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The Nigerian Presidency has denied any rift between President Muhammadu Buhari and Lawmakers and also also adds that the Executives are not seeking any confrontation with the parliament despite his refusal to sign the amended Electoral Act Bill nor  is he against the use of card readers in the forthcoming elections. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, who stated this in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said the president’s decision to decline assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2018, had nothing to do with the use of card readers. Shehu, therefore, dismissed the allegations of opposition politicians, as well as some newspaper editorial opinions creating the impression that the President was against e-voting and the use of card readers in the 2019 elections. The presidential aide expressed the readiness of Buhari to sign the Electoral Act after effecting all the necessary corrections, adding that he (President Buha...

Bukola Saraki, Senate President on Wednesday boasted that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win the 2019 presidential elections. Saraki made this comment in Ilorin at a meeting with PDP members who came from the 16 local government areas of the state. He also expressed his confidence that his new party would emerge victorious in all the local government areas of Kwara State. Saraki said that the victory of PDP at both federal and state levels would be beneficial to all the members in the state. The Senate President said that the future of PDP was now brighter than it used to be. “If we emerge victorious at the federal level, all of us will be the beneficiaries. In the state, with your support we will win the state for PDP. “All of you here are the key players in Kwara politics. With unity of purpose, no party can contest with you. “We are here to unite all of us under the party we belong to today. I am assuring all members that there will be equity, ...