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 …

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) 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 …

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 …

Power seems to be lying, literally, on Nigeria’s streets for the youth to take in 2023, only if they are united and conspiratorial! The old order has failed totally, as both the old parties and their often recycled people don’t have any idea of how to rescue the sinking behemoth called Nigeria. The infighting and intra party crises will continue …

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 …

When, sometime in May this year, the news of the suspension of Rev. Father Hyacinth Alia by the Catholic Church broke out, his media aide, Kula Tersoo issued a statement downplaying its significance and deep import. He described the suspension of the governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) (as he then was) “as a normal practice of the …

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State must, at this time, mean different things to different people. For those like the PDP national leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George, who believe in Wike’s cry for justice within the main opposition party, governor is a hero and a voice that must not be silenced but should, instead, …

A former spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi has said that only Nigerians who enjoy suffering would vote for the party in the 2023 general elections. Abdullahi, former Minister of Youth Development and later Sports in the Goodluck Jonathan administration, was APC National Publicity Secretary between December 2016 and August 2018 when he quit the party …

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Nigerian youth to vote for politicians who believe in the country’s unity. Jonathan said this on Saturday At an event organised in honour of a former member of the Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, the former President appealed to Nigerians to pay less attention to differences and focus on the …