Hello and good morning! This is today’s Nigerian newspaper summary:
1. Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in the recently concluded presidential election, stated yesterday that the quest to become Nigeria’s president nearly cost him his life. At a news conference in Abuja, Atiku said that the journey started with the military regime.
2. The Labour Party’s presidential candidate stated yesterday that he had won the 2023 presidential election. Obi, addressed to journalists in Abuja on Thursday, vowed to seek redress in court.
3. President-elect Bola Tinubu has said that he is completely prepared to confront any challenge launched against him by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar at any moment. At a news conference on Thursday, Atiku said that the election last Saturday, in which Tinubu was declared the winner, was neither free nor fair.
4. Yesterday, two senators, Gershom Bassey (Cross River South) and Abba Moro (Benue South), criticized Senate President Ahmad Lawan’s reasoning on the provisions of the Election Act regarding electronic transmission of results. According to them, the act mandates the electoral body to electronically transfer election results from polling stations to its central server.
5. Obviously disturbed by the ruling’s performance President Buhari, who won the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential election in Kaduna State, has apologized to Nigerians for the cash shortage caused by the naira redesign policy. He also appealed to the people of Kaduna State to vote for the APC’s gubernatorial candidate, Senator Uba Sani.
6. In preparation for the March 11, 2023 governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections, the Senate yesterday asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to strictly adhere to the 1999 Constitution as amended and the Election Act 2022 in conducting the election.
7. The Peoples Democratic Party’s National Working Committee, NWC, has rejected the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) declaration and return of the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) Presidential Candidate, Bola Tinubu, as President-elect. The NWC demanded that Tinubu’s certificate of return be withdrawn, claiming that he did not win.
8. The Rivers State Presidential Campaign Committee (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has praised Governor Nyesom Wike for his role in Bola Tinubu’s win in the state. In return, they have stated that they would support his favored candidate, Siminialaye Fubara of the PDP, in the March 11 gubernatorial election.
9. The parents of Whitney Adeniran, a 12-year-old Chrisland International School student who died under mysterious circumstances at the school’s inter-house sports activities at the Agege Stadium in Lagos State, said the autopsy found that she died of electrocution. Whitney’s mother, Blessing, announced the news in a live Instagram broadcast on Wednesday.
10. Olalere Michael, a police officer, committed suicide on Thursday after shooting his girlfriend, Tosin, to death on the premises of Agba Dam Housing Estate, Gaa Akanbi, in the Ilorin region of Kwara State. According to reports, the police officer assigned to the Kwara State Government House in Ilorin and his lover were together when a misunderstanding arose.
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