Exactly a week after the Supreme Court dashed their hopes by affirming Gboyega Oyetola Governor of Osun State, Deji Adeleke who is the elder brother to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the September 22, 2018 governorship poll in the state, Ademola Adeleke has said the party betrayed the family.

Adeleke noted that the PDP did not keep to the promises it made to the family before his brother accepted the party’s guber ticket.

In a statement dated 11th July, 2019 and signed by him, Adeleke disclosed that his younger brother had no intention to contest the governorship election in the first place.

While noting that the younger Adeleke was prevailed on by the PDP leadership and elders before the family accepted “most reluctantly after receiving assurances and promises that were never kept”, he said his brother should be given a break to take a rest and decide what he would do or not do when the time comes.

He thanked all those who showed concern about the huge resources committed to execute his brother’s political aspiration as well as monies spent on litigation and counselled that money spent on elections should not be considered as investments that would be recouped upon assumption of office through corruption and banditry.

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United States President, Donald Trump, has approved the massive arrest of citizens of other countries who are illegally living in the country, beginning from Sunday, July 14, 2019.

The New York Times quoted sources in the U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as saying the agency will begin a nationwide raid and arrest of thousands of immigrant family members who are undocumented in the country.

The DHS officials told the newspaper that the raid will include “collateral” deportations.

The development is coming barely two months after the DHS declared that an estimated 29,723 Nigerians who entered the U.S with either non-immigrant tourism or business (B1/B2) visas between October 1, 2017, and September 30, 2018, overstayed in the country.

According to the “The fiscal Year 2018 Entry/Exit Overstay Report” released by the agency, this set of Nigerian immigrants refused to leave the U.S after their visas expired.



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The Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has given the reason for the dismissal of the petition of the All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate, Abubakar Danladi in the March 9 guber poll in the state.

The tribunal dismissed Danladi’s petition today, Wednesday.

The tribunal was relocated to Abuja on March 21 due to concerns over the security of its members and petitioners.

According to the tribunal chairman, Justice M.O. Adewarahe, the petition was dismissed because of the Supreme Court judgement on July 5, which upheld the Appeal Court judgement that disqualified Danladi on the grounds of false declaration of age.

Recall that Danladi and his party had approached the tribunal to challenge the victory of Governor Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party.

The petitioners claimed that the governor was not duly elected by a majority of lawful votes cast in the election.

They further claimed that the governor’s election was invalid by reason of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended).

Joined as a respondent in the petition was the Independent National Electoral Commission.

According to reports, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal filed before it by Danladi, challenging his disqualification by the Federal High Court in Jalingo.

A five-man Panel of the Supreme Court headed by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Mohammed, dismissed the appeal filed by Danladi for being incompetent and failing to meet the requirements of the law.

https://thewhistler.ng/why-apc-petition-against-gov-ishaku-was-dismissed-tribunal/

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has released the timetable and schedule of activities for the conduct of the 2019 governorship primary elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States.

In a statement by the party’s National Organising Secretary, Emma Ibediro, forms for the guber has been pegged at N22.5 million.

According to the statement, expression of interest is N2.5 million, and the form proper N20 million.

Commencement of sale of forms begins Wednesday, July 10 to August 20, 2019 at the APC national secretariat.

The timetable shows:

“Last day for submission of completed forms (APC National Secretariat): Wednesday 21st August, 2019

“Screening of aspirants: Thursday, 22nd August, 2019

“Screening Appeal: Friday, 23rd August, 2019

“Primary Election: Thursday, 29th August, 2019

“Election Appeal: Monday, 2nd September, 2019”

It however stated that it will reduce the amount for female aspirants in the party so as to sustain inclusivity of these categories of members in the party.

“There shall be no separate charge for deputy, female aspirants and physically challenged aspirants 50% of the prescribed fees for each position.

“All payments should be made in full directly into the designated bank accounts of the All Progressives Congress”, the statement added.

https://thewhistler.ng/apc-pegs-guber-forms-at-n22-5m-begins-sale-for-kogi-bayelsa/

The national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has dissociated himself from a 2023 presidential campaign group.

The group, Asiwaju Reloaded Ambassadors’ Nigeria, had flooded the streets of Lagos and some other states with campaign materials.

But Tinubu in a statement said he has no plan to run for 2023 presidency, urging Nigerians to ignore the activities of the group he describes as “faceless.”

The statement signed by his media team and posted on his twitter handle read, “We have seen pictures of face caps, T shirts, shirts and even leaflets with Bola Tinubu 2023 embossed on them purportedly by a faceless group which christened itself ‘Asiwaju Reloaded Ambassadors’ Nigeria’.

“Neither the group nor its souvenirs are known to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
“We hereby, through this medium, categorically deny any knowledge of the group and dissociates Asiwaju Tinubu from the group’s unsolicited and unwarranted materials.”

https://thewhistler.ng/2023-presidency-tinubu-disowns-campaign-group/

In order to have a proper inauguration of the Edo State Assembly, the House of Representatives is considering a motion urging its members to take over the functions of the state legislature in line with the constitution.

The motion was brought by Julius Ihonvbere, Peters Akpatason, Johnson Oghuma, and during plenary by the House of Representatives.

While the deliberation continues, some lawmakers are asking for investigation before the House takes the final decision.


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The 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, is likely to challenge election results from eleven states in his petition filed against President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.

Atiku is currently challenging President Buhari’s victory in the February 23 presidential election.

In his petition, the PDP candidate claimed to have scored 1,615,302 votes than the President, whereas the result declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) show that Buhari won the election with 15,191,847 total votes while Atiku got 11,262,978 votes.

The PDP and its candidate had on Monday presented their first set of six witnesses at the tribunal to support their petitions against President Buhari, the APC and INEC.

Three out of the six witnesses claimed to have worked as INEC ad-hoc staff in the presidential poll. The witnesses testified before the tribunal that they transmitted results of the election electronically into INEC’s server.

Atiku and PDP’s second witness, Mr. Peter Uzioma Obi, who served as Registration Area Technician (RATECH) at a ward level in Rivers State during the polls, had while fielding questions from INEC’s counsel Yunus Usman (SAN), testified that the electoral body trained him and others on electronic transmission of the results into the electoral body’s server.

In his testimony as reported by Punch, Adedokun Adeoye, who appeared as Atiku and PDP’s fourth witness also claimed to have transmitted the presidential election results directly into INEC’s server after the polls were concluded.

Adedoye claimed to have served as an Assistant Presiding Officer (I ) during the election.

Atiku and the PDP are now said to be considering challenging results of the election in 11 states after presenting their last set of result sheets for the states on Monday.

Punch reports that the states are: Niger, Yobe, Katsina, Jigawa, Kebbi, Kano, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Kaduna and Zamfara.

Part of the exhibits said to have been presented by the prosecution include Form EC8E dated February 27, 2019, being the final results of the February 23 presidential election declared by INEC

https://thewhistler.ng/11-states-where-atiku-will-challenge-results-of-presidential-election/