Politics

•Emerging consensus supports southern presidency •Atiku plans another run •Tinubu readies his political machine •Saraki’s supporters say he is the bridge between North and South •Governors move to choose one of their own With the 2023 presidential election exactly 761 days away from today, politicians across the two major political parties – the ruling All…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to save the Party’s state chapter from destruction. The Party was reacting to the removal of the state’s Chairman, Bashir Omoloja Bolarinwa. Bolarinwa was said to have been removed, following a complaint from the state Governor, Abdulrahaman Abdulrazaka who alleged he can’t…

The Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha has dropped a huge hint on the prospect of a new political force ahead of the 2023 general elections in the country. Okorocha disclosed this at the Commissioning of the Rumueche- Rumuakunde- Ohna- Awuse Road in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State called for the…

The former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido has lashed out at the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying the party has failed Nigerians woefully. Lamido claims the APC failed because it is a two-man political party, manned by persons with the same dearth of ideologies and built around Bola Tinubu and President Muhammadu…

Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court Abuja on Saturday dismissed a suit of forgery against Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, for want of merit. Justice Mohammed dismissed the suit brought by Obaseki’s former party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), on the grounds that it failed to prove allegations of forgery against Obaseki….

A chieftains of PDP and onetime minister of foreign Affairs,Alhaji Aminu Walid has said former president Goodluck Jonathan can fly the APC ticket in the 2023 presidential. Wali, one of the founders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who backed Jonathan’s failed 2015 re-election bid said Nigeria had reached the point of looking beyond political…

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has again mocked the All Progressives Congress (APC). He noted that unlike the APC, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) does not make fake promises. Wike spoke when he led ex-Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, to inaugurate the Abonnema Ring Road in Akuku Toru Local Government Area on Thursday. He…

Justice Lateefa A. Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday, January 5, 2021, convicted and sentenced Okey Nwosu, a former Managing Director, Finbank Plc, to three years imprisonment for over 10m fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had arraigned Nwosu alongside Dayo Famuroti, Agnes Ebubedike and Danjuma Ocholi…

—advuses APC to adopt“Constitution of Common Sense,” Former Governor of Kano state and Senator representing Kano Central Senatorial District, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, on  Sunday declared that his predecessor at the Senate, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso remains his friend, despite their political differences.  Shekarau, former presidential candidate of All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) who succeeded Kwankwaso…

The race is about to begin. Men who want President Muhammadu Buhari’s job badly in May 2023 are crisscrossing the six geo-political zones, making friends, erecting sturdy coalitions and assembling crack teams of political operatives and campaign machinery. The stage is set. And the grand race for Nigeria’s No.1 job, one of the most powerful…