Politics
2027: APC frets as Atiku, Obi, Amaechi, El-rufai, others unite against Tinubu
As the coalition drive to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027 continues to gain momentum across the country, the ruling All Progressives Congress seems unsettled. DAILY POST reports that some bigwigs in the opposition political parties and aggrieved members of the APC are currently teaming up ahead of the election, aiming at sacking the present […]
PDP shifts NEC meeting as Saraki panel continues peace talks
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has postponed its 99th National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting. The NEC meeting was scheduled to be held on May 27, 2025, at the PDP’s National Secretariat in Abuja. However, the NEC was postponed to allow room for the former Senate President Bukola Saraki-led reconciliation committee to carry out its assignment. […]
North Central PDP gets new leadership as Ombugadu leads Nasarawa delegates congress
Rt Hon David Emmanuel Ombugadu, PDP governorship candidate for Nasarawa State in the 2019 and 2023 general elections, led the state’s delegates and contingent to the North Central Zonal Congress of the party held on Saturday, May 24, in Jos, Plateau State. The congress, hosted by the Executive Governor of Plateau State, Barr Caleb Mutfwang, […]
Don’t turn Nigeria to one-party State, PDP Women Leader tells Tinubu
The People’s Democratic Party women leader, Princess Grace Iye Adejoh, has frowned at the Thursday pronouncement of President Bola Tinubu that there was nothing wrong with a one-party state, saying encouraging such a move was a dangerous slide into dictatorship. The PDP Women Leader, while reflecting on the response of President Bola Tinubu when the […]
2027: Bring Peter Obi back into your fold – Sowunmi tells PDP
A member of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Segun Sowunmi, has advised the party to do everything and bring back the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, into its fold. Sowunmi gave the advice on Friday while playing host to Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’. DAILY POST reports that Obi left the […]
5m members have quit LP – Callistus Okafor faction
Callistus Okafor and factional LP membersThe Labour Party factional chairman, Callistus Okafor, has revealed his group, which consists of “five million members”, has left the party. Okafor made the disclosure during a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, adding that the decision was made after deliberations with members of his faction. According to him, it […]
2027: I expect more defections to APC, it’s a game – Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu has stated that he expects more opposition party members to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking in a statement issued by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, on Thursday, Tinubu expressed satisfaction with the gale of defections so far, calling it a game. In his address at the APC Renewed Hope […]
Peter Obi can’t lead Nigeria - LP factional chairman, Okafor
Labour Party, LP, factional National Chairmen, Callistus Okafor, has declared that the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, cannot lead Nigeria. Okafor made this declaration on Thursday as he announced his exit from the party. He cited unresolved leadership tussles and disappointment with Peter Obi. Addressing a press conference in Abuja, […]
El-Rufai’s son, Bello abandons father, SDP, backs Tinubu for second term
Mohammed Bello El-Rufai, son of former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, has declared support for President Bola Tinubu’s second-term bid, ignoring his father’s recent move to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Bello, a member of the House of Representatives for Kaduna North, was at the APC National Summit in Abuja, where Tinubu was endorsed as […]
‘If a senator defects, he loses his seat’ — Akpabio’s old post resurfaces as defections rock Senate
A past statement credited to Senate President Godswill Akpabio has resurfaced online amid a wave of defections currently rocking the Nigerian Senate. The statement, believed to be from November 2016 when Akpabio was a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), declared that any senator who defects from the party on whose platform they […]
