The United Nations (UN) has expressed anxiety over preparations for the 2023 general elections in Nigeria. The worry of the world body was among the issues discussed at a meeting in Abuja, yesterday, between the delegation of the UN Electoral Needs Assessment Mission and 18 political parties under the umbrella of the Inter-Party Advisory Council … [Read more…]
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has vowed to expeditiously tackle the festering security and economic challenges facing Nigeria if elected president. Governor Wike maintained that at this critical juncture, the country desperately requires a leader with political will and courage to decisively end the scourge of insecurity and revive the ailing economy. He made the … [Read more…]
Former senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said the quest by some presidential aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to form a united force was to enable it wrest power from APC. He said this informed their decision to advocate a consensus candidate among the aspirants. He spoke, yesterday, while briefing journalists after a … [Read more…]
“ I have been to practically all local governments in Nigeria. I have been in markets, factories, schools, and farms. I have been in agricultural, mining and oil producing communities; in the Delta, in Kebbi, Enugu, Borno; Rivers, Plateau and Ondo; and in all other states of the federation, listening to the diverse experiences and … [Read more…]
A former aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, on Monday, said Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s presidential declaration speech was emptier than the West Africa Examination Council certificate of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). This as he also challenged Osinbajo’s supporters to list any achievement that could earn him (Osinbajo) the presidential … [Read more…]
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress and presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, is currently meeting with members of the Progressives Governors Forum at the Kebbi State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja. The meeting is coming less than 24 hours after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo hosted the governors at his Aguda House residence on Sunday evening; … [Read more…]
2023: Southern PDP Governors insist party’s Presidential Candidate must come from South By Azimazi Momoh Jimoh, Abuja Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the Southern part of the country have insisted that the party’s presidential candidate must be from the south. Rising from an emergency meeting that dragged from Friday night to the … [Read more…]
2023 Presidency: Obi, Ohuabunwa, Anyim, Anakwenze Form Alliance on ‘Project Southeast Presidency’ As the 2023 race of who presides over Nigeria gathers momentum, frontline South-East presidential aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have agreed to work together towards ensuring that the zone produces the party’s presidential flag bearer in 2023. They … [Read more…]
JUST IN: Rotimi Amaechi officially joins 2023 presidential race The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, has declared his interest to contest the 2023 presidential election. Amaechi, who disclosed this in Port Harcourt, Saturday, at the Thanksgiving organised by his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, said he has had much experience … [Read more…]
CSOs back Kalu, Abaribe, Elumelu reelection Ahead of the primaries of various political parties for Senatorial and House of Representatives seats in the 10th National Assembly, a Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria, have called for the reelection of 14 out of the 469 serving federal lawmakers. The group under the aegis of … [Read more…]
The Court of Appeal, sitting in Owerri judicial Division, has sacked the Abia state chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Rev. Augustine Ehiemere, and declared Prince Nnanna Ukaegbu, as the authentic chairman of the party in the state. An Abia State High Court sitting at Umuahia, had in September 2018, granted an order … [Read more…]
2023: PDP extends sales of nomination forms; to screen presidential aspirants April 25 ABUJA- The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has fixed April 25th, 2022 for the screening of its Presidential aspirants. This is even as it slated April 19, 20, and 21 for the screening of State House of Assembly, National Assembly, and governorship aspirants … [Read more…]