Some members of the opposition party in Rivers State, the All Progressives Congress, APC, stormed the capital of the state, Port Harcourt, demanding the swearing-in of its candidate in the state House of Assembly election. The party faithful, numbering over 2000, on Tuesday morning, besieged the premises of the Rivers State House of Assembly complex on…
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has reaffirmed his commitment and loyalty to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, despite his battle with the party. Saraki also reiterated his belief that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government will redeem its electoral promises made during the 2015 general elections. The Senate President, who spoke at the 10th Abuja Housing…
**Edo People Won’t Vote For Them Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has stated that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is not in existence in the state. The outgoing governor of the state also said candidate of his party in the September 2016 governorship poll, Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress, APC, will not…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, had disclosed that about 2873 delegates will elect the party’s candidate for the governorship election slated for 2016. This was made known by the National Organising Secretary of the APC, Senator Osita Izunaso on Thursday at the Party’s National Secretariat in Abuja. The party’s primaries will take place on June…
pdp Nigeria’s major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has chided the All Progressives Congress, APC-led federal government that it has achieved nothing in its one year in office. PDP, mocking the former opposition party, said the only thing the APC can show to Nigerians as its achievement is just photographs. It said if…
A petition filed by James Faleke against the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, at the state’s election tribunal, has been thrown out. While delivering the judgment on Monday, June 6, 2016, the tribunal held that Falake has no locus stand to file any petition against the election of Bello as governor and therefore dismissed…
On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, two members of the House of Representatives switched camp from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The two federal lawmakers disclosed that dumping the opposition party for the ruling party due to division in the PDP. The affected congressmen are Tony Nwoye from Anambra State…
Governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, Godwin Obaseki escaped death by whisker on Sunday when some gunmen opened fire on him and his supporters at Sobe in Owan West Local Government Area of the state. Obaseki, who expressed shock at the ugly incident, said he was lucky not to have…
According to Vanguard, there are strong indications that the All Progressives Congress, APC, is set to merge with the Labour Party, LP, to tackle the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which has governed the state since 1999. It was gathered that talks are ongoing between leaderships of the two parties in the state to come together…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South East has urged the National Assembly not to play politics with the controversial Lagos-Calabar rail project because it says it will improve the economy of the country as a whole. Spokesman of the party in the region, Osita Okechukwu, who addressed newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, also…