The crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) appears to have festered. Early on Wednesday, the group loyal to Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike reportedly pulled out of the campaign council of the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, following a meeting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. According to The PUNCH, members of Wike’s team vowed not to play …

Unless the court decides otherwise, Senate President Ahmad Lawan will cease being a member of the National Assembly from June next year. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) left out the name of the Yobe North Senator in the final list of senatorial candidates for election scheduled for next 25th February. Published on Tuesday, the list did not also feature …

The waiting game ends today. By its own statements in recent time, and in compliance with the Time Table and Schedule of Activities for the elections released by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last February, the final list of candidates for next year’s presidential and National Assembly polls will be published today. The list will confirm how many political parties …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as described as misleading the claim that about seven million Nigerians who applied for online pre-registration as voters during the last nationwide Continuous Voter Registration were denied the opportunity to complete their registration, and consequently not able to collect their Permanent Voters Cards. On Sunday, a group of 24 Nigerians dragged INEC to court …

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ghali Umar Na’abba has said that state governors constitute a serious threat to the nation’s democracy. Na’abba said the governors had pocketed political parties and decided who would contest for positions in elections thereby crippling democracy and rotating power among themselves without considering competency. Receiving a delegation of the Na’abba …

The much awaited book on the controversially annulled 12 June 1993 presidential election is to be presented to the public on Tuesday in Abuja. Titled, Nigeria’s Aborted 3rd Republic and the June 12 Debacle: Reporters’ Account, the book of 242 pages with 32 chapters is put together by journalists who occupied the frontline of reporting the General Ibrahim Babangida transition …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been dragged to court by 24 Nigerians whose claim is hinged on alleged failure of the commission to grant them and millions of other citizens enough time to complete their voter registration online. According to a statement on Sunday by the Deputy Director, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Kolade Oludare, the plaintiffs …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will make arrangement for 95 million Nigerians to vote in next year’s general elections, although 84 voters voters are on its register at the moment. At a forum with the Nigerian Guild of Editors on Friday, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu explained that the additional figure is a provision for about 12 million new …

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Kashim Shettima on Thursday said the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the most qualified with the capacity to lead Nigeria among all the 2023 presidential candidates. During the 95+1 anniversary lecture of the Yoruba Tennis Club in Lagos, Sanwo-Olu and …

The presidential campaign organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is to be chaired by Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel with his Sokoto State counterpart Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as Director General. According to a statement on Thursday by the party’s National Organising Secretary, Umar Bature, Emmanuel will be supported in his assignment by two other governors. Bauchi State Governor …