Politics

Standard-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the concluded gubernatorial polls in Kano, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has accused Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of “orchestrated electoral malpractice in the March 23 supplementary election in the state.” Abba, who was responding ...

The Supreme Court yesterday struck out an appeal challenging the dissolution of Kwara State executive committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by the national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. Chair of the dissolved exco, Ishola Balogun Fulani, on behalf of others ...

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday decried the country’s rising debt profile from N12.12 trillion in 2015 to N24.38 trillion in 2018 under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, it ...

Delta State election petition tribunal has granted the prayers of Evelyn Oboro and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in an ex parte motion to examine all documents for the Delta Central Senatorial District polls of February 23, 2019. After considering ...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, yesterday warned against any move to impose the leadership of the Ninth National Assembly. Dogara, who chaired the induction session of returning and new members in Abuja, said history was replete with ...

The Supreme Court yesterday struck out an appeal filed by Senator Magnus Abe on the primary conducted by the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State. Abe, who represents Rivers South East in the Senate, had prayed the court to make ...

A Federal High Court Abuja yesterday sacked representative of Delta North Senatorial district, Peter Nwaoboshi as senator-elect, saying available evidence from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries showed that Ned Nwoko won. The court, therefore, ruled that Nwoko was the authentic ...

The Conference of All Progressives Congress (APC) State Publicity Secretaries (CAPS) in the Southeast zone yesterday dismissed insinuations that the zone voted Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar in the general elections. It also endorsed the Speakership aspiration ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stressed the need for its members in the Senate and House of Representatives to stand by its decision on zoning of principal offices in the incoming Ninth National Assembly. APC’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, ...

The senator representing Zamfara Central in the National Assembly, Kabiru Marafa, has flayed Governor Abdulaziz Yari, saying he was the genesis of the crisis rocking the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Addressing reporters at the weekend on ...