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The leadership of the African Action Congress (AAC) has clarified its stand on the endorsement of its Rivers State governorship candidate by the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying it has "no alliances or coalition with the APC or any other parties in Rivers state".

A Federal High Court sitting in Yola Adamawa State Capital, on Wednesday ruled that the All Progressives Congress (APC) did not field any candidate for Yola-North, Yola-South, and Girei federal constituency. Delivering judgement, Justice Abdulaziz Anka, directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw the certificate of return given to the candidate of the APC, Abdulra’uf Modibbo and issue it to the runners-up in the election, Jafar Ribadu of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) because the APC primary elections that produced Abdilra’uf Modibbo was inconclusive. The counsel to the plaintiff, Barrister Yahaya Dangana, stated that consequent upon the conduct of the APC primary on the 7th of October 2018, the primary was adjudged to be inconclusive and a petition was written to the appeal committee of the APC that the primary be revisited. He added: “Instead of looking into it, the APC appeal committee went ahead and sat with the NWC and forwarded the na...

A document suspected to be a Memorandum of Understanding between Miyetti Allah and the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress in Akwa Ibom, Mr. Nsima Ekere has surfaced online.

Governor David Umahi’s re-election bid received a boost on Tuesday when 26 opposition candidates stepped down for him. Mr Umahi is seeking re-election on the platform of his party, PDP.

As many Nigerians continue to react to the Dapch girls' kidnap drama,  Sergeant David Bako from Plateau State has revealed how the Dapchi girls kidnap drama was plotted and executed.

The feuding leaders of the former ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have undertaken to work together and have signed an agreement to the effect. The legally recognised Chairman of the party, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff and the Chairman of National Caretaker Committee, Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, signed the undertaken for genuine reconciliation.

According to  Wailers NG ; The Presidency has ordered for an investigation into the financial books of the Nigerian Ports Authority under the management of Mrs Hadiza Bala Usman for fraud.   Nasir El-Rufai Mrs Hadiza Bala Usman, the MD of The Nigerian Ports Authority who once served as Governor El Rufai’s Chief of Staff is alleged to have given $25 thousand to several APC chieftains to support El Rufai’s emergence as Vice President under the assumption that President Buhari may not return to Nigeria from his medical leave. Buhari’s medical leave which lasted for more than 45 days instead of the planned 10 days raised a lot of questions about the President’s ability to return to office. While there were rumours that he was in coma after a series of operations, there were even rumours of his passing and a conspiracy by the Presidency to conceal his health status from Nigerians as much as they could. Hadiza Bala Usman Governor El Rufai and his form...

Mr. Godwin Obaseki has been sworn in as the Fifth democratically elected governor of Edo state in a ceremony held today in Benin the state capital.

  US non governmental group, the American Black Group for Democracy has revealed  that the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari’s government plunged  $500Million (About N150Billion) into the failed Hillary Clinton electioneering campaign fund.

There are strong indications that a gale of defection will soon hit the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the South-West.

  An Election Observer Group, Election Monitor, is asking the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to pay attention to calls for the cancellation of the just concluded governorship election in Edo State.

The Chairman of Leadership Newspapers Group and former presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Sam Nda-Isaiah has stated that no fewer than 10,000 Nigerians would have died if former President, Goodluck Jonathan didn’t concede defeat in the 2015 presidential election.

International Observer Groups such asthe American Observer team, the British Council and others from the Netherlands and Scotland and African Union observer team have expressed reservations about the conduct of the Edo governorship election held on Wednesday, September 28, 2016. The observers pointing out that they were denied entry into the collation centre and that security operatives at the polling units looked the other way while politicians and their agents induced voters with money. Ahmed Ansari, head of the African Union Observer Team, asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to improve on the functionality of the card readers as he noted that the machine did not work in some polling units in Edo State.He said the full report of the international observer groups on the Edo election would be submitted to the INEC and other important election stakeholders. “The turnout was quite impressive, but there were problems here and there. Anoth...

National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu is demanding the resignation of party chairman, John Oyegun.

The Board of Trustees (BoT) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the National Caretaker Committee of the party to hold the next national convention of the party in Abuja.

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has described Modu Sheriff as a curse to PDP. He made this statement in reaction to a comment credited to a factionalnational chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff that he sent people to beg the former Borno Governor for claiming that he was a member of Boko Haram.

  President Muhammadu Buhari has backed House of Representative speaker, Yakubu Dogara, on the budget padding scandal. The Presidency on Tuesday said the  2016 budget, which President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law, was not padded.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that there is no court order stopping the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Convention scheduled for August 17, 2016 in Port Harcourt.

Chief Raymond Dokpesi, a chieftain of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Thursday boasted that neither the former National Chairman of the party Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, the National Publicity Secretary of the party Olisah Metu, nor any other member of the Sheriff faction can stop

  Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State said on Wednesday he attended the peace meeting organised by the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, because of his commitment to peace and development of the state.