After weeks of intrigues, the ruling party is set to elect its presidential candidate at the Eagle Square. While 23 aspirants are challenging to be the candidate, the race will probably turn into a three-horse race between former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, the former Minister of ...

A former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has debunked reports that he stepped down from the presidential race for Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Reports had emerged on Saturday that Akpabio had stepped down and endorsed Tinubu. It was reported that Akpabio endorsed Tinubu after Buhari ...

Sunday Onuoha, a Bishop of Methodist Church of Nigeria, has emerged as the Abia State gubernatorial candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) at the just concluded primary elections held in the state. Announcing the results of the concluded primaries, after voting and ...

A member of the House of Representatives, representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa Federal Constituency in Oyo State, Hon. Shina Peller, has said that he has no plan to leave the All Progressives Congress (APC). Peller, an indigene of Iseyin in the Oke-Ogun geo-political ...

Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Rauf Olaniyan, has dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Olaniyan also said that he has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC). He made these announcements on Sunday. Our correspondent gathered that the ...

Ahead of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primary election, the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has debunked rumour that he has stepped down for another aspirant. His campaign council made the clarification on his behalf via a statement issued by its Chairman, Richard Akinnola II. ...

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, who is the Chairman of the sub-committee on Security and Compliance for the All Progressives Congress, APC, special convention for Presidential Primary, has guaranteed that the party’s primary poll will be free of hitches. Akeredolu, along by the ...

The National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdulahi Adamu has revealed the ruling party would axe the national leader of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his recent utterances against President Muhammadu Buhari. Adamu disclosed this while addressing journalists on ...

Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State on Saturday emerged as the Bauchi State gubernatorial flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mohammed, who was the aspirant of (PDP), polled a total of 646 votes out of 650 votes cast in Bauchi on Saturday. Revealing the result, the Returning ...

National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Osun State axis has issued a 12-day ultimatum to the state to fix the campuses roads. The student body threatened to shut down the state “by hitting the street with thousands of students right proponents” if the government did not meet up with ...

The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has explained why he stepped down at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary to support former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar. Tambuwal withdrew from the race and asked his supporters to vote for Atiku. He has now claimed it was a ...

Suspense was enveloping the political space in Abuja on Friday ahead of the 8.00 pm meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC where the issue of a consensus presidential candidate for the party was expected to be discussed. On the shadows of ...

A son of Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai Bashir, has disclosed what he will do if the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, wins the 2023 election. Bashir promised to climb two of the highest rocks in Nigeria if Obi wins the presidential election. He ...

Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has denied that he antagonized the ambition of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu to become President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in 2014 for national interest. The former presidential aspirant under ...

Some members of the All Progressives Congress, under the aegis of Gaskiya Youth Movement, have asked the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to disqualify Bola Ahmed Tinubu from contesting the 2023 presidential primary of the party. Tinubu, a former Lagos State Governor, is one of the ...

A popular Nigerian cleric, Pastor Adewale Giwa, has disclosed that the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, ahead of the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, does not have the strength to win at the polls. Pastor Giwa who is the Senior Pastor of the Awaiting the Second Coming of Jesus Christ ...

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir Lawal has cautioned the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu over his recent comments, wherein he glorified himself as the initiator of President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory against an incumbent, Goodluck ...

Former Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima said some Southerners he described as the biblical Judas Iscariot are working against power shift to the Southern part of Nigeria in 2023. Many have argued that the next president after the incumbent Muhammadu Buhari from the north ...

Ahead of the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scheduled to hold between June 6th and 8th, the ruling party has disqualified 10 presidential aspirants. DAILY POST reports that the Chairman of the Presidential Screening Committee and the former National Chairman of APC, ...

Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, on Friday described as ‘rubbish’ reports that he was considering stepping down his presidential ambition for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Reports had emerged that five All Progressives Congress (APC) governors on Thursday night met to discuss that some of ...

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State on Friday said he is not an emperor, in what could be seen as a reaction to the jab by Bola Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant. Abiodun stressed that he is holding his position in trust for the people of Ogun State. Referring to ...

  An All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential hopeful, Rochas Okorocha, has revealed why some aspirants bought the party’s forms. Okorocha disclosed that some aspirants bought the N100 million APC presidential forms to negotiate juicy ministerial positions. The Imo ...

    Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has dropped his Deputy, Engineer Rauf Olaniyan ahead of the 2023 general elections. DAILY POST gathered from sources close to the Agodi Government House that the Governor has picked ...

Governor Nyesom Wike was technically rigged out of the presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic party, a former Chairman of the Rivers All Progressives Congress, APC, Igo Aguma has said. DAILY POST reports that he made the claim during an interview in Port Harcourt on ...

An All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu has urged a fellow aspirant, Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State to support his ambition. Tinubu said he is Ayade’s “senior brother,” hence the Governor should respect and support his Presidential ambition. He made the ...

