The All Progressives Congress has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State of violating his oath of office and the rule of law following the conduct of a local government election on Saturday, 22 February 2025. APC noted the LG election shouldn’t have been held despite a subsisting judgment of the Court of Appeal reinstating previously sacked officials. In a …

As Osun State conducted local government council elections across the state, low turnout of voters, as well as absence of security operatives in polling units highlighted the exercise. Although some wards and polling units witnessed a large turnout of voters, majority of the units where voting took place recorded low turnout compared to the last governorship election in the state. …

A member of the National Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Diran Odeyemi, and a chieftain of the Labour Party (LP), Anslem Eragbe, have warned former Vice President Atiku Abubakar against contesting the 2027 presidential election. Both Odeyemi and Eragbe said the South should be allowed to rule for eight years. They said the 2027 southern president might …

Former Special Adviser on Education to Osun State Governor, Mr. Jamiu Olawumi, on Saturday, urged people to be wary of footage circulating on social media showing voters participating in the local government poll in the state. The claim was however countered by the Director of Media of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Mr. Oladele Bamiji, who insisted …

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has fixed the party’s National Caucus and the National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings for next week Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. This was contained in a notice published on the party’s official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Friday night. According to the notice, the National Caucus meeting will be held …

A Labour Party (LP) chieftain and a governorship aspirant of the party in the Anambra State governorship election, Mr. Valentine Ozigbo has dumped the party. Ozigbo, an ally of the 2023 LP presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, also contested the state governorship election in 2021 under the Peoples Democratic Party. Although he did not disclose his next line of action, …

The Lagos State House of Assembly has said that the speculation that 27 members are about to defect from the ruling All Progressives Party (APC) to the Labour Party (LP) is not true. In a statement on Wednesday, the spokesperson of the House, Hon. Stephen Ogundipe, who is the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Strategy and Security, said …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have traded accusations over escalating violence in Osun State, which culminated in the killing of a former chairman of Irewole Local Government Area, Mr. Aderemi Abbas, and six others on Monday. The crisis was triggered by a contentious Court of Appeal ruling allegedly reinstating APC-elected local government chairmen and …

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), were yesterday locked in a war of words over the crisis in the former. The national leadership of PDP had alleged a desperate bid by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to destroy the party in order to entrench totalitarianism but APC blamed the crisis in the leading opposition …

The PDP South-South Zonal Executive Committee has suspended its Zonal Secretary, Chief Felix Omemu, for one month over alleged misconduct and unauthorised media statements discrediting the ZEC meeting held in Benin on Saturday. Omemu had earlier issued a statement in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State declaring the meeting convened by the party’s South-South Vice Chairman, Chief Dan Orbih, as illegal. He argued …