Category: Politics

Tinubu retains Shettima as running mate despite outcry Kachikwu makes list amid alleged expulsion from the party 4,223 candidates contesting for 469 legislative positions We must have Nigeria before a president, says Jonathan The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has no candidate for Yobe North senatorial district, placing a lid on Senate President, Ahmad Lawan’s […]

Former Vice President and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar has declared that the PDP National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu won’t resign as being demanded by the Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike and other PDP Governors in his camp. His reaction came shortly after Wike’s team reportedly withdrew from the PDP […]

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, sank into a deeper crisis on Wednesday as Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike’s team reportedly pulled out of the campaign council of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The group, which has been relentlessly calling on the party’s national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, to resign for […]

INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday, published the final list of candidates validly nominated by political parties for the 2023 national elections, namely presidential, senatorial and federal constituencies. This is in compliance with Section 32(1) of the Electoral Act (2022). Containing only the names, party, age, gender, academic […]

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has asked Christians in Nigeria not to waste their votes by voting for the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 election. He stated this on Tuesday in Abuja at a summit tagged ‘Meet the Church’ organised by the Nigerian […]

INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission has described as misleading, the claim that it denied over seven million Nigerians the opportunity to complete their online pre-registration during the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR). The electoral umpire noted that most of the affected citizens failed to either complete the online enrolment or appear […]

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party and ex-Anambra State Governor, Mr Peter Obi, has said that the alleged fiscal recklessness and inability to tackle insecurity and corruption have been primarily responsible for Nigeria’s failing economy. Declaring the so called subsidy on petroleum products as organised crime, he said Nigeria needs an aggressive production of local […]

Nigeria’s ex-Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last Tuesday, September 13, 2022, presented his economic blueprint to the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI. His presentation is the first in the series. Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi is billed for tomorrow, Tuesday. All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has invited three former service chiefs to campaign for its presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar. Ishaya Bamaiyi, Kenneth Minimah and Martin Luther Agwai, all retired lieutenant generals and former chiefs of army staff, were named as members of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), which has the […]