2023 Presidency: Northern Group Backs Sen. Okorocha
The Arewa Progressive Front, a northern political pressure group, has urged the Igbo to rally round Senator Rochas Okorocha, a former Imo State governor, to actualise the ambition to produce Nigerian President in 2023. The group said Okorocha’s disposition as a detrabalized Nigerian, puts him at advantage over other Igbo contenders, adding that the North will throw it’s weight behind...
Governors Call For Special Review Of Insecurity Challenges, Killing Of Soldiers
The 36 state governors under the aegis of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF have expressed the need for special review of the entire gamut of the security issues, sequel to the unabated cases of killing of soldiers and civilians across the country. The forum which condemned the recent attack on the correctional facility and the Police Command headquarters and the release...
2023: APC Denies Fake Zoning List
The National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress APC Caretaker, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe, has denied a fake list making rounds in the media believed to be the decision of the party on the zoning arrangement in anticipation of the 2023 presidential election. According to him, the list trending is a mere speculation as it was not issued from the...
PDP South-West Congress Election Was A Scam – Fayose
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose made the allegation when he featured on Politics Today, a Channels Television Programme, on Wednesday. On Monday, the party held a congress to determine its zonal leaders in the region, after a series of postponements and leadership tussle. The congress was expected to lay to rest the leadership tussle between Fayose and Makinde, who...
My People Are Comfortable In PDP, I Have No Plan To Leave — Ikpeazu
Abia State governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu says he has no plan to leave the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for any other party now, saying his people are comfortable with the party. The Governor spoke on Channels TV's Sunday Politics monitored by ABN TV where he said dumping the PDP is not part of his immediate plans. While maintaining that it is...
Judiciary Should Not Be Allowed To Select Our Political Leaders – Jonathan
Ex-President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has stated that the Judiciary should not be given the power to select political leaders to govern the nation. Dr. Jonathan addressed patrons at a youth foundation programme hosted by the founder of TOS Foundation, Osasu Igbenedion in Abuja. According to him, it is not the best to see the judiciary select leaders as it does...
Youths Who Engage In Thuggery Shouldn’t Ask For Democratic Dividends — Sen. Kalu Declares
Chief Whip of the Senate and Senator representing Abia North, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has asked youths who make themselves available for thuggery and election manipulation to stop asking for democratic dividends, saying they lack the moral justification to demand such. While accusing some youths of constituting a challenge to democracy, the former Abia governor while addressing constituents in Arochukwu...
Gunshots As Ex-Ekiti Governor Fayose Leaves Southwest PDP Congress
There was pandemonium at the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Southwest zonal congress on Monday evening in Osogbo, capital of Osun State. The incident occurred around 6:45 pm when some suspected hoodlums advanced towards the gate of the WOCDIF Event Centre where the congress was taking place in an attempt to invade the premises. Ex-Ekiti Governor Ayodele Fayose was about to leave...
Respite In PDP As Fayose Declares ‘Makinde Is My Leader’
The embers of disagreement between former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose; and Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, seemed to be permanently quenched on Monday when the former declared his submission to the leadership of the latter. Speaking at the Wocdiff Centre, Osogbo, venue of the Zonal Congress of the Peoples Democratic Party, Fayose acknowledged, “The Governor of Oyo State, Governor...
Akwa Ibom APC Stakeholders Reject Akpabio As Party Leader
Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State have again rejected Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Senator Godswill Akpabio as party leader in the state. A group within the party led by a former military administrator of Rivers and Ogun states, Group Captain Sam Ewang (retd), had last month endorsed Akpabio as APC leader in the state. But in...
