Category: Politics

… Declares Governors Makinde, Mohammed ‘On Their Way Out’ The leadership crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) escalated sharply on Sunday night as the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) dissolved the Abdulrahman Mohammed-led National Working Committee (NWC), whose tenure was due to expire on Tuesday, December 9. Despite dissolving the former leadership, the NEC immediately reappointed Mohammed as chairman... Read more

Nigeria faces mounting pressure to fix its abysmal record on women’s political representation as the House of Representatives, alongside civil society groups has pushed for the creation of 182 constitutionally reserved seats for women across federal and state legislatures. At a strategic media parley in Abuja, the House of Representatives, the TOS Foundation, and the National Secretariat for the Reserved... Read more

…Hails Tinubu for Ending Governors’ Dependence on Bank Loans Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has mocked his political critics, saying many of those who once condemned him for aligning with President Bola Tinubu are now defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Wike stated this during the flag-off of the construction of the main carriageways of... Read more

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has dismissed claims that the ongoing wave of defections by state governors in the South-East could lead to the political “capture” of the region, saying the people—not politicians—will ultimately decide their leaders. Obi made the remark while responding to reporters’ questions in Abuja, following the recent defections of some... Read more

…Says PDP remains the only party that gave Niger Delta true political inclusion Former Governor of Bayelsa State and serving Senator, Henry Seriake Dickson, has distanced himself from the defection of Governor Douye Diri from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), declaring that he remains firmly committed to the PDP and Nigeria’s multiparty democracy. Speaking... Read more