Politics

Spokesman for the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council during the 2023 presidential election, Daniel Bwala, has expressed concerns on how President Bola Tinubu will manage the problems that supporters of Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), popularly known as Obidients, will pose in the country. Bwala believes the President will find the Obidients situation even bigger than …

  The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has claimed that it is only in Nigeria a person like Dr Abdullahi Ganduje can still be given relevance. A statement by national publicity secretary of NNPP, Hon. Yakubu Shendam, while reacting to the remarks credited to the chairman of the ruling All Progressives  Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, calling Rabiu Kwankwaso a …

Senator Neda Imasuen, elected on the platform of the Labour Party, has declared that it was unfair for Nigerians to criticise Labour Party lawmakers for not rejecting the plan by the National Assembly to buy Sport Utility Vehicles said to be worth N160m for each lawmaker. Imasuen, who is Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, insisted that …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has included the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship flag bearer, Timipre Sylva, in the list of candidates for Saturday’s election in Bayelsa State. This followed last week’s ruling of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, which cleared the former governor for the election. INEC on October 23 omitted the former minister of state for petroleum …

The Akwa Ibom governorship election petitions tribunal sitting in Uyo on Thursday dismissed the petition filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Akanimo Udofia, against the outcome of the March 18 election in the state. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Umo Eno of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the election ahead of Udofia …

A faction of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) loyal to the former Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, expelled the party’s acting national chairman, Major Agbo, and some other officials. This came a few hours after the NNPP Board of Trustees (BoT) suspended Kwankwaso for six months over alleged anti-party activities. The BoT also appointed the duo of Agbo and …

The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Monday sacked Musa Ilyasu Kwankwaso of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a member of the House of Representatives in the Kura/Madobi/Garun Malam Federal Constituency of Kano State. The three-man panel led by Justice Tunde Oyebamiji delivered the verdict in an appeal filed by the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate, Yusuf Umar Datti. …

A youth group, Northern Youths Assembly (Majalisar Matasan Arewa) has called on President Bola Tinubu to warn his political allies or appointees against meddling into the electoral dispute in Kano state, warning of possible dire consequences. Ripples Nigeria reports that Kano State Governorship Election Tribunal recently nullified the election of Gov. Abba Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) …

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has accepted the public apology tendered by his estranged Deputy, Philip Shaibu, adding that as a man of faith, he was bound to accept the apology. Obaseki, in a letter titled, “Re: Public Apology By The Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu,” said in good faith, he believes that the public apology made by …

The Presidency on Monday berated the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for criticising the judiciary after his failure at the Supreme Court. The former Anambra State governor had during a press conference in Abuja earlier on Monday Obi criticized the apex court for upholding President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the February 25 election. He argued that the October 26 …