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NATIONAL Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Ganduje has inaugurated the party’s campaign council for the November 11 governorship election in Imo. Ganduje, while performing the exercise on Saturday, advised Imo people on the need for Gov. Hope Uzodinma’s reelection to consummate the future development trajectory. He …

SENATE President Godswill Akpabío has described reports of an impeachment plot against him as the handiwork of “merchants of political tar brush”. He said the reports, published in some dailies over the weekend, appear to be a syndicated media attack orchestrated from outside the National Assembly by the purveyors who …

HONOURABLE Adebo Ogundoyin, Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly, on Saturday, emerged the new Chairman of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria. At the national meeting of the conference held in Abuja, Ogundoyin emerged following the withdrawal of the Speaker, Ogun State House of Assembly, Honourable Taiwo Oluomo. Ogundoyin’s emergence was, thereafter, confirmed …

THE Lamidi Apapa-led faction of Labour Party (LP), on Saturday, owned up that the party truly lost the February 25 Presidential election, saying that the party’s Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi and Mr. Julius Abure knew the truth about the performance of the party at the poll. This position was …

THE Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Uyo on Friday struck out the petition filed by Mr Jeremiah Akpan, the governorship candidate of Action Alliance (AA) in the election held on March 18 in Akwa Ibom. Justice Buetnaan Mandy, who read the unanimous judgement of the tribunal on behalf of …

THE spokesperson of Peter Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Yunusa Tanko, has revealed that Peter Obi’s legal team may file an appeal at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Obi is also said to have no plan of changing members of his legal team. Tanko and the National Legal Adviser of LP, …

•Cites executive, legislative, judicial corruption as reason THE Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP in the February 25, 2023 election, Peter Obi, has said transactional politics, disrespect for the rule of law, endemic corruption in the executive, legislature and the Judiciary are pulling Nigeria dangerously away from democracy. Obi …

THE Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the All Progressives Congress and its candidate in the last governorship election in Enugu State, Uche Nnaji, seeking to nullify the emergence of Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party as winner of the election. The APC candidate polled 14,575 votes …

NOT many Nigerians saw it coming the way it did, otherwise they would have drawn a word of caution from the words of William Shakespeare in one of his classic works, McBeth where he said: “And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double …

THE National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Benin has affirmed the election of Sen. Neda Imasuen of the Labour Party for Edo South seat of the National Assembly. The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, and his party, had through petition …