One hundred and ninety three days after the presidential election, the first of two stages of judicial intervention in the process will be concluded today as the five-member Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) delivers verdict in the matters filed against President Bola Tinubu. By the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022, any party in disagreement with the judgement of the …

English humorist, satirist, and author Terry Pratchett once said: “If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you’re going. And if you don’t know where you’re going, you’re probably going wrong”. Origins are important because they give a sense …

The presidential election petition court has reserved judgement in the petition filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Atiku is challenging the outcome of the 25th February election and praying the court to nullify President Bola Tinubu’s victory. Among several issues raised in the joint petition, Atiku and the PDP are alleging that President …

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal has fixed next Tuesday for the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; and the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, to adopt their final addresses in their petitions against the 2023 election. Both Atiku and Obi are challenging the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu by the Independent National Electoral Commission …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last February presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has insisted that the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president is unlawful and unconstitutional. He stressed that President Tinubu must be removed from office to sanitise the country’s polity. In his final address to support his petition seeking nullification of Tinubu’s …

A suspected Boko Haram member planning to attack the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in Yola, Adamawa State, has been arrested. The suspect was among three others apprehended in Atiku’s residence in Yola and handed over to the police. The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Jubrila Mohammed, is a native of Damboa in Borno State. Mohammed said …

The presidency on Saturday insisted that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in last February’s presidential poll, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu won “a free, fair and credible election”. It described the ballot as the “most transparent election ever conducted in Nigeria since 1999”. In response to the alarm raised on Friday by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic …

By some prodigious coincidence, this year makes one full decade of the publication of a compendium on groundbreaking constitutional litigations filed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Titled: Landmark Constitutional Law Cases in Nigeria: 2004 – 2007: The Atiku Abubakar Cases, the book was authored by Maxwell Michael Gidado, PhD, SAN; and Chudi Nelson Nwosu. It was released in 2013, …

Former Governor of Benue State, Mr. Samuel Ortom has said that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is angry because he was rejected by him and the G5- governors. Ortom was reacting to a statement made by Atiku through his media aide, Mr. Phrank Shaibu accusing him and other G-5 …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his party will on Thursday close their case in their joint petition challenging the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 25th February presidential election. According to a pre-hearing report, the petitioners were supposed to close their case on Tuesday but their lead …