AS reactions continue to trail President Muhammadu Buhari’s reported order to security agents to kill ballot box snatchers in the coming general election, constitutional lawyer and rights activist, Chief Mike Ozhekome, SAN, has said the president, by his action, was usurping the powers of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and the Police.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has accused the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress, APC, of plotting to embarrass the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in a bid to remove its chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu from office.

The Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has approached a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, asking it to bar President Muhammadu Buhari and security agencies in the country from interfering with the 2019 general elections.

A viral video has shown an official of the Nigerian Customs Service shoot a man dead along Lagos/Benin Road on Sunday.

ABUJA: In the aftermath of the postponement of the 2019 General Elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the electoral umpire is right now meeting with Nigeria’s former Heads of state, ostensibly to address concerns regarding the development.