Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, on Tuesday February 8, warned that any party that fields a northern candidate in the 2023 Presidential election will lose. Governor Akeredolu disclosed that Governors in the Southern part of the country under the auspices of the Southern Governors Forum are…
Bukola Saraki, Nigeria’s former Senate President, claimed he suffered persecution from the executive arm of government simply because he was for the independence of the National Assembly. He stated this during a Twitter space discussion on Saturday, hosted by an #EndSARS campaigner, Rinu Oduala. Saraki, a former governor of Kwara State and president of the…
Ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar’s former campaign spokesman, Kassim Afegbua, tells ENIOLA AKINKUOTU about 2023 presidency, his relationship with top politicians and other issues. You were accused of working against the re-election of Governor Godwin Obaseki? Why did you think he was not the right person for the job? From hindsight, he has proven to…
A former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has described as heresy or loose talk the claim that he has pledged to support the presidential ambition of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Instead, Fayose, who said he might consider joining the 2023 presidential race, boasted that should the People…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has slammed the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, stating that it is a government that aids terrorism and looting of funds. In a statement released by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP said it came to this conclusion following the ”desperate attempt by the Buhari administration to whitewash itself…
Nigerian publisher and activist, Omoyele Sowore has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be succeed by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Yemi Osinbajo or even Peter Obi at the expiration of his tenure in 2023. Recall that Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had in January declared his intention to join the 2023…
Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar paid a courtesy visit to former Head of State Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida ahead of the 2023 general elections. Sharing pictures of the visit, Mr Abubakar wrote: “At a courtesy visit to former military President Ibrahim Babangida and Gov Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State in Minna today.” The visit comes weeks…
The National Assembly has transmitted the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill to the President for assent. The bill was transmitted on Monday January 31 to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent by the Clerk to the National Assembly, Arch. Olatunde Amos Ojo, a source told The Nation. It is however uncertain if the President would assent to…
Nigerian publisher and activist, Omoyele Sowore has warned Nigerians of the consequences of electing vice-president Yemi Osinbajo as president in 2023. In a Facebook post, Sowore accused Osinbajo of being a coward. He added that Osinbajo “served a President that believed ONLY in inequality”. He wrote: When a cowardly hypocritical man Professor Yemi Osinbajo wants…
Charles Soludo, the Anambra State governor-elect, has called for a new liberation movement in Africa and Nigeria. According to him, this will promote selfless service among political leaders. Soludo, an ex-governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, who won the November 6, 2021 Anambra governorship election on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance,…