Category: Politics

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has faulted the decision of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to pick Muslim presidential and vice presidential candidates for the 2023 election. He wondered why the APC would decide to toe that line in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation like Nigeria. Atiku said this […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, on Friday, claimed that with the outcome of last weekend’s governorship election in Osun State, the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, should withdraw from next year’s election. This is as the party alleged that the former Lagos State governor’s effort to “frustrate” the outcome of the election won by […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has displayed Sadiq Muhammad Wali on its list as the validly elected candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State. INEC had earlier remarked that the only primary election they observed was that which produced Mohammad Abacha as the gubernatorial candidate in Kano for the 2023 general […]

Shettima, middle; being formally unveiled on Wednesday in Abuja by Tinubu, right; and APC chairman, Abdullahi Adamu The unveiling of the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Kashim Shettima, was on Wednesday greeted by anger as hundreds of demonstrators stormed the APC secretariat in Abuja to register their grievances over the decision. The […]

Shettima’s unveiling; Photo: Twitter The Tinubu Campaign Organisation has described as unwarranted distractions the viral pictures and videos of some Christian clergy at Wednesday’s unveiling of Sen. Kashim Shettima, All Progressives Congress (APC) Vice-Presidential candidate in Abuja. Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Communication, Tinubu Campaign Organisation in a statement on Thursday, said the clergymen […]

National Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu (left); APC vice presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima and APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the unveiling of Shettima as Tinubu’s running mate, in Abuja…yesterday. Photo: Lucy Ladidi Ateko Shettima assures he won’t serve Islam, Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri interests as VP CAN disowns bishops who graced […]

The National Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu,  says Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has chosen to walk along the path of great Nigerians like the winner of the annulled 1993 presidential election, late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola in picking Senator Kashim Shettima, a Muslim from the North, as his running mate for the 2023 […]

INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu The Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, has proposed a life ban for any politician or political parties caught in the act of vote buying. Speaking on Channels Television, ‘Morning Rise’ Returning Electoral Commissioner , REC, Akwa Ibom State Mike Igini said the menace of vote buying  has assumed “the level of […]

A former Presidential Aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze, has congratulated the Party’s Candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, over his victory in last Saturday’s Governorship Election in Osun State. Also, he commended the Party’s Presidential Candidate, His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, over his statement recently that other former Aspirants who contested with […]