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Former Kano State Governor and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has dumped the party. It will be recalled that Senator Kwankwaso, recently had said he will defect from the party to a new party, the New Nigeria People Party (NNPP). Kwankwaso resigned his membership from PDP in a letter he […]
Continue ReadingSouthwest politicians from the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) bloc in the All Progressives Congress (APC) are set to lose out at the coming APC national convention following their rejection by governors in the region, reports say. The defunct CPC bloc is made up of politicians, who joined Muhammadu Buhari to merge with the Action […]
Continue ReadingNigerian vice president, Prof Yemi Osinbajo may have told President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to contest the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for next year’s election. Daily Trust reported on Monday, quoting sources, that Osinbajo approached the president to inform him of his desire to inherit his position at the end […]
Continue ReadingFormer Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) deputy governor and 2023 presidential hopeful, Kingsley Moghalu, has on Sunday night, met with the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, over the Third Force movement. In October last year, Jega and a foremost political economist, Prof. Pat Utomi, among others had unveiled a […]
Continue ReadingBello Shagari, a grandson of late former President Shehu Shagari, has revealed that his grandfather only spent N200 of his personal funds during the first presidential campaign in 1979. “Do you know that Late President Shehu Shagari never became anything he wished and reluctantly became everything he was?,” Bello wrote on Friday, February 25, the […]
Continue ReadingFormer Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Tuesday announced the formation of Third Force, under the aegis of The National Movement (TNM), thereby lightening the political temper of Nigeria towards the 2023 Presidency. Others in the team with him include Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi of Kaduna State; former Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Solomon […]
Continue ReadingOne of the governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Mr. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele (M.O.B.) has released a statement on the recently conducted governorship primary election in the State. Read his statement below: I THANK YOU ALL AND I URGE YOU TO STAND FIRM ON YOUR FEET; FOR IT IS NO […]
Continue ReadingFormer Ekiti State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in the state, Engr. Segun Oni, has accused former Governor Ayo Fayose, of selling out the party’s candidate to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Oni also knocked the PDP National Working Committee led by Iyorchia Ayu for having hurriedly ratified the outcome of the […]
Continue ReadingCandidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the June 18 governorship election in Ekiti State, Bisi Kolawole, says Senator Biodun Olujimi pulled out of the governorship primary on Wednesday to avoid defeat and embarrassment. He spoke on Thursday while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ current affairs programme. Kolawole, an immediate past Chairman of […]
Continue ReadingSeven governorship aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), including former Minister of Works, Senator Dayo Adeyeye, have withdrawn from the party’s primary election in Ekiti State which has been scheduled to take place on today. Names of the other six aspirants, who withdrew, according to a statement on Thursday, are a […]
Continue ReadingEx-Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday January 22, told leaders of Peoples Democratic Party who visited him that he can never return to the opposition party where he was elected as Nigeria’s President for two terms. Obasanjo renounced his membership of the party, when he fell out with ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in the buildup […]
Continue ReadingSpecial Adviser to Nigerian President on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu, says he will not support the presidential ambition of an All Progressives Congress (APC) leader, Bola Tinubu. Ojudu further stated that contrary to reports, Tinubu did not make him successful as he was already an accomplished publisher before meeting the former Lagos State governor. The […]
Continue ReadingAbout 24 hours after an All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Bola Tinubu, informed Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to run for the 2023 presidential election, Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State on Tuesday did the same. Reports have it that Governor Umahi disclosed this to State House correspondents after meeting behind closed […]
Continue ReadingFormer Lagos governor and a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu on Monday declared that he had informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his presidential ambition for 2023. Asiwaju Tinubu disclosed this while addressing State House Correspondents after a closed-door meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The APC stalwart, […]
Continue ReadingEvery election cycle, we’re told that it’s the most important one ever. And in many ways, that’s true — if only because we can shape the future, but not what’s in the past. Yet the past is our best tutor for making sure we don’t repeat mistakes, learn from other societies and innovate in ways […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Military President, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has endorsed Nigerian Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo for the 2023 presidential election. Premium Times reports that the former Nigerian leader endorsed him when the Osinbajo Grassroots Organisation visited him at his Hilltop residence in Minna, Niger capital, on Thursday December 23. According to him, Osinbajo has great passion […]
Continue ReadingPersons believed to be hoodlums, in their hundreds on Thursday set ablaze the Gubernatorial Campaign Office of one of the political opponents of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, Sen. Barau Jibrin representing Kano north senatorial district. Some of the suspected attackers were said to have gone with dangerous weapons to the Senator’s office located along Maiduguri Road […]
Continue ReadingGovernorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the Anambra Election, Prof Charles Soludo, has taken an early lead in seven of the 21 local governments, according to the results so far released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) In the results so far released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), […]
Continue ReadingIn a joint statement, the 9 candidates in the forthcoming Anambra governorship election have appealed to the Nigerian government to release Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The candidates said releasing the IPOB leader would help forestall “impending violence” in the south-east. The joint statement was signed by Ben Etiaba of […]
Continue ReadingWith 3,600 delegates, Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) concluded its elective national convention in the early hours of Sunday, with the newly elected National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, declaring that the party is back to take back power from the All Progressives Congress. Members of the next National Working Committee (NWC) were […]
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