Politics

I’LL SUPPORT PETER OBI IN 2027 IF PARTY DECIDES – ATIKU Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar met with Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections in Abuja, earlier in the week. The meeting sparked speculations about a merger of some opposition political parties ahead of the 2027 general elections. In an interview with …

2027: THERE’S BREWING NORTHERN CONSPIRACY AGAINST TINUBU – KANO-BASED POLITICAL ANALYST Dattijo Sani Rano, a political analyst based in Kano state, has revealed that there is a grand conspiracy from Northern Nigeria against the re-emergence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for a second term. According to him, the recent open declaration by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) that the North …

GANDUJE, APC NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, TO BE ARRAIGNED IN COURT OVER BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS, JUNE 5 Kano State High Court No. 7 has re-scheduled the arraignment of the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Ganduje to June 5. Ganduje is standing trial alongside his wife Hafsat Umar, his son, Abdullahi Umar and five others The defendants in the case included …

WHY WE QUIT FUBARA’S CABINET – FIVE PRO-WIKE COMMISSIONERS The five that resigned from the cabinet of Governor Sim Fubara were former Commissioners for Housing, Gift Worlu; Education, Chinedu Mmon; Environment, Ben-Golden Chioma; Transport, Jacobson Nbina, and Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Inime Aguma. Their reasons for quitting the cabinet are contained in separate resignation letters dated 15 May and addressed …

END NIGERIANS SUFFERING NOW – 36 STATE SPEAKERS TELL TINUBU Conference of Speakers from 36 State Houses of Assembly has called on President Bola Tinubu to enact sustainable policies that will end suffering of Nigerians. This is also as they have admitted that the economic challenges faced are due to the removal of petroleum product subsidy by the federal government …

RIVERS: FUBARA’S SUPPORTERS JUBILATE OVER RESIGNATION OF PRO-WIKE COMMISSIONERS Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s camp has been engulfed with excitement following the resignation of commissioners loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike. Recall that about five commissioners on Wednesday resigned from the Rivers State Executive Council, citing the lingering political crisis in the state as their reasons. …

RESIGN AS LP CHAIRMAN IF YOU NEED FORGIVENESS, AJAERO TELLS ABURE The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Thursday told the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) Julius Abure to obey a judgment of the FCT High Court if he needs the forgiveness if its president, Joe Ajaero. The court restrained him and two others from parading themselves as national …

FUBARA RELEASES DOCUMENTS OF MASSIVE CORRUPTION UNDER FORMER GOVERNOR WIKE Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, after months of stooping low in the face of onslaughts from the camp of his former principal, turned political adversary, Nyesom Wike, has finally braced for battle. The governor has since last week continued to fire shots at the immediate past governor of the state, …

TIME RUNNING OUT FOR APC CHAIRMAN, GANDUJE, AS GOVS PUSH FOR REPLACEMENT Time is running out for Abdullahi Ganduje as national chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), according to sources within the party. Governors elected on the platform of the party are said to have resolved to persuade President Bola Tinubu to sacrifice the former governor of Kano …

SENATE TELLS TINUBU TO STOP ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TO LG CARETAKER COMMITTEES The Senate, on Wednesday, accused state governors of misappropriating funds allocated to Local Government Councils in Nigeria. It claimed that Area Council chairmen were usually compelled to sign off cheques by State governors, who in turn allocate peanuts to them. This is coming, even as the Senate has …