Category: Politics

  Al-Makura, committee chairman, ostensibly expressing outcome of the primary. Following the violent disruption of the All Progressives Congress governorship primary in Ekiti State, the Tanko Al-Makura-led organising committee has suspended the exercise indefinitely. A meeting of the committee and all the aspirants held shortly after the crisis erupted. The meeting held for nearly one hour and half. Mr Al-Makura stormed out of the meeting and was guarded into his car and driven away without briefing journalists on the…

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  Out-going CP of Ekiti State, Abdullahi Chafe. Out-going Commissioner of Police, in Ekiti State, Mr. Abdullahi Chafe, whose service as CP end on May 5, which happens to be All Progressives Party (APC) governorship primary,  has called on politicians in the state  to maintain the peace during and after the primary. CP Chafe, who stated this while briefing newsmen on Friday in Ado Ekiti however commended Ekiti State, as  one of the lowest in crime rate in Nigeria,…

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Former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Prof. Jude Ejike Njoku (centre), the Imo State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Chief Innocent Igwe (left) and the chairman of the Imo State chapter of the National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Barr. Vivian Otti, during the former VC’s briefing at the Press Council, in Owerri, on Thursday  A former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Prof. Jude Ejike Njoku, has…

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  President Buhari. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the Presidency to come clear on reasons for President Muhammadu Buhari’s “technical stopover” in London. The party, in a statement by its publicity secretary, Kola Ologbodiyan, said the presidency should end what they described as official secrecy as the president is not a private citizen, therefore his activities must be fully disclosed. The President, who left Abuja on Saturday on an official working visit to the United States of…

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  Ex-President Obasanjo. Olusegun Obasanjo, a former President of Nigeria, has refuted the claim that he is in support of President Mohammed Buhari’s second term bid. Instead, he said he had become “more convinced” of Buhari’s unworthiness of a second term, based on his showing at Monday’s press briefing with US President Donald Trump. Everything is fair, including telling libellous lies – Obasanjo says about alleged support for Buhari’s second a term bid. In a statement on Wednesday, the…

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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayo Fayose has raised alarm over the influx of questionable funds into the state for the Saturday’s All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election, saying genuine lovers of democracy should be worried that over N5 billion cash will be going into mere primary election of a political party that claimed to be fighting corruption. The governor, who alleged that some of the APC governorship aspirants had earmarked N1 million each to buy 2,000 delegates and…

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Ex-governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim. Immediate past governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim has condemned the recent bombing of the ancestral home of the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, in Ukehe, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State, describing it as an attack on Igbo nation. In a statement on Monday, signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Collins Ughalaa, the former governor, warned that the lion’s tail should not be touched. The statement reads:…

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  Chief Obasanjo. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said anyone who wants things in Nigeria to continue the way they are now must must have his head examined. Obasanjo said this on Saturday while inaugurating the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) in Oyo state. He asked members of the movement to get their permanent voter cards (PVCs) and be ready to rescue the country in 2019. In what could be seen as an indirect reference to the political situation under Sani…

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INEC officials in Lokoja: Very few voters showed up to verify signatures for Melaye’s recall Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) cannot be held responsible for the poor turnout of petitioners in Saturday’s verification of signatures for the recall of Senator Dino Melaye, an official has said. The INEC Federal Commissioner in-charge of Kogi, Kwara and Nasarawa states, Alhaji Mohammed Haruna, made the statement in Lokoja after the end of the exercise. Haruna said that the main concern of INEC…

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Senator Urhoghide moving the motion for President Buhari’s impeachment at the Red Chamber. A group under the aegis of Edo South Youth Coalition, on Friday, threatened to begin the process of recalling Senator Matthew Urhoghide  for daring to move a motion calling for the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari if he fails to apologise to him and retract his earlier statement within 48 hours. The group in a communique issued and signed by its leader, Hon. Ehis Odiase and made…

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