DAILY RENDEZVOUS

Daily Rendezvous  By Jonathan Abel, Maggie San Nigerian politician and an APC starlwart in Adamawa State said Adanawa state APC will soon prove to Nigerians that the party is the most progressive part of tge party in the country by putting forward a female governorship candidate with a realistic chance brushing aside the lousy performing Gov. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri. Adanawa APC will prove their sagacity in 2023 by electing the first female governor in Nigeria, a feat that no part of the country has been able to achieve despoite their claims to openess, Senator Abubakar Girei, has said. Girei, who represented Adamawa Central Senatorial District between 1999 and 2003 under Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) made this known whike fielding questions to Newsmen Monday in Yola, Adanawa state. Girei said, the APC governorship candidate for 2023, Senator Aishatu Ahmed, popularly called Binani, is heading for a clean sweep victory.   Girei who spoke against reservations in some q...

Daily Rendezvous An Abuja-based law firm has rasied the alarm over an ongoing underhand plot by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Wakili Boya, in connivance with some INEC staff, to smuggle the name of Wakili Boya into INEC's website eleven days after the official June 17th, 2022 dateline. The solicitors acting on behalf of their client, Samaila Ardo Mallum, submitted that the APC candidate, Wakili Boya, has failed to submit his details or upload his form EC9 on the 17th of June, 2022 as required by the electoral umpire. This is contained in an official complain letter submitted to INEC office, by the law firm in Yola, Adamawa State. The firm said, it is informing INEC of this underhand tactics employed by the politician and some INEC staff in order to bring the matter to the notice of the electoral body and to task the body to initiate an investigation j to the alleged act and prevent itself from taking sides in the electoral process and from ...

Daily Rendezvous Adamawa 2023: Court summons PDP, INEC over disqualification of governorship aspirant The judge said it was in the interest of justice for all the parties connected to the PDP governorship race in Adamawa State to appear and respond to the issues in the matter. The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, summoned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to appear over the purported disqualification of Abubakar Waziri from the Adamawa governorship primary. Mr Waziri, through his lawyer, Louis Alozie, sued the PDP and INEC over his disqualification by the screening committee of the party in preparation for the Adamawa State governorship race in 2023. Mr Alozie, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), informed the court that the purported disqualification of Mr Waziri was done in breach of the Electoral Act 2022 and the PDP guidelines. He argued that both the Yola South Local Government Area and the Steering Com...

Daily Rendezvous The Independent Nationnal Electoral Commission (INEC) says Nigeria's  presidential election will hold on February 25, 2023. The INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, made this known Saturday, at a media briefing in Abuja. Yakubu further said that the national assembly elections will hold on the same day, while governorship and state house of assembly polls will take place on March 11, 2023. This announcement comes hours after President Muhammadu Buhari signed the National Electoral Act Bill into law. Yakubu said the 2023 polls were initially scheduled to commence on February 18, 2023 with the presidential and national assembly elections, followed by the governorship and state house of assembly elections on March 4. He said the commission could, however, not release the detailed timetable and schedule of activities because of the pending enactment of the electoral act 2022. “The electoral act provides strict timelines for the implementation of electoral ac...

Daily Rendezvous The National Independent Electoral Commission, INEC , has released the calendar and political campaign itinerary for the 2023 elections in Nigeria. The calendar consists of electioneering activities partaining the 2023 presidential and gubernatorial elections in the country. The calendar released by the INEC, scheduled that electioneering activities will commence from March 2022 providing a template for all political parties in the country heading into the 2023 General elections.. The calendar outlined that by April 2022, campaign for presidential and gubernatorial elections will kick off and as at May 2022, there will be party Congresses across Nigeria. The guideline also fixed February 2023 as the date for the presidential election. Check out the calendar below: 1. Consultation continues January: 1-31 2. Intensive consultation continues February: 1-28 3. March: INEC gives guideline for aspirants, candidates, parties in respect of congress, primary electio...