Category: Politics

His ambition to become Nigerian president has been disclosed by the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose. Fayose who is the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, was not specific on when he will contest for the office of president. “It is according to God’s will that I will one day become the president of Nigeria,” he said. Although Fayose did not give a timeline for the realisation of his presidential ambition, his declaration will influence the politics of the 2019 presidency. His interventions in his political party…

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Suspended Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, on Tuesday said she did not misappropriate N15 million as alleged by some of her colleagues. Akindele, who was reportedly suspended on Friday by 14 lawmakers, said in a statement in Akure that although she was a signatory to the House schedule, she was not a signatory to the cheques. “I wish to place it on record that though I am the signatory to the schedule, I am not a signatory to the cheques of the House. “I did sign the schedule…

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The Nigerian Senate has affirmed the replacement of Senator Ali Ndume with Senator Ahmad Lawan, a former rival of Senator Bukola Saraki. The move, it was gathered, was to bring peace between the APC leadership in the Senate, the executive branch and the APC national leadership. The triangular relationship had been ruptured by the insistence of Senator Saraki and the APC caucus in retaining Ndume as party leader against the party’s preference for Lawan. Ndume was caught off guard by the action of his colleagues on the first day after…

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African leaders are to meet in Ghana to take a decision on the political conundrum in The Gambia. Senior Special Assistant to President Mohammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this to newsmen yesterday in Abuja. Shehu said the meeting of the African leaders would hold in Accra, Ghana after the inauguration of the country’s President-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo.He said the meeting was critical to the resolution of the impasse in that country. He said: “President Buhari and other African leaders will on Saturday (today) be attending the inauguration…

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Comrade Osakpanwa Eriyo, the Edo State Youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and another chieftain of the party, Sunday Osagbona, were yesterday arraigned before the Oredo Magistrate Court Benin City for alleged conspiracy and attempted murder against the state Secretary of the party and Obazulu of Benin Kingdom, Chief Osaro Idah. Eriyo who is also the state chairman of the Road Transport Employers Association (RTEAN), has been in police detention in the past three days following a petition by Chief Idah that Eriyo and others threatened to kill…

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Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State Governor, has accused the Department of State Service (DSS) of recording telephone conversations of Nigerians perceived as critical of President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, editing the chats and leaking same to an online medium (name withheld), which he said has now become the official propaganda platform of the federal government. Fayose, who said he was not bothered remarked; “Rather than sitting down and be monitoring peoples phones, the federal government should provide food for Nigerians and save the lives of those that are…

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Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Ogun State Governor has revealed that seven persons have shown interest to become governor of the state in 2019, saying no quality of a would-be-governor in any of them. The governor boasted: “Although, I do not know yet who will succeed me come May 29, 2019, I certainly know those who won’t be governor in Ogun State.” Amosun who said this yesterday in Abeokuta at the APC, Ogun State members of National Assembly caucus meeting added that the seven aspirants are simply wasting their time and resources.…

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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the recently concluded Ondo State Governorship election, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, has opted not to challenge the outcome in court, as is usually the practice in Nigeria. Jegede, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, said that he had accepted the victory of Mr Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress, APC,  in good faith and had moved on in the spirit of good sportsmanship. Jegede, who polled over 150,380 votes to Akeredolu’s 244,842 during the poll, said  there was no need to continue to…

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Nyesome Woke, Rivers State Governor has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of sponsoring a contrived audio clip in which he allegedly threatened an Independent National Electoral Commission ‎(INEC) official to rig last Saturday’s election in favour of his party. The governor said the audio chip published by an online media organisation was produced to divert public attention from the massive electoral fraud by the INEC and Police and military killings that marred the rerun national and state legislative polls. Wike explained that the audio clip was fabricated using audio software, pointing…

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