Ex-Governor Oni dumps PDP for Ekiti 2022

Ahead of the June 18 governorship poll in Ekiti State, former Governor Segun Oni and first-runner up in the just-concluded governorship primaries of the opposition People’s Democratic Party(PDP) has withdrawn his membership of the PDP. The Director of Media and Publicity of Segun Oni Movement Adebayo Jackson confirmed this in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state on […]

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2023: Osinbajo’s presidential campaign launched in Ondo

Over 90 delegates from across state endorse him By Banji Ayoola The presidential campaign of the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo was formally unveiled and launched on Saturday in Akure, the Ondo State capital, where 90 delegates from across the state’s 18 Local Government Areas on behalf of their people at the grassroots endorsed his […]

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Aggrieved APC factions shift battle to court, accuse party of contempt

Threaten showdown, say collapse imminent if party doesn’t resolve crisis Why we didn’t inaugurate Kano APC chairman – Party secretary, Akpanudoedehe Victory certain, APC belongs to us, ex-governor Amosun insists The internal crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress may not fizzle out any time soon as aggrieved factions of the party have shifted the battlefield […]

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Tension as hoodlums attack Aregbesola faction’s secretariat, suspect arrested

There was panic on Thursday around Coca Cola Area of Osogbo, where Oranmiyan House used as campaign office by the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, is located, following an attack on the premises by armed men. The gunmen reportedly arrived at the area around 5.30pm in two vehicles which were parked opposite the building, facing […]

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Carpet Crossing: How desperate parties, biased Speaker, others help lawmakers trample on Nigerian Constitution

About 16 months to the end of the 9th House of Representatives, only six of the 21 members elected to the House on the platform of minor political parties in 2019 remain in those parties. The others have mostly defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), despite the 1999 Constitution frowning at lawmakers switching […]

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Why Osun APC factions difficult to reconcile, Salinsile

Salinsile Factional chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Alhaji Rasaq Salinsile in this interview with Timothy Agbor in Osogbo, spoke on why reconciliation of factions has been difficult, seven months to the governorship election and disclosed that genuine members of APC will not allow the party to lose the election to the […]

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APC inaugurates 34 state chairmen as Buni stays away

Kano, Sokoto chapters missing as Ganduje, Shekarau wait End of road for Mohammed, Aregbesola, Yari, Akpabio camps Gunmen attack Aregbesola’s campaign office in Osogbo Amid concerns for continued safety of its structures, the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja, inaugurated chairmen of 34 state chapters to run the affairs […]

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Buhari rebuffs lobby to shift APC convention date

No venue in party’s notification letter to INEC State chairmen inaugurated Last-minute push by some party chiefs to shift the All Progressives Congress (APC) convention date has collapsed. President Muhammadu Buhari staved off pressure from lobbyists, insisting that the February 26 date is sacrosanct. Following this, the APC caretaker committee wrote a February 2 letter […]

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Ondo APC congratulates House of Reps bye-election primary winner Alade

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State has congratulated Otunba Mayokun Lawson Alade who emerged as the party’s candidate in the primry it conducted to pick candidate for the bye election to fill the vacant seat of Akyre South/Akure North Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives. The seat became vacant following the passage […]

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Adu emerges Ondo PDP candidate to fight for ‘Expensive’s seat in House of Reps

Mr Olumuyiwa Adu has emerged the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the scheduled bye-election to fill the vacant seat of the Akure South/Akure North Federal Constituency in Ondo State in the House of Representatives. The vacancy followed the passage of the PDP chieftain, the late Hon Adedayo Omolafe, popularly called Expensive, who […]

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