Category: Politics

Ekiti State Deputy Governor-elect, Chief Bisi Egbeyemi, has denied having an anointed candidate for Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 1 race. His denial followed cracks in the party as eight of the aspirants from the constituency petitioned the party leadership, accusing the deputy-governor-elect of favouring a particular aspirant currently seeking for the APC ticket to emerge […]

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has postponed the party’s governorship primaries in both Lagos and Imo States indefinitely. It, however, said that the governorship primaries in other states would still be held throughout the country on Sunday. National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said this in a statement […]

The Governor’s Advisory Council(GAC) of the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has endorsed Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu to pick the party’s governorship ticket for the 2019 election in the state. Senator Anthony Adefuye, a member of the council, announced the endorsement to party members on Saturday, at a stakeholders’ meeting at the […]

President Muhammad Buhari has scored a total of 202,599 votes in the All Progressive Congress Presidential Primary Election conducted at 287 wards across the 27 Local Government Areas of the state. Governor Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa, who is also the Chief Returning Officer for the election, stated this while announcing the result in Dutse on […]

Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has vowed to retrieve his ‘stolen mandate’ from Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress at the election petition tribunal. He said this while speaking in an interview with journalists shortly before the final figure was announced by the Returning Officer, Prof. Joseph […]

– Why we axed Shittu, Al Hassan – Oshiomhole The All Progressives Congress, APC has denied that the Social Democratic Party, SDP candidate in the just concluded Osun State governorship election, Senator Iyiola Omisore, was financially induced to support the APC candidate in the election and governor elect, Gboyega Oyetola. He did not however rule […]

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has rejected the results of the rerun election even before the official announcement. The candidate announced the rejection of the poll results in a statement issued on his behalf by the spokesperson for the Adeleke Campaign Organisation, Mr Olawale Rasheed. The PDP candidate vowed to seek […]

– Police arrest suspects Gunmen suspected to be political thugs on Wednesday night, attacked two supporters of a House of Representatives’ aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), in Ondo state, Mr Olayato Aribo, (Oyato) setting one of his campaign vehicles ablaze. The incident happened around Post office area in Owo, headquarters of […]

The decision was announced at a pr Ahead of Thursday’s rerun of the contentious governorship election in Osun State, 20 parties in Osun state under the aegis of Alliance for Cooperating Political Parties (ACPP) have declared their support for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola. The decision was announced at […]

Opposition Peoples Democratic Party’s, PDP candidate in last Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has raised an alarm over alleged threat to his life and clampdown on his supporters. Simultaneously, he has written to diplomatic missions in Nigeria, intimating them of the alleged threat and clampdown barely 24 hours to the rerun […]