Today's Headlines:Yahaya Bello to Atiku, Obi: Support Tinubu to fix Nigeria | We have only one country, Group Files Lawsuit To Bar Former U.S. President Trump From Primary Ballot In Colorado.
Yahaya Bello to Atiku, Obi: Support Tinubu to fix Nigeria | We have only one country.
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Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, has asked Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar to accept the judgment of the presidential election petitions tribunal.
On Wednesday, the tribunal upheld the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the February 25 poll.
The tribunal ruled that the petitions filed by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Obi, candidate of the Labour Party (LP) and Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were “all devoid of merit”.
Bello spoke with reporters on Thursday after a meeting with Vice-President Kashim Shettima at the State House, Abuja.
Nigerians are happy and the truth is out there. We appreciate all that happened yesterday,” the Kogi governor said.
“The truth has been exposed. Imagine the justices sitting down for almost 14 hours to deliver that landmark judgement yesterday.
“Nigerians within the country and in the diaspora are happy and I think it is time to settle down and face governance.
Group Files Lawsuit To Bar Former U.S. President Trump From Primary Ballot In Colorado.
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Aliberal group on Wednesday filed a lawsuit to bar former U.S. President Donald Trump from the primary ballot in Colorado.
The group argued that Trump is ineligible to run for the White House again under a rarely used clause in the U.S. Constitution aimed at candidates who have supported an “insurrection.”
The lawsuit, citing the 14th Amendment, is likely the initial step in a legal challenge that seems destined for the U.S. Supreme Court.According to AP, the complaint was filed on behalf of six Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters by the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
It will jolt an already unsettled 2024 primary campaign that features the leading Republican candidate facing four separate criminal cases.
Liberal groups have demanded that states’ top election officials bar Trump under the clause that prohibits those who “engaged in an insurrection or rebellion” against the Constitution from holding higher office. None has taken that step, looking for guidance from the courts on how to interpret a clause that has only been used a handful of times since the 1860s.
While a few fringe figures have filed thinly written lawsuits in a few states citing the clause, the litigation Wednesday was the first by an organization with significant legal resources. It may lead to similar challenges in other states, holding out the potential for conflicting rulings that would require the Supreme Court to settle.
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G-20 Summit: Nigeria Ready To Accommodate All – Tinubu.
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President Bola Tinubu on Thursday said Nigeria is ready to accommodate all Nigerians irrespective of their ethnic background.
The President stated this in India ahead of the G-20 Summit, where he shared his conviction with Nigerians during an interaction on Thursday evening.
“You can also do it; do not be despondent in any way. Nigeria is ready to accommodate all. It does not matter which part of Nigeria you are from,” Tinubu was quoted in a statement by his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale.
Calling on Nigerians to harness the country’s rich diversity as a uniquely powerful tool for advancing prosperity and national development for the benefit of all citizens, Tinubu emphasized that the nation’s diversity must be leveraged to drive economic growth, innovation, and social progress.
President Tinubu also told Nigerians that he ran for the highest office in the country because of the fact that, despite the great human and natural resource wealth of the nation, the leadership and public sector management deficit in the country held Nigeria back from manifest destiny.
BREAKING: Like Atiku, Peter Obi Rejects PEPC Verdict, Heads To Supreme Court.
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Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, has rejected the judgement of the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC), which affirmed the electoral victory of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 25 general election.
Obi disclosed this at a press briefing on Thursday evening in Onitsha, Anambra State, about a couple of hours after his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, had announced same position.
LEADERSHIP reports that former Vice President and candidate of the PDP had rejected the judgement of the PEPC, which affirmed the electoral victory of Tinubu in the February 25 general election.
Recall that PEPC had on Wednesday delivered judgements on the petitions filed against Tinubu and APC by the PDP, LP and Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and their candidates.
Obi added that he had instructed his Lawyers to do the needful and appeal the judgement of PEPC at the Supreme Court of Nigeria according to the provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
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