By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced investigation into videos trending online of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) allegedly buried underground in some locations, including the compound of a high-profile person. INEC National Commissioner, and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr. Festus Okoye,...
2023 Election
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has appointed Pastor Isaac Idahosa as his running mate for the 2023 general elections NNPP disclosed this in a post on its Twitter handle on Thursday. Bishop Idahosa is the Senior Pastor of God First Ministry, a.k.a Illumination Assembly,...
By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI During an address by Harvard Political Professor, Samuel Huntington, in August 1995, at Taipei, he was, among other things, asked of his impression about Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s effort to develop Singapore, and he scantly summed it up this way: the honesty and efficiency Senior...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Council Chairman of Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Soko State, Hon Idris Mohammad Gobir has emerged as the running mate to Sokoto All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Hon Ahmad Aliyu. Addressing newsmen at the party Secretariat, the state party chairman, Hon...
Pa Ayo Adebanjo, leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has endorsed presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi. Speaking on Yoruba Gbode, an online radio programme, Adebanjo said only Peter Obi can rule independently among the current crop of presidential candidates. The Afenifere leader also accused Presidential candidate...
The Ghana chapter of the APC says Nigerians must rise above religious bigotry and have faith in Sen. Bola Tinubu’s wisdom in choosing a Muslim as a running mate. The Chairman of the chapter, Mr Oghenosa Micheletti, in his congratulatory message on Tuesday to Tinubu, APC Presidential Candidate for...
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State said on Monday in Ikeja that Nigerians could not afford to make mistakes at the 2023 general elections. Sanwo-Olu said this at the Lagos House, at the Year 2022 Eid-ul-Adha celebration by the First Family of Lagos State, organised by the Lagos State...
The issue is the bruised ego of Gov Nyeson Wike who feels so wronged he is said to constitute the reason the return of the PDP to power is hanging in the balance. Some other political parties’ leaders are wooing Wike to join them, turning him into a beautiful...
NNPP Presidential Candidate, Snator Rabiu Kwankwaso has declared his support Bola Ahmed Tinubu to win the 2023 Presidential Elections if he senses he cannot get it. Kwankwaso, a former Governor of Kano State stated this during an interview on Arise TV on Sunday night. He spoke after Tinubu announced...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has described the emergence of Senator Kashim Shettima as APC’s Vice Presidential candidate, as the wisest choice made by the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed. Zulum stated this in a statement he personally signed on Sunday...
BY RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Ugya/Umaisha State House of Assembly election in Nasarawa State, Hon. Ibrahim Sa’ad Abdullahi has vowed to take over the constituency from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Hon. Abdulahi stated this during the weekend when he flagged...
The Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Friday presented Dr Yusuf Baba-Ahmed as his running mate for the 2023 General Elections. Obi made the announcement at a news conference with the theme “Journey to Nigeria’s Rebirth Begins Today” in Abuja . According to him, the party is...
The approaching 2023 Presidential Election promises to be like none other in the nation’s annals. And the die is already cast as the pretenders and contenders have been already separated. It is a three-horse race, with Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of NNPP already discounting himself as a possible winner if...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State on Monday unveiled its 2nd female deputy governorship candidate, Mrs. Emana Ambrose Awana ahead of the 2023 election in the state. Mrs. Awana’s nomination as the deputy governorship candidate comes nearly 30 years after Mrs....
Mr Ifedayo Adedipe, Ondo Central Senatorial Candidate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the crisis rocking the party will not stop it from winning the 2023 general elections. The senatorial candidate is optimistic that the crisis trailing the opposition party after its presidential primary election...
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi met with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike behind closed-doors on Wednesday in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State. Wike who is widely rumoured to be plotting an exit from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP following his loss at the Party primaries and not...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Abdullahi Adamu has expressed concern over the wave of defections of federal lawmakers in the party to opposition parties. He said this on Wednesday after a closed-door meeting with party members at the National Assembly. Senator Adamu admitted that while...
Peter Obi has called on Nigerians to take back the country, claiming the nation’s political space has been taken over by those he described as “lunatics”. The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) believes many of those in the political space do not have business being there. “Seventy...
The 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has described OKowa as an asset to all Nigerians. Abubakar in his message to Nigerians on Sunday in Abuja said that the office of the president in particular required that the holder of that office to...
BY THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has said the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 governorship election, Engineer Titus Uba has the capacity to effectively govern the state. Governor Ortom who stated this on Saturday, at the IBB Square, Makurdi during...