The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, has again raised alarm over attempts by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to derail Nigeria’s democracy using subterfuge.He said the party’s “snatch, grab and run” agenda of ...

Famous Nollywood actress turned politician, Tonto Dikeh has finally opened up on why she defected from the African Democratic Congress, ADC, to the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC.DAILY POST reports that Tonto Dikeh was officially unveiled as an APC member by the National Women Leader, Dr ...

The Lagos Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has dismissed the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Olajide Adediran against the election of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Dr Ibafemi Hamzat.The tribunal upheld the election of Governor Sanwo-Olu and ...

Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Stephen Angbulu,Solomon Odeniyi and Abdulrahman ZakariyauThe All Progressives Congress on Wednesday ridiculed the efforts of the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to obtain the academic records of President Bola Tinubu from the Chicago ...

•Says he owes nobody apology for supporting Tinubu •Dares PDP, declares nobody can suspend him •Reveals $800m garnishee order hanging over FCTAOlawale Ajimotokan and Alex Enuma in AbujaFCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has said his inclusion as a member of the All Progressives Congress ...

By Sunny Green ItodoNigerian comedian, Freedom Okpetoritse Atsepoyi, popularly known as Mr Jollof, has revealed that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, “used and dumped” him.The Warri-born Internet sensation said he was a staunch supporter of President Bola Tinubu and the APC ...

By Soni Daniel and Omeiza Ajayi, AbujaThere were concerns at the weekend within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that the party could lose control of the National Assembly following subtle threats by aggrieved aspirants for leadership positions in the 10th Assembly to ditch APC. ...

By Racheal AyodeleMinister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola has stated that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi’s victory in Lagos in the just concluded general election was a surprise to the All Progressives Congress, APC.Fashola, who was the ...

By Clifford NdujiheREPRESENTATIVES of the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, told the international media that the All Progressives Congress, APC, a candidate won the February 25 polls contrary to the claims of opposition parties such as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; and ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJAThe All Progressives Congress, APC, has opened up on circumstances that led its candidate and President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to forfeit the sum of $460,000 to the government of the United States of America, USA, in 1993.The ruling party, in processes it filed to ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, prayed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, against the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as president-elect in the February 25 ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has prayed the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss petitions filed by three opposition parties challenging the victory of its presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, in the Feb. 25 election.The APC urged the tribunal to ...

Abdul SeyeThe ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is on the verge of losing control of the 10th House of Representatives amidst the ongoing battle for the Speakership of the House.DAILY POST reports that the leadership of the APC is still mum on the zoning of the speaker and the deputy ...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has announced the expulsion of a former Governor of Enugu State, Barr. Sullivan Chime.Also expelled is the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, a former Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Hon. Eugene Odo, an aide to the ...

Seun OpejobiA human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has mocked the All Progressives Congress, APC, over its victory during the presidential election.Yesufu said APC rigged election and it’s now a bone in their throat.In a tweet, the member of the Labour Party, LP, presidential campaign ...

Mr Oyakhilome Bello, APC U.S.A National Youth Leader, has called on the American President, Joe Biden, to defend Nigeria’s democracy from those calling for an Interim National Government or military takeover.According to a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, Bello made the call at a rally organised ...

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, AbujaThe 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 ...

By  Leke BaiyewuThe 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 ...

By Wale OdunsiThe 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 ...

By  Azuka OnwukaWhen the People’s Democratic Party was in power for 16 years, from 1999 to 2015, many Nigerians, especially members of the opposition, complained of the party’s haughtiness, highhandedness and fixation with victory. PDP was accused of seeing election as a “do-or-die affair.” ...

As the electoral battle for the soul of Lagos State  gathers momentum, the Director-general of Labour Party’s Presidential Campaign, Akin Osuntokun, yesterday, accused the All Progressives Party (APC) in Lagos State of playing the ethnic card  ahead of the saturday’s governorship and state house of ...

No fewer than three people have reportedly lost their lives as a result of a clash between supporters of two political parties in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.The three people reportedly lost their lives when supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ...

By Omeiza AjayiThe ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is again enmeshed in another round of crisis, following recommendations by the National Vice Chairman, North-West, Salihu Mohammed Lukman, that the National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and National Secretary, Senator Iyiola ...

Following the conclusion of the presidential election, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said the emergence of the Labour Party, LP, flag bearer, Peter Obi ensured the emergence of a Southern President-elect.Wike disclosed this while naming Obi as the hero of the presidential election. ...

