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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Saturday visited Asaba, Delta to consult with Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on his aspirations for the 2019 general elections. Saraki, who came in company of other senators including Dino Melaye and Peter Nwaoboshi spent about 45 minutes in a closed door with Okowa at the Government House. The Senate President, who later addressed journalists after ...

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Sunday said that defectors who left the party wanted automatic tickets and sharing of the national wealth which the governing APC could not guarantee. Tinubu said this in a statement he entitled ‘They Go Away Because We Go the Right Way’, released by his Media Officer, Tunde Rahman, in ...

Presidential hopeful, Ahmed Makarfi said Senator Bukola Saraki should be left alone as Senate President because he has not breached any provision of the constitution on account of his defection from APC to PDP. Makarfi made the call on Saturday while addressing journalists at the PDP secretariat in Minna, the Niger State capital. “The constitution says the senators should elect ...

The Senate president, Bukola Saraki has finally bowed out of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, after weeks of speculations and expectations. “I wish to inform Nigerians that, after extensive consultations, I have decided to take my leave of the All Progressives Congress (APC),” Saraki said on his Twitter feed. He did not indicate his political destination , but ...

The National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bolaji Abdullahi, has dismissed speculations that he has resigned his membership of the party. He told journalists at the APC secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday that report of his resignation trending in the media was not true. He added that “there is no iota of truth in the report.” The absence ...

Kwara Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed on Tuesday took the long awaited decision to switch from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The defection of the Governor was relayed in a terse statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant (SSA), on Media and Communication, Muyideen Akorede in Ilorin on Tuesday. It was timed to coincide with ...

The lawmaker representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, Ben Murray-Bruce on Tuesday urged the Peoples Democratic Party’s senators to head to the Senate ‘immediately”.