Shina Abubakar, Osogbo Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has proclaimed a new Executive Order to protect Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola from being chased out of the state. Aregbesola was at loggerheads with his successor, Adegboyega Oyetola throughout the latter’s tenure. ...

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Abuja The Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu on Tuesday said that it was God that saved the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the just concluded elections, declaring that the quarrel in the party before the election was too much. Senator Kalu stated this ...

The Labour Party, LP, national chairman, Julius Abure has said that the party will refund the N25 million nomination fee paid by late Imo State governorship aspirant, Humphrey Anumudu. Abure, who stated this while speaking with journalists in Abuja on Tuesday after meeting with members of the ...

National Coordinator of South West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA), Dayo Adeyeye has said Nigerians who love democracy will resist an interim government ahead of the May 29 inauguration. The former Ekiti Senator also knocked Bishop Feyi Daniels for saying Peter Obi will be sworn in instead of ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has ridiculed the embattled former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyiorchia Ayu, following his suspension from the party by the Benue State branch of the PDP. Wike, who spoke on Tuesday (today), during the commissioning of the first phase of ...

The Lagos State government has disclosed what awaits a staunch supporter of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, if he is found to have broken the law during the just-concluded elections. The Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat, said MC ...

By  Bola Bamigbola The Court of Appeal on Friday confirmed Ademola Adeleke as the Osun State Governor. BOLA BAMIGBOLA writes that the matter is not yet over as the governor’s predecessor, Adegboyega Oyetola, is set to take the battle to the Supreme Court The Friday judgement of the Court of ...

By  Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis The president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has directed that special prayers and thanksgiving service be held on Wednesday to mark his 71st birthday instead of the annual birthday colloquium. A statement from his office on Monday issued by his media officer, ...

Dirisu Yakubu, Segun Adewole, El-ameen Ibrahim, Dennis Naku and John Charles The post-election crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party took a new turn on Monday as a Benue State High Court, Makurdi, restrained Senator Iyorchia Ayu from parading himself as the national chairman of the party. ...

Bode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday hinted on the possibility of his relocation to any country of his choice following the victory of Bola Tinubu, at the just concluded presidential election. The PDP chieftain who has been a major critic ...

A Benue State High Court sitting in Makurdi, state capital, Monday restrained the embattled Senator Iyorchia Ayu from parading himself as the National chairman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. DAILY POST gathered the court order was premised on the ex-parte application brought ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that the supplementary governorship elections in Kebbi and Adamawa states will be held on April 15. INEC made this known in a tweet on Monday Recall that INEC had declared the governorship elections of March 18 in both states as ...

The embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has described his purported suspension by executive members of his Ward, Igyorov Ward of Gboko Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue state, as an exercise in futility. Ayu, in a statement by his Special ...

Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams has knocked politicians playing the ethnic card and failing to abide by the rules of the electoral process. The founder of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, also urged all Yorubas, elders, monarchs, socio-cultural groups, etc., to look beyond politics ...

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu has been suspended by the party. The suspension of Ayu was effected by the Ward Executive of the party in Igyorov Ward of Gboko Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state. Addressing the media Sunday, on behalf of Kashi ...

Muideen Olaniyi From 2015 till date, sitting presidents have been losing the polling units located inside the vicinity of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, to candidates of opposition political parties. Although the results of the elections in these polling units do not translate ...

The Media Director of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, Bayo Onanuga, has issued a warning to those describing his principal as a drug dealer. Onanuga warned that the days of those using some hashtags to blast Tinubu are numbered. He said those behind the hashtags would face the wrath of God ...

Tension has continued to build up across the country, particularly among the supporters of presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi over purported plans by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to get him arrested. The alleged move was sequel to the activities of the ...

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has denied endorsing Bola Tinubu’s victory. The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential flagbearer defeated Atiku and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP. ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State said the party would study the judgement of the Appeal Court which was delivered in favour of Peoples Democratic Party’s Ademola Adeleke. The party also disclosed that it will proceed without delay to the next constitutional means of seeking ...

By  Leke Baiyewu The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Friday ordered that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, should serve the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, with copies of petitions seeking to ...

Shina Abubakar, Osogbo Following the judgement of the Appeal Court that affirmed his victory as the duly elected Governor of Osun state, Senator Ademola Adeleke has described the outcome as “no victory, no vanquish”. Speaking shortly after the judgement at his Ede country home, the Governor ...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Friday, granted permission to Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to serve his petition challenging the February 25, 2023, Presidential election. Obi is challenging the victory of Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives ...

A former governorship candidate and stalwart of the Peoples Democratic People, PDP, in Lagos State, Babatunde Gbadamosi has predicted what will become of Nigerians in the eyes of the world by the time president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is sworn in as president come May 29. Gbadamosi, who ...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja, will on Friday give its decision on the authentic winner of last year’s governorship election in Osun State.A three-member panel of the court had on March 13, reserved its judgment in the appeal filed by Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke against his ordered ...

