Category: Politics

Pro-Lawan group faults Ndume’s claims PDP votes unnecessary, party affirms Lawmakers charge Buhari on anti-corruption A group of senators-elect campaigning for Senate Leader Ahmed Lawan on Wednesday, dismissed claims by former Senate Leader Mohammed Ali Ndume as untrue and misleading. This has heightened the intra-party intrigues in the APC around the choice of the President […]

Criticisms by electoral observers and human rights bodies have trailed the conduct of the Saturday rerun elections in most of the affected states, even as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC declared winners of the governorship version of the exercise in five states. According to the electoral body, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has […]

Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong has been re-elected for a second term. The Returning Officer for the rerun election, Prof Richard Kimbir, announced this on Sunday at the collation centre for the governorship election in Jos, the state capital. According to him, the governor who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has dismissed the allegation that he is forcing voters to elect candidates other than those they preferred. He did this in a statement on Friday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu. “I believe in the will of the people,” he said emphatically, adding “I cannot, therefore, […]

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has vowed to reclaim his allegedly stolen mandate. He had approached the Electoral Tribunal, claiming he won the Presidential Election of which President Muhammadu Buhari was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Abubakar, who spoke in Abuja during a visit to […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday debunked a rumour that its candidate for the 2019 gubernatorial election in Lagos State Jimi Agbaje has dumped the party. “This is to disclaim the rumour going around, that our governorship candidate, Mr Olujimi Agbaje, has left the PDP,” the State Secretary of the party, Prince Muiz Dosumu said […]

The North Central geo-political zone caucus of the All Progressives Congress ( APC ) in the House of Representatives has urged leadership of the party to cede the position of the Speaker in the 9th Assembly to the zone. The caucus said the zone is deserving of the position because it not only contributed hugely […]

The battle for the Senate Presidency is gaining momentum by the day. With certificates of return issued to senators-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday, the battle for the nation’s number three seat has shifted to the geo-political zones. Impeccable sources listed North East, South South and South East geo-political zones as […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have each won 11 assembly seats of the 23 state constituency results released so far by the electoral body. The result sheet containing names and political parties of the 23 elected members, which was obtained from the Independent National Electoral Commission […]

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has faulted a decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withhold his Certificate of Return (CoR) as the senator-elect for Imo West District. He described the move as unfortunate and unconstitutional. The governor also accused the INEC of allowing itself to be used by those he claimed, were […]