Politics

The Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Mr Olagunju Ojo, the Minority Leader, and five other lawmakers on Tuesday defected to three different parties. The Clerk of the House, Mr Paul Bankole, read the separate letters of defection by the lawmakers during the plenary session in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria reports […]

Donald Duke, presidential aspirant of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), says he left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because the “umbrella was breaking”. Duke served as governor of Cross River for eight years under the platform of PDP which has umbrella as its symbol. Speaking during the inauguration of Cross River SDP secretariat in Calabar

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday arrived in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, to participate in the mega rally organised in support of the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Gboyega Oyetola, ahead of Saturday’s election. ICYMI: OsunDecides: Why I was absent at governorship debate ―Senator Adeleke The personal assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmad,

Senator Solagbade Olufemi Lanlehin (SOLAN) will today pick up the nomination and expression of interest forms, formalising his intention to contest the seat of governorship in Oyo State come 2019 under the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). This was contained in a statement forwarded by his Media Assistant, Damola Adeoye. ICYMI: Ashafa’s presence at

Senate President and presidential aspirant of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Bukola Saraki, yesterday, excited members of the party in Lagos as he assured them that he will do everything within his reach to ensure PDP produced the next governor of the state. Saraki, who spoke at the PDP secretariat in Lagos State, where he

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris and the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahooud Yakubu, have assured Nigerians and political stakeholders that the Osun Sept. 22 Governorship election would be credible based on efforts put in place. The IGP and INEC chairman both gave the assurance while speaking at the

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor E.A Adeboye has denied the report published by one of the national dailies that he spoke with the leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Akinwumi Ambode’s second term bid. Disclosing this through his tweeter handle, Adeboye averred that he

The Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has said voters will not be allowed to go inside polling booths with their telephones, cameras and any other devices that can record images. He said this on Monday in Osogbo at the stakeholders’ forum organised ahead of Saturday election. ICYMI: IGP dispatches DIG, 8 Commissioners,

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ademola Adeleke, has explained why he was absent at the 2018 Osun State governorship debate which held in Osogbo, the state capital on Sunday. Mr Adeleke’s seat was empty throughout the two-hour debate. He said he did not refuse to show up as widely believed, but was “held

Former Nigeria Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has thrown his weight behind the Presidential ambition of Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki’s presidential bid, saying that his late father supported him during his failed presidential ambition. “It is my turn to do what your father did to me”, Babangida said when Saraki visited him, in