Politics

The Peoples Democratic Party 2019 Election Review Committee has asked that the party’s presidential ticket in 2023 be thrown open to all qualified aspirants. The committee, headed by the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, made the recommendation in its report to the leadership of the party. The report, which was submitted on Wednesday, also urged…

The media has been awash lately with calls for the “youthful” Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello to contest for the 2023 presidential election. A call that has assumed great theatrics on many occasions. Leading the charge for this call are youths, notably a self styled “Ambassador”, who goes by the name Oladele John…

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume has kicked against the idea of the North producing the next president. He spoke his mind at a press roundtable organized by the Correspondents’ Chapel, Nigerian Union of Journalists, FCT Council. He said that it would be against the constitution of the All Progressives Congress (APC)…

legal team studying Judgement– speaker. Months after the court ordering the swearing in of Hon. Daniel Ojata Enefola of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the elected lawmaker representing Ibaji State Constituency, the Kogi State House of Assembly has failed to honour the court ruling. Recalled that Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court,…

Executive director Conscience for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution (CHRCR) Idris Miliki Abdul has raised concern that 90 days after LG elections in Kogi results are yet to be declared In a statement that was signed by Idris Miliki Abdul and made available to Journalists on Thursday in Lokoja, said the  elections were conducted  in…

The Nigerian Youths Movement for Tinubu (NYMT), on Tuesday, urged the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu to join the 2023 presidential race. The organization declared that Tinubu was the perfect fit to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari. Mukhtar Mukhtar, Director General, NYMT, told reporters in Abuja that he has been…

Sule Lamido, a former Jigawa State Governor, has declared that there is no All Progressives Congress, APC, in Nigeria. According to the former governor and presidential aspirant in the 2019 general election, the ruling party has disintegrated Lamido said that the country was more divided under the APC-led Federal Government. He stated this on Monday…

Threatens suspension of Governor from party Some members of the Kogi State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) under the auspices of Concerned APC Members,  have berated State Governor, Yahaya Bello, over what they called his “blinded ambition” to contest for the office of the President in 2023. The group said Bello’s new found…

A former presidential adviser to the late President Shehu Shagari, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, and some prominent Northerners have mounted pressure on the Zamfara State Governor, Mr. Bello Matawalle, to name those behind the killings in the state by revealing their identity to President Muhammadu Buhari. The governor had a fortnight ago said that Nigerians would…

Though, former president Goodluck Jonathan yesterday debunked media speculations about his rumoured interest in the 2023 presidential election, he failed to emphatically rule himself out of the race. The former president described media reports linking him to the 2023 presidential election as merely speculative, saying his preoccupation was “to continue to serve God, humanity, Africa…