Category: Politics

Women Leader of the Lagos State PDP, Alhaja Idowu Akinsanya, has commiserated with the party’s deputy governorship candidate, Ms Funke Akindele, on the demise of her mother, Dr R. B. Adebanjo-Akindele. Akinsanya in a statement said the death of the mother of the veteran Nollywood actress came as a rude shock to the women’s wing at the party. According to her, the death of Akindele’s mother came when she was most needed in the build-up to the elections. “We lost her at this period that all the women in Lagos…

Contrary to his earlier position, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has approved Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential rally holding on Saturday, February 11 in Port Harcourt.  Wike, at a rally for Ogu/Bolo Council, yesterday, said: “This morning after appeals from people, who talked to me, I have given them back Adokiye Amiesimaka. Go and campaign. Let it not be that because they didn’t campaign, that is why they didn’t win in Rivers State.”   The governor, in a statement by his Special Assistant, Kelvin Ebiri,…

Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has been affirmed by the Supreme Court as the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC senatorial candidate for Yobe north. In a majority judgment delivered on Monday, the apex court upheld the appeal filed by the APC against Bashir Machina’s candidature. Delivering the judgment, three out of a five-member panel agreed with the position of the APC that the suit at the trial court ought not to have commenced via an originating summons since it contained allegations of fraud. Share on: WhatsApp

Remarks by presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ahmed Tinubu, during his rally in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Monday has attracted negative reactions. Governor Udom Emmanuel had while reacting same Monday, expressed disappointment that instead of selling his manifesto to the people, Tinubu ended up abusing his principal, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic party, PDP, and threatened his life. Reacting in a statement, yesterday, Akwa Ibom Integrity Alliance, AIIA, gave Tinubu and his co-conspirators seven days to retract the threats and to apologise or…

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, in a jab directed at the government, alleged plot by some ‘powers-that-be’ to sabotage his chances at the polls through the fuel scarcity and naira redesign policy. In a speech reminiscing his famous Emilokan address at Abeokuta, Ogun State, days leading to the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tinubu, again, returned to Abeokuta for his presidential campaign, where he dropped the bombshell that the fuel crisis and the scarcity of the newly redesigned…

The All Progressives Congress presidential campaign rally in Bauchi State was brought to an abrupt end by power outage on Monday. The rally was going on at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi, when the power supply ceased and the sound system went off and could not be restored. The event commenced at 11.50am. However, there was an outage when the Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum, Atiku Bagudu, was making his speech at 12.20pm. Shortly after, the electricity supply was restored and Bagudu came back to conclude his remarks.…

The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has made a damning allegation that could affect the authenticity of the forthcoming general elections in Nigeria against a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr. Muyiwa Mojeed Yusuf, the Head of the ICT of the commission in Lagos State. Yusuf is said to be working against the plans of Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the commission’s chairman, to conduct the most credible, free and fair general elections with the use of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS). This has reportedly…

The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, called for the arrest and disqualification of each other over allegations of graft. Tinubu threw the first punch when he asked security agencies in the country to invite, arrest, interrogate and prosecute Alhaji Atiku Abubakar over what he described as #AtikuGate. Citing a video clip made by one Michael Achimugu, said to be a former aide of the PDP standard bearer, Tinubu said Atiku as vice president…