Category: Politics

Adams Oshiomhole, APC leader The All Progressives Congress (APC) has submitted the list of presidential and senatorial candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in a bid to beat the October 18 deadline.The Guardian learnt that the APC’s director of organisation, Alhaji Abubakar Kari, led other senior staff of the party in a branded […]

• challenges governor to publish loans’ approvals • ‘EFCC deploying double standards on ex-governor, Babachir’ • Ekiti scraps levy, declares free educationFormer Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has insisted his administration did not commit the state to any financial institution in the form of bonds and commercial loans and described as false the claim that […]

From Left- Alhaji Nasiru Danu, Director of Logistics, Olujonwo Obasanjo  and Barr. Festus Keyamo, SAN (Director of Strategic Communications & official Spokesperson, PMB Campaign Organisation, as they officially receive Olujonwo A son of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Abraham Olujonwo, has formally joined President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign team of ahead of the 2019 general election. This […]

EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has dissociated himself from a purported audio recording in which he allegedly said he was not bothered if the former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose dies in EFCC custody. A former deputy national publicity secretary of the […]

Nigeria’s former minister of Solid Minerals Development Kayode Fayemi has been sworn-in as Ekiti State governor on Tuesday in Ado- Ekiti by the Chief Judge of the state Justice Ayodeji Simeon Daramola. Fayemi, who contested on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform, was declared the winner of the July 14 governorship election by the Independent […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday in Asaba, Delta State said the desperation of politicians to win elections at all costs resulting in do or die mentality is a serious threat to the 2019 general election. Besides, the commission said the growing epidemic of vote buying, incendiary speeches by contestants and the atmosphere of mistrust […]

• Party chair insists it will field candidates • No legal backdoor to escape sanction, say lawyers • Again, aggrieved governors storm Aso Rock • Court nullifies Rivers’ APC guber nomination, primaries The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of bias. This came […]

Rev Matthew Kukah, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi during the meeting at Obasanjo’s residence in Abeokuta Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday in Abeokuta after which they announced they had reconciled their differences. […]

The All Progress Congress (APC) says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cannot prevent its candidates being put through the corruption and integrity test. The APC stated this in a statement by its publicity secretary, Yekini Nabena, on Thursday. The party was reacting to a statement by spokesperson of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, in which he […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the endorsement of his opponent by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying he would not be distracted, and that the duo would both lose together. Obasanjo had earlier on Thursday endorsed Atiku Abubakar for next year’s presidential election. President Buhari’s reaction to the development was contained in a statement by […]