Politics

2023: ATIKU, WIKE WOULD HAVE BEEN A STRONGER TICKET FOR PDP AGAINST APC – MAKINDE Oyo state governor, Seyi Makinde on Tuesday said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) could have won the 2023 presidential election if it had fielded former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike as Vice- Presidential candidate to the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Atiku won the presidential …

WE’RE BEHIND CRISES IN OPPOSITION PARTIES — APC CHIEFTAIN A senior figure in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Farouk Adamu Aliyu, has stirred political waters with a bold admission that the party is actively working to destabilise opposition ranks ahead of the 2027 general elections. In a forthright interview on Africa Independent Television (AIT) on Monday, the former …

PDP CRISIS DEEPENS AS GOVERNORS REJECT ANYANWU, UDE-OKOYE, APPOINT ACTING SECRETARY Following the Supreme Court judgement on the secretaryship of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), governors elected on the platform of the party have rejected Senator Samuel Anyanwu and Sunday Ude-Okoye as Secretary. The Party has, therefore, appointed the Deputy National Secretary, Setonji Koshoedo, as acting National Secretary. In a …

HOUSE OF REPS INTERVENES IN RIVERS POLITICAL CRISIS, SETS UP COMMITTEE In a step to address the ongoing political tension in Rivers State, the House of Representatives has constituted a 19-member Ad-Hoc Committee to oversee the implementation of emergency measures in the state. The announcement was made on Sunday, April 13, 2025, following the National Assembly’s approval of a revised …

APC, OPPOSITION COALITION BATTLE FOR BUHARI’S SUPPORT The All Progressives Congress and governors elected under the party are actively working to stop former President Muhammadu Buhari and his loyalists from aligning with opposition figures. According to an insider at the APC National Secretariat, this is the reason behind the visits of the National Working Committee and APC governors to Buhari …

SECOND REPUBLIC GOVERNORS: THE LAST MEN STANDING With the passing, last week, of one of the two Second Republic governors, a former governor of Oyo State, Victor Omololu Olunloyo, Nigerians recall with nostalgia, how eventful the politics of that era was and the characters that shaped the activities of that period. Olunloyo was one of the politicians of that era …

NO SECTIONAL BIAS IN TINUBU’S APPOINTMENTS, FG REPLIES CRITICS The federal government has refuted claims that President Bola Tinubu’s political appointments are lopsided. Recently, Tinubu has faced criticism for allegedly favouring the south-west, his home region, particularly with his appointments. On Monday, Ali Ndume, the senator representing Borno south, said Tinubu’s appointments have not reflected the diversity mandated by section …

2027: BUHARI’S FOLLOWERSHIP OCCULTIC, BE WORRIED IF HE’S NOT ON YOUR SIDE – NDUME TELLS TINUBU Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, the Borno South Senator, Ali Ndume, has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu should be worried if his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, is not on his side. The lawmaker, who has been a major critic of the present administration, made …

FEARING DEPORTATION, MIGRANTS IN US SEND MORE MONEY HOME Central American migrants in the United States sent home around 20 percent more in remittances in the first quarter of 2025, official data showed this week, a trend economists said reflected their fear of deportation by President Donald Trump’s administration. Nearly one-quarter of the GDP of impoverished Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador …

LP LEADERSHIP CRISIS: BATTLE SHIFTS TO INEC AS ABURE, USMAN, APAPA SEEK RECOGNITION The leadership tussle within the Labour Party, LP, took a new twist on Wednesday, with Lamidi Apapa asserting himself as the party’s National Chairman. Apapa, who made the declaration at a press conference in Abuja, cited the April 4 Supreme Court judgment that nullified Julius Abure’s leadership …