Ahead of next week’s inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, some lawmakers-elect has denounced reports that President Bola Tinubu had at a meeting with them on Thursday endorsed the controversial zoning formula of his ruling All Progressives Congress APC.

Five ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have been okayed to testify as special witnesses in the petition that a former vice president and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, filed to challenge the outcome of the 2023 presidential election.

The Imo state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, on Tuesday, described the Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodimma, as confused and inexperienced.

A witness, Mr Ibrahim Hamza, on Monday, told the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, that he was forced under duress, to sign the results of the presidential election in Nasarawa state.

Hamza, who testified before Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel as the 10th Petitioners’ Witness, PW-10, said he served as a state collation agent for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, during the presidential election that was held on February 25.

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Ondo State has asked the newly inaugurated members of the 10th State House of Assembly, not to be pawns who rubber-stamped the whims and caprices of the Executive.

Chairman of the party in the state, Stephen Adewale, said this in a statement issued in Akure the state capital while congratulating the lawmakers.