Tag: Opposition
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Kenyan opposition protester dies from gunshot wound, several others wounded…
One man was shot dead and several others injured during protests in the western city of Kisumu, as opposition supporters try to stop Thursday’s elections, a nurse at the main government hospital said. “A young man, aged 17 or 18, was brought in heavily bleeding. We were giving him blood but he succumbed,” said Henry…
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Kenya Presidential re-run: Police clash with opposition supporters
Kenyan police clashed with opposition supporters where burning barricades and gangs of youths prevented voting in some towns in an election re-run, seeking to challenge the credibility of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s expected victory. In the western city of Kisumu, stone-throwing youths heeding opposition leader Raila Odinga’s call for a voter boycott were met by live…
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PDP leaders lack experience of opposition – Dickson
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa says the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is not playing its expected role as an opposition party due to numerous internal crises within it. Dickson, who made the claim during a chat with journalists in Yenagoa, however, said he remained optimistic that the party would bounce back to winning ways ahead…
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Politicians using demands for restructuring as another tool of opposition – Presidency
…Says Buhari does not oppose restructuring The presidency on Thursday stated that politicians are beginning to take advantage of the demands for restructuring of the country as another tool of opposition against the President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government. This was revealed by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina.…
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2019: Re-alignment of opposition parties against us will fail – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Oyo State chapter, says the on-going re-alignment of forces by the opposition political players in the state ahead of the 2019 gubernatorial election would fail. This was contained in a statement by Mr Olawale Sadare, the party’s Public Relations Officer in Ibadan on Saturday. The leaderships of opposition political parties…
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IPOB: Your government responsible for agitations, not opposition – PDP blasts Lai Mohammed, APC
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has warned the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Minister of Information and Culture not to drag it into the current agitation by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and other separatist groups in the country. TheNewsGuru.com reports that minister on Sunday opposition parties of sponsoring agitations to discredit…
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Presidential rerun: Kenyan opposition rejects new election date, threatens boycott
Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga said on Tuesday his coalition would not participate in the re-run of a presidential election proposed for Oct. 17 unless it is given “legal and constitutional” guarantees. Incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta responded by saying there was nowhere in law that required the electoral body to consult Odinga. Odinga’s conditions for…
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Opposition doesn’t mean hostility, Buhari lectures APC,PDP leaders
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with leaders of the two major political parties in the country- the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The APC delegation was led by the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun; while the Chairman of the PDP’s Caretaker Committee, Ahmed Makarfi,…
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Kenya 2017: Opposition candidate, Raila Odinga rejects presidential election result
…Says going to court is not an alternative Kenya’s opposition said on Friday it would “not be a party” to the election commission’s imminent announcement of the result of the presidential vote because its concerns had not been addressed. Provisional results from polling stations show President Uhuru Kenyatta with a lead of 1.4 million votes…
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Lagos LG poll: Opposition party agents discover ballot papers inside commercial bus in Agege
Agents of opposition parties on Saturday discovered ballot papers in a commercial bus during the Lagos State Local Government elections. The ballot papers were found in one of seven commercial buses, popularly known as danfo, that left Agege Local Government Secretariat. According to a report by The Punch, the two occupants of the vehicle ran…