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A coalition of Northern youth groups under the aegis of Arewa Peace Initiative, has appealed to President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to zone the seat of the Senate President to the South-east region for the interest of peace and stability. The National Coordinator of the group, Mallam Yakubu Muh'd, stated this in a press statement signed and made available to Journalists in Kaduna on Thursday. “We call on Mr. President-elect, all members of the National Assembly, APC leadership and any other relevant stakeholders to consider South-east as a region that deserved to produce…

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has maintained its dominance of the Senate, having secured 49 seats, according to the results of the parliamentary polls so far released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Out of the 89 seats so far declared, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won 28; Labour Party six while New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP) secured two seats each. The Young Progressive Party (YPP) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) have so far produced one senator each. With 49 senators, the ruling party is set to maintain majority in the 10th…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) President-elect. Prof Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the commission, pronounced Tinubu President-elect at exactly 4:10am on Wednesday. He said Tinubu polled a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival, Atiku Abubakar, who polled 6,984,520 votes while Peter Obi of Labour Party, secured 6,101,533, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigerian Peoples Party trailed with 1,496,687. He said valid votes were 24,025940 and rejected votes were 939,278, while the total votes cast were 24,966218. The announcement, which was done at the…

The last may not have been heard of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primaries in Abia State which returned Chief Okey Ahiwe as the flagbearer of the party in the forthcoming March 11, 2023 election. Reason: One of the aggrieved aspirants Mayor Lucky Igbokwe (Don Lulu) has approached the federal high court, Abuja in suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/138/2022, which was transferred to the federal high court in Umuahia presided by Hon Justice E.N Anyadike, where he is seeking a nullification of the second primaries and the candidacy of Chief Ahiwe. It could be recalled that the PDP Abia State chapter…

As Nigerians prepare to elect a new president and members of the national Assembly, Sun FM 91.3, located in Igbere, Bende Local Government Area of Abia State has launched its election Coverage Situation Room for the 2023 general elections. The station which is the first and only radio station in Abia North is ready and determined to give the electorate a voice to express their observations during the elections on Saturday and the march 11th governorship and state house of Assembly elections. This was made known in a statement by the station Manger, Stanley Mba on Friday evening. Mba said…

The ruling All Progressive's Congress Abia State has dismissed reports that it has suspended its Abia North Senatorial Candidate and Chief Whip of the Senate, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu.   Denying the report which emanated from the "Vanguard Newspapers", the Party's Spokesperson, Okey Ezeala described the reports as the handiwork of the People's Democratic Party. According to a terse statement signed by Ezeala the party distanced itself from the report stating that there is no iota of truth in it, the party also described the report as false , identifying the Vanguard Reporter "Steve Oko" as paid agent of Kalu’s…

The Police in Finland have reportedly arrested the leader of the proscribed secessionist Indigenous people Of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa, following his repeated threats to sabotage the forthcoming Nigeria’s general elections scheduled for Saturday February 25 and March 11, 2023. The Finland-based Ekpa had threatened to severely punish any person in the South-Eastern part of the Nigeria that tries to participate or vote in the 2023 General Elections, a situation that prompted the Nigerian Government to raise the issue with Finnish government recently when the Nigerian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zubairu Dada, met the Ambassador of Finland to…