The Presidency on Thursday requested the opposition Peoples Democratic Party to cease talking for the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on its affairs with the All Progressives Congress.

It suggested the PDP to give attention to find out how to handle what the Presidency known as the occasion’s “grim future” as an alternative of concentrating on Buhari and the APC.

“As the Peoples Democratic Party, the nation’s primary opposition occasion grapples with deeply troubling questions on its terminal decline and future in nationwide politics, Nigerians have to be shocked studying an announcement issued by them,  assuming the position of spokesmen for President Muhammadu Buhari.

“What business do they have talking about alleged love lost between President Buhari and the APC? What do they know? Who sent them?”, the Presidency stated in an announcement by Buhari’s media aide, Mr Garba Shehu.

It claimed that the PDP was an “obstacle” to governance, urging the occasion to give attention to rebuilding its picture.

“Today, the PDP represents the one greatest impediment to good governance and alter that the nation wants and the individuals are yearnings for.

“Both self-respect and sound political judgment demand that the occasion takes an introspective take a look at itself after two successive defeats in nationwide elections, asking what went mistaken and find out how to repair its battered picture.

“They need to go back to the people, in towns and villages, to know what the people want and what the country needs. Instead of doing that, they are taking roles for themselves that are not mandated by law, morality or political gamesmanship,” the Presidency stated.

But, it praised the APC, boasting that it regarded good because the occasion of the long run.

“As for the APC, the geographical growth of the occasion is nothing in need of an affidavit to the rosy future that lies forward.

“The party has come to stay, and the President and the country will ensure that this is achieved,” the Presidency added.

The Presidency was reacting to current criticisms of the President and his occasion by the PDP following Buhari’s New Year’s letter to Nigerians, saying that he would step down in 2023.

Buhari had additionally stated he had no real interest in grooming a successor however that Nigerians ought to make that call by a democratic course of.

In an announcement by the PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, the occasion had acknowledged that the President merely stated the plain, noting that his regime had not added any worth to the nation since 2015.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed the election of Okezie Ikpeazu as Abia Governor

In a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Paul Galunje, the court held that the appellant did not establish its claims of over-voting.

According to him, to prove this allegation there are crucial documents that the appellant must tender.

He said: “The law is clear that the petitioner must tender the voters’ register, relate the document to the specific area where the documents were affected.

“However, in this case, the appellant has not done so, it merely dumped form ec8a and ec8b before the court but did not call any witnesses to prove its allegations of over-voting”.

Justice Galunje added that the card reader print out tendered by the appellant at the trial tribunal cannot be converted into the constitution or electoral act which is the yardstick for proving over voting as such relying on the card reader is fatal to any petitioners case.

He concluded that the appellant failed to lead credible evidence in proof of their case and the two lower courts are right to dismiss the appeal.

ABN TV reports that the candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Alex Otti, and his party had approached the apex court to set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal which upheld the election of Governor Ikpeazu.

The supreme Court has this morning adopted the transient of Arguments of Alex Otti of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and Okezie Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Ords and reserved Judgment within the Appeal to 2pm right this moment.

Otti and his occasion are difficult Ikpeazu’s victory within the final governorship election.