Fresh rumble in Southwest PDP over 2023

Several efforts to reconcile the warring groups in the Southwest Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have failed as both parties refuse to shift ground based largely on lack of trust and considerations for the 2023 general elections. The internal cohesion of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may yet again be put to test in the South-West […]

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INEC’s nightmare before elections

By Matthew Agboma Ozah Not so long ago, some wise folks got together under President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration and decided to solve Nigeria’s election problems once and for all. At that time, most people agreed that the country needed an electoral Act to help contain some political anomalies that has eaten into the fabrics of the […]

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Ideological barrenness of political parties in Nigeria

By Emmanuel Ikechukwu Igbo The most important feature of a political party is the existence of an ideology that expresses its vision and mission with respect to the acquisition and utilization of political power for the purpose of governance. It also identifies the values, ethos, myths, symbols, etc, that drive the behavior of its members and mirror its institutional image.  In a […]

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Southwest lawmakers back return of power to zone

Southwest lawmakers, including some speakers and their predecessors, have backed the calls for power shift to the geo-political zone region in 2023. The speakers, who were joined by their predecessors, deputy speakers and other state lawmakers at a meeting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, also called for unity in the zone. They lauded the […]

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Appeal Court rejects request to sack Kogi governor, Bello

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed a case brought to challenge the nomination of Yahaya Bello as a candidate in the governorship election held in Kogi State in December 2015. A three-man panel of the court, in a unanimous judgment on Thursday, held that, not only was the suit filed late at the […]

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Southwest speakers rally in Ibadan for power shift, signal off Tinubu project

Political allies and associates of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Wednesday gathered in Ibadan to intensify mobilization for the presidential bid of the Lagos state former governor. The allies in attendance, drawn from the Southwest zone of the country include former and current Speakers of State Houses […]

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2023: Anyim presidential posters flood Ebonyi

Presidential campaign posters of former Senate President and former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim have flooded the Social Media. The campaign posters tagged Progress 2023 with the picture of Anyim have since gone viral. The posters is powered by a group known as Nigerians Ask for Anyim with Facebook […]

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Ekiti PDP stakeholders urge Olujimi to run for governor

Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti South Senatorial District on Sunday urged the senator representing the district, Biodun Olujimi, to contest the 2022 governorship poll. They spoke at Omuo-Ekiti in Ekiti East Local Government at the end of a meeting held by the party chieftains from the six local governments in the […]

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How to guarantee free polls – INEC

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on Sunday, said amending the Electoral Act without a commitment from stakeholders to do things differently, cannot guarantee free and fair elections. Yakubu said this in an address delivered on his behalf by the INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus […]

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Buhari, APC should learn from US election crisis – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have lessons to learn on how the democratic institutions in the United States checkmated alleged attempts to truncate democracy in that country. The party said the triumph of the democratic institutions in the US, over alleged plans […]

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