Clerk Reveals How Senate Rules were ‘amended’ for Saraki, Ekweremadu’s elections

The deputy clerk of the National Assembly, Benedict Efeturi, confirmed to police investigators that the senate’s standing orders used for the 2015 elections of Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu as senate president and deputy respectively, were different from the 2011 version which should have been in use at the time, details of police investigation seen by PREMIUM TIMES show. Mr. Efeturi made the disclosure to the Criminal Investigation and...

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Abia State: INEC issues Certificate of Return to Samson Ogah as new governor

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has issued Mr. Samson Ogah Certificate of Return as the new governor of Abia State, three days after Governor Okezie Ikpeazu was sacked by a court, the News Agency of Nigeria has reported. A Federal High Court in Abuja had on Monday directed Mr. Ikpeazu to immediately vacate office after convicting him of tax evasion. The court also ordered INEC to issue a certificate of return to Mr. Ogah,...

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