Politics

Ahead of September 2020 Local Government council election in Kogi state,a group: Lokoja Local Government Grassroot for Good Governance, has called on the people of the area to work for the emergence of Hon. Tijjani Bin-Ebiya Shehu,a.k.a BEST as the Executive Chairman of Lokoja Local Government council. Spokesperson of the group,Hon. Danjuma Aliyu Ibrahim who…

 Counsel to Engr. Musa Wada, the Governor hopeful of Kogi state, Jibrin Okutepa (SAN) has expressed optimism of his client clinching the Lugard House as governor at the appropriate time. In his reaction to the Supreme Court judgement affirming Engr.Musa Wada as the authentic PDP candidate by a 5-man panel of Justices on Friday, the…

By Saawua Terzungwe The National Working Committee (NWC) and governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have flayed Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state for claiming that about ten governors from the leading opposition party were set to jump ship to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Governor Bello during an…

Kogi state Peoples Democratic Party deputy Guber candidate Hon Sam Aro has described Friday Supreme Court ruling that affirmed Engr Musa Wada and Hon Sam Aro as authentic candidate of the party as a work of God almighty, Aro said left for man it would have been impossible. He commends Judiciary for standing on the…

•••I Accept the verdict- Abubakar Following today’s ruling of the Apex Court affirming Engr Musa Wada as the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in the November 16, 2019 Governorship election, the state chapter of the party has called for deeper closing of ranks.In a statement by its publicity Secretary, Bode Ogunmola, the party…

•••Chairman, Secretary Are Fake The State Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Alhaji Mouktar Atima has dissociated his party from the recently inaugurated Executives of the Inter Party Advisory Council. The SDP Chairman in a statement issued in Lokoja says the new Executive is a brain child of the Kogi State Government. According to the…

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been dissolved. Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad made this known in a tweet on Thursday. Bashir said the decision was taken at the NEC meeting attended by President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, embattled Deputy National Secretary of APC,…

The National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has commenced, just as President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as well as governors and National Assembly principal officers are in attendance. The meeting, which is holding at the Executive Council chambers of the State House, has Goverrnors of Nasarawa, Niger, Jigawa,…

APC Leadership Crisis: The law is on Giadom’s side ,Says Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has said “the law is on the side of Victor Giadom”, in his quest to become the Acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Buhari made his position known in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, on…

By Mudasiru Ndarani A pressure group from Kabawa Community of Lokoja, ward E, Progressives, has criticised the large number of aspirants from other wards jostling for the APC ticket for the September 9, Lokoja Local Government chairmanship seat . The group which consists of Kabawa, Kporoka, Afakiriya, kpatankoto, Bisakin, Galilee, Texaco, Hausa street, Poly made…