2023 General Elections: Group calls for removal of INEC chairman
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2023 General Elections: Group calls for removal of INEC chairman

‘The group also demanded the arrest and prosecution of the INEC chairman’ A Northern group, Arewa Citizens’ Watch for Good Governance, has called for the removal of the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, ahead of the 2023 general elections in the country. The group said they would petition

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2023: I'll sponsor 4 legislative bills 1 week after inauguration - LP candidate
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2023: I’ll sponsor 4 legislative bills 1 week after inauguration – LP candidate

“If you support me and I get elected to represent our great OYI Constituency, within one week of our inauguration, I would sponsor four Legislative Bills,’ Obinna Okafor The House of Assembly candidate under the Labour Party (LP) in Anambra State, Mr. Obinna Okafor has pledged to sponsor four legislative bills within one week of

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2023 Presidency: APC candidate, Tinubu optimistic of victory
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2023 Presidency: APC candidate, Tinubu optimistic of victory

‘Explaining how he would fix the economy, Tinubu stated, “We will privatise the ease of doing business and ensure steady power supply’ The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in the 2023 general election, Bola Tinubu, has expressed confidence in winning the presidential poll. The ex-governor of Lagos State spoke during the Kaduna Economic

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2023: How we recovered $2.8b stolen fund, Atiku reveals
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2023: How we recovered $2.8b stolen fund, Atiku reveals

‘Some of the people that we recovered money from have even returned to Nigeria contested elections’ The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Atiku Abubakar has explained how his committee recovered $2.8bn stolen fund from corrupt public officials during the Olusegun Obasanjo administration, in which he served as vice-president. Atiku, who stated this during

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Ogun Guber: You will fail in your anti-party activities, Gov tells predecessor
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Ogun Guber: You will fail in your anti-party activities, Gov tells predecessor

“He is nothing and he is saying he will stop a governor that God has ordained; he will definitely fail again by the grace of God.” The Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has told his predecessor, Sen Ibikunle Amosun that his “anti-party politics aimed to scuttle his re-election bid in 2023” will fail. Abiodun, who

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Don't compromise integrity of 2023 general elections, PDP tells FG
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Don’t compromise integrity of 2023 general elections, PDP tells FG

‘Ayu expressed fears that the elections might be compromised’ The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Iyorchia Ayu, has advised the All Progressives Congress(APC) led Federal Government(FG) against compromise of integrity of the 2023 general election, stressing that the major opposition party does not want to be short-changed again. This is even as he

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Makinde, PDP receive defectors from APC, ZLP, LP, others
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Makinde, PDP receive defectors from APC, ZLP, LP, others

‘Makinde, according to the statement, while receiving the defectors, assured them of equal rights and privileges in the party’ Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, and the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) said on Thursday that they had officially received defectors from the All Progressives Congress, African Democratic Congress, Zenith Labour Party, Alliance for

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Hon Obinna Chidoka's bill to end discrimination against special needs children in school passes 2nd reading
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Hon Obinna Chidoka’s bill to end discrimination against special needs children in school passes 2nd reading

‘Hon, Obinna Chidoka said, “The primary objective of this Bill is to bring students and pupils with disabilities into the mainstream learning environment’ The proposed legislation sponsored by Hon. Obinna Chidoka, seeks to ensure that children with various forms of disabilities don’t suffer some form of discrimination and deprivation in schools has passed second reading. 

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2023: Tinubu's meeting with APC Govs, NWC, PCC deadlocked again
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2023: Tinubu’s meeting with APC Govs, NWC, PCC deadlocked again

‘Fani-Kayode noted that the meeting had put to rest, any controversy on the campaign list’ For the second time in a week, the meeting between the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, governors of the party, members of the  party’s National Working Committee (NWC) and the disputed Presidential Campaign Council (PCC),

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Obi, Ahmed-Datti absent as LP unveils 1,234-member campaign council
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Obi, Ahmed-Datti absent as LP unveils 1,234-member campaign council

‘It is significant to observe that the Obidient movement, has today risen above religion, ethnicity…’ National Secretary of the Labour Party (LP) Clement Ojukwu on Wednesday announced a 1,234-member presidential campaign of the party with the presidential candidate of the party, Mr Peter Obi and his running mate, Dr Yusuff Ahmed-Datti, absent. Ojukwu said the

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2023 General Elections: INEC discovers 2.7m cases of double registration
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2023 General Elections: INEC discovers 2.7m cases of double registration

‘Affected persons have been deleted, says INEC’ The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has discovered 2.7 million cases of double registration carried out during the recently concluded Continuous Voter Registration. The commission said that the affected persons have been deleted from the voter register. This was disclosed by the INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu,

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Obi support group lambasts APC for turning national asset as Campaign venue
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Obi support group lambasts APC for turning national asset as campaign venue

‘The support group condemns use of the nation’s seat of power -Aso Rock villa for election campaign venue by APC’ A very vocal international support group for the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the fast approaching February 2023 general election, Peter Obi,under the aegis of the Great Nigeria4Obi-Datti has taken the All Progressives Congress (APC)

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