Wale Odunsi   The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of attempting to scuttle citizens’ desire to obtain voter’s card   A statement at the weekend by Debo Ologunagba, the PDP National Publicity Secretary ...

  The hide and seek game for who is to be selected as presidential running mate to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and 2023 presidential candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is again a make or mar political decision for the party. Such a ...

  Tunde Ajaja TUNDE AJAJA examines the practice of politicians and their associates spending millions to buy presidential forms only to pull out of the race at the last minute At any time in Nigeria’s history, whether in the years of economic boom or now that a whopping 16.82 per ...

Tunde Ajaja, Oluwafemi Morgan, Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Deborah Tolu-Kolawole and Abiodun Sanusi 11 June 2022 Ex-VP, PDP fear regional divisions in S’East, North may work for APC candidate Former Lagos gov moves to douse Muslim-Muslim ticket tension The leadership of the ...

Don Silas Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has insisted that Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, is his son. Tinubu stated this while commending Bello for mobilising the consciousness of youths during his campaign. He ...

John Owen Nwachukwu   Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Friday evening, visited former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi. Tinubu met the former Rivers State Governor at his Abuja ...

John Owen Nwachukwu   Governor Mallam Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has slammed those making religion a focal point in governance. The Governor said he does not care if the President and his vice are all Muslim or all Christians, insisting that ...

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State on Friday told Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, that he learnt a lot from the little lecture he gave him. Bello stated this when Tinubu visited him in Abuja, barely 72 hours after the former Lagos ...

  All the political parties in Nigeria have conducted their presidential primary elections. June 9, 2022, was the deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for completion of primaries and submission of presidential candidates. The ruling All ...

By Abdul Seye After weeks of intrigues and uncertainty, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) elected a former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu as its presidential candidate. The 70-year-old politician was able to get northern governors behind ...

  About 24 hours after the victory of Bola Tinubu at the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primary, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has been silent. DAILY POST observed that Osinbajo has not issued any congratulatory message to Tinubu on his emergence as the APC ...

Musliudeen Adebayo   Two major political parties in the South West geo-political zone, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have conducted their primaries for various elective positions ahead of the 2023 general ...

  Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation has faulted the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as the Presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC). They stated this in a statement on Wednesday titled, ‘Yahaya Bello remains the hero ...

Daud Olatunji The presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, has vowed to send the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar; and his All Progressives Congress counterpart, Bola Tinubu, on permanent retirement. Moghalu, who was a Deputy ...

The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday began the search for their running mates. The spokesman  for the Tinubu Campaign Organisation, Mr Bayo Onanuga, in an ...

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti says the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is a collective wish of party members. Fayemi made the assertion in a statement signed by Mr Yinka Oyebode, his Chief Press Secretary, on Wednesday in ...

Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister, has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, would defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2023. Fani-Kayode made the remark while congratulating Bola Tinubu for emerging as APC presidential candidate. He noted that under Tinubu’s leadership, ...

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, is currently in a closed-door meeting with governors elected on the party’s platform. The meeting is coming a few hours after the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate ...

Sen. Bola Tinubu, the 2023 Presidential Candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), says he bears no grudges or grievances against anyone, not even those that do not support his ambition. Tinubu, who emerged as the APC 2023 presidential candidate at its just concluded Special Convention and ...

By Biodun Busari   The Director, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Prof Ishaq Akintola has described the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as an outstanding politician who is second to none among the presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress. ...

By Henry Umoru, ABUJA THE Political quargmire in the Labour Party, LP took another dimension yesterday  as its acting national chairman,  Calistus Uju Okafor yesterday announced ambassador  Jude Ezenwafor as the Presidential candidate for the party ahead of 2023 Presidential election.  ...

Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja   Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Abdulrauf Aregbesola has congratulated the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his emergence, charging him to ride on the crest of the momentum and lead APC to victory at ...

Sodiq Oyeleke The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, says his opponents have nothing to fear after his victory at the party’s primary. Tinubu said this while giving his victory speech at Eagle Square, the venue of the APC primary. The PUNCH had reported ...

The 2023 presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed anger at those who wished the party death. Speaking during his acceptance speech on Wednesday, the former Lagos State Governor accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP of plotting to ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the emergence of Bola Tinubu as the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate. Atiku congratulated Tinubu on his emergence as APC presidential candidate. In a tweet, the ...

The National Leader and the standard-bearer for the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu has commended the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo for his support to President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking during his acceptance speech at the Eagles Square, the venue of the APC ...

The national leader and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has told the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, that he can now lick his wounds. Tinubu said this in his victory speech after he was declared winner of the party’s presidential contest of the ruling party. He said ...

Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, did not score a single vote in the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential primaries. Addressing delegates shortly before the commencement of voting on Tuesday night, Okorocha had vowed to beat all the aspirants for the APC’s sole ticket. Okorocha ...

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, shared a warm handshake with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, as he coasted to victory in the party’s presidential primary. Tinubu has taken a commanding lead in the voting, having amassed over half of the total votes. ...

Former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu has been announced the winner of the All Progressives Congress, APC, primary elections. The Asiwaju of Lagos garnered half of the total votes to beat his major opponents, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi. ...

By James Ogunnaike, ABEOKUTA Labour Party, yesterday, debunked rumour making the round that it conducted parallel Presidential primaries that produced a factional Presidential candidate, in the person of one Samson Uchenna. The party, in a statement issued by the Acting National Publicity ...

The National chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Abdulahi Adamu has come hard on the party members for always rushing to the media over party issues. Adamu was frustrated in his plan to impose Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan as the consensus candidate of ...

At least seven All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirants on Tuesday night, stepped down for the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The former Governor of Akwa Ibom state, Godswill Akpabio, was the first to throw in the towel. The former Ogun State governor Ibikunle ...

A leading All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, has denied endorsing a Muslim-Muslim ticket. Tinubu said the text message being circulated at the Eagles Square, the venue of APC Special Convention, was false. He noted that the text messages were the handiwork of ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has issued a challenge to the All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the 2023 general elections. He noted that the next general elections would be a referendum against APC’s failed policies. In a tweet, the former Vice ...

Nicholas Felix, a presidential aspirant of All Progressives Congress (APC), has stepped down for the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. He confirmed this while making his speech at the party’s special convention on Tuesday night. According to him, APC “must not produce a Muslim-Muslim” ticket. ...

Pastor Tunde Bakare of The Citadel Global Community Church has made it clear that he will not step down for any aspirant in the race to be the presidential flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Bakare stated this at the ongoing special convention of the ruling party at the Eagles ...

Delegate accreditation for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Special Convention for the presidential primary election is currently ongoing at the Abuja International Conference Centre amid tight security, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN also reports that no fewer than 2,322 ...

Former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Chief Jide Awe, has advised leading presidential aspirants from the Southwest to strike an accord among themselves for the zone to grab the party’s presidential ticket. As the party’s special National Convention which also ...

Popular musician, Olubankole Wellington, generally known as Banky W has expressed his appreciation after clinching the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, House of Representatives ticket. Banky W will be contesting the legislative seat for the Eti-Osa Federal Constituency in Lagos ...

Eniola Akinkuotu, Friday Olokor, Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Stephen Angbulu and Deborah Tolu-Kolawole An attempt by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Adamu, to select Senate President Ahmad Lawan – a northerner – as the preferred candidate of the APC, failed on ...

Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja There were strong indications in the early hours of Tuesday that critical stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC may have shortlisted five of the party’s presidential aspirants for consideration by President Muhammadu Buhari. Governors of the party had on ...

Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has warned that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, might get ‘the MKO Abiola’ treatment during the presidential primary of the party by the powerful cabal within the presidency. Fayose ...

The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai has disclosed reasons his Kogi State counterpart, Yahaya Bello, “excused himself” from a meeting of northern governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with President Muhammadu Buhari. Addressing reporters afterwards, El-Rufai explained that 13 ...

Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has described as an expensive joke, a claim that the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, has endorsed the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, as the party’s consensus presidential candidate. According to Akeredolu, ...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Monday restrained the National Assembly from imposing statutory delegates at the All Progressives Congress (APC) convention. Justice Haruna Tsammani also restrained the enforcement of a Federal judgement delivered on June 3 granting the ...

Nigerian singer, Bankole Wellington, popularly known as Banky W, has again, been declared the winner of the PDP primary rerun for the Eti-Osa constituency House of Representatives ticket in the 2023 general election. Banky W had a landslide victory, polling 24 votes out of 29 votes cast by ...

The Presidency on Monday in Abuja, said that no one could or should claim to have single-handedly engineered the emergence of Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) as President in the 2015 general elections. According to a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media ...

A businesswoman, Mrs Florence Adepegba, has won the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, rerun primary election in Kosofe Federal Constituency of Lagos State. Adwpegba was unopposed at the election. NAN reports that Adepegba won after her opponent, Mr Olakunle Koya stepped down for her. The result ...

The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, says the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to conduct a world-class presidential election. DAILY POST reports that the party is currently in the process of electing a candidate who would fly its flag in the forthcoming 2023 presidential ...