By Muawiya Shuaibu As the 2023 general election approaches, a former All Progressives Congress (APC) Chieftain Hajiya Najaatu Muhammad has said that she will not repeat the mistake made on Buhari for Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate. Najaatu said she followed Buhari ...

Mike Odiegwu, Port Harcourt Rivers State Governor clarified yesterday Nyesom Wike that ongoing campaigns in the state for candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) precludes the presidential candidate of the opposition party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The governor said members of the Rivers ...

he presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has said that other seemingly leading presidential candidates lack the capacity to deliver Nigeria from the current precarious situation. Speaking as a guest at the online interview program 90MinutesAfrica with host ...

The Akwa Ibom State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expelled a former special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters, Mr. Ita Enang, over anti-party activities. The state Working Committee of the APC ratified recommendations of the party’s ...

Tope Omogbolagun and Deborah Tolu-Kolawole The Trade Union Congress has flayed governors over the failure of state houses of assembly to pass the local government autonomy bill in the ongoing constitution amendment exercise. The TUC Deputy President, Tommy Etim, who described the development ...

By Anayo Okoli, Vincent Ujumadu, Dennis Agbo, Steve Oko, Nwabueze Okonkwo, Chinedu Adonu, ikechukwu Odu & Emmanuel Iheaka SINCE the present set of 2015 Class of South-East governors assumed office, the region has not witnessed serious progress in many aspects of development. Rather than work ...

By Dickson Omobola INTRIGUES trailing the battle for Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, have assumed a frightening dimension as opposition parties are accusing the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC of  denying  them a level playing ground to accomplish their 2023 ambition. With the ...

By Wale Odunsi A Labour Party, LP, chieftain, Valentine Ozigbo has urged Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar to step down for Peter Obi. Ozigbo told the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to be ready to accept defeat. In a ...

The National Assembly has directed the Clerk to the National Assembly, CNA, Sani Tambuwal to as a matter of urgency, transmit the 35 Bills that have so far met the requirement of the provision of Section 9(2) of the Constitution to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent in line with the provisions ...

The Osun Governorship Election Petition Tribunal hearing the petition of former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola against the victory of Senator Ademola Adeleke on July 16, 2022 has fixed Friday 27th January 2023 for judgement. Oyetola dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) with ...

A group within the Osun All Progressives Congress, (APC) Osun State, Blue Movement have revealed that only Rauf Aregbesola, a former governor of the State can ask his followers to join the campaign train of the party for the coming general elections. The group also revealed that it was still ...

The Zonal Secretary of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, and member of the presidential council of Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, Babayo Liman, alongside 17 local government executives, have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Yobe State. Liman announced this at a media briefing held at ...

•Says ex-Lagos gov incapable of leading Nigeria  •You were sacked for incompetence, campaign fires back Kingsley Nwezeh and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja A former member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Hajia Najaatu Mohammed, yesterday, alleged that the ...

Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party in the forthcoming elections, has assured of his determination to fight insecurity and reopen the country’s borders if elected. Speaking in Katsina State on Monday in continuation of his campaign for the presidency, the Labour Party ...

By Clifford Ndujihe & John Alechenu, ABUJA The Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has commenced court proceedings to disqualify the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over criminal conviction and sentencing ...

The presidential campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress in Bauchi State was brought to an abrupt end by power outage on Monday. The rally was going on at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi, when the power supply ceased and the sound system went off and could not be restored. Our ...

The Deputy President of the Senate and Delta State governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, on Sunday received 26 leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party under the aegis of Delta Unity Group with a vow to punish Governor Ifeanyi Okowa in the February 25 ...

By John Alechenu & Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA THE Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has asked the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to arrest and prosecute the Presidential Candidate of the ...

By Steve Oko A strong man of Abia politics and Board of Trustees, BoT,  member of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Prince Benjamin Apugo, has solicited support for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, saying that his integrity, competence and proven track record of ...

By Wale Odunsi In 2015, the All Progressives Congress, APC, campaigned vigorously with the state of the nation under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, administration. DAILY POST reports that the change mantra worked like magic, as Nigerians lined up in support of the party and voted ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ijesaland has been accused of destroying the campaign billboards of Gideon Aloba. Aloba is the Labour Party candidate for the Ijesa South Federal Constituency in the 2023 general elections. Aloba claimed that his campaign posters in the four local ...

The US government has insisted it doesn’t have a preferred candidate in Nigeria’s general election. The United States Consul General, Will Stevens, made this known during a town hall meeting which was organised by the Niger-Delta Open Observatory, NOGO, in Asaba, Delta State, on Saturday. ...

Tomo-Julius Onabu in Asaba The United States Government yesterday warned that it would deny a visa to anyone who encourages electoral violence or undermines the 2023 electoral process in Nigeria. US Consular General (Nigeria), Mr. Will Stevens, stated this in Asaba, Delta State, in the ...

By  Friday Olokor Contrary to political permutations, the forthcoming presidential election in Nigeria would not be predictable, a United States-based election monitoring organisation, National Endowment for Democracy has said. While the 2023 election in Nigeria as “a consequential ...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has approved the venue for the campaign rally of the pres­idential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, in the State. Wike said he had approved the PDP Presidential Cam­paign Council to use the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium for Atiku’s ...

