politics

A former Governor of Zamfara, Ahmed Yerima, on Friday, revealed how he was asked to drop his presidential ambition for Muhammadu Buhari before the 2007 elections. Yerima claimed that ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo begged a former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, to persuade him against running for the election. The former Governor revealed …

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday insisted that the seat of the 26 Rivers House of Assembly lawmakers who dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC) remains vacant. The National Legal Adviser, Adeyemi Ajibade, gave this stand shortly after Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court, …

Warns against patronizing fraudsters THE National Working Committee of the Labour Party has approved the Fees for the Purchase of Nomination and Expression of Interest forms, Timetable and Schedule of Activities for February 3rd, 2024 Bye Elections as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). According to the memo …

NO fewer than 500 members of All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA), Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) and Labour Party (LP) in Amaeka community, Ezza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The APGA, PDP, LP members were led into the APC on the Christmas day  by …

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged Nigerians not to allow “the hardship, pain and misery brought upon the nation by the divisive and suppressive policies of the Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration” to prevent them from using the occasion of Christmas, the festival of the birth of Jesus …

FIRE has destroyed the house of the late Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman, Udo Ekpenyong, in Akwa Ibom, resulting in the deaths of his wife and her sister. Newsextra24 learnt that the fatal incident occurred on Christmas Eve, taking the lives of Elizabeth Ekpenyong and Ofonime Frank. Udeme Idiong, Secretary of the …

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has released the timetable and schedule of activities for the upcoming 2024 bye-elections in the country. The PDP released the schedule for bye-elections into Senatorial, House of Representatives and State Assemblies based on the earlier notice from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of …

By Comrade John Imagbe IN the current discourse surrounding the “Esan Agenda,” Governor Godwin Obaseki’s motivations have become a subject of controversy, with skepticism emerging about whether his actions genuinely serve the well-being of the Esan people and Edo’s at large, or if they are driven by self-interest. The latter …

THE Supreme Court has affirmed Peter Mbah as the governor of Enugu State. The apex court, on Friday, ruled in favour of Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a five-man panel of Justices, dismissed an appeal that the Labour Party (LP) …

A media aide to Asue Ighodalo, the PDP gubernatorial aspirant sponsored by Governor Godwin Obaseki in the Edo 2024 election has been declared wanted by the police authorities, in connection with a case of physical assault against Dr. Osaro Onaiwu, a PDP gubernatorial aspirant. Tony Ehilebo a media aide to …