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3 weeks ago | 
guardian.ng | Leo Sobechi |Ameh Ochojila |Michael Egbejule
• Stakeholders debate implications, affirm Okpebholo’s victory • PDP trying to incite more violence, killings in Edo, APC alleges Barely four months after its inaugural sitting, the Edo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, will today in Abuja, deliver its judgment filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Asue Ighodalo, against the victory of the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) Governor Monday Okpebholo in the hotly contested September 21, 2024, election in...
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3 weeks ago | 
guardian.ng | Seye Olumide |Kehinde Olatunji |Leo Sobechi
The House of Representatives, yesterday, set the nation’s polity agog with some signature constitutional amendment proposals, including a bill seeking to shift the country from a presidential democracy to the parliamentary system of government.
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4 weeks ago | 
guardian.ng | Seye Olumide |Leo Sobechi |Adamu Abuh
CUPP hails stipulations on State PoliceNigerians have continued to react to some constitutional amendments proposed by the House of Representatives, especially those that stipulate the establishment of State Police and Local Government Police, FCT House of Assembly and Court of Appeal as the final arbiter in governorship, and national and state Houses of Assembly election petitions.
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1 month ago | 
guardian.ng | Leo Sobechi |Adamu Abuh
Ever since former Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the polity has been awash with projections and speculations about the likely impact of that move on the 2027 presidential election, LEO SOBECHI and ADAMU ABUH report.
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1 month ago | 
guardian.ng | Leo Sobechi |Azimazi Momoh Jimoh |Terhemba Daka
The federal government, yesterday, warned that it would not hesitate to visit severe sanctions, including a state of emergency on any other state where the nation’s economic interest is threatened.
This is just as Nigerians from diverse backgrounds have continued to voice their rejection of the State of Emergency (SOE) declared last Tuesday by President Bola Tinubu, in Rivers State, insisting that the measure was a huge affront to Nigeria’s democracy.
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1 month ago | 
guardian.ng | Leo Sobechi |Rauf Oyewole
Party plots repeat of 1999 deal as coalition talks continue
In what appears a move to prepare opposition political parties for the 2027 elections, the 2023 Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, Thursday, met behind closed doors with the Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum, Bala Mohammed.
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1 month ago | 
guardian.ng | Leo Sobechi |Adamu Abuh
Respected as the only geopolitical zone blessed with seven states with high voting population, Nigeria’s North-West has become the epicentre of political mind games. LEO SOBECHI and ADAMU ABUH, x-ray the emerging politics against the voting pattern of the 2023 poll.
The general thinking among partisan politicians is that the North-West geopolitical zone will determine the outcome of the next general elections in 2027.
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1 month ago | 
guardian.ng | Seye Olumide |Leo Sobechi |Azimazi Momoh Jimoh
His exit has no impact, Kaduna APC insists
After months of speculations, the former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, yesterday, finally announced his resignation from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), just as he decamped to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). el-Rufai cited irreconcilable political differences with the current leadership of APC as his reasons for dumping APC.
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1 month ago | 
guardian.ng | Bridget Chiedu Onochie |Leo Sobechi |Azimazi Momoh Jimoh
• Labour Party urges lawmakers to reconsider sanction • Lawyers condemn suspension, fault Senate leadership • Ezekwesili commends Akpoti-Uduaghan’s resilience • Akpoti-Uduaghan criticises suspension, vows to continue serving constituents • Oluremi Tinubu seeks respect for Senate, dismisses controversies • Moro, Kalu call for leniency, empathy towards Akpoti-Uduaghan’s aides Condemnation has trailed the suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central) for six months over...
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1 month ago | 
guardian.ng | Seye Olumide |Leo Sobechi |Oluwole Ige |Timothy Agbor
The recent council poll in Osun State brought up the absurdities that go on in the local government system in Nigeria. No sooner that Osun State Independent Electoral Commission than concerned citizens renewed their calls for direly needed reforms at the third tier of governance.
