Connect with us

Politics

News Flash, INEC Presents Certificate Of Return To Professor Chukwuma Soludo, Governor Elect Of Anambra State

Published

2 years ago

on

The Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] have presented Certificate of Return to the Anambra state Governor-elect, Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo.

Dr Onyekachi Ibezim, Soludo running mate was also issued his certificate.

The National Commissioner- in-charge of voter Education, Mr. Festus Okoye represented the National Chairman of the Commission, Prof Yakubu Mahood at the presentation ceremony at INEC Head office in Awka, Anambra indepthnewsng gathered.
It would be recalled that Soludo, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) won the election with 112,229 Votes to defeat his opponents. Out of the Twenty-one Local Government Areas in the state, Soludo won nineteen.

Two of the major contenders  namely, YPP and PDP have congratulated Soludo while the APC candidate Andy Uba rejected the result of the just concluded Governorship Election in Anambra State citing irregularities.

Related Topics:

Nelly Agwu is an educationist, a journalist, a Blogger, graduate of History. Very dynamic and a realist. A mouthpiece of the oppressed. Easy going and a Philanthropist.

Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

Breaking News

Court Nullifies Alex Otti’s Candidature & All Labour Party Candidates In Abia And Kano State

Published

1 week ago

on

May 19, 2023

By

A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, presided over by Justice M N Yunusa has nullified the candidature of the Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti and all the candidates of the Labour Party in Abia and Kano States.

“The party that has not complied with the provisions of the electoral act cannot be said to have a candidate in an election and cannot be declared winner of an election; this being so, the votes credited to the 1st defendant is a wasted vote,” the Judge ruled.

On Wednesday, the Labour Party had accused a “breakaway group” of the party led by acting National Chairman Lamidi Apapa of approaching a court in Kano State to seek the nullification of the party’s recent electoral victories.

The LP’s acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, who raised the alarm in a statement, said “The Labour Party has been informed of an illegal attempt by a breakaway group in the party led by Lamidi Apapa to misguide a Kano state High court to invalidate all the elections won by the Labour Party in the just concluded general election.”

The party spokesman alleged that “the suspended National Legal Adviser and a key member of the disgraced Apapa group, Samuel Akingbade Oyelekan, on Wednesday while the Presidential Appeal Tribunal was sitting in Abuja with all attentions focused on it, clandestinely sneaked out of Abuja to Kano state where he in collaboration with some members of the other political parties asked the court to invalidate all the elections won by the Labour Party, particularly, the national assembly in the 36 states and FCT on the ground that we didn’t submit register of voters to INEC.”

The court ruled that their emergence was not in compliance with the provisions of the 2022 Electoral Act.

A copy of the judgement delivered by the court was obtained Friday morning by DAILY POST.

The Court in Suit No FHC/KN/CS/107/2023 filed by Mr Ibrahim Haruna Ibrahim against the Labour Party and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, ruled that the failure of the Labour Party to submit its membership register to the INEC within 30 days before their primaries renders the process invalid.

“The party that has not complied with the provisions of the electoral act cannot be said to have a candidate in an election and cannot be declared winner of an election; this being so, the votes credited to the 1st defendant is a wasted vote,” the Judge ruled.

On Wednesday, the Labour Party had accused a “breakaway group” of the party led by acting National Chairman Lamidi Apapa of approaching a court in Kano State to seek the nullification of the party’s recent electoral victories.

The LP’s acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, who raised the alarm in a statement, said “The Labour Party has been informed of an illegal attempt by a breakaway group in the party led by Lamidi Apapa to misguide a Kano state High court to invalidate all the elections won by the Labour Party in the just concluded general election.”

The party spokesman alleged that “the suspended National Legal Adviser and a key member of the disgraced Apapa group, Samuel Akingbade Oyelekan, on Wednesday while the Presidential Appeal Tribunal was sitting in Abuja with all attentions focused on it, clandestinely sneaked out of Abuja to Kano state where he in collaboration with some members of the other political parties asked the court to invalidate all the elections won by the Labour Party, particularly, the national assembly in the 36 states and FCT on the ground that we didn’t submit register of voters to INEC.”

He added that Akingbade, who presented himself as representing the Labour Party, did not oppose the motion, thus forcing the helpless judge to reserve judgement for Thursday, (yesterday).

