Like every other registered voter, I waited with great anxiety for the February 25 presidential and national assembly elections. For INEC to have created additional polling units to arrive at a total of 176,606 and transferred many potential voters away from the polling units where they voted in 2019, the first hurdle was how to locate my new unit. With ...

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said he is “not afraid to fight” Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State because he had in the past fought a sitting president (Olusegun Obasanjo). Atiku’s comments were echoed by Senator Dino Melaye, the Spokesperson of the PDP Presidential Campaign Management Committee. This newspaper reports that Atiku quarreled with ...

Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, deputy director general of the APC presidential campaign council, has once again criticised the CBN for imposing its Naira policy on Nigerians just before the general elections with the aim of sabotaging the process. Oshiomhole made the revelation at Jattu market in Auchi Edo North, saying Buhari has no alternative but to respect the Supreme Court’s decision ...

The wife of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, has said the current turmoil across Nigeria is because the nation is in labour and on its way to birth prosperity. Tinubu, who spoke at a town hall meeting with the disability community in Abuja, said there will be a turnaround when her husband is elected ...

Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has ruled out any last-minute truce between the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and the G-5 Governors of the party. This is as he said he was not ready to sit with any member of Atiku’s camp to broker peace between the G-5 also known as the ‘Integrity ...

Abdullahi Sule, Nasarawa State Governor, in this interview speaks on why he deserves a second term, the 2003 presidential election and the alleged anger of some northern governors who are against Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate Sule argues: “If there is any governor that is unhappy with Tinubu and is trying to go to opposition, believe me, ...

A Germany- based Nigerian politician of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and aspirant in the House Representatives Primaries held last year, Hon. Olayinka Segelu, has called on the National Executive Council (NEC), Governor Seyi Makinde and the 2023 Presidential Flag Bearer of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to sheathe their swords and work together to win the Presidential and Governorship ...

The silent ‘war’ of supremacy between two leading Fulani groups, the Miyetti-Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Socio-Cultural Development Association and Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore led by Bello Bodejo has taken a new dimension of accusation and counter accusation. The Miyetti-Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Socio-Cultural Development Association has described the Bello Badejo led Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore as ‘notoriously seasonal endorsements group’ parading itself ...

The Federal High Court in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital has nullified the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary elections for Fika East and Jakusko state constituencies for noncompliance with the provisions of the Election Act and ordered the APC to conduct fresh primaries within 14 days. According to the presiding judge, Justice Fadima Murtala, the party has just been given ...

There was pandemonium at Ranches Bees Stadium, Kaduna, venue of the rally of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar, as suspected hired thugs attacked party loyalists at the venue. The thugs who also displayed dangerous weapons like machetes and sticks threw stones at the crowd at the venue. Daily Trust reporter, who was at the venue, saw people ...