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Emilokan Caps’: Tinubu’s symbols of hope now relics of disappointment – Atiku’s aide

NewsDeskNgSep 16, 2024September 16, 20240

In a sharp critique of President Bola Tinubu’s leadership, Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant on Public Communication to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has likened the fate of Tinubu’s once-celebrated political symbol, the broken shackle, to the swastika’s historical transformation from a symbol of good fortune to one of oppression. In...

Late Oyo APC chairman, Omodewu laid to rest

NewsDeskNgSep 13, 2024September 13, 20240

A former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Oyo State, Barrister Isaac Ajiboye Omodewu has been buried. According to reports, Omodewu was until his death, the APC chairman in Oyo State. He was a former commissioner for local government and chieftaincy matters and later served as commissioner for...

Edo Election Peace Accord: It’s not your signatures that matter – INEC to candidates, parties

NewsDeskNgSep 13, 2024September 13, 20240

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has told political parties and their candidates for the Edo State governorship poll that signing of the Peace Accord does not guarantee peaceful election. He called for commitment to the implementation of the Peace Accord. Yakubu spoke on Wednesday...

PDP declines as APC, other parties sign Peace Accord

NewsDeskNgSep 12, 2024September 12, 20240

Seventeen out of 18 political parties contesting the September 21, 2024 Edo State governorship election have signed a peace accord ahead of the election. Edo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chairman Anthony Aziegbemi and the party’s candidate, Asue Ighodalo, who were present during the signing of the Peace Accord, declined...

Imo PDP begins reconciliation moves, sets up committee

NewsDeskNgSep 11, 2024September 11, 20240

The new leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Imo State, has inaugurated a 13-member committee to reconcile all members of the party under one umbrella. The move was initiated by the new leadership of the party led by Austin Nwachukwu who maintained that the aim of setting up...

Aisha Yesufu – Abure thinks he’s still in 1980, lies shamelessly

NewsDeskNgSep 10, 2024September 10, 20240

A social critic, Aisha Yesufu has criticised the erstwhile National Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Julius Abure for allegedly lying about the party funds. Aidsha in an X post said, ” he thinks one can lie shamelessly without being fact-checked”. The statement comes after Abure claimed that Yesufu...

PDP slams Tinubu over arrest of labour leader Ajaero

NewsDeskNgSep 9, 2024September 9, 20240

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has blasted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the arrest of Nigerians by security operatives. According to reports, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, was on Monday arrested by men of the Department of State Service, DSS, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International...

Kwankwaso tackles Tinubu for ignoring Kano gov, handing palliatives to APC stalwarts

NewsDeskNgSep 9, 2024September 9, 20240

The national leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso has called out the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government for handing over the distribution of rice palliatives in Kano State to an All Progressives Congress, APC stalwart. The former presidential candidate of the NNPP stated this in a...

You’re inconsequential, struggling to control NNPP – PDP fires back at Kwankwaso

NewsDeskNgSep 9, 2024September 9, 20240

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the 2023 New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso as inconsequential in Nigeria’s political sphere. PDP spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, said Kwankwaso is struggling to lead the NNPP which controls only Kano State in Nigeria. Responding to Kwankwaso’s comment that PDP is...

Shehu Sani – Kwankwaso declared himself ‘messiah’

NewsDeskNgSep 9, 2024September 9, 20240

Former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani has said Senator Dino Melaye and the national leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, differed on the crisis plaguing the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Sani stated that while Melaye was of the view that the PDP was murdered, Kwankwaso submitted that...