Sokoto governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal Wednesday, February 3 signed the 2016 appropriation bill into law with a pledge to fully implement the budget for the benefit of the citizens of the state. Speaking at an event to commemorate the signing in Sokoto, Tambuwal said considering the precarious financial situation confronting the country at present, all
Akwa Ibom APC gubernatorial candidate in April 2015 polls, Mr. Umana Umana, lambastes legal system for alleged election irregularities – Urges Akwa Ibom people to continue to pray for much-desired change in the state and nation. Mr. Umana Umana, the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Akwa Ibom has revealed that Udom Emmanuel’s victory in
An order of arrest has been made for the former state secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Temitope Aluko. A chief magistrate court in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital ordered the state commissioner of police to arrest the former PDP scribe over alleged perjury. The order was made on Wednesday, February 3, by
LEGAL tussle over Rivers State governorship seat was yesterday put to rest by a unanimous judgment of the Supreme Court, which upheld the election of Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as governor. The court, in a marathon session on the multiple appeals by Governor Wike, his political platform, the PDP, and the
THE All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship candidate in the Bayelsa State governorship election, Chief Timipre Sylva have rejected the results declared by the Collation/ Returning Officer, Prof Zana Akpagu. This is even as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) commended its supporters while asking for investigation into the killings. Findings indicated that the APC
There was anxiety yesterday in the political camps of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State ahead of tomorrow’s Supreme Court verdict on the governorship election appeal between Governor Udom Emmanuel of the PDP and Umana Umana of the APC. The Supreme Court fixed tomorrow for hearing
The Court of Appeal in Abuja friday nullified the election of Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State on account of “gross irregularities” in the election that brought him to office. The court subsequently ordered that a fresh election be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission within 90 days in compliance with the Electoral