Reps reconvene plenary The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has urged aggrieved participants arising from the February 25th Presidential and National Assembly elections to apply lawful means in expressing their grievances. The Speaker stated that post-election disputes in a complex country like Nigeria were expected, but...
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State says those advocating an interim government after the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari are daydreaming. He made the comment after a meeting with the President on Thursday at the State House in Abuja. In a chat with State House correspondents, he asserted that the support...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) urges Nigerians to use the June 12 Democracy Day to accentuate the demand for the entrenchment of democratic tenets in the country. The party describes as distasteful, offensive and unacceptable for the nation to observe the Democracy Day under a system that violated, desecrated and...
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on the unanimous decision of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) upholding the election of the President. The judgment attests to the credibility of the ballot and the fact that the outcome...
The National Working Committee NWC of the All Progressives Congress APC has shut down the clamour for zoning ahead of its Edo State Governorship Primary Election, next month. This was as the party said it had adopted the direct mode of primary for picking its candidate for the Edo election. APC...
In a surprise move, the founder of The Adekunle Oyedepo Foundation, Prince Adekunle Oyedepo has formally announced his resignation from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). His decision was communicated through a letter addressed to Hon. Segun Abegunde, the Ward Chairman of Ifaja Ward in Irepodun local government area of...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared its readiness to act on the Supreme Court judgement sacking Bayelsa State Governor-elect, David Lyon, and his deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo, but cannot do so now. Reason: It is yet to get the court order. Sacking the APC candidates, who would have been sworn-in...
The Kwara State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed deep sadness over the death of the Speaker of Ekiti Local Government Council, Hon. Adeniyi Kayode Emmanuel, who passed on today. The party in a statement signed by its State Chairman, Hon. (Engr.) Kola Shittu, commiserated with the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the manifest incompetence of the Buhari Presidency as well as President Muhammadu Buhari’s lack of visibility and failure to personally lead from the front are responsible for the failure to check the spread of COVID-19 in our country. The PDP laments that the alarming...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has formally announced his decision to resign his membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress. Obaseki, who was disqualified from contesting the party’s governorship primary election slated for June 22, announced the decision to State House correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the...