Nigeria’s presidential election petition tribunal (PEPT), on Wednesday, rejected petitions by opposition parties seeking to overturn President Bola Tinubu’s election in February. The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and a lesser-known political party Allied Peoples Movement (APM) asked the court to invalidate the presidential election, alleging irregularities. But the five-member panel of judges unanimously picked holes in all three petitions and upheld...

The cold war between two leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Governor Godwin Obaseki and Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu seems to have come to an abrupt end. There were indications of this on Tuesday as the Deputy Governor announced the withdrawal of the suit he filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja against Governor Obaseki. Shaibu had dragged the Governor, the Speaker of the State Assembly, and the Chief Judge...

…court lifts suspension, restrains INEC from recognising opposition leaders. A week after he was suspended from the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, former senator Rabiu Kwankwaso has been expelled from the party indefinitely and with immediate effect. Abdulsalam Abdulrasaq, the acting national publicity secretary of the NNPP, said Kwankwaso’s expulsion was the decision reached at an emergency meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee, NEC, last Friday. Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the party in...