The North-East Amalgamated Association for Tambuwal 2023 on Sunday issued a 30-day notice to the Sokoto state governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal to declare interest on 2023 or they would seek legal action against him. President of the amalgamated association, Ayuba Karofi, announced the notice at a meeting with coordinators and other stakeholders of the association held at Reinsurance House, Bauchi. Read More
A coalition of youth under the aegis of North East Young Technocrats For Good Governance has urged a former governor of Bauchi state who’s also a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu, to run for president in 2023. The group’s national coordinator, Dr. Mohammed Abdullahi, and its secretary- general, Mr. Solomon David, made the Read More
The presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC), during the 1993 presidential election, Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, has passed on. He was aged 74. According deceased relation, Tofa died in the early hours of Monday at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) after a protracted illness. Tofa died few months after Obadiah Mailafia, a former presidential candidate of the Read More
The Director-General, Tinubu Support Group Management Council, Hon Abdulmumini Jibrin Kofa, has described the impression that Asiwaju Bola Ahamed Tinubu is not fit to run for president in 2023 on health ground, as preposterous and counterproductive. He is emphatic that nothing will stand as a clog on the wheel of the chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) in seeking election Read More
…3, 600 to decide aspirants, party’s fates …Consensus candidates were imposed on us’ …We’re not forcing anybody to step down – Fintiri …Aftermath always not palatable – Analyst …We’ll come out united – Tambuwal As members and other critical stakeholders in the leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), converge on the Eagle Square Abuja to elect a new Read More
Renowned Nigerian Journalist, Dele Momodu, has decided rejoin politics and that he’s teaming up Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Momodu, a former presidential candidate announced his move to the PDP in a statement, explaining that his decision was based on the need to contribute meaningfully to the development of the country. According to him, “I have Read More
Chapter VI, Part I, Section 131 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, states that a person may be qualified for election of the office of the president if he or she is a citizen of Nigeria by birth, and has attained the age of 35, and a member of a political party and is sponsored by that political party, has Read More
A consensus is steadily building among the progressive members of the political class who are fair, just, equitable and who continue to believe in one united and strong Nigeriain favour of Vice president YemiOsinbajo becoming the presidential candidate of the ruling APC in 2023 and he eventually becoming the president of the country itself. This is especially so among the Read More
Former deputy governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and 2019 presidential candidate Kingsley Moghalu on Friday announced that he has joined Action Democratic Congress (ADC) ahead of 2023. Details loading…
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a group, Grassroot Alliance For Good Governance (GAFGG) has called on the two leading political parties in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to pick their presidential candidates from the South. The group which said it is beating the drums of unification and togetherness to the hearing of Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has been commended for putting together a broad-based Board for the newly created Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited. Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, who gave the commendation, yesterday, in Abuja, noted that the President Buhari demonstrated experience and institutional knowledge of the petroleum industry in appointing members of the board. Okechukwu specifically praised Read More
Director General of Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) Salihu Moh Lukman, said the recent defection of former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode into the APC got most members angry, especially with the by the red-carpet reception given to him. While calling for calm, the APC chieftain also appealed to party leaders to properly engage in internal negotiations that will guide the Read More
An advocacy group, South South Presidency 2023 (SSP23), has said the country would fare better if the presidency was returned to the South-south. In a communiqué made available to our reporter in Calabar, after a brainstorming meeting of delegates which held in Asaba, Delta state, SSP23 re-affirmed its stand on the emergence of a president of South-south extraction. It warned Read More
A group under the aegis of Amalgamated Atiku Support Group (AASG) has said that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is the most adequately prepared and experienced politician in Nigeria to confront and rescue power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023. The National Coordinator of the group, Mr. Oladimeji Fabiyi in a statement issued Friday, however condemned a Read More
Ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been cautioned not to waste the People’s Democratic Party (PDP’s) ticket. The group under the aegis of PDP Action 2023 warned that, to give Atiku another chance as PDP presidential candidate, is to facilitate a clear defeat for the party at the presidential contest, admonishing the former vice-president Read More
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general election, former vice president Atiku Abubakar congratulates Omoba Utieyinoritsetsola Emiko, the Olu of Warri designate as he is coroneted on Saturday as the 21st Olu of Warri. Atiku in a statement by his media adviser, Paul Ibe said “the choice of Tshola Emiko to ascend the throne Read More
Political and economic leaders were the first casualty of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Disheartening videos and images of Afghan political leaders, billionaires, industrialists, technocrats, etc fleeing the country filled the internet, while on the other side, common people on the street cheered and welcomed the Taliban. This is an ominous signal to leaders of countries facing similar challenges as Read More
The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Prince Uche Secondus and the Vice Presidential candidate of the party in 2019 general elections, former governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi, Tuesday joined other admirers and associates of the former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, to eulogize him on his 80th birthday. Prince Secondus who led some members Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the family of former Deputy Senate President Ibrahim Nasir Mantu, saying the deceased dedicated most of his life to the service of his people. A family source said Senator Mantu died in the early hours of Tuesday. Mantu’s personal secretary, Zaharaddeen Ibrahim, who is also a nephew to the deceased, confirmed the death. “He had Read More
Some stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have berated former Vice President and presidential candidate of the party in the 2019 general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for keeping mum while his party was going through crisis. The party has been in crisis following the resignation of some national officers and call by some stakeholders for the national chairman to Read More
Whenever we dwell on how hate speeches and fake news affect our democracy we must also look at how improper journalism is being practiced in Nigeria. Journalism is said to be the production and distribution of reports on current events based on facts and supported with proof or evidence. Unfortunately, the system in Nigeria is quite different as some media Read More
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general election, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged Federal Government to establish food security military task force to work in farming clusters. Atiku in a statement, Friday sad “the warning given by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations on Wednesday, July 29, 2021, of Read More
Former presidential candidate of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), High Chief Peter Ameh has stated that the Supreme Court judgement on Governor Rotimi Akeredolu technically ruled out the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Anambra November 6th, 2021 guber election. In a statement released in Abuja Thursday, Ameh said “it is a very simple logic that Mai Mala Buni cannot Read More
Former governor of Cross River state and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Clement Ebri has faulted the recent consensus arrangements being mulled by the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee in the election of its candidates. According to the ex-governor, the arrangement is would abridge the political space, just as it would cause imposition of candidates. Ebri said this Wednesday Read More
The Nigerian watchdogs, the indefatigable press reported elaborately the entertaining drama played by senators and members of the House of Representatives during the passage of the electoral reform bill. The passage was done on Thursday, July 15, and Friday, July 16, 2021 in the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively. Earlier, the two hollowed houses promised to pass the bill Read More
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