Category: Politics

Senator Abdullahi Adamu, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said that the party would take a decision on zoning after screening its 2023 presidential aspirants. He said this in an interview with selected Hausa service media organisations late Wednesday night, adding that the presidential aspirants would be scrutinised in accordance with the […]

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, again has met with former President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the presidential primary of the APC billed for Sunday. It was learnt that the meeting preceded a discussion between Jonathan and Mamman Daura, the influential nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari. The meeting between Jonathan and […]

Ex-Anambra governor eyes Labour, NNPP tickets PDP Northern elders look to North Central for candidate, insist consensus is pathway to stability Legal move to stop PDP presidential primary fails APC chair hints on consensus pick for party’s presidential flag bearer Former governor of Anambra State and erstwhile presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples […]

Less than 72 hours to the national convention of Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), where it would pick its flag-bearer in next year’s presidential election, one of the party’s front-line presidential aspirants who also was a former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, has pulled out of the race. He […]

Few days to the convention to pick the presidential flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 elections, one of the aspirants, Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze, has recorded a major breakthrough with the party’s delegates from the South West. The Director General of the Nwachukwu Anakwenze Campaign Organisation, Chief Eric Oluwole, disclosed this in […]

PDP Convention: Tension as court defers ruling to today Dickson, Suswam, Akobundu secure tickets Kenny Bello defeats Reps Deputy Minority Whip in Ogun 3 Reps defeated in Benue Governors Okezie Ikpeazu, Samuel Ortom, and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Abia, Benue and Enugu states respectively, yesterday, won senatorial tickets of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in their […]

INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, kicked against what it described as marginalisation of women in the political space, imploring political parties to give preference to the gender during their primaries. It underscored the need for women to break the barriers of being just aspirants to contestants, while advising […]