The  Federal Capital Territory (FCT)  Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a re-run chairmanship election in six wards of Kuje Area Council. Delivering judgment, Chief Magistrate Muinat Oyekan, who led a three-member panel, nullified the elections held in nine polling units where elections were marred by irregularities. The judge ordered that …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has pointed out that Nigeria’s economy is in deeper trouble than the Federal Government, controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC) is willing to admit In a statement in Kano on Tuesday, the former Vice President said that the key sectors of the economy were either growing slowly …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja assured Nigerians that he would not interfere in the election that would produce his successor next year. The presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on 25 February, while the state elections – governorship and assembly – which come up on 11 March will conclude the last set of elections with President Buhari …

The Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State has described the embattled Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori as the weakest link in the 2023 governorship election in the state, and welcomed his Monday afternoon victory at the Court of Appeal. The court had set aside the judgment of the …

Nearly three decades after the epochal 12 June elections and the end of the Third Republic, journalists who chronicled that era under the aegis of the National Association of Political Correspondents (NAPOC 1990s) have come together to produce a book billed for public presentation on 20 September in Abuja. Titled, The Bookthe volume features 242 pages and 32 chapters put …

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reinstated Rt. Hon Sheriff Oborevwori as the duly nominated governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State. Oborevwori, the Speaker of the state’s House of Assembly, was disqualified last month after being elected by party’s primary election on 25 May, only to be disqualified in July by a Federal High Court …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has insisted that he has no preferred candidate in next year’s presidential election. Apart from the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila who hinted of the former leader’s preference of the All Progressives Congress candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, there have also been media reports of his endorsement of the flagbearer of the …

Former Chairman of Ikeja Hotels Plc, Dr Goodie Ibru has said that the South-south geo-political zone comprising six oil-producing states can influence Nigeria politically if its people work in unity across the federation. The region is believed to have over six million of its people residing in Lagos State alone, Ibru therefore called on the South-south people that chose Lagos …

A leader in the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has warned political gladiators, especially the presidential candidates of the various political parties against further widening the existing gulf and divisions in the country in their race and ambition for 2023. In a statement on Sunday by his media office in Abuja explained that, in the quest for …

As Delta State marks 31 years of its creation, the state’s All Progressives Congress (APC) Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation has served a quit notice on the Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa and his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). In a statement by the Director of Communications and Media Strategy of the campaign organisation, Mr Ima Niboro, the group lamented the level …