Category: Politics

– say flawed Osun rerun poll is red flag for next year’s polls – urge parties dissatisfied with the electoral banditry to go to court Southern and Middle-Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF), on Thursday expressed concern over conduct of Osun State supplementary poll and its outcome as announced by the INEC, saying the development had once […]

Social Democratic Party (SDP) flag-bearer during the September 22, 2018 governorship poll in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore and national leader, Dr Yemi Farounbi, on Thursday defended the coalition with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that culminated in the electoral victory of the Governor-Elect of the state, Mr Gboyega Isiaka Oyetola. The duo, who […]

The National Working Committee panel of the All Progressives Congress sent to Ogun State for the governorship primary on Wednesday night declared Prince Dapo Abiodun as the party’s governorship candidate in the 2019 general elections. This declaration came some hours after the state chapter of the APC also declared the consensus candidate Yewa Elders Council, […]

The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Hajiya Khadija Ibrahim, has defeated her step son Mohammed Ibrahim to clinch the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for Damaturu/Gulani/Gujba/Tarmuwa, Yobe federal constituency. Prof Abba Gambo, the returning officer of the election which ran into the night announced on Wednesday that Khadija polled 1,295 votes to defeat Mohammed […]

Angry members of the All Progressives Congress from the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory stormed the party’s National Secretariat on Wednesday to protest the direct mode of primary imposed on them. The protesters demanded the reversal of the direct primary mode imposed on the FCT by the party’s National Working Committee. Some […]

– accuses Niyi Adebayo, Kayode Fayemi of unfairness – We’re working in line with directives from national secretariat – State Exco An aspirant into the House of Representatives in Ekiti State, Chief Kayode Babade, has faulted the decision of the State Working Committee, (SWC) of the party to apply indirect method to pick its National […]

National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday said the party leadership has sacked the Ahmed Gulak-led committee for the party’s governorship primaries in Imo State. Oshiomhole said this in an interview with State House correspondents after a meeting he had with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. […]

– Chairman “narrowly escaped” – Party suspends exercise indefinitely Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Imo State Governorship Primary Committee, Ahmed Gulak, has alleged that he narrowly escaped being kidnapped in the state. Gulak said this in an interview with reporters in Abuja, on Tuesday. He explained that he and other committee members conducted a […]

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential aspirant and Sokoto State Governor, Rt Hon Aminu Tambuwal, has declared that immediate steps must be taken to set the country on the path of development, following alleged abysmal performance of the APC Federal Government. Speaking at the Government House Port Harcourt on Monday during a consultative visit to Rivers […]

Sporadic gunshots, on Monday night, distrupted a meeting called by the committee in charge of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary in Ogun State, with the aspirants. The meeting held at the MITROS Residences and Gateway Annex, Ibara, was scheduled to start by 10.00pm. The meeting, which actually started a bit late had all […]