Amid calls on him by some to build a government of national unity, President-elect, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu has said he has a higher ambition, which is to form a government of national competence. In a statement issued Thursday in Abuja, Tinubu said neither religion nor ethnicity and other such considerations would determine appointments, but […]

  Chief Innocent Sunday Okeke (Agumba), the Labour Party National Vice Chairman South East zone has urged people in Imo State to vote the party’s candidates in House of Assembly elections on Saturday. The Labour Party chieftain alleged that the ruling party tried to steal the mandate of various Labour Party Candidates in both presidential […]

  Five opposition political parties in Rivers State have vowed to resist any attempt to rig the March 18 governorship and State House of Assembly elections in the state. The parties at a joint press briefing in Port Harcourt on Wednesday accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of colluding with the state government to compromise […]

  Iyiola Omisore, national secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has demanded payment of N500 million from Salihu Lukman, vice-chairman of the party in the north-west, over alleged libel. Omisore and Lukman are members of the national working committee (NWC) of the ruling party. On Tuesday, Lukman, while speaking during a programme on African […]

  The Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have withdrawn an application they filed to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission to allow their agents to participate in the process of sorting out ballot papers that were used for the February 25 presidential election. Both the PDP and Atiku, who are separately […]

  Peter Obi, on Monday, commenced the inspection of election materials used for the February 25 presidential election as directed by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. The LP’s lawyers as well as their People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) counterparts met with the Independent National Electoral Commission’s lawyers in Abuja Tuesday. It […]

  Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State says zoning should be used to determine the leadership of the National Assembly. The governor stated this after meeting privately with President Muhammadu Buhari in his Abuja office on Tuesday. Governor Umahi who also recently got elected into the Senate to represent Ebonyi South District, told State House […]

  The president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said that he has not endorsed anyone for the leadership of the National Assembly. He said this at a meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) with National Assembly members-elect held at the Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja. Scheming for […]

  The Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has assured the Labour Party (LP’s) legal team of the commission’s readiness to provide all documents the party requested to prosecute its case at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT). Yakubu gave the assurance when he received the 60 lawyers legal team of the […]