Ifoh went on to ask the judiciary and all law enforcement agencies, including the police and the Department of State Services, DSS, to note that Akingbade and loyalists of Apapa’s had ceased to represent the party. (DAILY POST)

Continue Reading

Crime

Femi Falana (SAN) Urges EFCC And ICPC To Investigate Binani’s 2billion Naira Bribe Despite Denial

Published

1 month ago

on

April 20, 2023

By

Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana,  a Human rights lawyer has demanded that adequate investigation be carried out on the alleged 2 billion naira inducement trailing the controversial declaration of winner of Adamawa State supplementary elections on Sunday.

The candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the election, Aishatu ‘Binani’ Dahiru, who was earlier declared winner by the embattled Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state, Hudu Yunusa Ari had denied bribery allegations levelled against her.

However, speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday, Falana said Binani’s denial is not just enough to let the matter be swept under the carpet.

“There are allegations that the sum of 2billion naira is fetching hands, so it is not enough for Binani to deny, there must be an investigation,” Falana said.

The senior advocate stated that those who were involved in the declaration of Binani as the winner should be questioned and brought to book, adding that Binani’s acceptance speech confirmed that she was party to the disarray.

“Was there inducement? That has to be investigated. The officers who were at the high table with Mr Yunusa Ari, the commissioner of Police, the Director of the State Security Service, and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

“All those involved in the criminality that occurred, they all have to be tried under the law. It is not enough for the IGP to simply redeploy the commissioner of police involved or for the director of state security to be withdrawn from the state.

“This is not the first time that it has happened, there have been false declarations of results before now,” he said.

Falana commended INEC for the swift action taken to ensure that proper response was implemented, adding that except actions are taken holistically, the impunity and aberrations would be repeatedly committed.

According to him, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practice Commission (ICPC) have to be involved to ensure that all those who breached the law be prosecuted.

“The EFCC and the ICPC will have to be brought in to investigate the allegations of inducement of the sum of 2 billion naira. It is also in the interest of the APC candidate to ensure this matter is fully investigated.

“The IGP would have to speed up the investigation. By now, we expect him (Adamawa REC) to have been arrested and if he cannot be found, they have to get a court order to declare him wanted.

“All the security officers involved will have to be investigated and prosecuted. INEC has done the right thing by suspending him so that he does not further taint the democratic process.”

The SAN stated that the law recommended strict sanction for any form of electoral conspiracy, malfeasance and financial inducement.

“The law is very clear on this matter, under section 120 subsection 4 of the electoral act. For any false declaration of the results of the election, anybody involved is liable to be prosecuted and the penalty is three years imprisonment which for me is not stringent enough.

“There is also section 121 of the Electoral Act which prescribes 12 months imprisonment for financial inducement with regards to elections.”

He also demanded that the legal practitioner disciplinary committee of the Nigerian Bar Association in collaboration with INEC take disciplinary actions against the Adamawa REC.

“The Nigerian Bar Association has to come in, the NBA has to write a petition, to the legal practitioner disciplinary committee for immediate sanction to serve as a lesson because he has brought the legal profession into disrepute.”

(Channels TV)

Continue Reading

Politics

INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, Told Me That They Were Dumbfounded As Why The Presidential Election Result Wasn’t Uploading In Time -Yabagi

Published

2 months ago

on

April 2, 2023

By

Yabagi Sani, the chairman of Inter-party Advisory Council has spoken about why the results of the presidential election were not uploaded to INEC Result Viewing Portal in real-time.

About 20:30 minutes into a video shared on YouTube by AIT News, Sani who was the candidate of Action Democratic Party in the presidential election said he confronted INEC’s chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu to know why there was a delay in uploading the results and Yakubu honestly told him that he also didn’t know why. He said Yakubu however assured him that the INEC server was not hacked into.

In Sani’s words: “I confronted INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu: I said why are we where we are and in addition to that I am sure your system was hacked. He said no, it wasn’t hacked. He said at that point in time he didn’t know what happened, that they themselves were dumbfounded and they were running helter-skelter when the transmission of the result of the presidential election could not take place; they didn’t know what happened. So you could see that he was really honest at that point in time”.

Continue Reading

Join Our Newsletters

Trending