Nigeria’s former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Sunday dispelled insinuations that he abandoned Benue people during the herdsmen attacks that rocked the state since 2018 which had left the state grappling with humanitarian crisis with over 1.5 million persons in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps. Atiku who is aspiring to be president of the country in the 2023 election on the platform […]
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Femi Falana and Patrick Utomi Former presidential candidate and Co-Convener, Nigerian Consultative Forum, Prof Pat Utomi, has said prominent Nigerians, labour unions and civil society organisations are forming an alliance against Nigeria’s biggest political parties – the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party – in the 2023 general elections. Utomi, a […]
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Tinubu (middle) throws a fist salute to supporters at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Sunday Presidential hopeful and All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Sunday returned to Nigeria about 10 days after he traveled to the United Kingdom. It was gathered that the former Lagos State governor landed at the Murtala […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State has said it has no regret if the former Governor Segun Oni has truly left the party, saying, “We will win the election without him”. It spoke through its state Publicity Secretary, Raphael Adeyanju, who said, “If actually he (Oni) has left the party, I would call […]
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There are indications that prominent groups in the South-West may not persuade the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo and a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, eyeing the presidency to reach a consensus, investigations have shown. While Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State had informed the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), about […]
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The Social Democratic Party, SDP, has scheduled its elective national convention for Apri 27 to 29, 2022 in line with the guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. This was disclosed on Saturday in Abuja at a press conference by the party’s Acting National Chairman, Dr Abdul Ahmed Isiaq, who declared: “Since we have […]
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The crisis rocking the Anambra State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (ÀPC) has taken a turn for the worse with the two factions of the party refusing to work together in spite of efforts by the national leadership of the party to reconcile the gladiators ahead of the 2023 general elections. Checks showed that […]
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Dust in Ogun, Osun, Kwara, Rivers, Enugu, Anambra, Abia, Gombe, Kano, Sokoto chapters Inaugurated state helmsmen to take oath of office before convention With only 21 days to its national convention in Abuja, the All Progressives Congress (APC) seems to be racing against time to put its house in order and resolve the crises sparked […]
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I doubt if he’s still in PDP – Ex-Governor Lamido Some northern traditional rulers have reportedly begun lobbying former President Goodluck Jonathan to defect to the All Progressives Congress and run for President in view of the raging debate of zoning between northern and southern elements. “Jonathan has spoken with Buhari on the matter and […]
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A former Ekiti State governor and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, shares his thoughts with Abiodun Nejo about the party’s recent governorship primary in Ekiti, the chances of his anointed candidate in the upcoming governorship poll and the 2023 general elections How has life been as a former governor? I should […]
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