Politics

The National Assembly is proposing an amendment to Section 84 of the Electoral Act, 2022 to prevent political parties from nominating candidates of the same religion as presidential and vice-presidential candidates, following the controversy trailing the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress APC, for the 2023 general elections, Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, Smart Adeyemi, who dropped the hint during a media briefing yesterday in Abuja, showed a […]

The Peter Obi media office has condemned the Governor of Delta State Ifeanyi Okowa for saying the Labor Party LP candidate campaigns in churches. The Peoples Democratic Party PDP vice presidential candidate had accused Obi of fanning the flames of religion, stating that it’s as if he is trying to go through the church and make it look as if he is driving the Christians into politics. Okowa told newsmen […]

The Director General of the Peter Mbah Support Group, Reuben Onyishi, has criticized the attitude of politicians in Enugu state, who decamp to opposition parties when they lose elections, stating that politics should be engaged in the spirit of sportsmanship. Onyishi, who spoke as a guest yesterday on the Urban Radio political program The Parliament, revealed that the credibility and capacity of candidates would be a major consideration in the […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Nigerians to protect the country’s democracy from derailment into some form of oppression because it is the only practical way of effectively managing diversity, and developing sustainably. Jonathan made the call yesterday during a conference to mark the 70th birthday of the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Hassan Kukah in Abuja. Jonathan also spoke about the six-month-old industrial action by the Academic Staff Union […]

The embattled Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Enugu State APC, Ugochukwu Agballah has said he would not succumb to unnecessary distractions from Abuja politicians whom he described as crisis merchants. It would be recalled that the party chieftains led by former President of the Senate, Ken Nnamani met with the National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu in Abuja where they demanded the dissolution of the state exco and the setting up […]

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Ebonyi State, Mr. Stanley Okoro Emegha today, said nobody can stop the party from swearing in the 13 newly elected council chairmen and 171 ward councillors.

The gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the 2021 election in Anambra State Valentine Ozigbo says Labour Party LP and her presidential candidate Peter Obi have gained acceptance in all states in Nigeria. Ozigbo who commented in a statement yesterday on the 31st anniversary of the creation of Anambra encouraged the people of the state to play their part in the new wave of political awakening sweeping […]