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Can Nigeria 🇳🇬 Courts Resolve Electoral Doubts‽
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I will be honest, I was rooting for Peter Obi to win this election & become Nigeria’s 🇳🇬 next President. However, the danger of three leading candidates is that while most people vote against the incumbent, the latter can win due to rivals “splitting the vote.”
That said, many people are upset with the results (& understandably so), as President Elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu victory is not being celebrated by most of Nigeria 🇳🇬. Peter Obi is challenging the results in court, but I wonder if the courts will overturn the proclaimed results of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)‽
While Obi said he won the election and would explore all legal and peaceful means to prove it in court, Atiku concurred, saying “the processes and outcome of the Presidential and National Assembly elections of last Saturday were grossly flawed in every material particular and as such, must be challenged.” […]
In a quick response, Tinubu, who had earlier in his victory speech extended a hand of fellowship to his challengers at the poll, said he would meet them in court to defend his mandate. […]
Obi, who spoke at a briefing in Abuja, enjoined his supporters, especially party members, not to despair because he and his running mate, Dr Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, had taken up the challenge posed by President Muhammadu Buhari and President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to mount a legal challenge if they were convinced the electoral process was faulty. (Vanguard)
I do not think the courts will attempt to overturn the proclaimed results of this election in order to avoid creating a legal precedent (which could result in chaos in future elections).
However, I suspect the courts will issue decrees requiring the INEC to be properly staffed & funded to avoid this scenario in the future.
I do not think this is the end of Peter Obi’s political career. I believe that in four years, he will run for President again—albeit this time emerge victorious.
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Betta Edu, Halima Shehu: N30bn Recovered, 50 Bank Accounts Under Investigation — EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has so far recovered N30billion for the Federal Government while it has also placed 50 bank accounts under investigation in the ongoing probe of the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, including the erstwhile chief executive officer of the now suspended National Social Investment Programme Authority…
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‘Electricity Tariff To Rise By 300%’
Power companies will be allowed to raise electricity prices to N200 ($0.15) per kilowatt-hour from N68 for urban consumers this month, the Bloomberg news agency, citing sources, reported Tuesday.
It was learnt that these customers represent 15% of the population that the government says consume 40% of the nation’s electricity, the agency said.
Bloomberg said Nigeria plans to almost triple…
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Nearly 300 abducted schoolchildren in northwest Nigeria freed after over two weeks in captivity
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been released, local officials said Sunday, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna and marched into the forests.
At least 1,400 students have been kidnapped from Nigerian schools since 2014, when Boko Haram militants kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls from Borno…
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Tinubu Meets APC Governors In Aso Rock
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), under the aegis of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF).
The chairman of the PGF, who is also the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, led fourteen others of his colleagues into the meeting.
The other governors include those from Kwara, Benue, Kaduna, Ekiti, Cross River, Ogun,…
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Nigerian army drone strike kills at least 85 civilians, president calls for investigation
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday called for a thorough investigation into a military drone attack that killed at least 85 people over the weekend, CNN reports.
The state governor, a religious leader and eyewitnesses told on Monday that dozens of civilians were killed in a military drone attack targeting insurgents and bandits on Sunday night.
On Tuesday, the Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency said at least 85 people were killed in the attack, the first official confirmation of the death toll from the weekend incident. The agency said:
“The Northwest Zonal Office has received details from the local authorities that 85 dead bodies have so far been buried while search is still ongoing.”
Tinubu said the “explosion accident” at Tundun Biri village was “very unfortunate, disturbing and painful,” his spokesman Ajuri Ngelale said in a statement.
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Supreme court Dismisses Atiku and Obi's appeal, upholds Tinubu's Victory
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, affirmed President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the valid winner of the presidential election that held in the country on February 25.
The apex court, in its lead judgement that was prepared and read by Justice Inyang Okoro, held that there was no merit in the petition that a former President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,…
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#2023 elections#APC#Atiku Abubakar#Bola Tinubu#Chief Jusctice#Election#election Tribunal#Judgement#Labour party#NEWS#Nigeria#PDP#peter obi#petition#president#Russia#supreme court
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Tinubu Extends Birthday Wishes to Ooni of Ife on His 49th Birthday; Bola Tinubu's Government Presents N26 Trillion 2024 Budget.
Celebrating the Co-Chairman of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria (NCTRN), President Tinubu, in a statement issued through his spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale, expressed gratitude to the monarch for his support to his administration and remarkable efforts in rallying Royal Fathers from across the nation.
“As the revered custodian of Yoruba heritage, history, and traditions, the…
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#2024 Budget Proposal#Birthday Wishes#bola tinubu#FEDERAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL#N26 Trillion Budget#NIGERIA#ooni of Ife
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Die nigerianische Delegation sagt, die nigerianische Junta sei offen für Diplomatie
Die Putschisten in Niger haben sich offen für Diplomatie gezeigt, um die angespannte Situation mit dem westafrikanischen Regionalblock ECOWAS zu lösen. Eine Gruppe hochrangiger nigerianischer Islamwissenschaftler traf sich am Sonntag mit der Junta in Niamey, um den Dialog zu fördern. Das Treffen dauerte mehrere Stunden und der Junta-Chef General Abdourahamane Tiani erklärte, seine Türen stünden…
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New Year: Ajia Felicitates with President Tinubu, Calls on Nigerians to Build Strong, Resilient Economy
The President and Chief Executive Officer of Funab Group of Companies Limited, Alhaji Ibrahim Mohammed Ajia has felicitates with the Ccalled on Nigerians to work together, hand in hand, to build a strong and resilient economy that will not only benefit us today, but also generations to come.
