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14 Oct 2023
Coalition for the Protection of Democracy (COPDEM) has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to respond urgently to the issue raised by the 2023 Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi. Obi had on Wednesday at a world press conference in Abuja urged Tinubu to tell Nigerians his true name and everything related…
13 Oct 2023
A group called the Democracy Vanguard of Nigerians in Diaspora (DVND) has written a letter to the President of the United States, Joe Biden, requesting the derecognition of Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, based on allegations of forgery, perjury, and an alleged breach of the Nigerian constitution. The letter, dated October 6, 2023, and signed…
13 Oct 2023
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Christopher Oshomegie, has offered an insight as to why renewed effort by the presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, to unseat President Bola Tinubu at the Supreme Court would not come to fruition. Speaking to The Guardian in Abuja, he argued that the…
12 Oct 2023
After months of dispute between the President’s lawyers and legal agents of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that culminated in the deposition of President Bola Tinubu’s credentials by Chicago State University (CSU) in a U.S. court last week...
11 Oct 2023
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…
10 Oct 2023
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has called on the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to dismiss President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as its chairman over a lack of legitimacy as President of Nigeria. Frank, who made…
9 Oct 2023
Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has criticized the appointment of additional media aides by President Bola Tinubu, stating that not even a thousand media aides can salvage Tinubu's reputation, which he believes is embroiled in scandals. Shaibu's comments came in response to the establishment of a new media directorate by…
9 Oct 2023
The controversy over President Bola Tinubu’s Chicago State University (CSU) certificate, which reached a crescendo last week following the deposition of the president’s academic records at a United States court continued yesterday...
8 Oct 2023
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, says the Bola Tinubu administration plans to gag the media ahead of the release of the records containing his investigations by the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Shaibu said in a statement on Sunday that the Tinubu administration had become frustrated…
8 Oct 2023
The media adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Paul Ibe, has faulted what he called “corrupted interpretation of the facts in the disposition” released by Chicago State University against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Ibe, in a statement on Sunday, titled 'Tinubu’s house of forgeries,' said anyone who has taken the time to do a…
6 Oct 2023
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, said it would be a fight to a finish with President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
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