President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday intervened in the rift between Governor Simi Fubara of Rivers State and his predecessor in office, Nyesom Wike, which has dragged the state into a political crisis. President Tinubu used the opportunity of the Police Council meeting which both attended as members, to mediate and perhaps end the feud between the two political allies. The ...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reversed the nullification of the candidacy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November governorship election, Chief Timipre Sylva, thus clearing the coast for his participation in less than 12 days to the poll. The appellate court in a judgment delivered on Tuesday held that Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as a serial loser. APC spokesman, Felix Morka, said Nigeria was greater than Atiku’s unrealised presidential ambition. Morka was responding to Atiku’s world press conference on Monday, following the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld President Bola Tinubu’s election. Following his defeat at the ...

Defectors from Social Democratic Party, Labour Party and All Progressives Grand Alliance joined the All Progressive Congress, APC at a rally in Okpo Ceremonial Square in Olamaboro in Kogi State. They were received by Deputy Governor Edward Onoja on behalf of Governor Yahaya Bello. Onoja said the defections to APC meant the decimation of the opposition, adding thry would be ...

A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has called on President Bola Tinubu to urgently sack the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, for allegedly masterminding a plot to impeach the Governor of Rivers State, Siminilaye Fubara. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Frank condemned the action of the police in ...

Former federal lawmaker Shehu Sani has noted that the fiasco going on in Rivers State between the camp of ex-Governor Nyesom Wike and his protege, Governor Sim Fubara, is being monitored by other former governors who made themselves godfathers. Arsonists torched the hallowed chambers of the Rivers State House of Assembly on Sunday night, a development the opposition party has ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Osun State has called the bluff of a group, The Osun Masterminds, TOM, over its threat to drag the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, to the anti-graft agencies over the recently unveiled multi-billion naira infrastructural development plan. It will be recalled that the state governor, Adeleke on Friday unveiled a N100bn infrastructural development plan ...

Being text of a World Press Conference on the Presidential Election Petition Judgement by Atiku Abubakar, GCON, Waziri Adamawa, former Vice President of Nigeria (1999-2007) and Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 Election, at the PDP Headquarters in Abuja on Monday, 30th October, 2023. Protocol. Gentlemen of the Press. Someone asked me what I would do ...

Twenty-four out of 32 members of Rivers Assembly have signed a document to impeach Governor Siminialayi Fubara. They served impeachment notice on Fubara after impeaching and suspending House Leader Edison Ehie who is believed to be on the Governor’s side. The decisions were taken at an emergency sitting by the lawmakers on Monday morning. The unusual sitting took place between ...

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State on Monday downplayed any impeachment move against him. Fubara insisted that he has committed no offence to warrant being impeached by the Rivers State House of Assembly. He spoke while addressing his supporters at the Assembly Complex in Port Harcourt. The governor assured the people of the state of getting the dividends of democracy. ...