The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has revealed why Atiku Abubakar, the 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was not declared the winner of the February 23 poll. The electoral body insisted in its final written address to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja that it was satisfied that Atiku Read more
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election, Atiku Abubakar and his party yesterday insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari was not qualified to have contested the poll. The opposition party and its candidate maintained their position on Buhari’s competency ahead of the August 21 date for submission of final Read more
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state has said the country needs to choose competence over zoning when electing its president. In Nigeria, political offices, including the presidency, are rotated on the basis of geographical zones. Olusegun Obasanjo from Ogun state in the south-west was president between 1999 and 2007. He was succeeded by Umaru Musa Read more
Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has said that dictatorship also has its dividends. Oshiomhole said this while chatting with newsmen after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday. In his reaction to criticisms from members of his party on both the ministerial and senate committee chairmen lists, Read more
The Coalition of Kogi State Indigenes, a group of concerned persons from Kogi state, has called on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to revisit its decision to conduct indirect primaries for the Kogi Governorship election. The Group which staged a protest in Abuja to get the attention of the party leadership and that of President Read more
A former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, is now active in partisan politics as he joined the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP). Jega was INEC chairman from 2010 to 2015 and administered the election that saw an incumbent president lose for the first time in Nigeria’s history. The former INEC boss, Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has said he would rather stay away from identifying anybody as his successor so as not to create problems for him or her adding that he has no plan whatsoever to groom a successor for the 2023 presidential election . The president stated this while reacting to one of the requests made Read more
The Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Simon Achuba has said his relationship with Governor Yahaya Bello of the state is not cordial. Achuba who made this known in Abuja on Friday disclosed that his relationship with governor went sour he (Bello) stopped his statutory allowances amounting to N819,709, 980 two years ago. The Deputy Governor Read more
Two governorship aspirants of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Victor Adoji and AVM Salihu Attawodi, have faulted the timing of the bailout fund released to Governor Yahaya Bello by the federal government ahead of the November 26 Kogi State governorship election The federal government had last month released N30.8 billion bailout fund to Governor Bello for payment Read more
A former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has asked his successor, Adams Oshiomhole to stop disgracing the party and Edo state. He also urged the former governor to desist from interfering in the affairs of the state governor, Godwin Obaseki. Odigie-Oyegun gave the advice in a statement signed Read more
