Politics

YOU LACK SELF-CONTROL – OBIDIENT MOVEMENT SLAMS AKPABIO FOR CRITICIZING PETER OBI The Obidient Movement has criticized Senate President Godswill Akpabio over recent remarks targeting Peter Obi’s leadership. Akpabio had mocked Obi for failing to resolve internal disputes within the Labour Party, questioning his capability to lead a country as complex as Nigeria. But in a swift rebuttal, the Obidient …

PDP GOVERNORS TO HOLD EMERGENCY MEETING OVER WAVE OF DEFECTIONS Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are expected to converge in Abuja on Sunday for an emergency meeting, as the party grapples with a fresh wave of high-profile defections to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Sources close to the matter confirmed that the meeting …

LAGOS APC PRIMARY: PROTEST ERUPTS OVER ALLEGED IMPOSITION OF LGA CHAIRMANSHIP CANDIDATES Some dissatisfied members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, staged a protest on Saturday over what they described as the imposition of chairmanship candidates in Lagos Mainland Local Government and Yaba Local Council Development Area (LCDA) ahead of the July 12 local government elections in Lagos State. The …

SECRET CONCLAVE EXPOSE’ REVEALS WHO ALMOST BEAT POPE LEO The papal conclave was moving toward crowning someone else Pope—until a turn of support vaulted Leo XIV to the top, a dramatic behind-the-scenes report has revealed. Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, claimed over 40 votes from the 133 cardinals in the first round of voting after the …

PRIVILEGED CHILDREN FIGHTING POLITICAL BATTLES There appears to be a growing trend on the political scene where, holding past and serving public officials to account is being challenged by their family members. In the last few years, family members, especially sons and daughters of political leaders, rush to defend the policies, actions and utterances of their fathers and sometimes even …

GANDUJE BACKS ONE-PARTY SYSTEM, SAYS TOO MANY PARTIES SPOIL GOVERNANCE National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, has thrown his weight behind the idea of a one-party system in Nigeria, arguing that the multiplicity of political parties is undermining effective governance. Ganduje made the remarks on Thursday at the Presidential Villa after leading a delegation of …

BE WORRIED ABOUT ANGER OF NIGERIANS, NOT COALITION, SDP CHIEFTAIN TO TINUBU The Presidential Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 election, Prince Adewole Adebayo, says rather than worry about the planned coalition by opposition politicians, President Bola Tinubu should be concerned about the people’s anger against his administration. Waxing comical, Adebayo described those planning the coalition …

DASH THEM 50 – SANDRA DURU RELEASES VIDEO SHOWING NATASHA AKPOTI MANIPULATING KOGI SENATORIAL ELECTION Controversy surrounding Kogi Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan deepened as activist Sandra Duru released a new video purportedly capturing Akpoti at a collation centre during the 2023 Kogi elections, allegedly instructing her agents to “dash them 50” votes — a phrase many interprete as an attempt to …

POPE LEO XIV CELEBRATES FIRST MASS AFTER HISTORIC ELECTION AS POPE Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, celebrated his first Mass as pontiff on Friday, presiding in the Sistine Chapel with the cardinals who elected him to succeed Pope Francis and follow in his social justice-minded footsteps. Wearing white vestments, Leo processed into the Sistine Chapel and blessed …

AWOLOWO’S GRAND-DAUGHTER RESIGNS AS LP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER Pastor Funke Awolowo, late Obafemi Awolowo’s grand-daughter, has resigned her membership of the Labour Party Executive Committee in Lagos State. Until her resignation, Awolowo was the party’s Head of Mobilisation and Integration Team in Lagos. In the statement she signed and addressed to Dayo Ekong, Lagos State Chairman of the party, Awolowo …