INEC Fails To Open Defence Against Obi’s Petition
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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday, failed to open its defence to allegation by candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, that the 2023 presidential election was rigged.
The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, had resumed its proceedings to enable the electoral body to call its first witness to justify its declaration of candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, as winner of the presidential election that held on February 25.
However, when the case was called up for hearing, INEC, through its team of lawyers led by Mr. Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, told the court that its witness was not available.
Though the Commission expressed its determination to produce three witnesses to defend the outcome of the disputed presidential poll, it, however, told the court that the first person it wanted to put in the box as a witness, was involved in a domestic issue.
Fire Guts Popular Hotel In Onitsha
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Sopurum Hotel, located in the Nkwelle community, Onitsha, Anambra State, has been gutted by fire.
DAILY POST learnt that the incident, which occurred early hours of Monday, led to the burning of a substantial part of the hotel structure.
Men of the fire service from Delta and Anambra states are currently at the scene battling with the situation at the time of filing this report.
The police spokesman for Anambra State Police Command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the fire incident to Channels TV, saying the situation is under control.
‘Even dead knew 2023 election was rigged to favour Tinubu – Atiku’s aide backs EU report
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Frank Shaibu, the Special Assistant on Public Communication to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has backed the report by the European Union, EU, Election Monitoring Group that the 2023 presidential election was rigged to favour President Bola Tinubu.
He affirmed the reports that the last general election in Nigeria was marred by electoral irregularities and failed to meet the minimum standard of credibility.
In a statement he signed, Shaibu said, “even the dead knew that the last election lacked credibility, and even the Independent National Electoral Commission had been unable to explain why nearly five months after the election, it had refused to upload the full result on its result viewing portal.
Don’t associate your failure to Makinde – PDP tells Folarin
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The Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last general elections, Teslim Folarin, not to associate his failure in the last governorship poll with the state governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde.
The party made this disclosure on Monday while reacting to a recent statement credited to Folarin.
Our correspondent gathered that Folarin had earlier on Saturday claimed that he lost the election to APC’s arrangements to win the presidency.
Publicity Secretary of PDP in the state, Akeem Olatunji, in a statement made available to journalists, described him as a sore serial loser.
Olatunji, in the statement made available to DAILY POST on Monday, insisted that Folarin lost his polling booth woefully by over 100 votes.
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