The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says the demand for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu is realisable. He however told stakeholders of the party at its South West meeting in Ibadan on Wednesday that due process should be followed, according to the party’s constitution. Atiku was responding to the …

The media handlers of Yahaya Bello, the overtly exuberant governor of Kogi State, have been in overdrive in the last few days. They’ve been issuing rebuttal after rejoinder after release, all in a spirited attempt to absolve their principal of a most calamitous faux pax he recently committed. He just might have unwittingly illuminated preexisting fogs in general thought, and …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says the demand for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu is realisable. He however told stakeholders of the party at its South West meeting in Ibadan on Wednesday that due process should be followed, according to the party’s constitution. Atiku was responding to the …

The Labour Party (LP) has called on security agencies to place the spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Festus Keyamo on security watch list. Responding to Keyamo’s allegation that LP’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi was planning to fake an assassination attempt by hiring hoodlums donning APC caps and T-shirts to attack his party offices, …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has unveiled his strategic steps to revive the Nigerian economy working with the private sector, if elected in the 25 February election next year. His goals, which were presented to a private sector forum, organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday, were encapsulated in eight …

The traditional ruler of Omu-Aran in Kwara State, Oba Abdulraheem Adeoti has dissociated his council and the town from a voice message in circulation asking the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to come to the community to canvas for votes. The traditional ruler, who is Ologbomona of Igbominaland, said on Tuesday that he has not restricted any political party from …

Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has said that Nigeria requires an experienced politician as President in 2023 and not a novice. The Kaduna-based scholar and former Army captain said the candidates of the two main political parties – Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC); and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic …

Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana has said that President Muhammadu Buhari was wrong in sending the list of nominated Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to the Senate without consulting the Council of States, as required by the Constitution. He has therefore asked that the list be withdrawn from the Senate. Since 26 July …

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lampooned the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its accusation of the former being responsible for the weekend’s attack of the Osogbo office of the Osun Central senatorial candidate of the PDP, Olubiyi Fadeyi Ajagunla. A statement by Chief Kola Olabisi, Media Adviser to the Osun …

At the first attempt to inaugurate the National Assembly of the aborted Nigeria’s Third Republic in 1992, then Lagos West Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, and now a presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress, revealed why former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.) singled him out for a handshake after the Presidential address to the assembly despite Tinubu’s frontal …