By IBRAHIM MOMOH, Lokoja – Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo, was received by a tumultuous and mammoth crowd of jubilant supporters, party members, and citizens as he returned to the state capital following his Supreme Court victory, which confirmed his election as governor of Kogi State. The reception,...
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Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma has said that the Chairmanship and Councillorship candidates of All the Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 21 Local Government Elections may emerge through consensus. Governor Uzodimma said this on Tuesday while addressing aspirants and stakeholders at the party’s Secretariat in Owerri. He said...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – A group under the auspices of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Wing Mobilisation Vanguard has urged the People Democratic Party (PDP) elders in the North West to rather focus on solving their internal political crisis rather than the futile attempt to drag the...
By Danjuma Joseph Lafia Member representing Toto/Gadabuke constituency at the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Hon. Mohammed Garba Isimbabi, has defected from New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaker of the assembly, Rt. Hon. Danladi Jatau, announced this while reading Hon. Isimbabi’s defection letter during...
Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo has called on security operatives to fish out the hoodlums that attacked Alhaji Yakubu Ajaka, the SDP candidate in the 2023 governorship election, at the Supreme Court premises on Friday. Ododo made the call in Lokoja on Sunday through the State Commissioner for Information,...
The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, has donated 15 trucks of fertilizer to the Zamfara chapter of APC to complement President Bola Tinubu’s agricultural transformation programme. This is contained in a statement signed by the state APC Publicity Secretary, Malam Yusuf Idris, issued in Gusau on Sunday....
The Kogi State Government has debunked report suggesting that Governor Usman Ododo has dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Earlier, a viral picture of Ododo had emerged with the PDP governors which recently met at the Taraba State Government House, driving speculations...
Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo on Saturday applauded the Supreme Court verdict that upheld his victory in the Nov. 11 Governorship poll. Ododo also pledged to deliver good governance to the North-Central state, promising transparency and accountability. The governor, in a statement by his media aide, Mallam Ismaila Isah,...
Rep. Nkemkanma Kama has said that Gov. Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi does not force people to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Kama represents Ohaozara/Onicha/ Ivo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives on the platform of Labour Party. He was reacting to the gale of defections from...
The Kogi chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has claimed that its supporters were attacked and their vehicles damaged at the Supreme Court premises on Friday. Director of Media and Publicity for the Kogi APC Campaign Council, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, made the allegation in a statement in Lokoja....
Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo has commended the Supreme Court judgment which affirmed his election as governor of the state, describing the court as the last hope of the common man. Ododo, while addressing journalists in Abuja after the judgment on Friday, commended the apex court for withstanding intimidation...
The Supreme Court on Friday, affirmed the victory of Usman Ododo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Nov. 11, 2023 governorship election held in Kogi. A five-member panel of the apex court, in a judgment, held that the appeal by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and its...
The Supreme Court on Friday, affirmed the re-election of Hope Uzodimma of Imo in the Nov. 11, 2023 governorship election. A five-member panel of the apex court, in a lead judgment delivered by Justice Mohammed Idris, dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has placed an embargo on sectional and unauthorised meetings within the party by aspirants or their allies ahead of the Nov. 16 Local Government elections in Ogun. This is contained in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Tuesday by the APC Party Chairman, Yemi...
Rep. Ginger Onwusibe (LP-Abia) has defended the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Benjamin Kalu’s call for Governor Alex Otti of Abia to join the All Progressives Congress(APC). Onwusibe, the leader of the Labour Party caucus in the House, said this in his response to a statement...
The Old Bende Young Professionals have backed the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Benjamin Kalu’s to reposition the APC in Abia. This, the group said, would ensure victory for the APC in the state in the 2027 general elections. President of the group, Mr Chima Ogbonnaya,...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Chairmanship seat in last Saturday’s local government elections in Shira in Bauchi State, Bello Mu’azu Shira, has described the polls as a sham. Shira accused the Bauchi State Independent Electoral Commission, of deceiving the...
Rep. Obi Aguocha (LP-Abia), has advised Rep. Benjamin Kalu, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, against making statements capable of heating up the polity. He said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja, following Kalu’s remark that the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia would take...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – There was serious voter apathy in many polling units visited during the local government elections held across Bauchi State. Journalists while monitoring the local government elections observed that in most villages, there were no sign of elections going on. However, in few of the...
The Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has berated Governor Godwin Obaseki for failing to recognise him following his reinstatement to office by the court, boasting that he made Obaseki governor. Shaibu, who was a guest on Friday’s edition of Channels Television’s political programme, Politics Today, said that...