Robert Clarke: Nigeria Must Change Constitution, Electoral Act To Avoid Election Controversies
“If we have a law that allows you and I to participate in politics, we won’t allow those rascals in the political parties to be dominating everything”
“If we have a law that allows you and I to participate in politics, we won’t allow those rascals in the political parties to be dominating everything”
He alleged that the judiciary made this decision after being influenced by certain factors.
The apex court held that it has no jurisdiction to grant the filing of fresh evidence that was not pleaded at the Presidential Election Petition Court.
“Are you saying if someone scores 25% votes in 30 states but not in Abuja, he should not be president?”
“This court, the Supreme Court, also has no jurisdiction to allow the deposition to be used in this appeal. It is settled law…”
The proposed amendments seek to reposition the apex bank for efficiency.
The appeal court overturned the tribunal’s decision, which had previously declared Abbo the winner of the senate race.
“I’m doing it the best way I can and the people are beginning to resonate with the message I carry.”
INEC, Tinubu and the APC have urged the apex court to dismiss the appeals for lacking in merit.
He said there’s a need to interrogate the reason for the failure of real-time upload of the 2023 presidential election results.
He challenged Tinubu to present evidence that the college he attended existed in 1970.
EXCERPT: It said SDP’s allegations over reconfiguring BVAS was untrue. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has stated that there will be no glitches in the upload of results for
The electoral commission’s chairman shouldn’t be appointed by president, said former chairman Jega.
The chairman of voter education said this in response to a report titled “INEC’s credibility sinks as 94% contested posts await tribunal.”
While Jordan has condemned the threats, some lawmakers directly implicated his supporters in the intimidation campaign.
“There is nothing rocking the party. The party is rock solid,” he said.
Olukoyede pledged to commit more energy to preventing graft rather than deploring resources to fighting it.
Atiku and his party are insisting that Tinubu was not supposed to have participated in the February 25 presidential election.
He said the decision of majority lawmakers will always prevail, and pledged the senate’s support for Tinubu’s government.
“He wants to eat his cake and have it,” he said of Lagos d11eputy governor Hamzat.
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