Tinubu Leads By Wide Margin In APC Presidential Primary As Osinbajo Campaign Spokesman Reacts
One of the frontline aspirants in the ongoing APC presidential primary election, Bola Tinubu is at the moment leading with a wide margin. This is even as the spokesman of the Yemi Osinbajo Campaign Organisation, Mr Richard Akinnola, has congratulated...
Edo Deputy Governor, Shaibu Denied Access To Govt House Office
On Monday, the Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, was denied access to his office at the Government House in Benin, the state capital. Shaibu arrived at Government House on Monday but discovered that the gate leading to his office was locked. According to Shaibu, he has yet to receive an official letter from the governor's office on transferring his...
10th Senate: The Miscalculation That Gave Akpabio The Gavel, By Dele Oni
The election of Presiding officers of the Senate is regulated by the Provisions of its Standing orders, just like other Parliaments across the world, but the choice of who to vote for is a decision of personal conviction of Senators. The road to the Seat of the Presiding officers of the 10th Senate was a long winding route, bargaining, alignments,...
2023: You’re A Paper Candidate, APC Is Dead – PDP Fire Back At Tinubu
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as a paper candidate. PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, Sunday also said Tinubu is intimidated by the achievement of its presidential candidate, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. Tinubu on Saturday said he wondered why...
Senate Presidency: How Tinubu Persuaded Me To Step Down For Akpabio — Umahi
Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, has revealed that the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu, was instrumental in his stepping down for the former Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, in the race for the 10th senate presidency. The National Working Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday ratified the zoning formula proposed by Tinubu with Akpabio favourite...
I Met N300m In Anambra Treasury, Inherited Over N100bn Debt ― Gov Soludo
The Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo, has purported that he met only N300 million and over 100 billion debt in the state’s treasury when he assumed office. Soludo revealed this while answering questions on Arise TV on Tuesday monitored by ABN TV. According to the former Central Bank Governor, he has inherited debts running into “hundreds of billions of naira”...
ADC Obeys Court Order Setting Aside Suspension Of Abia, Six Other State Chairmen
The National Executive of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has confirmed its decision to obey the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over the illegal suspension of the Abia state chairman of the party and those of six other states by the former national chairman, Mr. Ralphs Nwosu. In a resolution by the party’s National Executive Committee,...
Court Dismisses Abure’s Objection Challenging Suspension As LP Chair
A federal capital territory (FCT) high court denied Julius Abure's challenge to his dismissal as chairman of the Labour Party (LP). On April 5, the presiding judge, Hamza Muazu, barred Abure and three others — Farouk Ibrahim, Clement Ojukwu, and Oluchi Opara — from working as national officers of the LP. The plaintiffs in CV/2930/2023 notified the court that the defendants...
Opposition Playing Dirty Politics With Electricity Tariff, Petrol Price Hike – Lai Mohammed
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says the “opportunistic” opposition is playing dirty politics with the new electricity tariff and increase in petrol price. Addressing a press conference on Monday in Abuja, Mohammed said subsidising petrol is no longer feasible owing to the prevailing economic conditions. Mohammed said the federal government could no longer afford petrol subsidy because the country’s foreign exchange...
Fresh Crisis Looms Over PDP Ibadan Convention
A fresh crisis is brewing in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as two separate court pronouncements have restrained the party and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from holding or monitoring the planned Ibadan convention. Despite these clear judicial orders, the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the party, Debo Ologunagba, issued a statement on Wednesday, insisting that the convention would...
