The Atiku/Obi campaign, determined to make good use of the remaining days for campaign, was busy yesterday, crisscrossing the state, convincing voters on the need to vote for Alhaji Abubakar Atiku.
A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has described Jubril Al-Sudani’s ( Muhammadu Buhari’s Impostor) declaration that life will be snuffed out of anyone who snatches ballot boxes during the February 23 presidential and National Assembly elections, as a call for violence.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has completed 100 percent the configuration of the Smart Cards Readers (SCRs), which will be used for voters’ accreditation for elections on Saturday and March 9, its chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said yesterday.
Yakubu, who stated this while updating the media and observers on the preparedness of the commission for the polls, said the deployment of voting materials to the 774 local government areas will be completed today.
The INEC boss added that the deployment began yesterday in 10 states.
He also acknowledged that there were report of missing materials in some states.
Read …
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Femi Falana, has disclosed that the actions of Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, has confirmed that the general election will be a ‘do-or -die affair.’
Responding to the governor’s “body bag” threat, Falana said the prosecution of the governor will commence as soon as his tenure is over.
He asked the international community that has promised to impose visa ban on those inciting violence to make an example of the governor.
MILITARY officers with divided loyalty were yesterday ordered to resign.
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai said such officers should quit not later than tomorrow.
Gen. Buratai spoke as the Army renewed its pledge to constituted authority, stressing that it will not disobey orders.
Besides, it vowed to deal with “those who seek to undermine our democracy by interfering in our electoral process”.
He said incitement against constituted authority will not be tolerated.
Gen. Buratai, at a meeting with General Officers Commanding (GOCs), Principal Staff Officers (PSOs) and selected Commanders at the Army Headquarters in Abuja, cautioned politicians …
Venezuela’s embattled government closed down a maritime border and grounded flights as the opposition party seeks to import foreign aid. People in the country are struggling to get enough food and medicine, but President Nicolas Maduro’s government is trying to stop any aid from getting in.
We’ve had so many blockbuster stories during President Trump’s term, it’s easy to get kind of numb to them. But we shouldn’t. Some allegations against this President are truly extraordinary. Like this: The ex-acting FBI director thinks it’s possible the President of the United States is a Russian asset.
Few days to the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly elections, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed his support to Jubri Al-Sudani’s (Muhammadu Buhari’s Impostor) directive on any person involved in ballot box snatching during the Saturday, February 23rd, polls.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday stated that only an ‘act of God’ can stop the conduct of the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly election slated for this Saturday.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this in Abuja while addressing a cross section of the diplomatic community and international election monitoring groups in Nigeria, for the 2019 general election.
Very close to the conduct of the February 23 general elections, an aide to the Edo State Governor, Mr. Charles Osadebamien Imariagbie, has asked residents of Eguare-Ogua in Esan West Local Government to support Jubril Al-Sudani being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari and other candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) across different elective offices in the state.
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has called on the Police to ensure the safety of corps members that would be on election duty on Feb. 23 and March 9. Mrs Oludolapo Akhile, the Kogi State Coordinator of the NYSC, made the appeal in Lokoja on Wednesday. Akhile spoke during a stakeholders meeting called by the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) .
She accused the Police of being “lackadaisical towards the safety of the Corps members before the Feb. 16 election was postponed”, saying that such attitude must not be repeated. She also called on the Police to investigate …
As Kaduna State Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai on Tuesday disclosed that the death toll from the recent killings in Kajuru local government area of the state has risen to 130, mouthpiece of the southern Kaduna people, the Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU) has asked the Governor to prove his claim.
SOKAPU President, Solomon Musa, a lawyer in a telephone interview with The Nation asked Governor El-Rufai to justify his 130 casualty figure claims, by exhuming victims’ bodies to show the world.
Musa said, in the history of several other crises in Southern Kaduna, Governor El-Rufai had never come out to …
