Category: Politics

– Governorship primary may be postponed again over disagreement There are strong indications the Lagos State gubernatorial primary billed for Tuesday would be canceled a fourth time, as the election monitoring committee and party bigwigs in the state failed to agree on the mode of the exercise. The delegates sent by the National Working Committee […]

Ahead of the Presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku, has said that he is the most qualified candidate for the nation’s presidency capable of rescuing her for the current multifaceted challenges come 2019. He stated this in Abuja at a Presidential media chat ahead of the Party’s Primaries […]

On Saturday, Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held statewide primaries to elect their governorship candidates for the 2019 general election. Some of the primaries were still on by Monday while some were postponed to Monday and beyond. In some states like Abia where Orji Kalu’s name […]

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has indicated interest to participate in the rescheduled Adamawa APC governorship primaries election, hours after he withdrew from the race. Alhaji Salihu Bawuro, the Director-General, Ribadu campaign organisation, made the announcement at a news conference in Yola on Monday. The state APC governorship primary is rescheduled for Thursday. Ribadu withdrew from the […]

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 […]