Politics

Last Saturday’s November 17 bye-election for the House of Representatives seat for Ekiti/Irepodun/Isin/Oke-Ero constituency in Kwara State, was indeed a straight battle between the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples…

Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, the Lagos State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) other candidates contesting on the platform of the party were officially endorsed by stakeholders of the Lagos Of Our Dreams…

FOR allegedly lying on how he grew up, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, cannot be trusted, the Presidency said yesterday. Joining issues with Atiku  over a statement credited to him…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan denied  yesterday being put under pressure by some of his ministers before he conceded defeat in the 2015 election. In a statement signed by his media adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, Dr. Jonathan…

Magnus Abe, senator representing Rivers south-east, says Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, categorically asked him not to contest Rivers governorship election. Abe said the “unacceptable” episode…

Some ministers who served under former president Goodluck Jonathan have angrily reacted to some of the claims by him in his book, ‘My Transition Hours’, released on Tuesday. Commenting on his acclaimed concession call to…

Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress Party (NDCP), Dr. Johnson Edosomwan has condemned plans by the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar to sell off the nation’s refineries through privatisation if…

YBNL Boss Olamide has met two men who would contest for office of the state governor in Lagos and Ogun in the 2019 elections – Jide Sanwo Olu and APC Governorship aspirant in Ogun State, Mr Dapo Abiodun. The rapper shared the photos on…

‘Okonjo-Iweala, Adoke, Chidoka, Dudafa advised me not to accept defeat’ Former President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed how he was pressured not to accept defeat in the 2015 election. Noting that the election was laden…

Dr Emerald Nzeribe, National President, Good Governance and Transparency Initiative (GGAT), has given President Muhammadu Buhari a thumbs up for his development plan for Nigeria. Dr Nzeribe said Buhari/All Progressives…

The echoes of the 2015 presidential election won by President Muhammadu Buhari reverberated on Tuesday as former President Goodluck Jonathan presented his book, ‘My Transition Hours,’ to the public in Abuja.Dignitaries that…

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is gradually regaining his lost ‘territories’ in the South West with support from Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the embattled national chairman of…

Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said the Southwest will not drop the position of Vice President for a lesser office. Reacting to a report that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had zoned the…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed how some Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governors worked against his re-election in 2015. Jonathan in his new book, ‘My Transition Hour,’ which he publicly presented in Abuja on Tuesday,…

Ahead of next year’s general elections, a Second Republic senator and National Leader of Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Fasanmi, has promised to convene a meeting of Yoruba leaders. The meeting, he said,…

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, on Tuesday insisted that there is no fight between him and the current Governor Ambode Akinwunmi . Obviously referring to recent…

Igbo leaders in the and scores of traditional rulers from Imo state have disagreed over which presidential candidate Igbo people will support in 2019 general elections.Southeast Voice recall that hundreds   Imo monarchs led by His…

Amidst the brouhaha still trailing the allegation levelled against Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, of collecting kickbacks from contractors, the National secretarial of the All Progressive Congress (APC)…

Three members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun state have dragged the party and its governorship candidate in the September 22 governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, to court for allegedly contesting…

Former Chief of Staff to Imo State Governor, Mr Uche Nwosu, has said the threat by the National Working Committee (NWC) to aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to withdraw their suits or face sanctions…

National Intervention Movement Co-chairman Dr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) yesterday said the country can be restructured administratively pending constitution amendment. According to him, while restructuring, which he…

The Minister for Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) says the South West has more to gain by re-electing President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election. Fashola, who was in Lagos yesterday for…

Mr Adams Oshiomhole, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, has said that the people of Kwara will retire Sen. Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate from active politics in 2019. He said this on Monday in…

Apex Igbo Organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has stated that it has not officially endorsed any Presidential Candidate yet. It will be recalled that the organization made headlines recently when it hosted the Presidential…