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The Supreme Court has fixed October 23 as hearing date in the appeal lodged by former vice president Atiku Abubakar Pres of Abubakar Atiku, against President Bola Tinubu’s election. According to a hearing notice dated October 19 and signed by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Zainab Garba, Atiku’s appeal marked SC/CV/935/2023 has been scheduled for Monday, October 23. […]
President Bola Tinubu has moved to block six US government intelligence agencies from releasing documents relating to a 1993 Illinois court judgment, where he forfeited $460,000 in two of his bank accounts. The forfeiture was the outcome of an investigation that linked some money in several of Tinubu’s bank accounts to proceeds from the heroin trafficking […]
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dele Momodu, has released the school calendar of Atiku Abubakar, the party’s 2023 presidential candidate. The calendar released by Momodu on Wednesday showed Atiku with his classmates and late mother. Atiku had come under scrutiny over some discrepancies in the name on his WASSCE certificate. The former […]
Phrank Shaibu, the Special Assistant on Public Communications to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has criticized the BBC over its fact-check report stating that there was no evidence to show that President Bola Tinubu’s Chicago State University (CSU) certificate was forged. Shaibu described the BBC’s report as a “hatchet job” and noted that the outrage it generated […]
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has explained the discrepancies in his Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, certificate. Atiku offered the clarification through Dele Momodu, one of his aides, on Tuesday in a post on his social media platform, X. According to Momodu, the clarification became necessary following allegations of […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) claims the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar is suffering from multiple electoral losses over his push for the nullification of President Bola Tinubu’s win. Atiku who lost in the 2023 election and also to Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 – had on Thursday addressed the press […]
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says his quest for President Bola Tinubu’s academic records from Chicago State University is for the enthronement of truth and morality. Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the 2023 presidential election, lost the race to President Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress. He told newsmen in Abuja on Thursday […]
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has in response to an appeal by his Peoples Democratic Party counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, to join in the legal battle challenging President Tinubu’s credentials said he was focused on reclaiming his stolen mandate at the Supreme Court. Obi’s response was contained in a statement signed by […]
A lawyer to the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, in the 2023 general elections has accused President Bola Tinubu of submitting a forged degree certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the election. The lawyer, Kalu Kalu, said this on Thursday during a press conference held by Abubakar […]
The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, will today address a world press conference on the issue of President Bola Tinubu’s academic records released by the Chicago State University. This was made known by one of his Presidential Campaign spokespersons, Dele Momodu, on X, formerly Twitter.This exact time of the press conference […]
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, says latest events have shown that the game is over for Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Keyamo said losing the 2023 presidential election hurts Atiku more than previous polls. He said Atiku should retire from politics following the release of President Bola Tinubu’s […]
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has not issued a response following the release of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s academic records by Chicago State University (CSU). Atiku had specifically requested these records to support his claim of forgery related to President Tinubu’s CSU certificate. In accordance with the directives of […]
The Chicago State University (CSU) has confirmed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu graduated from the school in 1979. The University did this when it responded to the request by former vice president Atiku Abubakar in line with an Illinois, United States (U.S.) court order. The CSU said Tinubu graduated in 1979 with a bachelors degree in Business Administration. In […]
The Chicago State University, CSU, has released the school documents of President Bola Tinubu to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar. Atiku had secured victory at the court in his legal battle to probe into the academic qualification President Tinubu submitted that qualified him to contest the February 25 presidential […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has lashed out at presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, saying no amount of propaganda will give him a shot at the presidency. The governing party dismissed allegation by Atiku’s media aide, Phrank Shaibu, that the Tinubu administration was only interested in “telling lies rather than […]
Special Assistant on Public Communication to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Phrank Shaibu, has unveiled what he described as the “10 big lies” that have so far characterised President Bola Tinubu administration. Shaibu said in a statement on Sunday that the repeated lies were evidence that Tinubu’s only plan was to use propaganda to deceive […]
The legal teams representing President Bola Tinubu and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, are scheduled to recommence their legal dispute over President Tinubu’s academic records from Chicago in a United States court this coming Monday. This legal battle follows a recent development in which a US District Judge named Nancy […]
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, and Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) candidate, have taken separate legal actions in their determination to challenge the election victory of President Bola Tinubu, who represents the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Both Atiku and Obi filed appeals with the Supreme Court seeking to […]
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abubakar Atiku, has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court, seeking nullification of the judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Court, which upheld the declaration of President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 polls. In the notice of appeal predicated on 35 grounds, Atiku […]
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February presidential election Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has raised alarm that President Bola Tinubu is planning to unleash a regime of propaganda on the country. Atiku in a statement on Sunday by his Special Assistant on Public Communication Phrank Shaibu, pointed at the news put forward by […]
