Politics

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday unveiled its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), with President Muhammadu Buhari as chairman and Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong, director-general. The party also appointed Tinubu as Deputy Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, its national chairman as Deputy Chairman (2) and Kashim Shettima, its vice-presidential candidate as Vice Chairman of the council. Adams Oshiomhole, a former ...

Ayu, Atiku and Wike Nyesom Wike, Rivers State governor and his camp have pulled out of the campaign council of Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate. Rising from their stormy meeting in Port Harcourt early morning on Wednesday, members of the team vowed not to partake in Atiku’s campaign activities pending the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu. ...

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday expressed his view on the call for the resignation of Senator Iyorchia Ayu as the National Chairman of the party. Atiku, who led other leaders of the party to Ibadan on an interactive session with stakeholders of the PDP, said that the call for the re-composition of the ...

Seyi Makinde, Oyo State governor on Tuesday, insisted that the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu, must step down for the party to reflect the national unity the party is preaching. Makinde, who spoke at a PDP South-West Stakeholders Forum held in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, argued that if the PDP is talking about ...

Peter Obi, Labour Party’s presidential candidate’s decision to inaugurate the Diaspora Committee to raise $150 million from Nigerians in the diaspora and N100 billion from his supporters resident in Nigeria may not survive the test of constitutional interpretation. This was revealed under Sections 224-225 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Sections 85-88 of the Electoral ...

Bode George, a one time deputy national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP has slammed the national chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu for uttering what he tagged as “immature” comments. George made this statement during the commissioning of Omerelu Internal roads in the Ikwerre Local Government Area of in Rivers state. “When a serving national chairman of our ...

Ibrahim Shekarau, former governor of Kano State, has formally dumped the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Malam Shekarau, the senator representing Kano central district in the Senate also announced that he has dumped the senatorial ticket of the NNPP. This is just as he was received into PDP at his Mandubawa home by the ...

Ibrahim Shekarau, senator representing Kano Central, has said that Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), betrayed an agreement they both had. Shekarau had defected to the NNPP from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in May — months after a leadership tussle with Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State. Speaking at Kano Foundation Hall ...

Opposition lawmakers in the National Assembly have maintained their stance to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari if he fails to address the security challenges in the country within six weeks.   In separate interviews with Punch, the Senators insisted that there is no turning back from the impeachment move, contrary to a rumor that the lawmakers had changed their minds.   ...

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has fired back at critics who accused his team of hiring street urchins and dressing them as Christian clerics during Wednesday’s unveiling of his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima in Abuja.   In a statement through his campaign organization, Tinubu said the event was open to all, stressing ...