The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former member of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Hon. Diket Plang, as winner of the Plateau Central Senatorial election. INEC Returning Officer, Dr. Jima Lar, announced the result on Saturday in Pankshin LGA, the headquarters of […]
Ahmed Ododo has been elected as the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kogi state. Patrick Obahiagha, secretary of the Kogi APC primary election committee, announced on Friday that Ododo scored 78, 704 votes to beat six other contestants. Salami Momodu got 1, 506 votes, Abubakar Yahaya-Ashemogu secured 1159 and Shaaibu […]
Hope Uzodimma, governor of Imo, has won the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election in the state. Uzodimma was the sole contender in the primary that took place on Friday in Owerri, the Imo state capital. Williams Kayoda, chairman of the primary election committee, said the governor polled 63,618 votes to win the […]
There was pandemonium on Wednesday when some state chairmen of the Labour Party (LP) chased the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the National Working Committee (NWC) away from the national headquarters of the party in Abuja. The leadership crisis rocking the LP took a turn for the worse last week when a faction stormed the […]
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has opened up on circumstances that led its candidate and President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to forfeit the sum of $460,000 to the government of the United States of America, USA, in 1993. The ruling party, in processes it filed to defend the outcome of the presidential election that was held […]
Personnel of Plateau State Police Command have continued to occupy the State Assembly entrance, stopping lawmakers from gaining access to the hallow chambers in order to prevent security breeches leading to breakdown of law and order. The commissioner of police in the state, Bartholomey Onyeka during a press conference at the police state […]
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has mocked a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Iyorchia Ayu over the party’s failure in the 2023 presidential election. Wike, who championed the call for Ayu’s resignation in the leadup to the elections, claimed the Benue-born PDP chieftain has no electoral value. “So, […]
Mao Ohuabunwa, a former senator representing Abia north, says Uzor Orji Kalu, senate chief whip, has a case to answer with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and therefore should not be senate president. Kalu defeated Ohuabunwa to become the senator representing Abia north in 2019. In March, Kalu declared that it is […]
The Supreme Court has directed Nigeria’s electoral umpire, INEC, to act and recognise Edozie Njoku as the national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). A five-member panel of the Supreme Court, led by Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, on 24 March, said it made a mistake in a judgement it delivered in 2021, where it […]
Festus Keyamo, a spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign, has described supporters of Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, as “mentally weak”. Referred to as Obidients, Obi’s supporters have been trending for controversial reasons in the last one week. A few days ago, they took on Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole […]