Ajia made the call after paying a courtesy visit to felicitate the President and Commander-in- Chief of…
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See full list of agencies, commissions, parastatals to be scrapped, merged, relocated, subsumed
The Federal Government, during the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting on Monday reached the decision to scrap some agencies, commissions and parastatals of the Federal government.
The FEC also agreed to merge, subsume and relocate some of the agencies, commissions and parastatals in order to reduce the cost of governance.
Here are the agencies, commissions and parastatals…
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Nigeria inaugurates a new “democratic” president
Nigeria’s 16th President Credits: Vanguard Nigeria
Nigeria we hail thee!
To best serve its people and country should be the utmost of every public official.
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A new president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was sworn-in in Nigeria today amidst much controversies. I don’t know if congratulations are in order for him, but I noticed the Nigerian currency, Naira, rose today by N20 to the $Dollar. I…
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Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu declared winner of presidential vote
Tinubu, though, received only 37% of the votes or nearly 8.8 million, the first time that a president takes office in Nigeria with less than 50% of the vote, analysts say.
ABUJA, Nigeria: Election officials declared Bola Tinubu the winner of Nigeria’s presidential election Wednesday, keeping the ruling party in power in Africa’s most populous nation and raising the specter of protests by opposition supporters who already have called for the vote to be voided.
Tinubu, 70, the former governor of Lagos state, appealed for reconciliation with his rivals in a pre-dawn victory speech in the capital, Abuja. The running mate of one opposition candidate, though, signaled a court challenge was imminent.
Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and one of the continent’s top oil producers, has seen deadly violence erupt after previous presidential elections. Tinubu urged Nigerians to unite behind his administration after he takes office on May 29.
“I take this opportunity to appeal to my fellow contestants to let us team up together,” he said in a speech broadcast live on television. “It is the only nation we have. It is one country and we must build together.”
Tinubu, though, received only 37% of the votes or nearly 8.8 million, the first time that a president takes office in Nigeria with less than 50% of the vote, analysts say. Main opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar won 29% with almost 7 million, and third-place finisher Obi took 25% with about 6.1 million, according to official results.
Hours after the election result was announced by the electoral body, Obi’s running mate told reporters in Abuja that they will challenge the outcome in court on the basis that it didn’t follow the provisions of Nigeria’s electoral law.
“There is an incoming government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that is illegal and unconstitutional,” said Datti Baba-Ahmed, Obi’s running mate. “The only language we know is peace. If Nigerians are going to achieve peace through peaceful protests, (it is) welcome.”
Much of Nigeria remained calm Wednesday afternoon amid fears of protests by opposition supporters. In the Kubwa area of Abuja, Tinubu supporters flooded the streets, singing and dancing in excitement. But nearby one Obi supporter expressed her dismay.
“I will join a protest if there is one, because my vote did not count,” said Favour Ben, 29, who owns a food business in the capital.
Abubakar also finished second in the previous vote in 2019, and appealed those results in court although his lawsuit ultimately was dismissed.
Nnamdi Obasi, senior adviser on Nigeria for the International Crisis Group, said that Tinubu will have to contend with challenges to his legitimacy from the onset and will need to ensure an inclusive government and focus firmly on rebuilding national cohesion.
Tinubu “will have to strive to win the support of the larger majority who preferred one of the other candidates, particularly the youth, the Christian groups that were opposed to his Muslim-Muslim ticket and Igbos in the southeast who again feel denied the presidency.”
Tinubu is a Muslim from the south and chose a fellow Muslim as his running mate in order to secure votes from the Muslim-dominated north, which has more registered voters than the Christian south, a strategy that proved effective, analysts say.
Tinubu clinched victory in part because the opposition vote was split and because his party had the strongest push to get people out to vote, said Amaka Anku, Africa director at the Eurasia Group consultancy.
President Muhammadu Buhari congratulated his successor in a statement Wednesday, but said the election wasn’t perfect.
“Of course, there will be areas that need work to bring further transparency and credibility to the voting procedure,” he said. “However, none of the issues registered represents a challenge to the freeness and fairness of the elections.”
The parties now have three weeks to appeal results, but an election can be invalidated only if it’s proven the national electoral body largely didn’t follow the law and acted in ways that could have changed the result.
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has never overturned a presidential election, though court challenges are common, including by Buhari, who doggedly fought his past election losses for months in vain.
The West African regional bloc, known as ECOWAS, called on political parties to appeal to their supporters to exercise maximum restraint and refrain from using provocative language, which would only “exacerbate political tensions, divisiveness, and violence at this critical stage,” the group said in a statement.
Observers have said Saturday’s election was mostly peaceful, though delays caused some voters to wait until the following day to cast their ballots. Many Nigerians had difficulties getting to their polling stations because of a currency redesign that resulted in a shortage of bank notes.
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Afenifere Recognises Tinubu, Not Obi, Fasonrati Tells Adebanjo
The former leader of Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti has said that the organisation recognises Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president-elect.
In a statement on Wednesday, the elder statesman also reacted to the suspension of two national officers of the Yoruba socio-political group, describing it as “null and void”.
Afenifere led by Ayo…
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