Politics

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has hired the firm of Brian Ballard, a top US lobbyist, ahead of the 2019 elections. The influential lobbyist has President Donald Trump as one of his clients. Politico Magazine, a top…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), not to be part of the “smear campaign and unsavoury comments” against Atiku Abubakar, its presidential…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says its presidential candidate will reduce the cost of premium motor spirit (PMS), popularly know as petrol to N87-N90 per litre. In a statement by Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the…

The spokesman of Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation, Segun Sowunmi, on Thursday, said the fall of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, from political grace is imminent.Speaking with…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s son, Olujonwo met President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja and pledged to campaign for his re-election.The younger Obasanjo, son of Mrs Taiwo Obasanjo, has already identified with the campaign…

The last-minute decision of Abiola Ajimobi, Governor of Oyo State, to back Bayo Adelabu rather than Joseph Tegbe for the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was not without money changing hands,…

Lagos state PDP governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje, has picked a lawyer, Haleemat Busari as his running mate for the 2019 election. This was made known in a statement by the Director of Media and Publicity of the Jimi Agbaje…

The New Initiative For Credible Leadership (NICreL) on Thursday adjudged President Muhammadu Buhari as the most credible option among other candidates contesting for the presidential seat in the 2019 general elections. The…

Reuben Abati, former presidential spokesman, has been named as the running mate of Leke Shittu, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun. Gbenga Daniel, former governor of the state, was listed…

A political group, Ex-Council Chairmen for Atikulated Change (ECCAC), has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disqualify President Muhammadu Buhari from contesting the 2019 presidential election.…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) plans to adopt an “aggressive” ward-to-ward campaign against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), it was learnt yesterday. The party agreed that taking the battle to the grassroots…

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has received “signals from American officials” to apply for visa and it would be granted, Gbenga Daniel, Director-General of the Atiku Presidential…

Ahead of the 2019 election, Youths in South-West have rejected Secretary to Government of the Federation, SGF reserved for the region by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, saying, the party has never…

PRESIDENT Buhari has warned All Progressives Party, APC, stakeholders, especially aggrieved members who lost out in the party’s primaries, to be wary of looters of the national treasury desperate to take over power in…

ELDERS of the All Progressives Congress, APC, from Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State, yesterday, appealed to  Governor Ibikunle Amosun to accept Chief Dapo Abiodun as the party’s  governorship candidate for the party to win…

President Muhammadu Buhari will win conveniently in the NorthEast in next year’s general election, Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim has said. He spoke against the background of the statement credited to him that the President…

All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman Adams Oshiomhole is confident that the party will reconcile with three of its governors who are aggrieved over the result of the primaries. He named the governmors as Ibikunle Amosun…

Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), has described the statement by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that he…

Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has dismissed the threat posed by Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president and president candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). After meeting…

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Redemption Party, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has said despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure, he was still better than the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic…

The Presidential candidate  of the Social Democratic Party, Donald Duke, says he earned a combined sum of N5, 618, 419 between 2015 and 2017.Duke stated this in his tax certificate with serial number 290664, which was attached to his…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday said it would be difficult to implement the section of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018 that recommended electronic voting if the president signs it into…

The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN, Oby Ezekwesili, has revealed how she would use her campaign strategies to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,…

The era when votes were awarded to favourites of the authorities and the shortchanged told to go to court is gone, President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday. “I emphasise free and fair elections at all times,’’ he said.…