Politics

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Biodun Oyebanji, was declared the winner of the Ekiti governorship election on Saturday. The INEC returning officer, Prof. Oyebode Adebowale, announced that Oyebanji had a total of 187,057 votes, making him the winner of the election. Because Oyebanji had certified the law, he was deemed the winner, according to him. Ekiti 2022 Governorship Election Returning Officer: Prof. Oyebode Adebowale certifies that he is the official returning officer. APC's Biodun Oyebanji has been declared the winner and returned, according to Adebowale's official announcement. It was revealed by the INEC returning officer, who is also the Vice Chancellor of...

Okupe, Labour Party candidate for vice-president(in placeholder capacity), has indicated the party is in talks with other political parties about...

President of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party Bola Ahmed Tinubu claims to have submitted the name of his...

In order to beat the deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Friday, the Labour Party of Nigeria...

PDP presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has chosen Delta State Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate for the...

Section 84(8) of the Constitution was amended by the National Assembly to allow statutory delegates to vote in primary elections....

After 23 years in the National Assembly, senate president Ahmad Lawan's ambition to clinch the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial ticket for the Yobe North seat has ran into rough waters. Like Ebonyi governor David Umahi, Mr Lawan was rumored to have nominated a placeholder to secure the APC ticket for the Yobe North Senatorial seat. According to the New York Daily News, Austin Umahi, the younger brother of Mr. Lawan's presumed replacement, Bashir Machina, is refusing to relinquish the APC Ebonyi South Senatorial ticket for Mr. Lawan. To show their support for Senator Machina, who has represented the Bade/Jakusko Federal Constituency since 1999 and Yobe North since 2007, supporters held a rally last Friday. They insisted that the politician would not step down to allow Senator Machina, who has represented the district on multiple occasions for 23 years, to take over as Senate President. Lawan's re-entry plan Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of the APC, is being sought by the Senate president in his bid to win the senatorial ticket from Mr. Bashir. Whatever this, Mr. Machina and his allies have promised not to resign for the Senate president, despite the opposition. There were protesters in Gashua, the senator's hometown, to denounce the rumored attempt to replace their leader, Mr Machina. Salleh Kachalla, who served as a state commissioner for youth, led a group of supporters to the palace of Bade's Emir, Abubakar Suleiman II. In the palace, they told the emir that the people of Bade and Jakusko local governments support Mr Machina's campaign for the post of local government chief executive officers. People of Bade and Jakusko have opted to support Bashir Machina, the APC candidate for our zone, to succeed Ahmad Lawan as senate president, Mr Kachalla stated in a statement. 'We are here today to seek your blessings and officially announce our support for Bashir Machina, the candidate from the old Nguru Emirate,' he said. He thanked the groups for their visit and wished Machina well on his political quest. At the Emir of Bade's palace, some of the stakeholders He should not try to re-enter politics after 23 years in the National Assembly, another member of the group said, adding that Mr Lawan's time as a representative of the people was over. According to former ANPP Secretary Mohmmed Gaskanta, who was in attendance at the event, the party's candidate had been properly chosen and shouldn't be stepping down for anyone. Senate President Lawan writes to Tinubu and explains his decision to run against him in the first place. "We will not settle for anything less. No one can change our candidate Bashir Machina as far as we are concerned. They are free to alter it in the villa if they so desire, but the decision is ultimately ours to make....

APC national stakeholders are opposing the fielding of a Muslim-Muslim ticket in the 2023 presidential election. It is expected that...

INEC has set June 17 as the deadline for political parties to submit candidate lists for the 2023 general election....

The leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has approved Peter Obi as the Labour Party's presidential flag-bearer. In response...