Politics

The Arewa Development Initiative (ADI) has assured President Bola Tinubu of the support of the North in future elections.  In a statement signed by its national coordinator, Hon. Muritala Garba, the group described President Tinubu as the best thing to happen to the North.  Garba said the President’s Renewed Hope...

A group, the Concerned North Central APC Stakeholders, has distanced itself from a protest calling for the resignation of Alhaji Umar Ganduje as the party’s national chairman. The stakeholders, in a statement jointly signed by Secretary General Malam Shehu Ibrahim and President Comrade Aodona Patrick, advised the group to return...

A group in the United Kingdom, Nigerians in Diaspora Coalition, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to order the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to order in the political turmoil in Rivers state.  In a statement made available to the press, the group’s president, Dr Afolabi...

The judicial commission of inquiry on public properties and assets established by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State to probe the previous administration led by former Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has scheduled its inaugural session for Monday, 29th April 2024. The commission’s secretary, Salisu Mustapha, said this in a...

The immediate past National Vice Chairman, North-west of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Malam Salihu Lukman, has called increased accountability for the ruling party to function as a stronger political party. Lukman, in a piece titled “Reinventing Progressive Politics in Nigeria” Thursday in Abuja, said the emergence of APC raised...

A total of 627 delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will today elect the party’s standard-bearer ahead of the forthcoming November governorship election in Ondo State. The delegates were elected during the party’s congress held across the 18 local government areas of the state. No fewer than seven aspirants...

A former governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In his resignation letter addressed to the PDP chairman in Mbutu Ward, Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of the state, Ihedioha cited a misalignment between his personal beliefs and the current trajectory...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced the final list of candidates for the forthcoming Edo State Governorship Election. This is even as the Commission said that the political parties are permitted to start campaign in public from Wednesday 24th April 2024. The campaigns will end at midnight on...

Some members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Labour Party, LP, have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, at Ndufu Alike ward in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Receiving the defectors at Ndufu Alike junction, the member representing Ikwo/Ezza-South Federal Constituency at the National Assembly,...

An All Progressives Congress, APC, Ondo governorship aspirant, Wale Akinterinwa, has accused Governor Usman Ododo of Kogi State and Chairman of the party’s primary election committee of writing results. He said the party did not conduct any primary election in all the 203 Wards of the state. Ododo had announced...