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose has reacted to his suspension from the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. DAILY POST earlier reported that the party had in a statement on Thursday evening, announced the suspension of Fayose, Pius Anyim and other members from the party ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has suspended former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, former senate president, Pius Anyim, Prof Dennis Ityavyar and Aslam Aliyu over alleged anti-party activities. The development was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by the National Publicity ...

The Abia State Governor-elect, Alex Otti, on Thursday revealed that Abians should expect general restructuring of the state once he assumes office. Speaking on Arise Television’s The Morning Show, Otti said in the next few days he would appoint a team that would help him, adding that he would ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of installing a third-party device he said was used to intercept and switch results of the presidential election that was held on February ...

Jubilation erupted spontaneously in the major towns of Umuahia and Aba on Wednesday after INEC declared Dr Alex Otti of the Labour Party the winner of March 18 governorship election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the jubilant residents of the two cities danced round the major ...

The vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Datti Baba-Ahmed has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to hold the swearing-in of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on May 29. Tinubu, the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared the winner of the presidential ...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has boasted that he doesn’t need the Army or Police to rig elections. According to Wike, those who have not offered anything depend on security agencies to help them rig elections. The governor said what he needs is to be able to perform and win an ...

By Wale Odunsi The Labour Party, LP, has announced its readiness to challenge its loss to the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the March 18 governorship election in Lagos State. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu the winner after ...

Labour Party governorship candidate in Lagos, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, GRV, has said the March 18 election has produced what he described as an “Agberocracy”. GRV disclosed this via his Twitter Handle in his reaction to a post by US Mission Nigeria on the just last concluded election. ...

The United States Mission in Nigeria has reacted to the disturbing events recorded during gubernatorial and state assembly elections on March 18. A statement on Tuesday expressed deep concern by violent voter intimidation and suppression that took place in Lagos, Kano and other states. It ...

Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to quickly declare the results of Abia State governorship election held on Saturday to avoid bloodbath in the state. Similarly, Abia State human rights and pro- democracy groups have called on the INEC ...

Protesters under the aegis of Free Nigeria Movement on Tuesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to annul the February 25 presidential election and set up an interim government pending the conduct of a fresh election. The group also called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Prof ...

Kalu said as a ranking lawmaker from the South-East, it was his turn to become Senate President. Nigeria's Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Kalu, said on Tuesday that it is his turn to preside over the country's upper legislative chamber, the Senate. Kalu, who won re-election to represent Abia ...

A former Niger Delta militant leader, Mujahid Asari Dokubo, has dismissed claims that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, rigged the 2023 presidential election. Asari Dokubo said contrary to claims, the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate Peter Obi rigged the just concluded presidential ...

Protest has erupted in Abuja, the nation’s capital over the just concluded presidential election in Nigeria. The protesters, who are supporters of the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, have taken over the Unity Fountain to express their anger. Clad in black attires with ...

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has cautioned the spokesmen for Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council – Bayo Onanuga and Femi Fani-Kayode over alleged inciting speeches against Igbos in Lagos Atiku, in a statement by his Special Assistant on ...

John Alechenu, Abuja The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi has formally submitted a petition challenging the process leading to the outcome of the Presidential Election held on February 28, 2023. The Independent National Electoral Commission had announced Asiwaju Ahmed ...

The 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has accused the President-elect, Bola Tinubu of launching an assault on Igbos and non-Yorubas in Lagos State. Atiku said the event in Lagos State during the governorship election has proven that Tinubu would rule ...

A suspended Roman Catholic priest and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue State, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia has been declared winner of the Saturday governorship election. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, through Returning Office Prof Faruq Kuta, the Vice ...

Former Director General of the Labour Party campaign organisation, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has listed seven problems bedevilling Nigeria’s democracy. Okupe in a tweet on Monday identified pervasive corruption, illiteracy, crippling poverty, massive youth unemployment, lack of respect for rule of ...

Former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just-concluded February 25 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare the oustanding Adamawa State governorship election result with immediate ...

  The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Oyo State, Sen. Teslim Folarin, has congratulated Gov. Seyi Makinde on his victory in the March 18 governorship election in the state. Folarin’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement personally signed by him and ...

Funke Akindele, popular Nollywood actress and running mate of the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in the just concluded election in Lagos State, Adediran Abdul-Azeez (Jandor), has said she doesn’t regret running for office. The actress made this known on her ...

Nollywood veteran actor, Kanayo O Kanayo has raised concerns over the safety of the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Kanayo O Kanayo disclosed that Nigerians should watch out because Obi would soon be arrested. He alleged that some people are conspiring against the LP flag ...

Famous Nollywood actress turned politician Funke Akindele has deleted all political-related posts shared on her Instagram page. Akindele, the running mate to the Lagos State governorship candidate under the umbrella of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abdulazeez Adediran, popularly known as ...