•Rivers gov explodes: G5 has capacity to fight back •Nnamani, Fayose’s son, others may be barred from contesting polls •Sanctioned Ekiti members defiant By John Alechenu, Abuja, &  Rotimi Ojomoyela Fresh facts have emerged about what transpired during the National Working Committee ...

The outburst of the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, at his presidential campaign rally in Ilorin, Kwara State last Tuesday, has triggered vexed reaction from the state chapter of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, ...

The gubernatorial candidates of the Labour Party in Jigawa State, Tsoho Garba and all the party’s National Assembly candidates have decamped to the APC. Tsoho Garba confirmed this on Saturday after meeting with the APC stakeholders in Dutse, the state capital. He, however, said the state LP ...

Yet-to-be-identified gunmen have killed two persons believed to be members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ebonyi State. The incident reportedly occurred in Mkpuma Akataka Community in the Izzi Local Government Area of the State. DAILY POST was reliably informed that the APC meeting was ...

By  Dirisu Yakubu Former National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Yekini Nabena, has described the five Peoples Democratic Party’s governors as a bunch of confused leaders, incapable of determining who wins next month’s election. This is even as the APC chieftain warned ...

PDP barks, suspends ex- governor  Nnamani, Fayose's son, others Babar Ignatius The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday took decisive step of suspending party members for anti- party activities. The big stick fell on former governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani. ...

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike has approved use of the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Omagwa, Ikwerre Local Government Area (LGA) for Rivers state presidential campaign rally of party candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, with a waiver on the N5 Million venue fee stipulated by Wike’s Executive Order 21. The ...

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, said he would tackle the problem of corruption head-on if elected president in the forthcoming election. Tinubu gave this assurance on Thursday during a consultative forum with the Federation of Construction Industry ...

With a few weeks to the commencement of the 2023 general elections, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has been accused of holding grudges against the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. This is coming from the National President of Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, ...

Bisi Oladele, Ibadan, Segun Showunmi, Ibadan and Gbade Ogunwale, Abuja Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde and his deputy, Bayo Lawal, yesterday shunned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential rally held for the candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, in ...

Edidiong Ikpoto Friday Olokor, Abiodun Sanusi, Gift Habib and El-ameen Ibrahim The United Kingdom and Australia have asked their citizens to avoid travel to Nigeria in the latest security advisories issued on Thursday. Also, the European Union warned that insecurity might prevent elections ...

By John Alechenu & James Ogunnaike, ABEOKUTA FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo and Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, yesterday, explained why they endorsed Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi for president. Obasanjo justified his letter in which he threw his ...

By Seun Opejobi The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar has denied endorsing the Labour Party presidential candidate, LP, Peter Obi. Abubakar described the reported endorsement of Obi as false. A report had quoted Abubakar as saying Nigerians should hold him ...

The Enugu State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been thrown into mourning. DAILY POST reports that this is following the demise of Mr. SKB Ogbuagu, the Acting Chairman of the party in Udi Local Government Area of the State. Ogbuagu was said to have collapsed during a town ...

Pandemonium broke out at the Rumuwoji Playground in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Thursday following a twin explosion that rocked the campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress, APC. It was gathered that at least three persons were seriously injured in the unfortunate incident. ...

One of the spokespersons for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Ndi Kato, has called out the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for engaging in what she described as “shady dealings.” The statement was contained in a post via her Twitter handle on Thursday. Kato ...

Segun James The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has hit back at critics of his position on the state of politics in the country and politics of entitlement, saying it had nothing to do with primordial sentiment. Bakare had responded to those who ...

By  Daud Olatunji Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he became who he is today due to the moral virtues and sound education impacted on him by the Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Apart from him, Obasanjo stated that the school shaped others such as the late sage, ...

By Juliet Umeh As Nigerians prepare to elect a new president on February 25, a straw poll has put Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as favourite to win the election ahead of other candidates. Adamawa State-born Atiku, from the north east, is running with Ifeanyi ...

Oluremi, the wife of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has urged Nigerians to ‘drive out’ her husband if he fails to perform if elected president. She gave the charge at the South-East women’s rally for Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign in Owerri, Imo ...

The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has said the only fear he has about the forthcoming presidential election is more of the Independent and National Electoral Commission, INEC, and other stakeholders in the presidential Villa. Kwankwaso also ...

The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has given more details as to why a proposed merger with Labour Party, LP and its presidential candidate didn’t work out. Speaking at the Chatham House in London on Wednesday, Kwankwaso claimed they couldn’t reach ...

Osagie Otabor, Akure Less than 24 hours after confirming his ill-health status, Ondo Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu appeared in public at a meeting with candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and other leaders of the party ahead of the forthcoming general elections. It was his first ...

By Saxone Akhaine (Kaduna) and Ernest Nzor (Abuja) HURIWA slams candidates over campaign of calumny Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has demanded that the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his Peoples Democratic ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has hinted that talks with his political allies on the presidential candidate to support in the February 25 election will soon be concluded. Wike spoke at St. Martin’s Anglican Church, Omagwa town, venue of the flag-off of Local Government Campaign of Rivers ...