Category: Politics

The Labour Party factional chairman, Lamidi Apapa, has given grounds on which he would honour an invitation for dialogue from the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. While responding to questions about if he will honour an invitation from Tinubu for reconciliation talks on Arise TV’s Morning Show on Thursday, Apapa said he would meet with the former […]

A prominent support group of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) – Progressives Foundational Movement (PFM) has advised the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the National Working Committee (NWC) not to yield to pressure to upturn the choice of Tajudeen Abbas as the consensus candidate for the position of the Speaker of the 10th […]

Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has criticised the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, zoning formula for key leadership positions in the National Assembly as a skewed arrangement that strengthens injustice and inequity. He made his position known in a statement titled : “Proposed APC zoning formula for NASS leadership potsitions is a skewed arrangement […]

• Caucuses, Groups Decry Imposition Of Akpabio, Abass • Tinubu/Shettima Network, Northwest Political Forum Back Yari For Senate Presidency • We May Not Support Akpabio’s Bid — PDP • Main Opposition Party Hints At Producing Candidate For Senate Presidency • Gagdi Defies Endorsement Of Abass As Speaker, Urges Fair Treatment • Betara Unbeatable In Race […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress has hinted that it may opt for consensus candidates in place of the much-publicised zoning of leadership positions in the 10th National Assembly. This was even as the ruling party affirmed that no decision can be taken without the input of the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Multiple sources within the […]

• Adamu: We’re working on consensus arrangement, consulting with Tinubu • Lukman to withdraw suit against Adamu, Omisore • APC can’t determine who becomes Speaker, says LP Reps-elect Ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly in June, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it will work with the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, […]

Former Military Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, was the first Nigerian leader to introduce an interim national government on August 27, 1993, following annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, acclaimed to have been won by the presidential candidate of the defunct Social Democratic Party (PDP), Chief M.K.O. Abiola. Babangida appointed the late […]

The Director General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, Akin Osuntokun, has blamed the judiciary for the crisis rocking the party. He said that the judgment by Justice Muazu ordering Abure and other national executives of the party to stop parading themselves as national officers of the party created the crisis currently engulfing […]

Political stakeholders from South-South and South-East regions are set to disagree over the presidency of the 10th Senate. A chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), John Mayaki, has faulted Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba for recommending the South-East for the Senate President seat. Harping on equity and justice, the former Chairman of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), […]