Politics

Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday said its leadership and elected federal legislators have not taken any official position on who to support for the position of presiding officers of both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The party’s position was predicated on reports suggesting that its members-elect in the …

Stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) have petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, asking that Governor Yahaya Bello should not be given a second term. The governor, they claimed, had received about N344billion in the last 38 months of his stewardship, without doing anything with the allocations. The governor is owing …

A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has reacted to the claim by Festus Keyamo, the Spokesman for the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign Council that one does not need a WAEC certificate to become President of Nigeria. Keyamo had in an interview on Sunday claimed that under the Nigerian constitution, …

The Election Petitions Tribunal in Oyo State on Monday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow Mr Adebayo Adelabu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to inspect election materials used in the March 9 governorship election. INEC had declared Mr. Seyi Makinde of the Peoples …

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Assembly members yesterday got the nod to negotiate with the opposition in their bid for principal positions in the Ninth Assembly. It is democratic to do so, the party said in a statement signed by National Publicity Secretary Lanre Issa-Onilu, who stressed that the party …

  Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said that the call by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to install an all-APC leadership in the National Assembly, is “no longer democracy”. Hunkuyi stated this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunday Politics. “Adams Oshiomole is …

Rt Hon Umaru Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared winner of the Adamawa State governorship election. This followed the conclusion of collation of results of the supplementary governorship election which was conducted in 44 polling units in 14 local government areas of the state on Thursday. …

  Reno Omokri, former spokesman to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has advised the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to take a cue from what happened to Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, in the party. He alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC leadership “used” …

The Senate has advised the Federal Government to invest more in preventing corruption than fighting it. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Sen. Matthew Urhoghide, made the call when the Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr Anthony Ayine, appeared before the committee to defend the 2019 budget of his office …

The ruling All Progressives Congress on Wednesday said only the decision on the party’s preferred candidate for the position of the Senate President for the 9th Assembly had been taken. It said the zoning formula for the remaining positions in the Senate and those in the House of Representatives was …