Politics

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.…

Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim came under fire yesterday for predicting a loss for President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progresives Congress (APC) in the Northeast in next year’s elections. His comment does not reflect the reality on…

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said that there is a renewed smear campaign against its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. It won’t work against the party’s chances in the 2019 elections, it said yesterday.…

AHEAD of the 2019 general elections, President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State and the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, collapsed their campaign teams,…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has refused to explain its position to Nigerians a week after its governorship candidate in Kwara State, Rasak Atunwa, was exposed for forging the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) discharge…

An Abuja based legal luminary and former National Secretary of the Labour Party, Dr. Kayode Ajulo, says President Muhammadu Buhari is qualified by law to contest the 2019 presidential election.The lawyer, who doubles as the founder of…

A number of All Progressives Congress, APC, governors are on tenterhooks ahead of a meeting of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, to approve the list of its governorship candidates for the 2019 elections.The tension is…

THE dust raised by  the Minister for Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola on possible ceed of 2023 Presidency to the South West has attracted the ire of Buhari Support Organisation, BOS, in the South East.The group in…

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday in Abuja, wittily said he was learning the `Shaku Shaku’ dance steps for campaigns ahead of the 2019 general elections. `Shaku Shaku’ is a popular and contemporary dance style common…