By Egufe YafugborhiAHEAD of the governorship and state assemblies elections in Rivers state, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party have drifted into hate campaigns at winning the votes of the Igbo community in the state.On Friday at a road project ...

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere on Wednesday disclosed that the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi was the winner of the just-concluded presidential election.According to the foremost Yoruba group, the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All ...

Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has replied former Chief of Staff to former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, Tony Okocha, for claiming that his principal voted for the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential candidate, ...

With five days to the governorship election, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Joe Igbokwe, has urged Igbos in the state to vote for the APC.Igbokwe urged Igbo communities in Lagos to repay the hospitality extended to them in Lagos State by voting for APC on ...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu are wide awake ahead of the next round of general elections.The governorship and House of Assembly polls will be held on Saturday, two weeks after the presidential and National Assembly exercise. ...

Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has said the Certificate of Return presented to him by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is like a “World Cup” trophy.He made this remark while on a a visit to the palace of the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akinolu, on Sunday.Tinubu, who ...

DIRISU YAKUBU, ADEBAYO FOLORUNSHO-FRANCIS, EL-AMEEN IBRAHIM, AYOOLA OLASUPO and DANIEL AYANTOYEThe Labour Party said it had engaged the services of at least 20 senior advocates of Nigeria to challenge the outcome of the February 25 presidential election on behalf of its presidential candidate, ...

The president-elect, Bola Tinubu emerged through a highly contested presidential election and he is expected to be sworn in as the 16th president of Nigeria.The former Lagos State governor emerged despite several polls by different organizations that wrote him off. Also, the naira redesigning ...

The leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has said Bola Tinubu would be the last president the All Progressives Congress, APC, will produce.Primate Ayodele said Nigerians wouldn’t vote for APC again because the party deprived people of their rights and made ...

By Henry Umoru, Assistant Politics EditorON Tuesday, June 11, 2019, the 9th Senate came into being and the Senator representing Yobe North, Dr Ahmad Lawan, All Progressives Congress, APC, was elected the President of the Senate, with Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, APC, Delta Central becoming his ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu declared Tinubu the winner at exactly 4:10 a.m on Wednesday in Abuja. ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, of mounting pressure to have 25 percent votes in the country.Dele Momodu, the spokesman of PDP Presidential Campaign Council, said APC was trying to manipulate election results in Lagos and the Southeast. ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission in Ekiti State has announced the result of the presidential election in the state.INEC Collation Officer and vice Chancellor of the federal University of Health Sciences, Ila Orangun, Osun State, Professor Akeem Lasisi announced the result at ...

With about three days to the presidential election, there are indications that President Muhammadu Buhari is losing grip of the All Progressives Congress, APC, governors and the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party, a situation that might affect it (APC) during the upcoming elections, ...

By John Alechenu, AbujaThe presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has asked the All Progressives Congress, APC, to take full responsibility for the chaos of the implementation of its policies, including the naira redesign, which has unleashed hardship on ...

By Olayinka AjayiThe National Director of Publicity and Advocacy of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has described the lingering naira swap policy as a ‘mess-up’ from president Muhamadu Buhari on the eve of the general elections.Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics ...

By Dapo Akinrefon & Dickson Omobola, LAGOSFORMER Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olabode George, yesterday, accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, of throwing Nigeria into a state of formlessness, urging Nigerians not to campaign for the APC.George, ...

By  Patrick Odey Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, on Monday, replied the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, saying that he (Tinubu) always resorts to abusing and insulting people during campaigns because he has nothing to bring to the table for ...

The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has said Nigerians should pay close attention to the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu’s famous word, “Emilokan” because it has a deep spiritual manifestation.Ayodele explained that Nigerians joke a lot with the ...

There was palpable tension in Ile-Ife on Monday evening when suspected supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, attacked some loyalists of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the Akogun area of Okerewe Ward II, in Ife-East Local Government Area.According to an eyewitness, Olawale ...

Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo.The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday told Senator Ademola Adeleke to leave up to the reality of his last Friday’s sack as the governor of the state by the virtue of the explicit judgement of the state governorship Election Petition ...

By Prisca Sam-DuruWith her appearances at the ObiDatti movement campaigns marked by trendy dance moves and crowd-moving eloquence, no one needs to be told that Aisha Yesufu means business in her quest for good governance.As a civil rights activist, Yesufu’s support for any government, ...

By John Owen NwachukwuWith the 2023 general election around the corner, the leading political parties continue to lay claim to dominance across the country.The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party, LP, are all claiming to be in firm ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Steve OkoA 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 ...