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9TH ASSEMBLY: More Groups Clamour For Speakership Position Follow Two other groups have urged the All Progressives Congress to zone the position of the speaker to their respective zones in the 9th Assembly. One of them, the APC South East Renaissance Group (ASERG) which made this known during a press briefing on Thursday in Abuja said the South-east deserves the position. The other, the North Central Progressive Forum (NCPF), wants the position zoned to the North-central region. The South-east group said the region has long been excluded and “all it needs is to be included as the politics of exclusion has not yielded much political dividend”. “But many years down the line, the South-east and indeed the former eastern region comprising the lgbo, ltsekiri, lbibio, Tiv, Idoma, Jukun and many others are still faced with rejection, denials, deprivations and exclusion, of political and socio-economic ramifications,” it said. “The politics of exclusion did not yield mu

Lagos Guber: Sanwo-Olu’s Victory Challenged In Court By Political Parties 2019 Elections Follow Mr. Owolabi Salis, Lagos state governorship candidate of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, has approached the state Election Petitions Tribunal to challenge the victory of Mr. Babajide Sanwo-olu of the APC. The AD Chairman, Mr Kolawole Ajayi, disclosed this in Lagos on Monday at a joint news conference with the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Fagbemi Awamaridi, NAN reports. Ajayi, while making the position of the party known on the March 9 governorship election, said the summary prayer before the tribunal was that Sanwo-Olu was not fit and proper to contest the 2019 governorship election. “A declaration that the pronouncement of Babajide Sanwo-Olu of APC as the winner of the Governorship election is null and void and such pronouncement be set aside, because of the gross electoral fraud and/or gross electoral misconduct. “A declaration that the

BBNaija Reunion: Ex Housemates Reminisce on Nominations and Evictions The show opened with the day one fake evictions with the ex-housemates expressing how it made them feel. Most of their reactions were hilarious! Ahneeka said it gave her instant migraine because it was too much emotional drama for her. Tobi said he thought his village people had won. Anto said she didn’t care that other people were evicted in her words   ‘do I know them? ’ while Lolu said for the first five minutes after the fake eviction he was just   ‘sirening’   ‘wow wow wow’ . Angel believed there were to be 12 or 16 housemates so the eviction was believable. DeeOne explained the fake eviction was a reality check for him. He said he saw Miracle’s face when they got back into the house and figured Miracle wasn’t a pure guy. DeeOne has come again oh, today it is Miracle! K. Brule said before the house they were on ‘house arrest’ and he finished the bible. So, getting into the house and seeing people was e

Atiku v Buhari: Presidential Election Tribunal Begins Hearing Today   The Presidential Election Tribunal will, today, commence hearing in the petition filed by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, against the declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari, of the All Progressive Congress, APC, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as winner of the February 23 presidential election. The tribunal had already granted both parties permission to have access to the materials used for the election for the purpose of inspection. Findings at the tribunal’s Secretariat, by Daily Sun, yesterday, indicated that hearing notices had been sent to all parties to the petition. Atiku and PDP had, in their separate petitions, asked the tribunal to declare Buhari’s election invalid by reason of fraud, corrupt practices and manipulation of results. The petitioners contended that Buhari was not duly elected by majority of lawful votes c