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12 Sep 2023
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has congratulated a 10-year-old Nigerian pupil, Oluwademilade Odumuboni, who won the global grand prize for the 2022/23 edition of the Toyota Dream Car Art Contest. Odumuboni, pupil of Corona School, Gbagada, Lagos, achieved the feat after beating 782,852 other contestants from 90 countries. The contest is…
8 Sep 2023
Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello has urged Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to save themselves the troubles of approaching the Supreme Court and accept defeat.
8 Sep 2023
Nigerians are set to be treated to another round of legal fireworks over the February 25th presidential election as former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi...
7 Sep 2023
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has commended the presidential election petition tribunal validating the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during presidential election conducted in 2023.
6 Sep 2023
The Labour Party (LP) has rejected the judgments of the Presidential Election Petitions Court in the party’s petitions challenging the electoral victory of President Bola Tinubu. Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared winner of the February 25, 2023 poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Labour Party spokesman Obiora…
6 Sep 2023
The Presidential Election Petitions Court on Wednesday described the petitions of the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as “unmeritorious”. Obi and Labour Party claimed that President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was not duly elected during the February 25, 2023 poll. On the contention by LP that Tinubu…
6 Sep 2023
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has dismissed the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi’s Petition for 25 percent of votes in Abuja needed to win the presidential election. According to the court, Federal capital territory FCT residents have no special privileges as the petitioners claimed. The court also rejected the reports of…
6 Sep 2023
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has held that Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) cannot be compelled to transmit election results electronically. The court further held that the petitioner, Labour Party can not raise the issue because it has not appealed the judgement of the federal high court on the issue, therefore the decision is…
6 Sep 2023
The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) on Wednesday ruled that the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential flagbearer, Peter Obi, failed to prove that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was convicted for money laundering in the United States (US). The five-man panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani also ruled that no record of criminal arrest or…
6 Sep 2023
The Presidential Election Petitions Court on Wednesday said the presidential candidate of the Labour Pary (LP) Peter Obi failed to specify how they scored the majority of lawful votes in the February 25 presidential election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election, defeating Obi,…
6 Sep 2023
There is tight security at the Court of Appeal Complex located in the Three Arms Zone, Shehu Shagari Way, Central Business District of Abuja, as the Presidential Election Petition Court gets set to deliver judgment. Vice President Kashim Shettima, chieftains of the Labour Party (LP), governors and chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC),…
5 Sep 2023
Ahead of Wednesday’s judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT), leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have resorted to serious fasting and prayers. The fasting and prayers season which was equally attended by staff commenced last Monday and ended on Tuesday with a special prayer session at the party's national secretariat in Abuja.…

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