The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw certificates of return from 14 members-elect of the Edo State House of Assembly for their refusal to subscribe to the oath of office. The All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers-elect were not sworn in with the colleagues due to a political crisis ...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, says the 9th National Assembly is irrevocably committed to protecting the interests of the people through diligent discharge of its legislative duties. The Speaker said this on Sunday in Lagos while speaking at the ”Gbaja 2019 End of the Year Grassroots Empowerment Programme”. Gbajabiamila said criticism that the 9th Assembly was ...

The Federal Government has kicked against the U.S report on alleged violation of religious freedom in Nigeria, accusing the country of attempting to sow seed of mistrust among the various religious groups in Nigeria. In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the Federal Government rejected the U.S. designation of ...

The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has lampooned the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, calling him a very big liar. The Governor debunked the claim by Oshiomhole that he begged him (Obaseki)to nominate a commissioner in 2016. Obaseki said on the contrary, the APC National Chairman single-handedly picked the governor, the deputy governor ...

Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP says that one of the secrets ex-Minster of Defence, Theophilus Danjuma may want to reveal to Nigerians is that the man in Aso Rock is not the real Muhammadu Buhari. Recall that Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, had last year ...

Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has disclosed that it gives him embarrassmen when people say he seeks to be the godfather of politics in Edo state. He said it is not true that he is seeking to be Godwin Obaseki’s godfather. Obaseki, governor of the state, and Oshiomhole are at loggerheads over political differences which ...

Dr Ibrahim Emokpaire, a former national chairmanship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on members of the party to embrace party supremacy to ensure its unity and development. Emokpaire, who is also the founder of Progressive Solidarity Forum (PSF), made the call while speaking with newsmen on Saturday in Abuja. He urged APC members to at all ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated All Progressives Congress (APC) governors on their Supreme Court victories, after what he called “your patient legal battles to defend your mandates.” The President’s congratulatory message was communicated through a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Friday. The President said: ”I am pleased and proud ...

Spokesman of the Conference of United Political Parties (CUPP), Ikenga Ugochinyere Imo says the Friday’s Supreme Court judgement on the candidacy of Chief Uche Nwosu in the 2019 governorship election in Imo State connotes a total liberation of the state from the dynasty of the former governor, Rochas Okorocha’s family. The Supreme Court had on Friday morning upheld the decisions ...

The Chairman of Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC), Tunde Balogun, on Thursday declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was not destined to win the governorship election in the state. He predicted failure for the opposition party in future polls, saying that its Lagos chapter can never match the ruling party. Balogun spoke at the party office in Ikeja ...