Today’s Headlines:Amupitan must go-Angry youths storm INEC office;INEC to meet over Atiku’s ticket

Angry youths on Monday stormed the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Abuja, demanding the resignation of its chairman, Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan.

The protesters accused the electoral commission of being unprepared for the 2027 general election, raising concerns over difficulties faced by Nigerians in collecting their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs.

According to the protesters, the presidential and National Assembly elections are barely two months away, yet millions of Nigerians are still struggling to obtain their PVCs.

Carrying placards with various inscriptions, the youths accused INEC of failing to make PVC collection accessible, alleging that many Nigerians had visited its offices several times without receiving their cards.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it will not take a position on the leadership crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress until it obtains and studies the certified true copy of the Federal High Court judgment which invalidated the leadership the David Mark-led leadership of the African Democratic Congress.

INEC’s position followed Thursday’s judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which nullified the Mark-led caretaker committee and invalidated decisions taken under its leadership, including the emergence of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2027 general elections.

Speaking to Sunday Punch, the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Haruna, said the commission’s next line of action following the judgment would be to first obtain the certified true copy before making any decision.

“We can’t take a position until we see tthe judgement ourselves. We have to get the certified true copy because we don’t take decisions or reports of what the court said based on reports because the reports could be wrong,” he said.

Former Sokoto State Governor and Senator representing Sokoto North, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has been appointed chairman of the 37-member campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

The appointment was announced in a statement issued on Monday and signed by Abubakar Bawa, the spokesman to Governor Ahmed Aliyu.

Governor Aliyu will serve as the deputy chairman of the council, while his deputy, Engr. Idris Mohammed Gobir; Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi; and Minister of State for Works, Bello Goronyo, will serve as first, second and third assistant chairmen, respectively.

Other members of the council include the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Sokoto State House of Assembly, the state APC chairman and prominent businessman, Umarun Kwabo AA.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested 75 suspected drug traffickers and seized 16,818.17 kilogrammes of illicit drugs in Edo State in October 2026.

The NDLEA State Commander, Mitchell Ofoyeju, disclosed this on Monday while briefing journalists on the agency’s achievements in the month under review.

He said the command seized a total of 2,496.11791 kilogrammes of illicit substances, identified and destroyed eight cannabis farms measuring 5.728819 hectares, with an estimated yield of 14,322.0475 kilogrammes.

“Others are 3.2169kg of psychotropic substances, 0.20371 kilograms of methamphetamine, 35 cylinders of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), six cups of brownies and 4.1 litres of codeine syrup.”