Category: Politics

No fewer than 44,045 delegates will on May 26 elect candidates in 28 states where governorship elections will take place next year. The states, where the primaries will hold include Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Delta, Cross River, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Kwara, Benue, Plateau, Niger, Nasarawa, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, […]

Mark leads convention panel to inspect MKO Abiola Stadium Ortom, Jonathan meet, woos ex-president to attend PDP convention PDP shifts governorship, National Assembly primaries to avert defection of aggrieved aspirants Akinwumi opts out from APC presidential race Ruling party tasks screening committees on justice to all aspirants ­­­­­­With the presidential, governorship and National Assembly primaries […]

Party postpones screening of 28 presidential aspirants to May 23 The All Progressives Congress has refused to announce its decision on zoning two weeks to its presidential primary amid fears that the Peoples Democratic Party may pick a northerner as its presidential candidate on May 29, it has been confirmed. Impeccable party sources told Sunday […]

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has pulled out of the 2023 presidential race to retain his ministerial seat. The former governor of Anambra State and member of the All Progressives Congress made his withdrawal known in a statement on Friday. His withdrawal from the APC presidential primary slated for end of May and […]

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has said the South-East cannot get the ticket of any party in an open contest as it is today without a gentleman’s agreement to concede it to the region. Kalu, in a statement personally signed by him and shared on his Facebook wall, said this in […]

After months of speculations, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has finally thrown open the contest for its presidential ticket to all aspirants in the race. The decision was taken at the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Wednesday night. The NEC appointed former Senate President, David Mark chairman of the party’s National Convention Organising […]

Nwajiuba, Onu, Akpabio resign, Malami, Ngige retain seats Action belated, could have saved nation from drama, SANs berate Buhari There are strong indications that members of the Federal Executive Council who have declared their intention to contest the 2023 presidential election may appear before the All Progressives Congress screening committee with copies of their letters […]

Vows to tackle insecurity, revamp education, unite Nigeria if elected president By Banji Ayoola Ex-Vice President and a presidential aspirant under the banner of the leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has blamed the worrisome disunity prevailing in the country on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He said that […]

APC national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu Contenders barred from taking party to court Ahead of its primaries to pick its presidential, governorship and parliamentary candidates in the forthcoming elections, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has given aspirants nine guidelines. Prominent among these is that the contenders have been barred from going to court without first […]