Vice chairmen of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) have threatened to sue Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano, over his refusal to conduct council election since he assumed office. The state has been using caretaker committees in the councils in the past 13 years. This decision is part of resolutions adopted by the…

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State yesterday held a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja...

Representative of Delta Central Senatorial District, Ovie Omo-Agege, yesterday insisted that the decision of Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, which sacked All Progressives Congress (APC) state executive led by Jones Ode Erue, did not affect his reelection. Justice Toyin Adegoke had on March 19, sacked the Erue-led executive and recognised the Chief Cyril Ogodo…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Yobe North Senatorial district, wants Senate leader, Ahmad Lawan, as Senate President of the ninth assembly. Alhaji Mella Ladan, Yobe North Zonal Vice Chairman of the Party, stated this at a press briefing on Friday in Damaturu, He said the entire people of the zone, including supporters of the opposition,…

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has declared that the alleged irregularities that characterised this year’s general elections were a dangerous and unacceptable precedent in the political history of the country. He spoke yesterday at the 85th emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja. His words:…

It was a battle fought on three fronts. Yet the March 23, 2019 governorship election in Ogun State ended as a fight between the incumbent governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun and some stakeholders of All Progressives Congress (APC), the platform on which he secured the tickets to run the affairs of Ogun State in 2011 and…

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s National Working Committee (NWC) rose from its meeting yesterday urging its members to participate in the Saturday, March 23, supplementary governorship elections in six states. The NWC assured that the party would win in those states in spite of “All Progressives Congress (APC) rigging machines.” In a communiqué signed by its…

The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun has described the suspension of the state governor, Ibikunle Amosun by the party's National Working Committee (NWC) as final and absolute. Abiodun stated this while reacting to Amosun’s suspension and that of Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha during his ward-to-ward electioneering…

Barely one month to the March 2, 2019 governorship election, indications have emerged that the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, might this week step into the lingering political crisis in the Ogun State chapter of the party. Sources said Atiku's planned intervention is aimed at finding a ‘gentleman resolution’ for…

Contrary to the bold face being put up by supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term campaign, there is a widening division among the president’s inner men in the northern part of the country.     Investigation by The Guardian discovered that similar to what transpired at the build up to All Progressives Congress’s (APC) national…

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has revealed that smaller political parties were demanding money to endorse President Muhammadu Buhari’s reelection bid next year. Oshiomhole, who spoke yesterday in Abuja during a courtesy visit on the National Working Committee (NWC) by the International Republican Institution (IRI), described such parties as ‘democratic…

Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday dismissed its dissolution by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC), saying it was an exercise in futility. In a statement in Abeokuta, its executive insisted that it was still in office and would continue to carry out its legal duties in line with the party’s…