Politics

The Tanimu Turaki-led Interim National Working Committee (INWC) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says there is nothing the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, can do about the ongoing sales of its nomination and expression of interest forms for the 2027 general elections. The INWC’s National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja while …

The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) says its ongoing nationwide data verification exercise is aimed at ensuring accurate data for sharing revenue among states and local government areas (LGAs). Prof. Adekunle Wright, an RMAFC commissioner who led the delegation to Kebbi, stated this at the inauguration of the exercise in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday. Wright described the exercise …

Prof. Nantewe Yilwatda, National Chairman of the APC, says the party is unconcerned about Mr Peter Obi’s defection from ADC to NDC. Yilwatda spoke on Wednesday in Abuja during the ongoing purchase and submission of APC nomination and expression of interest forms for the 2027 elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Obi was the Labour Party presidential …

African Democratic Congress (ADC) has reduced its presidential nomination form fee to N90 million and released an updated schedule for its 2026 primary elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the party had earlier fixed the presidential nomination form at N100 million. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, in a statement, on Tuesday in Abuja, said …

Gov. Ahmed Ododo of Kogi says the restoration of 20 suppressed state constituencies across Kogi, Benue, Delta, and Jigawa by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is a ”bold step for equitable representation and justice for formerly under-represented communities”. Ododo said this on Tuesday in Lokoja during a Stakeholders’ meeting organised by INEC. Describing the restoration of constituencies as more …

Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday joked that the African Democratic Congress was effectively dead following a fresh wave of defections that saw lawmakers move en masse to other political parties, including the Nigerian Democratic Congress and the Labour Party. Akpabio made the remark while presiding over plenary, shortly after the Senate formally announced the defection of lawmakers, including Victor …

  The move follows prolonged leadership crises, court cases and regulatory disputes that have weakened the ADC. A wave of defections hit the House of Representatives on Tuesday, as 17 lawmakers dumped the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for the fast-rising Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), while one member crossed over to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu, …

The National Working Committee of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by Abdulraman Mohammed, has dismissed the 103rd National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting and the Tanimu Turaki-led Interim National Working Committee constituted at the meeting. Mohammed, in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Jungudo Mohammed, said that no such meeting chaired by Sen. Adolphus Wabara was convened by the leadership …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, led by Sen. Adolphus Wabara, has summoned an emergency National Executive Committee meeting for Monday. Wabara spoke on Sunday in Abuja during the 84th meeting of his faction of the board. He said the decision became necessary to prevent a leadership vacuum following recent developments within the party. According to him, the …

It is time to strip away the mask. Peter Obi is a capitalist, an elite operator who has thrived in the very business and political circles that have raped the Nigerian economy for decades. To see him framed as a grassroots messiah while he treats party politics as a series of hostile takeovers is a cruel irony. A committed democrat, …