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  Jandor is challenging the return of Babajide SanwoOlu and Obafemi Hamzat in the March 18 governorship election in Lagos State. The Lagos State Governorship Election Tribunal has struck out the Labour Party and its Candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, from the petition of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Olajide Adediran popularly known as Jandor, against the recent governorship election.  Jandor is challenging the return of Babajide SanwoOlu and Obafemi Hamzat in the March 18 governorship election in Lagos State. Shortly after the announcement of appearances by all lawyers and parties in the case at Monday’s proceeding, the Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Arum Ashom, announced that the court would first deliver judgment in the case of the PDP & its Candidate before giving its decision in the petition of the governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour. Justice Ashom also yielded the floor to his brother judge, Justice Mikail Abdullahi, to read t

  The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has criticised Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, for not including Igbo people in his transition committee. Mr Tinubu recently nominated 14 people to the committee to assist him in achieving a smooth transition from President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to his own on 29 May. In the list of nominees seen by PREMIUM TIMES, no Igbo person was on the committee. Reacting, the Vice-President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Damian Okeke-Ogene, accused the president-elect of being a “tribalist”, according to a  report by Vanguard newspaper. “Igbophobia is in his (Tinubu) veins, and by not including Igbo people in the handover committee, he is only trying to reopen old wounds. He inherited the hatred (Muhammadu) Buhari has against Igbo, especially when the President-elect has said he will continue from where the incumbent president stopped,” Mr Okeke-Ogene was quoted as saying. “He said he will continue with Buhari’s policies, and ou

  The Labour Party has dissociated from a viral letter signed by the self-acclaimed factional national chairman of the party, Lamidi Apapa, asking the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to dismiss all cases by the party's presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the emergence of the All Progressives Congress Bola Tibubu, in the February 25 General election. According to a statement made available to journalists on Tuesday by the party's acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, it partly read, "We urged the Tribunal in Abuja to disregard the antics by Apapa, who us a suspended Deputy National Chairman of our party. Ifoh, who later spoke on Channels Television's Politics Today programme on Tuesday, alleged that Apapa sought to jeopardise Obi's victory with his action. "Approaching the tribunals to withdraw all the cases lodged by Labour Party candidates across the board is the height of subterfuge and treachery. He maintained that Nigerians would

  • NEC expels Arambabi Abayomi, suspends eight others over anti-party activities The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has urged Nigerians to remain calm and steadfast in reclaiming the mandate of a New Nigeria. A statement by the Obi/Datti media team said Obi, in spirit-lifting words to Nigerians, particularly the Obidients, noted that he will never give up on the journey until victory is achieved. The LP Presidential candidate, who spoke in Asaba while addressing the National Executive Committee, NEC of the party, said he never expected the journey to a new Nigeria to be an easy one, saying that the forces who had, over the years, lived off the old order, were bound to fight back, as is being experienced now. Underscoring the determination of the group involved in this project to resist intimidation or harassment of any kind and from any quarter, Obi said, "If they come at us through land, air, and sea, we will respond to them through land, air, and se

  The 2023 general election in Nigeria has come and gone, but the discussion of hope continues. Apart from the renewed hope agenda of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the  APC, they have been statements of hope from one of the major opposition parties, the Labour Party, by its presidential candidate of the just concluded presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, who, according to Zahara Reporter assuring his supporter of perfect light at the end of the tunnel, following his petition at the election tribunal challenging the constitutional bridges by the Independent National Electoral Commission declaration of Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 25 February 2023 election, Sahara Reporter quoted that Mr Peter Obi of saying that he is capable of victory at the end, The question is, does Mr Peter Obi have confident on the judiciary?   He reiterated his commitment to a "Nigeria that will benefit every Nigerian". The candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Mr Pe

  The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State, Peter Mbah, has won the 2023 governorship election in the state. Mr Mbah polled 160,895 votes to defeat his closest challenger, the Labour Party (LP) candidate, Chijioke Edeoga, who scored 157,552 votes. The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Frank Nweke Jr, garnered 17,983 votes to come a distant third, while the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Uche Nnaji, placed fourth, with 14,575 votes. The Returning Officer for the election, Maduebibisi Iwe, announced the result at State Collation Centre of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday night at exactly 10: 47 p.m. “That Mbah Peter Ndubuisi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), having satisfied all the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes in the election, is hereby declared the winner of the election and is returned elected,” Mr Iwe declared. The returning officer,