politics

FORMER Director-General of the Labour Party Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe has congratulated Prof Akin Oshuntokun on his appointment as his replacement. Okupe had, on December 20, resigned from his position as the Obi-Datti campaign DG following his conviction for breaching the Money Laundering Act by a Federal High Court in …

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Monday night condemned the “heinous and senseless” killing of Omobolanle Raheem, a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), shot by on-duty policemen on Christmas Day. Buhari said he was deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the brutal killing of Raheem. The President also directed …

A former aide of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has said the reason why northerners are behind the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, is a result of the provocations from Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. Omokri, in a post on his social media handles, …

THERE was a palpable fear about what might be the outcome of yet another round of meetings by the five aggrieved governors within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP fold, named: ‘G-5, as they are currently in the United Kingdom, UK to decide on who they will support as the 2023 …

A former minister of aviation and member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, Femi Fani-Kayode said Akin Osuntokun, the new Director General of Labour Party’s Peter Obi’s presidential campaign has joined the losing side. Fani-Kayode made this assertion in statement via his verified Twitter handle …

THE Labour Party, LP, has appointed former Political Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo, Akin Osuntokun as the new Director General of its Presidential Campaign. This was confirmed by the party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure, in Abuja, on Tuesday. According to Abure, the decision was reached after comprehensive consultations with party …

THE Ebonyi State Government has fined the All Progressives Congress, APC, the sum of five million naira for contravening the provisions of the state’s Executive Order 3 of 2022. Executive Order 3 prohibits political parties from using public places such as parks, markets and schools, among others, for political activities …

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, took his national campaign tour to Bayelsa state yesterday, declaring that Nigeria has been unfair to the people of Niger Delta. According to Obi, if elected president on February 25, 2023, he would use oil money to rebuild the region. “Going …

THE Labour Party governorship candidate in the 2023 elections for Ebonyi State, Edward Nkwegu, has named George Ukpai as the Director-General of his campaign council. Nkwegu stated this after inaugurating the 32-member campaign council in Abakaliki on Saturday. According to him, the campaign council led by Ukpai will see to …

RIVERS State Governor Nyesom Wike has closed the Atiku/Okowa campaign office in Port Harcourt, just two months before the 2023 elections. Wike stated that he invoked Executive Orders 21 and 22 to provide legal support for the campaign office’s closure. He also accused two Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains, Lee …