Today’s Headlines:Speaker Kolawole Loses Suit Against INEC, APC Will Triumph In South-East -Uzodimma

Following the outcome of a judgement at the Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja on Thursday over missing of his name from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) accredited lists for the 2023 general elections, the Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Matthew Kolawole has vowed to seek redress in the Appeal Court.

Justice Peter H. Mallong in his Thursday ruling had dismissed Kolawole’s suit, seeking to be recognized by INEC as the House of Representatives candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for Kabba-Bunu/Ijumu Constituency.

Justice Mallong stated that the electoral body is entitled to set a timeline for all its activities, stressing that once the timeline is passed, the court cannot force the umpire to extend it.

Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, says the All Progressives Congress, will triumph in the South-East in the 2023 general election because it is the only party with structures in all the 774 Local Government Areas of the country.

Uzodimma, also the Chairman of the APC Presidential Campaign Council in the South-East, said this at a seminar organised by the party for its candidates in Owerri.

“APC is already winning and will win in the South-East because APC is the only political party that has party structure at the polling units and booths in all 774 LGAs of the country,” he said.

Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, has named his former Deputy, Dare Kadiri, as one of those behind his ordeals with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

While maintaining his innocence in the recent EFCC charges against him, Oluomo said “I will want the court to decide because the hyperbolic nature of the petitions written by the impeached former Deputy Speaker, Dare Kadiri was also reflected in the charges.”

In a statement on Friday after he resumed office, following the perfection of his bail conditions, Oluomo said he was not the Accounting Officer of the Assembly, adding that the House only operates one bank account.

Former presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, on Thursday, proposed that the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, should be renamed after the late Queen Elizabeth II as an honour.

He said this on Twitter shortly after the Queen died on Thursday evening.

Garba wrote, “In order to immortalise Queen Elizabeth, we should rename the University of Nigeria, Nsukka to Queen Elizabeth University of Nigeria since it is the first University in Nigeria.

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