Politics

By Kazeem Ugbodaga Less than one year into his second term as Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has been nursing presidential ambition for 2023. The governor assumed his second term in office on January 27, 2020. Bello had said during his swearing in that “The “Let’s Do More” mantra of my electioneering campaign stood on…

Professor Peter Ogban, a returning officer in the 2019 general elections in Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District has been jailed for election fraud. THEANALYSTNG gathered that Ogban, who is a Professor of Soil Science at the University of Calabar (UNICAL) was jailed on Thursday by a High Court presided by Augustine Odokwo in Akwa Ibom…

Social critic, Comrade Usman Okai has challenged Kogi state Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello to come out and explain to the nation where he got the money he has been using for advert placements and the awareness on All Progressives Congress (APC) membership and revalidation drive. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, the Kogi-born…

The Presidency has denied any rift between former Lagos Governor and National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari. In a statement on Wednesday evening, signed by a Presidential media aide, Garba Shehu, the Presidency described Mr Tinubu as a strong ally of President Buhari. “The President and the…

– ‘We Should Value Our People’s Lives Above Inordinate Political Ambitions’ Covid-19 is real and contrary to Senator Smart Adeyemi’s assertions, not all federal legislators from Kogi state subscribe to the idea of treating the global pandemic with levity, Honourable Tajudeen Yusuf has said. Reacting to newspaper reports of Senator Adeyemi’s claim that Kogi state legislators…

Abiodun Olujimi, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator, says the policewoman killed during the Ekiti east constituency I bye-election was guarding a ballot box. Olujimi, senator representing Ekiti south, also accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of sponsoring thugs to disrupt the exercise. On Saturday, violence broke out during the exercise, resulting in the loss of…

 Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano said several videos showing him stuffing bales of dollars into his pockets in 2018 were fake.Governor Ganduje made the declaration on Friday in BBC Hausa current Affair program, A Fada A Cika. “No doubt the video is fake,” Ganduje We are making some underground plans, which we will not reveal….

Hon Segun Olobatoke is the ordained servant leader to bring home the long over due dividends of democracy to Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu federal constituency come 2023. Hon Segun Olobatoke as a leader is servant first He has demonstrated this with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings him to…

•As PDP Chieftain accuses party officials of sellout •Atiku begins e-registration of supporters, groups for 2023 contest Deji Elumoye in Abuja and Christopher Isiguzo in Enugu South-east and South-south leaders yesterday rejected the report of a committee set up by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which recommended the scrapping of its zoning policy. The PDP…

Katsina Governor Aminu Masari has argued the south should produce the next president. Masari spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today monitored by The Nation. He stressed a non-northerner should succeed President Buhari in 2023. “If you ask me as a person Aminu, I think we should move the presidency to the southern part of the…