Category: Politics

• Resolves division over convention date • Adopts consensus methodology for national chair • APC ineligible to contest 2023 elections, PDP alleges After months of vacillation and doublespeak, the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) has officially allotted political offices, including the national chairmanship and Presidential slots to various geopolitical zones. The issue of where the […]

APC’s caretaker secretary, John Akpanudoedehe • Nabena insists Buni committee can’t be stampeded • Rebirth group cries foul, urges Buhari to wade in • Ex-PGF DG blames scramble by govs, wants CECPC reorganised The last is yet to be heard on the crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) following the shift of its […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has agreed to alternate offices between the north and south in the forthcoming dispensation. This was disclosed on Tuesday by the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) after their meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Disclosing this while responding to a question, Kaduna Governor Mallam Nasir […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressives Congress(APC) Governor’s are in a closed-door meeting in the Executive Council Chamber of of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting, which started around 3pm, was rescheduled following postponement of the earlier one by President Buhari last week just before he traveled to Belgium for the EU-African Summit. The meeting […]

Senator Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State, has said media reports quoting him as saying he was “ready to get dirty” to achieve his presidential ambition were taken out of context. His media aide, Tunde Rahman, in a statement on Monday, said his principal, while referring to some of the unwarranted attacks against him, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be stampeded into signing the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, the Presidency told Nigerians yesterday. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said it was hasty for some groups to hassle the President over their perceived delay in signing the Bill that was transmitted by the National […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors will meet today to further discuss the party’s forthcoming National Convention. The chairman of Progressives Governor Forum Governor Abubakar Bagudu disclosed this on Tuesday after a crucial meeting of the forum in Abuja. The Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), at the end of its 20th regular […]

A coalition of civil society organisations has declared Tuesday, February 22 2022 as a national day of protest to demand immediate assent to the reworked Electoral Amendment Bill by President Muhammadu Buhari. The CSOs said they would organize peaceful public direct-action activities to further the demand to assent to the Bill. The coalition urged its […]