Category: Politics

ABUJA – Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday inaugurated a national campaign team to actualize Atiku Abubakar’s presidency. The leaders under the aegis of the National Mandate Group pointed out that the focus of the next government is who will be able to fix the country. Addressing members of the Board of...

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday presented the certificate of return to Osun State Governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke. The certificate presentation to Adeleke by the INEC National Commissioner, Supervising Osun, Ogun and Oyo states, Prof. Kunle Ajayi, was preceded by the presentation to the deputy governor-elect, Prince Kola Adewusi. The presentation came about 72...

Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Monday, charged the new Deputy Governor of the state, Barrister Abdulroheem Adebayo Adeleke Lawal, to see his position as a responsibility to deliver good governance to the people of Oyo State. The governor gave this charge shortly after Lawal, a former Oyo State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice as...

Former Kaduna State Governor Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi has made the call for a formidable and united Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to enable them to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC). He urged for unity among PDP members while hosting Istifanus Audu Nimbia, Director-General of the Save Southern Kaduna Group (SSKG), and his entourage on a...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated Sen. Philip Aduda (PDP- FCT) on his emergence as the Minority Leader of the Senate. The party congratulated Aduda in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba in Abuja on Friday. The party said that Aduda’s emergence as Minority Leader underscored the confidence PDP, his...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday, swore in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja. Ariwoola, who is the most senior Justice of the Supreme Court was sworn-in at around 3:00pm, hours after the resignation of the former CJN, Tanko...

A former Minister of Aviation and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has raised the alarm that 22 Senators of the ruling party were at the verge of leaving the party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over their inability to secure re-election tickets in the just-concluded APC primaries. Source reported...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has agreed to extend the ongoing continuous voter registration (CVR) exercise initially slated to end on June 30, June, 2022. Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters, Hon. Aishatu Jibril Dukku, disclosed this today, Wednesday, June 22, 2022, while briefing fellow lawmakers on the committee’s efforts...

The screening took place at the PDP national headquarters in Abuja. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday, commenced the screening of nominees for deputy governorship positions for the 2023 general elections. Source reports that the screening took place at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja. The Deputy Governorship Candidates Screening Committee chaired by a...