politics

Frmer Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has explained that “recent developments” within the Peoples Democratic Party were responsible for his resignation from the opposition party and withdrawal from its presidential primary slated for end of May. Obi was one of the 15 PDP presidential aspirants cleared by the Senator David Mark-led Presidential Screening Committee last month. However, the ex-governor, ... Read More »

The erudite banker-turned politician, on Monday emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Kogi East Senatorial District for the 2023 general election. Adoji polled 117 to defeat Engr. Aminu Suleiman, Elder Ubolo Okpanachi and Isaac Alfa, a former Chief of Air Staff and senator, and who scored 54, 43 and 20 respectively. This is good news from Kogi ... Read More »

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar chased journalists out of the Plateau State Secretariat of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP when he visited on Monday to meet with the State leadership and delegates of the Party to discuss his 2023 Presidential ambition. Atiku is the first aspirant to bar journalists from the PDP hall even though some of his co-contenders have ... Read More »

Of all the four, at least for now, who are having a close shot at the revered and plum seat of the Ifako/Ijaiye Federal Constituency in the Green Chamber in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, one name that resonates and still reverberates as a very revered and an unusual player of politics without bitterness, and never a do-or-die affair ... Read More »

The presidency disclosed that nine of the ministers were hoping to hang on to their positions, until the president dropped the bombshell directing them to resign by Monday. Even after President Muhammadu Buhari held a valedictory session on Friday for 10 ministers who had declared interest in elective offices, some of them are still scheming to hang on to their ... Read More »

A Federal Lawmaker with a renewed mission yet to be accomplishedHe has been in the Lower House of the National Assembly since 2019, and has without being immodest rendered his representation qualitatively, going by the retinue of achievements he has recorded in the current dispensation, and he is now angling for a second tenure to do more for his constituents ... Read More »

Why he is most favoured among fellow House of Reps Aspirants in Ifako-Ijaiye Fed. ConstituencyNo doubt he has an enviable and inimitable record in his professed and original line of calling as a proficient and prolific engineer of no mean repute. But outside his professional calling, the very loyal party man has proved that he is a professional in politics ... Read More »

He has an uncanny approach to issues when it comes to matters that touch the lives of the commoman, especially those in his immediate constituency. The man, Honourable Saka Fafunmi is a persona with political impeccable character, and could count to be tested and reliable any time. He qualifies to be described as someone who has been there and done ... Read More »

downloadfile After series of consultations and reflections on current developments in the political scene, a frontline aspirant in the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has bowed out of the 2023 presidential contest, saying his “own day will come.” In a statement from his media office in Abuja on Friday, Mr. Olawepo-Hashim explained that his decision to contest ... Read More »

… Nigeria needs courageous leader like me — Tinubu National leader of the All Progressives Congress ( APC) and former Governor of Lagos State who is aspiring for the presidency in 2023, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has told party delegates in Kaduna that they should follow him to the Villa, noting that he knows the road more than the other aspirants. ... Read More »