officer approached the murdered woman as she arrived at the school with her child, had some discussions with her, and then shot her twice. He also stated that the police officer shot himself to death. The report was confirmed by another eyewitness who witnessed the incident from a…

Blessing Whitney, a 12-year-old Chrisland student who died during the school’s inter-house sports, died as a result of electrocution, according to Adeniran, Whitney’s mother. On Wednesday, she announced it in an Instagram live video. “I want to thank everyone for your support, your calls and messages have helped us get through this very difficult period,” she said in the video. “The autopsy results have been released, and Desola was electrocuted. My daughter died as a result of electrocution. For the past two weeks, I have been subjected to trauma. My baby died three weeks ago tomorrow. The school made me…

“A New Dawn Has Come For Nigeria” General (rtd.) Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), Nigeria’s former military president, has congratulated Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his election as the 16th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In a statement released by his media office, IBB praised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for overseeing an election that he predicted would usher in a new Nigeria. Babangida commended Nigerians for going out en masse to exercise their voting rights and electing someone like Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the next President of Nigeria. “It’s a thing of joy that this is happening…

Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday, as well as his retirement from partisan politics. This comes just hours after his party, the PDP, was defeated in the presidential election by the All Progressives Congress. Fayose, who announced his resignation while appearing as a guest on ARISE TV, revealed that the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, turned down an offer of one term in office in order to gain the support of the G5 governors. Atiku lost the G5 governors’ states to Tinubu of the APC, who won three, and…

France’s President Emmanuel Macron has congratulated Nigeria’s President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, on his election victory on February 25. Tinubu confirmed this when he answered reporters’ questions after presenting his Certificate of Return to President Muhammadu Buhari in his hometown of Daura, Katsina State, on Wednesday night. Tinubu had earlier received the Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja before departing for Daura with his Vice President-elect, Sen. Kashim Shettima. “Oh very many, many of that, in fact as far as Europe, the stock market reacted positively,” Tinubu said in response to questions about the messages…

Nigeria, President-elect Bola Tinubu, and all political leaders have been congratulated by the United States. It also encourages parties to avoid violence and seek redress through the courts. The United States described the February 25 presidential election as competitive in a statement issued by Ned Price, the Department of State’s Spokesperson, on Thursday. It also stated that the election heralds a new era in Nigerian politics and democracy. It stated that each of the top three candidates received the most votes in 12 states, a remarkable first in Nigeria’s modern political era, reflecting the campaign’s diversity of views and the…

Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed, the Labour Party’s (LP) vice presidential candidate, has stated that the party will challenge the results of Saturday’s presidential election in court. Baba-Ahmed claimed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) won the presidential election through irregularities and violations of the Constitution. The election was declared won by the APC candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. Asiwaju Tinubu received 8.8 million votes, defeating his closest rivals, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria…

The Albino Foundation Africa (TAF Africa) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to keep its promise to the disability community by adequately deploying assistive tools in the March 11 elections. TAF Africa’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Jake Epelle, made the call in a post-election statement on PWD participation in the presidential and national assembly elections on Tuesday. Epelle stated that the call was necessary to address the lapses in PWD participation in the February 25 elections. He stated that the deployment would help the disability community’s confidence in the electoral process, which had been harmed by the…