The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has congratulated the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and urged him to justify his victory by delivering on  the dividend of democracy to all Nigerians, irrespective of tribe, religion or political affiliations. The group in a congratulatory message said that Tinubu’s victory would bring some measures of pride to those who made sacrifices in the struggle for June 12. OPC in the congratulatory message on Saturday signed by  Otunba Wasiu Afolabi,...

Ahead of the governorship and House of Assembly elections, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has charged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to clamp down on illicit funds flow transactions by corrupt politicians and their cahoots with the commercial banks, as well as vote buying in the country. Olanrewaju Suraju, chairman of HEDA in a statement issued on Saturday maintained that the circulation of...

All staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) found negligent in the last presidential and National Assembly elections has been banned from participating in the upcoming governorship and state assemblies elections. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Saturday March, 11, 2023 conduct elections for 28 state governorship and 993 state houses of assembly seats. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC Chairman who announced this Saturday in Abuja at a meeting with the Resident Electoral...

Ekene Enefe, contact mobilisation for the presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that the opposition parties hired Russian and Israeli hackers to manipulate the results of last Saturday’s presidential election. Enefe made the weighty accusation, which he claimed was an ‘intelligent report’, in an interview with ARISE TV on Friday. He said the attacks though unsuccessful were aimed at compromising the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) server to produce election...

A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Friday, compelled the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to upload the results of the March 11 Lagos State governorship and House of Assembly elections on its result viewing portal (IReV). The presiding judge, Peter Lifu, gave the order in suit number FHC/L/CS/370/2023, filed by the Lagos State chapter of the Labour Party (LP), its governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, and 40 others on Thursday. Controversies have continued to trail...

Scores of registered voters who turned out to cast their votes for their preferred presidential and National Assembly candidates last Saturday were disenfranchised. While voting went undisturbed in some areas, several polling centres across the country opened hours late and in some areas, electoral officials did not show up at all. Violent attacks and voter intimidation also marred the polls in some areas and disenfranchised voters. In the South East, despite the sit-at-home order by...