The All Progresive Congress (APC)National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and the National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore have been accused of squandering the sum of N30 billion the party realised from the sales of forms during the 2023 general elections. The APC National Vice Chairman, North-West, Salihu Muhammed Lukman made the allegation in a statement titled; […]
Tope Omogbolagun major contender for the 10th Assembly Senate President seat, Senator Abdulaziz Yari, has said that he felt betrayed by the outcome of the 10th Assembly leadership election result. The PUNCH reports that the senators during the inauguration of the 10th Assembly voted for the presiding officers where Senator Godswill Akpabio emerged as […]
Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, says for democracy in Nigeria to come of age, incumbent political officeholders must stop influencing election outcomes. In his Democracy Day message on Sunday, Atiku said political leaders must be committed to the principles of fairness in election conduct, to avoid a dictatorship society. Democracy Day is commemorated annually in […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that there is a plot to arrest lawmakers-elect who are against the preferred candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as leaders of the 10th assembly. The inauguration of the 10th assembly is slated for June 13. The ruling APC had nominated Godswill Akpabio, a former minister […]
Rochas Okorocha, a senator representing Imo west, says Senate President Ahmad Lawan should teach him how he returned to the upper legislative chamber after losing the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Lawan and Okorocha contested the primary election of the APC but lost to President Bola Tinubu. His participation in the […]
The Labour Party (LP) members-elect in Enugu State cannot produce the speaker and deputy speaker for the yet-to-be-inaugurated 8th Enugu House of Assembly, despite being the majority in the assembly, checks by PREMIUM TIMES showed. Upset The LP caused a surprising upset during the 2023 general elections across the country mainly in the South-east, […]
The Labour Party governorship candidate in Lagos state for the 2023 election, Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour has condemned the comments made by Rt. Hon Mudasiru Obasa, Speaker of the state House of Assembly that the house will make laws to protect the property right of indigenes. He cautioned the Speaker against laws that will divide […]
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dissolved the party’s executives in Ebonyi and Ekiti states. This was contained in a terse statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Debo Ologunagba. “After extensive deliberations and consultations, the National Working Committee (NWC) hereby approves the dissolution of the […]
Senator Ali Ndume has said that President Bola Tinubu told him that Senator Godswill Akpabio is his preferred candidate for the President of the 10th Senate. “The President told me that his preferred candidate is Akpabio and I should lead the campaign,” Ndume said on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday. The lawmaker representing […]
The Labour Party (LP) has presented Forms EC8B from 17 states as exhibits before the presidential election tribunal to challenge President Bola Tinubu’s victory. Ben Anichebe, counsel to the LP and Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the party, spoke while tendering documents at the resumed hearing of the joint petition filed before the tribunal […]
