Prof. Chris Imumolen, the Accord Party (AP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, has said that the naira resignation policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is a good and robust policy that is wrongly implemented, stressing that it is good for the elections but hurting the economy. While speaking on Arise TV on Friday, the presidential candidate said, “The naira redesign is a good policy that is implemented in the wrong way....

Charles Aniagwu, the Delta State Commissioner for Information, has said that the excellent performance of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State was responsible for his emergence as the Vice Presidential slot of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential election. Aniagwu who was reacting to an open letter by the Elder statesman and Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark on Thursday where he noted that Okowa should have turned down the offer of...

A five-member panel led by Kudirat Kekere-Ekun of the Supreme Court Abuja on Wednesday nullified Emmanuel Bwacha as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba State. The Supreme Court affirmed the verdict of the Federal high court which held that the APC did not conduct any valid governorship primary in Taraba State that produced Bwacha as governorship candidate. Recall that a federal high court in Jalingo, Taraba state, first sacked Bwacha...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that there would be a mock accreditation exercise in Lagos State to test the functionality of the Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System (BIVAS) ahead of the 2023 general elections. The electoral body in a press statement on Wednesday from the office of the Resident Electoral Commissioner, INEC Lagos State, Olusegun Agbaje reads, “This is to announce to the general public particularly the residents of Lagos State that the...

…says he will appeal Awka Court  judgment ‘delivered without jurisdiction’ The Labour Party (LP) standard-bearer for the Anambra Central Senatorial race, Senator Victor Umeh, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Uche Ekwunife, have no locus standi to question his nomination by LP. Umeh, a front-runner in the senatorial contest stated this in a statement he titled: “My purported disqualification from the Anambra Central District Senatorial Race”, issued in reaction to...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the Federal Government, security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disband the Jagaban Army, to be able to achieve a peaceful election in 2023. PDP made this known on Arise TV on Wednesday when Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP presidential campaign spokesperson and immediate past National Spokesperson of the party, was a guest at a programme, Morning Show. According to Ologbondiyan, the party had raised the...