Category: Politics

The SouthWest Agenda 2023 group has said that the National Leader of All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, already has 12 million votes in the bag ahead of the 2023 presidential election. Chairman of the pro-Tinubu group, Senator Adedayo Adeyeye, made this known on Friday as a guest on Channels TV’s ‘Politics Today’ programme. Though Tinubu […]

• Zoning not the solution to Nigeria’s problems says Atiku • Preaches fairness, justice at NEC meeting • Secondus explains the reason for sustaining court case The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has adopted the zoning of its national chairmanship position to the North, upholding recommendations of the Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi-led zoning committee. However, it didn’t […]

The 93rd National Executive Committee meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party, on Thursday commenced in Abuja. In his welcome address, Acting National Chairman of the party, Yemi Akinwonmi, appealed to members to close ranks as the party reinvents itself to return to power come 2023. He said the National Working Committee had put together a […]

Ahead of the October 31 national convention, a coalition of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Youth Groups, yesterday kicked against what it called the overbearing attitude of governors elected on the platform of the party. The youth groups are also not happy with the manner the governors have taken over the party, relegating other organs to […]

Makinde, Anyim lead opposing groups Stormy days ahead The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faces a stormy week over zoning of party offices. Two key meetings on the vexed issue — the final session of the National Zoning Committee headed by Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and the party’s governors’ meeting on the report of the […]

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, some prominent Nigerians have established a third force, Rescue Nigeria Project, RNP, to give Nigerians alternative platform to the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Founders of RNP include former governor of Kwara state, Ahmed Abdulfatai, Prof. Pat Utomi, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, former Governor of […]

A former presidential spokesperson, Doyin Okupe, has warned the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party against presenting a northern candidate for the 2023 presidential election to avoid another major defeat. The PDP chieftain stated this in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Saturday. Okupe argued that the zoning arrangement in the PDP ended with […]

Chairman of Southern Governors Forum and Ondo State Governor, Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has said any political party that fields a northern candidate for presidency in 2023 risks losing the support of southerners. He made this known on Friday in an interview on Channels Television monitored by The Cable. While speaking on the resolutions of the […]

Charges zoning committee to submit report next week Former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara (left); House of Representatives Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu; another former senate president, Bukola Saraki and Senator Dino Melaye during the inauguration of members of the 2021 National Convention Organising Committee in Abuja…yesterday Credit: NAN The Peoples Democratic Party on Friday in Abuja […]

Southern Governors Irked by the insistence of the Nigerian Southern Governors Forum that the next president of the country must come from the southern part of the country, some northern leaders have declared that nothing could stop any Nigerian from contesting the 2023 presidential election. The southern governors had at their meeting in Enugu last […]