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APC, Obi at war over Tinubu

lAs LP presidential candidate asks Tinubu to answer 14 questionslSays Nigerians deserve the truth about president’s true identitylNotes Nigeria now considered nation of certificate forgers, fraudsterslPresident has no identity crisis, Obi acting Atiku’s script — APClNo evidence Tinubu forged certificate he submitted to INEC — BBClBBC report, a hatchet job, jaundiced — Atiku The pres idential candidate of Labour Party in the February 25, 2023 election, Mr. Peter Obi, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, were yesterday locked in a verbal war over alleged identity controversy of President Bola Tinubu. Obi had asked President Tinubu to save Nigeria and Nigerians further embarrassment by clearing the air on his identity, but the APC insisted the President had no identity crisis. This came as the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, said there was no evidence to show that Tinubu submitted forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. However, Atiku in a swif...

Court declines to disqualify Tinubu, APC

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... Over Muslim/Muslim ticket *St Paul Aroloya primary school never existed, plaintiff tells court, *As court okays suit to compel IGP to investigate him THE Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday declined to disqualify the All Progressives Congress, APC, for nominating two Muslims to contest the impending election as its president and vice presidential candidates. An Abuja based legal practitioner,  Mr. Osigwe Ahmed Momoh, had approached the court to bar both Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shettima from participating in the forthcoming presidential contest as flag-bearers of the APC. This came on a day a group, under the aegis of the Incorporated Trustees of Advocacy for Social Right Advancement and Development Initiative, ASRADI, approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, alleging that  St. Paul Aroloya Primary School, Lagos, which the presidential candidate of  All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, claimed to have attended, was never in existence. The Plaint...

APC, opposition parties bicker over digital vote-buying allegations

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*Opposition parties spreading rumours to malign Tinubu, says APC PCC; *APC planning to transfer cash to 10m voters — Opposition parties THE ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, were at each other’s throats, yesterday, over allegations of digital vote buying, code-named Operation Wire Wire to influence the outcome of the 2023 general polls. Specifically, the CUPP, raised the alarm that the APC had concluded plans to transfer cash to voters via harvested bank accounts, a digital vote-buying method.  The opposition parties said the 2023 polls is in potential danger if the alleged moves by APC to unleash operation wire-wire (digital vote buying) were not nipped in the bud now, just as they said that over 20 APC states had harvested 10m bank accounts to transfer money to voters on election day. Addressing journalists, in Abuja, the CUPP spokesperson, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, said the new plot of digital vote buying would see to the A...

Why PDP, APC, LP disagreed over LG autonomy Bill

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The ruling People's Democratic Party, PDP, the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, and Labour Party, LP, in Benue State have been locked in a bitter quarrel over the non-passage of the Local Government, LG, Autonomy Bill by the Benue State House of Assembly in the recent alteration bills from the National Assembly. The APC and LP in statements by their State Publicity Secretaries, Daniel Ihomun and Kengkeng Ati respectively, yesterday blamed the PDP dominated state Assembly for the Bill not scaling through. According to APC Publicity Secretary, "the deliberate refusal by the Titus Uba led Benue State House of Assembly to liberate the local government system from the draconian grip of the governor shows its disdain, lack of empathy and concerns for the development of the Local Government Areas and the people at the grassroots." On his part, Ati said, "for record purposes, this is the third time that the Benue State House of Assembly has had to vote on Local Gov...