THE All Progressives Congress on Friday dismissed speculations on social media that its publicity committee expended a whooping N800m to host the presidential election that produced Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as its flagbearer. Social media has been awash with unconfirmed accounts of how the media committee set up by the party expended between N600m and N800m […]
MEDIA personality and ex-presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dele Momodu, has narrated how Senator Remi Tinubu sought his support to campaign for the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. According to Momodu in an Instagram post on Friday, himself and Tinubu’s wife, a Senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District in the National […]
POLITICAL economist Kingsley Moghalu has recommended that the Federal Government should take over the funding of political parties across the country. According to the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, government funding of political parties will mitigate corruption within the electoral system. Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Friday, Professor Moghalu […]
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has appealed to party stakeholders and supporters to avoid making statements capable of compromising the party’s unity. The former Vice President made the call in a statement signed by his Media Adviser, Mr Paul Ibe, in Abuja. Abubakar urged stakeholders and his followers to avoid statements […]
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, has asked party stakeholders and his supporters to desist from statements that may compromise the PDP’s unity. In a statement signed by his spokesperson Paul Ibe on Thursday, Atiku said all leaders of the party, including Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, […]
AHEAD of 2023 general election, President of Nigerian Baptist Convention, NBC, Dr. Israel Akanji, has called on Nigerians to use their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, to elect a government that will sweep away the evils militating against the progress and development of the country. He spoke in Benin City, Edo State, while declaring open the […]
THOUGH the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, swiftly issued a statement last Sunday affirming that “electronic transmission of results has come to stay”, the confusion as to the continued role of “manual collation” of results in our electoral management under the recently amended Electoral Act remains. Festus Okoye, INEC’s Chairman of the Information and Voter […]
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has made it clear that he will campaign for members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) contesting the 2023 general elections. The president in a statement on Wednesday by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, said he will not recognize former members of the party or politicians who have court cases against the APC. The […]
THE Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Walid Jibrin, on Tuesday, reaffirmed his earlier position on the alleged Northernisation of the party, saying its leadership hierarchy is pro-North. Jibril had on Sunday while featuring on Channels Television’s programme, Sunday Politics, said it was unfair for the presidential candidate of PDP, […]
AS the crisis rages on, the Director General of Wike Solidarity Movement, Prince Sudor Nwiyor, yesterday, dumped the PDP for APC. Nwiyor, who announced his resignation from the PDP in Port Harcourt, cited high-handedness in the party as one of the reasons he left the ruling PDP. He further stated that he defected because those […]