Politics

Proponents of tenure extension for All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman John Odigie-Oyegun and others seem to be adamant, The Nation learnt yesterday. There is a plot to create a stalemate and dump President Muhammadu Buhari’s…

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has said he would go to any length for President Muhammadu Buhari if he so request. Bello disclosed this while reacting to President Buhari’s decision against the tenure elongation of national…

Mustapha Bukar, senator representing Katsina north, died on Wednesday, taking the death toll in the current national assembly to nine in roughly three years. The first death was recorded even before the inauguration of the national…

Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have agreed to fund the elective convention of the party, sources told TheCable on Wednesday. TheCable understands that the convention is subject to the reversal of the decision of the…

Jerimiah Useni, senator representing Plateau south senatorial district, has declared his intention to contest the 2019 governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Useni made the declaration on…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday issued a Notice of Election for the July 14 poll in Ekiti State. The issuance signalled beginning of activities toward the conduct of the election. However, the ban on…

Advocates of extended tenure for All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman John Odigie-Oyegun and others have lost their battle. President Muhammadu Buhari’s insistence on due process and the failure to get more governors into the…

Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have finally resolved their differences on the position of President Muhammadu Buhari regarding the extension of the tenure of party officials. The decision followed a second meeting…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday commenced the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) for the second quarter of 2018 in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The exercise commenced at the Karu centre at…

Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters and presidential candidate for the 2019 election, says even while sleeping, he can do better than President Muhammadu Buhari. On Tuesday, hundreds of his supporters and members of the…

President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress Governors Forum are presently meeting behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The agenda of the meeting is however uncertain yet, but it can not be…

Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Monday denied reports that he will contest the 2019 presidential election. Mr. Saraki, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, said report making the rounds that he will…

Ima Niboro, a former spokesman of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win 2019 elections by a “sizeable margin” despite its challenges. Speaking with journalists at the weekend, Niboro said…

The Social Democratic Party, SDP, has split into two factions in the South-East geopolitical zone. In separate meetings the two factions held in Enugu, weekend, the two factions accused each other of promoting political mischief.…

A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George, has told a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, that everything that has a beginning has an end. Bode George was reacting…

A former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has declared that he is still a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The ex-Governor maintained that the Coalition for Nigeria Movement, CNM, being championed by former…

Members of the Senate and House of Representatives on Sunday endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari’s withdrawal of support for the extension of the tenure of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress.  The lawmakers…

Adams Oshiomhole, former governor of Edo state; Ogbonnaya Onu, minister of science and technology; and Ken Nnamani, ex-senate president, are seeking to succeed John Oyegun, outgoing chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).…

INDICATIONS emerged yesterday that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) may currently be divided over earlier resolution at the last NEC meeting of the party that a technical committee be…

There are strong indications that northern governors in the All Progressives Congress have withdrawn their support for the elongation of the tenure of the party’s National Working Committee. on Saturday that the party’s stakeholders…

Governor Rochas Okorocha has said that Chief Uche Nwosu who he has preferred to succeed him would do better than him as governor because he has known all the secrets behind the success story of his governorship in the state. Okorocha…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to follow the example of Ibrahim Mantu and “confess its sins”. Mantu, a former deputy senate president, confessed helping the PDP rig elections by…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to reveal source of his campaign funds. In a statement on Saturday, Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the PDP, said Buhari has no moral to fight corruption…

Unknown to many, the failed attempt to foist a Caretaker Committee on the All Progressives Congress (APC) was actually aimed at creating legal crisis for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 and edge him out of the presidential election.…