Politics

The Appeal Court in Lagos yesterday, affirmed the judgment of the tribunal confirming the election of Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Obafemi Hamzat as the Governor and the Deputy Governor of Lagos State. The court dismissed the suit filed by Olajide Adediran, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), against the...

The member representing Pankshin/Kanam/Kanke federal constituency of Plateau State, Rt. Hon. Yusuf Gagdi, has urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to count him and the judiciary out of their self-inflicted troubles. The Media Office of the reps member in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said PDP...

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Tuesday, called on Nigerians not to expect free, fair, transparent and credible elections in 2027 under the administration of President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Frank made the call in his...

Former Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Moh Lukman, has lamented that the ruling part was progressively losing the little democratic credentials, which encouraged Nigerians to expect the possibility of a progressive party emerging out of it in...

…Convenes expanded security meeting over herders attacks, kidnappings Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has called on his supporters, as well as the people of the state, to exercise some measure of restraint ahead of the Court of Appeal hearing fixed for Wednesday. Governor Sule has filed an appeal challenging...

*alleged results were written before election The Social Democratic Party (SDP)’s governorship candidate in Kogi State Muritala Ajaka has faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the conduct of the governorship election in the state. While the commission has concluded the election in the North-Central state with results being...

Chairman, House Committee on Navy, Hon. Yusuf Gagdi, has described as mischievous and an act of blackmail of claims in some section of the media that he has called for a probe of President Bola Tinubu over subsidy removal savings. On Saturday (not this newspaper) it was alleged that Gagdi...

…say it is a threat to democracy No fewer than 100 civil society organisations have rejected the Appeal Court judgments for Plateau State National Assembly elections. The group under the auspices of the Coalition for Justice in Africa described the ruling as biased and targeted at members of the Peoples...

Away from Taraba state, Governor Agbu Kefas is making waves in Yenogoa, Bayelsa state as the Chairman of PDP campaign council in Saturday’s governorship polls. Yesterday, Tuesday was the grand finale of the Governor Douye Diri campaigns that saw him visiting all the nooks and cranny of the state. Expectedly,...