Tag: Election

  • Elections Were Free And Fair, Says Buhari

    Elections Were Free And Fair, Says Buhari

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    *This election is not free and fair. I will challenge the outcome in court — Atiku  President Muhammadu Buhari has said there were no doubts as to his re-election as the exercise according to both local and foreign observers was free and fair. “From the comment of several observers both local and foreign, it is…

  • Nigerians React Over Buhari’s Death Penalty For Ballot Snatchers

    Nigerians React Over Buhari’s Death Penalty For Ballot Snatchers

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    Politicians, human rights activists, lawyers and prominent Nigerians on Monday attacked President Muhammadu Buhari for declaring that death awaited ballot box snatchers during the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections. Punch reports that President Buhari had early on Monday while speaking at a national caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja, said…

  • INEC And The Suspicious Postponement of Election

    INEC And The Suspicious Postponement of Election

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    By Tope Temokun No justification at all for this postponement. It is just as insensitive as we have always been. If insecurity is the reason, when do we know there will be security in the land? We lost that long ago and only God can now guarantee that, not the president, not the police. If…

  • Postponement of election is the hand of Esau but the voice of Jacob – Atiku

    Postponement of election is the hand of Esau but the voice of Jacob – Atiku

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    The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has asked Nigerians to remain peaceful in the face of provocation. Atiku said this in a statement he personally signed in the early hours of Saturday while reacting to the shift in the dates for the conduct of the general elections as announced by the…

  • INEC finally reschedules presidential, NASS elections

    INEC finally reschedules presidential, NASS elections

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    The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced the postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections earlier scheduled for today (Saturday) by one week. Consequently, the commission has rescheduled the Presidential and National Assembly Elections to Saturday, February 23, 2019 while the governorship, State Houses of Assembly and Federal Capital Territory Area Council polls earlier…

  • BREAKING: INEC chairman summons stakeholders meeting, plans to postpone election

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    There appears to be uncertainty over tomorrow’s Presidential and National Assembly election as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, is currently meeting with stakeholders, including international and local observers in Abuja. Sources close to the commission confided in the Punch correspondents that the commission is discussing the possibility of shifting…

  • NSA Leaked Memo Advises Buhari For Postponement of Election Over Fear of Defeat

    NSA Leaked Memo Advises Buhari For Postponement of Election Over Fear of Defeat

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    As Nigeria counts down to its most important and historic presidential elections, LeadersNG have exclusively gathered from sources within the Presidency that the Office of the National Security Adviser has sent an emergency memo to President Buhari who seeks re-election in 2 days requesting that the elections be postponed.  Formally, the letter cites unfounded insecurity…

  • Resist External Pressures, Intimidation, US Urges INEC

    Resist External Pressures, Intimidation, US Urges INEC

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    The United States has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission to resist external “pressure and intimidation” in the upcoming general elections scheduled for February 16 and March 2. The United States’ Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo, in a press statement, said that the upcoming elections in Nigeria would be an opportunity for the country to solidify its…

  • CBN Has Taken Delivery of Sensitive Materials, INEC Hints Nigerians

    CBN Has Taken Delivery of Sensitive Materials, INEC Hints Nigerians

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    The Independent National Electoral Commission said the Central Bank of Nigeria has started taking delivery of sensitive materials for the conduct of the forthcoming general elections. NAN reports that INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education, Mr. Festus Okoye, made this known while updating newsmen on the preparations of the commission for the…

  • You Don’t Have Monopoly of Violence, Nigerians Reply El-rufai

    You Don’t Have Monopoly of Violence, Nigerians Reply El-rufai

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    * Impose travel ban on El-Rufai, PDP tells international community * He’s already on travel ban over graft allegations since 2010, US official hints Sahara reporters Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai’s threat that foreign nations, whom he suspects of trying to interfere in the affairs of Nigeria, would leave in body bags has been generating…