Nnamdi Felix /Abuja The Nigerian Supreme Court on Friday nullified the election of Kebbi state Governor Usman Saidu Dakingari of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct fresh governorship election in the state within 90 days. The decision of the court was premised on the failure of [...]
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A five-man panel of the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja at about 4:43 pm on Friday upheld the appeal instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate at the Borno state Governorship election last April. The court ordered for the retrial of the state’s governorship election petition by a [...]
Alhaji Abubakar Audu, the ACN candidate in the December 3 governorship election in Kogi, has filed a petition challenging the result of the election as announced by INEC. Audu, who filed the petition on Wednesday at the state High Court complex in Lokoja, raised a team of nine lawyers, led by Chief Kola Awodehin ( [...]
A Chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and former member of the House of Representatives, Dino Melaye, has described the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in last Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State as “temporary and evaporative.†Melaye who spoke with Political Platform on phone, urged President Goodluck Jonathan and the [...]
The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, has dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate for the Lagos West Senatorial District, Mr. Moshood Adegoke Salvador, against his Action Congress of Nigeria counterpart, Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon, GOS. The appelate court in its judgment delivered by Justice Ibrahim Saulawa (presiding), aligned with the [...]
Last Saturday’s local government election in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, has come and gone but its results have continued to attract controversies. A major feature of the election which was clearly demonstrated by Lagosians was voter apathy. Observers of the exercise had expected that voters would troop out in large numbers to elect those that [...]
People of ward ‘H’ Community, in Itire, Muslim local government area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, have describe as shameful, local council election election results declared by chairman of Lagos state independent electoral commission (LASIEC) , Justice Fatai Afolabi Adeyinka (rtd). The community was particularly piqued by a statement credit to the LASIEC chairman, to [...]
