Category: Politics

• Insists he won presidential election • Promises to collaborate with governor The president-elect, Bola Tinubu, yesterday, rejected a request made by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, for a refund for construction of some federal roads in the state. Tinubu spoke while inaugurating the Rumuokwuta-Rumuola Flyover, in Obio/Akpor Council of the state. While noting […]

• Why North may outsmart South • Umahi: Southeast deserves No.3 seat • Adopt Northwest for Senate President, group gives Tinubu condition for second term After some lull in political intrigues since the completion of the general elections in March, next month’s inauguration and election of principal officers of the 10th National Assembly is another […]

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Vice Chairman North West, Dr Salihu Lukman says his colleagues in the national working committee (NWC) lack the powers to unilaterally expel him from the party. He argued that the moves coming from the National Legal Adviser whose legal qualification is not in doubt smacks of deliberate attempts to manipulate […]

Labour Party candidate in the March 18 governorship election in Enugu State, Chijioke Edeoga, shares his thoughts with Raphael Ede on the outcome of the election among other issues. Your party alleged that the governorship election in Enugu State was marred by the mutilating and doctoring of results. Can you substantiate that? I don’t know […]

Another major political alliance has emerged in the House of Representatives, about two weeks after members-elect on the platform of minority parties in the chamber formed a coalition against the All Progressives Congress. On Thursday, a member of the ruling APC and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party jointly issued a statement in Abuja to announce […]

• Offers reasons for pursuing case quietly Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25, 2023, presidential poll, Atiku Abubakar, has said allegations of massive irregularities trailing the exercise have put the judiciary on trial. He noted that apprehensions and misgivings expressed in parts of the country on what is required of […]

Labour Party (LP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of inducing former publicity secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, to destabilize the party. Ag. National Youth Leader of the LP, Prince Kennedy Ahanotu, made this allegation in a statement in Abuja on Monday. The Federal High Court in Abuja last week Wednesday issued an order restraining […]

Aftermath of ‘Obidient Tsunami’ Things appear to be falling apart in the Southeast geo-political wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In fact, the centre can no longer hold in Abia and Enugu states’ chapters of the party. The membership registers in those two states are undergoing disputed reviews through the ‘inquisition’ going on to […]