A presidential aspirant and national leader of the All Progressives Congress,  Asiwaju Bola  Tinubu, on Thursday, opened up on his role in the emergence of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) as the President in 2015. The former Lagos State governor, while addressing the Ogun State APC ...

The lawmaker representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa Federal Constituency in Oyo State at the House of Representatives, Shina Peller, has explained why he did not seek a second term at the House, saying it was based on his consideration of the two local government areas in his constituency. ...

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Prof. Peter Umeadi has revealed how he plans to handle the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, if he emerges President in 2023. The APGA candidate, who spoke on Channels Television on Thursday, ...

A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Social Democratic Party, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has said that real politicians in Nigeria are not up to 200 in number, insisting that the rest are armed robbers who speak political languages. Speaking at a book launch in Abuja on Thursday, Adewole ...

A presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bola Tinubu, has claimed that without his support, President Muhammadu Buhari would not have won the 2015 election. Speaking in Ogun State, Tinubu said, “If not me that led the war from the front, Buhari would not have emerged ...

Since last week when the news broke on the defection of former Anambra State governor, Mr Peter Obi from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the Labour Party, LP, there has been growing support for the former bank chairman, with a lot of support across social media platforms. First ...

Former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu has changed the mode of his ongoing campaign, amidst plans by President Muhammadu Buhari to work with governors to pick his successor. Mr Tinubu, who is one of the leading aspirants for the presidential ticket of the ruling party, the All Progressives ...

There were strong indications on Wednesday that the All Progressives Congress national officials were divided over a plan by the President, Major General Muhammadu (retd.), to pick his preferred presidential candidate for the party. Earlier on Wednesday, the APC National Vice Chairman ...

The Nigeria Diaspora for Asiwaju (NDA), says Sen. Bola Tinubu, a presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is the only one qualified to be President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor. Mr Ayobami Oyalowo, National Spokesperson of NDA, said this in an interview with the News Agency ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared that Nigerian political elites are more interested in positioning themselves ahead of the 2023 general elections. ASUU explained that the political elites are not interested in fixing the problems in the education ...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, had on January 31, 2019 kicked against the open grazing prohibition and ranches establishment law enacted in some States across the country. Atiku, who was answering questions on a ...

Mr. Tanko Rossi Sabo, a PDP delegate who came back with the money he got had shared it all with his community in Sanga LGA of Kaduna state. According to a former SA Media to late Governor Yakowa of Kaduna State, Reuben Buhari, Sabo spent N7 million alone on the less privileged in his community. ...

  Chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are in frenzy over the choice of the party’s presidential flag bearer as major stakeholders engage in horse-trading ahead of the national convention of the party slated for June 6, 7 and 8. President Muhammadu Buhari while ...

A former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido has said that Atiku Abubakar would not have defeated Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State in the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, if it was about spending money and buying delegates. Appearing on Channels Television’s ...

Former Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Farouk Aliyu, on Wednesday, said some leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are looking at picking a northern candidate for the 2023 presidential election following the emergence of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as Peoples Democratic ...

Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike met with ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar and 2023 hopeful on Wednesday. Atiku defeated Wike and others – among them ex-Senate Presidents and governors – to clinch the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket last Saturday. On Monday, the Wazirin Adamawa visited his ...

A former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Dakuku Peterside has accused the State Governor, Nyesom Wike of wasting N30 billion of the State fund on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primary election. Peterside said the outcome of the PDP presidential ...

Over the past few days, Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, was on some sort of momentum ahead of the primary election. His public boosting, painted the picture of a man that already has the ticket of the party in his pocket. At the Moshood Abiola Stadium, the venue of the PDP ...

  Former Deputy Governor (Operations) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Adebayo Adelabu, has dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC). Adelabu made this announcement on Sunday. DAILY POST recalls that Adelabu was the gubernatorial candidate of APC in 2019. Our ...

Nigerians have been asked to blame two All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirants, Bola Tinubu and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, if the north retains power in 2023. Activist lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, made the remark while reacting to the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the Peoples ...

  Most Reverend Jude Arogundade, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Ondo, has slammed the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for its indifference to the country’s current affairs. While criticizing Nigerians for voting for and queuing behind candidates who lacked the ...

Bola Tinubu, Presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress, APC, has congratulated Atiku Abubakar over his victory at the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Saturday. Atiku won the presidential ticket of the PDP with the highest votes, defeating Nyesom ...

1. Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar has clinched the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 general election. Atiku polled 371 votes at the election which was held at MKO Abiola Stadium, in Abuja, on Saturday. 2. Betty Akeredolu, First Lady of Ondo State, who ...

  A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has congratulated Atiku Abubakar, for emerging the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential flagbearer on Saturday. Atiku polled a total of 371 votes to defeat his closest rival, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State who garnered 237 votes. ...

Former special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on prosecution, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla has asserted that the ruling party in Cross River State, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been fractured beyond redemption. He also stated that the party had completely ...