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President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his sadness that some candidates lost in the just concluded general elections in Nigeria. He also hailed the conduct of the elections, describing it as credible. He made the comment while speaking at a farewell meeting with the outgoing United States Ambassador, Mary Beth Leonard, at the State House in Abuja on Tuesday. “President Muhammadu ...

The Presidency has described the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections as the biggest and most competitive in Nigeria’s history. It marked a commendable progress on the nation’s electioneering experience, the Presidency said yesterday in a statement by Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu. Pointing out that the outcome of the elections ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the winner of the 2023 presidential election and andidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and urged any aggrieved person to go to court. The President said candidates that lost the election and their supporters should take their grievances to court and not to the streets. Reacting to the results, President ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Yakubu Mahmood, to declare void and inadmissible for election declaration of some polling units. According to him, polling units where the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) malfunctioned during last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections should cancelled. He made this call in a letter ...

President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha have cast their votes in the ongoing presidential and National Assembly elections in Daura, Katsina State. Special Assistant on Digital Communications to President, Bashir Ahmad, confirmed this in a tweeter post. “President Muhammadu Buhari and his family have just cast their votes at the Sarkin Yara polling unit, in Daura, Katsina State,” he ...

Founder and Senior Pastor of Living Faith Church aka Winners’ Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has urged Nigerians to vote leaders with capacity and character ahead of Saturday’s presidential election. Addressing worshippers during a sermon on Sunday at the Winners Chapel, Oyedepo advised the electorates to vote wisely. According to him, Nigeria is not an entity or property but a people ...

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, has warned that the joke about the rumoured interim government should stop. Shehu in his first tweet yesterday entitled STOP THE JOKE ABOUT INTERIM GOVERNMENT, ELECTIONS WILL HOLD, said there was “absolutely no truth to the claim that President Muhammadu Buhari is working towards an interim ...

A top chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress APC, Amb. Abayomi Mumun has come hard on President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent broadcast, Mumuni, who is also a member of he Security and Intelligence Committee of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, (PCC) said that the speech short of public expectations. According to him, the  broadcast has demonstrated that Buhari does not ...

The Federal Government on Friday debunked the claim in certain quarters that a Presidency cabal was working toward an Interim National Government (ING). Speaking on a TVC live programme, “This Morning”, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said the claim was the handwork of fifth columnist, planning to destabilise the country. He said the 2023 elections would ...

A former governor of Jigawa state, Alhaji Sule Lamido said Nigerians should hold the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC governors responsible for the unfulfilled promises of President Muhammadu Buhari According to him, the APC governors campaigned in 2014 on the ground of bringing a new order and change to a next level. He added that if these APC governors  who ...