Category: Politics

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it is making preparations for around 95 million voters in next years’ general elections, but warns that the increasing level of insecurity in some parts of the country poses a threat to the polls. The Chairman, INEC, Prof Mahmoud Yakubu, said this in Lagos on Friday at a […]

State chapters insist Oyo governor, others on their own in push to remove national chairman Atiku denies trip to Europe is about medicals Weeks to the commencement of campaign activities by candidates and their political parties ahead of the 2023 general elections, the crisis rocking the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have taken a […]

The presidential flag bearer of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has been accused of trying to induce Nigerians with foodstuffs and other items in order to vote him in as president in the coming elections. This was as foodstuffs bearing his name, that of his vice-presidential candidate, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed, and the logo of […]

The Middle Belt Forum has said the presidential standard bearer of the ruling All Progressives Congress may find it difficult to convince Nigerians to vote for him in the forthcoming general election due to the poor performance of President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari had said during his recent visit to Imo State that his administration had […]

A former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olabode George, on Friday, said that had the party stuck religiously to its principle of zoning, its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, wouldn’t have become its standard bearer. He said the former vice president was allowed to contest, and eventually won the presidential ticket based on […]

A People Democratic Party (PDP) chief in Rivers State and former member of the National Assembly, Ogbonna Nwuke, has said the call by the South-West geo-political zone of the PDP, demanding the removal of the National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, has vindicated the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. Nwuke, in a statement in […]

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has left Nigeria for Europe on a business trip. The Media Adviser to Abubakar, Mr Paul Ibe, said this in a statement he issued on Friday in Abuja. Ibe said Abubakar traveled immediately after his Friday meeting with the leadership of the Pentecostal Fellowship […]

Youths hold one million-man solidarity march in Ibadan Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in South-West have cautioned the people of the region against intra-ethnic gang-up against its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on 2023 polls. The chieftains of the party, led by its National Vice President, South-West, Isaac Kekemeke and  its governorship candidate […]

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has been appointed the Director General of the Presidential Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. His appointment was made on Thursday evening when the party constituted its presidential campaign organisation, which will be chaired by the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel. The deputies chairmen are the Bauchi […]