Tag: Presidential Election
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Group urges Peter Obi to contest 2023 presidential election
A socio-political organisation, Movement for the Election of Nigerian President of Igbo Extraction, wants Mr Peter Obi to contest the 2023 presidential poll. Obi was the Vice-Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019 election. The group made the call in a statement issued by its National Convener, Mr Vincent Ezekwueme, on Saturday…
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Uganda’s Museveni orders internet shutdown nationwide hours before presidential election
The Ugandan government, through its communications agency, on Wednesday ordered service providers to halt internet access just hours before voting was to begin. The move effectively means that Ugandans will cast their ballots on Thursday amidst an internet blackout. On Tuesday evening, President Yoweri Museveni confirmed the shutdown of all social media platforms ahead of…
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Okowa: PDP will do everything possible to win 2023 presidential election
Delta Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has said the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) would do everything possible with the support of the people of Nigeria to win the 2023 presidential election and restore good governance, including infrastructural development in the country. Governor Okowa made the call on Sunday at a thanksgiving service by Chairman of Peoples Democratic…
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Abdelmadjid Tebboune wins Algeria’s presidential election
Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been elected the new president of Algeria, the Head of the National Independent Election Authority, Mohamed Chorfi announced on Friday. Chorfi announced this at a news conference in Algiers. He said that Tebboune won a majority 58.15 per cent of vote in the presidential election held on Thursday to become the 8th…
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Kanye West declares interest to run for U.S. presidential election
American rapper, Kanye West has reaffirmed his intention to run for president of United States of America in 2024. The rapper whose latest album, ‘Jesus is King’ was released on Friday in an interview with Beats 1 presenter Zane Lowe also discussed his conversion, banning premarital sex amongst those who worked on the new album,…
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Presidential election debacle: Buhari’s COS, Kyari, others storm court
The Chief of Staff (COS) to President Muhammad Buhari, Abba Kyari, is the latest of notables to arrive at the venue of the much expected judgment in the petition by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). PDP and Atiku are challenging the outcome of the last presidential election, won by Buhari of the…
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Buhari hints on naming 'successor' ahead of 2023 presidential election
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said he would not name who will likely replace him in 2023. He spoke while receiving the members of the Progressive in Academics (Pro-Acad) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The group had asked him to start grooming a youth who will replace him when his second term tenure expires in…
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CUPP rejects presidential election results, says INEC chairman is ‘worst ever’
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has rejected the results of the Saturday’s presidential election currently being collated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). In a statement on Monday evening by its national spokesman, Imo Ugochinyere, the coalition described the exercise as “pyrrhic victory and the robbery of a nation. According to Ugohinyere,…