Politics

  Just days after denying plans to dump the Young Peoples Party, YPP, Ifeanyi Ubah, senator who won the election Anambra south election on the platform, has dumped the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the APC, announced Ubah’s membership of the ruling party at a meeting President Muhammadu Buhari had with APC senators-elect in ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop their “unnecessary fabrications, smear campaign” and prepare to face the opposition’s legal team at the Presidential Election Tribunal. Responding to a petition by the spokesman for the President’s campaign, Mr. Festus Keyamo, the PDP said Buhari is overweighed by the burden ...

  All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders yesterday moved to prevent the “hijack” of the new National Assembly leadership. They met with would-be lawmakers. President Muhammadu Buhari dined with serving APC senators and senators-elect at the New Banquet Hall of the  State House. The meeting came on the heels of a similar parley between APC National Chairman Adams Oshiomhole and House of ...

Timipre Sylva and Mrs. Koromiaware Kenneth   A 22-year-old Koromiaware Kenneth has lamented her ordeals following the killing of her husband, Kenneth Adebor, at Nembe-Bassambiri, Nembe Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, a day before the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state. Mrs. Kenneth, who was four-month-old pregnant said her husband was killed by political thugs. She urged security ...

  A First Republic Aviation Minister, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi has said that the present administration committed treasonable offence by deploying the military during the general election. Amaechi maintained that the military should have no part to play in elections and internal security in the country. Amaechi, a foremost nationalist, also noted that President Muhammadu Buhari would not have stepped down ...

  The Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, has stated the reasons the President refused to visit some states to campaign for governorship candidates of his party, All Progressives Congress, after he had won the presidential election of February 23, 2019. The governorship election had held on March 9, about nine days after Buhari had ...

        Unknown gunmen have shot Comfort Dooshima, the collation officer for Gboko local government area of Benue state. Dooshima a lecturer at the University of Agriculture, Benue, was attacked on her way to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) head office in Markurdi, the state capital, on Saturday night. More to follow…

  Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai on Friday evening returned to the state after his rumoured accident involvement, saying that, he is not cloned from abroad. This was as the Governor tackled the former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar over his claim that, he defeated President Muhammadu Buhari in the February 23rd presidential election in Kaduna state. El-Rufai ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has hailed the verdict of the Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal, which upheld the victory of its candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke. It described the judgment as a victory for democracy and triumph of the will of the people. The main opposition party said the judgment was a clear indicator that those who set out ...

  The former governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose says by the grace of God, presidency and Ekiti will also slip off the hands of the All Progressives Party (APC). Fayose said this in reaction to the victory of Ademola Adeleke at the tribunal. Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2018 governorship election in Osun state, ...

  Former Senate President, Ameh Ebute, has written the United States President, Donald Trump, over a recent report by US Department of State titled: 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The report indicted the Federal Government and state agents, particularly the military of arbitrary killings and other sundry crimes bothering on human rights violations allegedly perpetrated in Nigeria during ...

  The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has demanded that Muslims must have a fair share of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s list of ministers, who will be appointed from the South West. This position was made known in a statement made by its founder and director, Professor Ishaq Akintola. MURIC argued that despite the fact that Muslims are in the majority ...

  The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha on Thursday accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state of being “in a hurry to resume their alleged looting of the treasury and properties of the state.” He made the allegation while faulting the emergence of Emeka Ihedioha of the PDP as governor-elect of the state. The Governor, in a statement ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has outlined activities and timeline to resolve the electoral logjam in Rivers State. An INEC spokesperson, Festus Okoye, disclosed this at a press briefing at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. According to him, the activities began on the March 19 when the commission had engagements with major actors. This will be followed by ...

The N2.2bn fraud trial of former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose progressed on Wednesday with the prosecution fielding four additional witnesses. Among the four witnesses were three Lebanese – Goshen Joseph; Joseph Mechleb and Maroun Mechleb – who are working in Nigeria as building and construction engineers. Mechleb, who was fielded as PW10, is the Chief Executive Officer of a ...

Buba Galadima, a former ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of using the military to rig the 2019 presidential election. Galadima spoke when he featured on Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels Television. According to him, the military used its Operation Python Dance launched across all states of the federation “effectively to intimidate voters, to ...

  The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is suffering from post-election depression over the opposition party’s claim that it won the last presidential election. The ruling party said this in a statement by its publicity secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu, on Wednesday while reacting to the claim by the PDP. The PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the court order stopping the collation of pending results of the Bauchi governorship election. The party described the order as unconstitutional, and threatened to obtain similar ones stopping the swearing in of all candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) “particularly President Muhammadu Buhari”. A federal high court in Abuja had given an ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected five bills transmitted to him by the national assembly. The bills are Nigerian Film Commission bill, Immigration Amendment bill 2018, Climate change bill 2018, Chartered Institute of Pension Practitioners bill 2018 and Digital Rights and Freedom bill. The president’s decision to withhold assent to the bills was conveyed via a letter read during plenary on ...

  Buba Galadima has said that former President Goodluck Jonathan shot himself in the foot by not taking Muhammadu Buhari to court following the outcome of the 2015 presidential election.   Galadima who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily opined that Jonathan could have defeated Buhari in court. “He could have successfully triumphed because of what had happened eventually from ...

  Three young men pictured below reportedly rode their bicycles all the way from Biu local government area of Borno state to Abuja just to celebrate President Muhammadu Buhari and senate leader, Ali Ndume of the All Progressives Congress (APC), over their election victories. According to reports, they spent some days in Abuja as all their efforts to meet the ...

  All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Tinubu yesterday denied meddling in the proposed Kano State supplementary elections. He also refuted the unfounded reports that he relocated to Kano, the state capital, for the polls. The former Lagos State governor described those insinuating that he is involved in the preparations for the supplementary elections as liars. “Asiwaju is not ...

  Rivers State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Minister of Transportation and factional leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Chibuike Amaechi, to stop daydreaming about governing the state for a third term, by plotting to foist a neophyte to administer the people. Chairman of PDP in the state, Felix Obuah, in ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that it would not remove its Resident Electoral Commissioner in Rivers State, Obo Effanga, saying that it does not take directive from anybody. INEC’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, stated this while responding to an enquiry from Punch correspondent on Monday. Among other demands, the spokesman for the APC, Lanre ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in the February 23, 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said on Monday that they had assembled over 400 witnesses to testify at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, where they would challenge the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress’ victory at the poll. They spoke through the ...