politics

People’s Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate in Zamfara state, Dr. Muhammad Bello Matawalle has accused the President of Court of Appeal of manipulating the appeal filed by Zamfara state chapter of All Progressive Congress (APC) seeking to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept its Candidates for the forthcoming elections. Matawalle, in a statement he personally signed and ... Read More »

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria ( IPMAN ) on Friday threw their weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari in his re-election bid. The body adopted Buhari as its candidate during a courtesy visit of its National Executive Committee to the State House, Abuja. Speaking on behalf of the group, the National President, Chinedu Okoronkwo, thanked the President for his ... Read More »

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),  has named Senator Buruji Kashamu as the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate for the Ogun State governorship election.   Read More »

The Federal Government says the directive by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) suspending its campaign to protest the suspension of Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, is a face saving measure “ because the party’s campaign died long ago.’’ The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, faulted the party’s action in an in interview with newsmen on ... Read More »

Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of being afraid to lose the forthcoming general elections. Speaking on Saturday at the launch of the PDP campaign at the Southern Senatorial District in Bodinga town, Tambuwal alleged APC was bent on collaborating with institutions to win the 2019 polls. According to him: “If former President ... Read More »

The Ibadan Division of the Appeal Court, on Tuesday December 18, 2018 sacked Senator Buruji Kashamu and other ‘candidates’ in the Adebayo Dayo-led faction of the Ogun State PDP. With this judgement, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu and others who emerged through the party’s primaries are now the authentic candidates of the party in the 2019 election. The three-man appeal panel set aside ... Read More »

…. says Saraki sold APC mandate for pot of pottage Former Lagos state governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that Nigerians must not allow the nation to return to part of destruction and retrogression which the People Democratic Party (PDP) led government subjected it to for 16 years but aim ... Read More »

After initial confusion over the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday night pasted the name of Senator Hope Uzodinma as the right candidate for next year’s governorship election. The name of Uzodinma was pasted at the INEC office along Port Harcourt road in Owerri, with Akaolisa Cyprain Okechukwu, as his running ... Read More »

APC Crisis: Buhari, Osibanjo, Tinubu, To Determine Oshiomhole’s Fate “It is for this reason that the NWC members are being asked (by interested parties) to push for the suspension of the APC chairman pending the outcome of the probe. The President’s body language and actions in the coming days will determine Oshiomhole’s fate. For now, we are still considering it ... Read More »

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and his party, the All Progressives Congress, on Friday, failed in their bid to have the Federal High Court in Abuja dismiss a pre-election suit seeking the governor’s removal from office. The plaintiff in the suit, which Akeredolu and the APC wanted the court to dismiss, was instituted by Mr. Olusegun Abraham, the first ... Read More »