PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Ahead of the 2023 general election in Cross River State, over 41 support groups have called on the former lawmaker representing Southern Senatorial District, Senator Bassey Otu to contest for governorship ticket of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The leader of the support groups, Boniface...
2023 Election
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has underscored the need for people especially Christians to rise and vote during elections and not only to pray. Pastor Timothy Olaniya, Deputy Rector, Redeemed College of Technology, Redemption Camp, made the call on Sunday during a seminar organised by the Directorate...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says votes will count in the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun, billed for June 18 and July 16 respectively. Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information, Voter Education and Publicity, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN in Lagos...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will shutdown the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) Pre-Registration online portal in April in preparation for the 2023 general elections. Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education, said this in an interview with the...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Senator Gershom Bassey has announced his five points agenda to include youth development, education, social inclusion and environment, with a pledge to fulfill them if nominated and elected governor of Cross River State come 2023. Sen. Bassey, representing Cross River South Senatorial district in the...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto- All the duly elected State Executive members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Sokoto have been sworn-in on Monday at the party secretariat. Administrating oath of office and allegiance to the excos, the party’s legal adviser, Barrister Abdullahi charged them to keep to the...
By JIMIN GEOFFREY, Markudi – Rivers State Governor and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Barrister Nyesom Wike says he has what it takes to rescue Nigeria. He accused some aspirants seeking the party’s ticket for the presidency for being responsible for the party’s...
…. Don’t just fear EFCC, ICPC, also fear Allah – Bauchi gov tells politicians ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAHANI, Bauchi – The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has warned politicians seeking for elective offices not to perceived the process as a do-or-die affair just as he reminded them that it is...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – As the coast gradually gets set for the 2023 political race, Sagir Dalhatu Bafarawa, son of former governor of Sokoto State has indicated interested in succeeding Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. Bafarawa, who resigned his appointment recently as the Sokoto State Commissioner of Environment, said...
There are clear indications that the public debates that will emerge during the campaigns leading up to the 2023 governorship elections in Delta state will be issues-based. Apart from an assessment of the social and economic achievements recorded in the last twenty three years of the People’s Democratic Party...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – It has been established that after the National Convention of the All Progressive Congress (APC) which holds on 26 March, a full media structure for the party will be unveiled in Abuja. The media structure which is part of the ongoing plans to project...
Mr Macham Makut, a young aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called the party to give a 50 per cent discount on cost of nomination forms for young aspirants in the party. Makut, who aspires to fly the party’s flag in the 2023 general...
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has urged political appointees in his administration with ambition to contest in the 2023 elections to resign now. Governor Okowa spoke at the closing of a two-day retreat organised for top government functionaries on Thursday, in Asaba. He said that his administration was committed...
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has urged members of the party not to attack one another, but unite ahead of the 2023 general elections. Ayu said this in his remarks at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party in Abuja...
By JIMIN GEOFFREY, Markudi – Governor Samuel Ortom’s consultations with critical stakeholders for the realization of his senatorial aspiration to represent Benue North West at the senate continued Monday, March 14th, 2022. The Governor on Monday met with stakeholders from the Masev, Ihyarev and Nongov Development Association, MINDA at...
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Niger, Prof. Sam Egwu, on Monday, urged political parties to cooperate with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure smooth implementation of electoral process in the state. Egwu, while addressing stakeholders at the commission headquarters in Minna, said it was only through...
Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, a presidential aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the party’s actions or inactions will determine its success or failure in the 2023 presidential election. Ohuabunwa, a former Chairman, Nigerian Economic Summit Group, said this at a consultative meeting with the National Assembly...
The Senate has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow registered and eligible prison inmates to vote during all general elections in the country. The Upper Chamber discussed this during plenary on Tuesday when it considered a motion on The prerogative of Prison Inmates to vote in...
Recent events in the Nigerian socio-political space are all indicative of the on-going calculations and permutations at federal and regional levels for pre-eminence and control of authoritative power at the centre and in the states in 2023. Another unhidden truth about goings-on, particularly in the political arena, and, amongst...
By EDDY OCHIGBO, Kaduna – A frontline governorship aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Shehu Sani has pledged to address the trust deficit between the electorate and the political leadership in Kaduna state – by providing an all-inclusive leadership – if elected governor in...