Category: Politics

– Ohanaeze youths hail choice as Anambra erupts in jubilation – Nigerians react The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the forthcoming 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Friday picked a former governor of Anambra state, Mr Peter Obi as his running mate. The media have been awash with speculations on whom […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday endorsed the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for the forthcoming 2019 presidential election. He told the entourage of the former Vice President, his former deputy, including PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus; Bishop David Oyedepo; Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah; Islamic […]

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for 2019, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, has said his emergence is causing the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) a lot of distress. Atiku, who is also a former vice president, in a statement by his campaign office, said accusations by the APC that he is desperate is borne out […]

Pressure is mounting on the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, over the party’s handling of recent primaries across the country. The exercise has been dogged by a series of complaints that the leadership of the party was not fair. During a protest in Calabar on Tuesday, a faction of the […]

Presidential aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were on Friday night handed over the list of delegates that would take part in the presidential primary scheduled for Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Saturday. However, one of our correspondents gathered that some of the aspirants were apprehensive that the list could be […]

– Yemi Adaramodu, Femi Bamisile, Fatoba Olusola, Ogunlola Steve, Peter Owolabi, Ibrahim Olanrewaju for Reps Former Lagos State commissioner, Opeyemi Bamidele, has emerged the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress for Ekiti Central District. He defeated the incumbent, Senator Fatima Raji-Rasaki, a recent convert to the party from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. However, […]

Few hours to the emergence of Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chairman of the National Convention Planning Committee, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has disclosed that everything has been put in place for a credible process to be delivered. Addressing journalists on Friday at the Adokiye Amasiemeka Stadium, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the venue […]

– want the ‘right’ thing done Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum, Rochas Okorocha, on Thursday said the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC must do the right thing and allow everybody to participate in its ongoing nationwide primaries. Okorocha, who is the Imo State governor, said this in a brief interview with […]

Following the decision of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress to disqualify some senatorial aspirants of the party in Ondo State, the affected aspirants on Wednesday asked the NWC to reverse the decision within 24 hours. The aspirants also asked the National Chairman of the party, Mr. Adams Oshiomole, to resign if […]

Gunmen on Wednesday invaded the venue of the Anambra South senatorial primary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance at the Township Stadium, Ekwulobia, in the Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. The gunmen had scared away delegates and disrupted the primary. It was gathered that a certain disgruntled senatorial aspirant mobilised the hoodlums to […]