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By Halimah Olamide This ugly incident is yet another sad reminder of the weakness in our security system and the failure of successive governments to live up to the Constitutional duty of providing for the welfare and security of all Nigerians. A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Okey Wali, has been kidnapped by gun in PortHarcourt, the Rivers State Capital. This the second time Wali, a PortHarcourt based Senior Advocate of Nigeria would be abducted having suffered the same fate in October 2014. The President of the NBA, Yakubu Maikyau, in a statement, has called on the…
By Halimah Olamide “The CDD strongly condemns the recent announcement, by the Resident Electoral Commissioner of Adamawa State, of a winner in yesterday’s governorship election,” The Centre for Democracy and Development, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission not to waste time sanctioning its Resident Electoral Commissioner in Adamawa State, Yunusa Ari Hudu, for the controversial declaration of the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Aisha Binani as the winner of the exercise. The CDD, while expressing regrets over the development in Adamawa State aftermath of the rerun election, said it is critical that laid down procedures are followed in…
By Kamil Opeyemi and Halimah Olamide Irate mob have beaten and stripped a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Adamawa State. The National Commissioner was mistaken for the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Yunusa Hudu Ari. Ari had earlier announced the candidate of the All Progressive Congress in the election Senator Aisha Binani as the winner of the election in an action that drew the ire of those present at the Collation Centre on Sunday. There have been outrage after the INEC official made his announcement and was subsequently summoned to the Abuja headquarters of the commission.…
By Halimah Olamide Summons REC to Abuja The Independent National Electoral Commission, has summoned its Resident Electoral Commissioner in Adamawa State, to its headquarters in Abuja over his declaration of the candidate of the All Progressive Congress in the state, Aisha Binani as the winner of the state’s governorship election. “The attention of the Commission has been drawn to a purported declaration of winner in the Adamawa Governorship election by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) even when the process has clearly not been concluded,’ the INEC stated through a statement by Festus Okoye, its National Commissioner in charge of Information…