Category: Politics

Barely 19 months to Nigeria’s high-stakes 2023 presidential elections, intense lobbying and permutations have heightened among political actors on who or which geo-political zone should produce the next president. In “A Message to Nigerians,’’ released in Abuja on Sunday, elder statesman, Dr Nnamdi Onochie, wrote that the political class should “toe the path of reason […]

The recent Supreme Court judgment, which saved the mandate of Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), came as a sudden blow on the fabric of the federal governing party. Coupled together as a mega political party to challenge the dominance of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), it was also […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has hailed the judgement of the Court of Appeal, which upheld its state executive in Anambra State ahead of the November 6, 2021 elections in that state. In a statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary, on Friday, the party described the judgement as a victory for democracy and […]

Key stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) have continued to give divergent opinions and legal interpretations to the pronouncements by Supreme Court Justices on the eligibility of the Yobe State governor and chairman caretaker and extraordinary convention planning committee, Mai Mala Buni to hold both elective and party positions. On Thursday, two of President […]

Apex Court position that APC is lawless a dangerous signal – Kekemeke All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday insisted that the minority verdict by Supreme Court justices in the judgment upholding Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s victory will not affect its national leadership. Three justices in the minority judgment read by Justice Mary Peter-Odili, contended that […]

• APC dazed, staggers from Supreme Court ruling on Ondo guber • Omo-Agege, Enang, Ojudu, Etta, Keyamo, Abe cross wordsWednesday’s Supreme Court split decision that upheld the election of Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, as winner of the November 20, 2020 governorship poll, has thrown up confusion within the fold of the governing All Progressives […]

Assailed by knotty legal challenges and possibility that it may not feature on the ballot in the forthcoming Anambra State gubernatorial poll, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has initiated talks aimed at adopting an alternative political platform. It was gathered that the move is aimed at beating the July 30 deadline for withdrawal and replacement […]

Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will meet today in Bauchi to examine the state of the nation. A statement on Sunday by the Director General of the PDP Governors’ Forum, C. I. D. Maduabum, said the governors will also discuss the growing unemployment and the shrinking economy with attendant […]