The presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has affirmed his continued support of President Muhammadu Buhari in light of his recent, widely-acclaimed comments on the difficulty around the currency redesign and its circulation, as well as the possible causes of the fuel scarcity experienced in parts of the country. The opposition attempted a spin on his comments, portraying them as evidence of conflict between him and the president. But Tinubu has faulted the interpretation, reiterating his unalloyed support of the president, particularly his administrative achievements, including in the areas of infrastructure and public probity. He made this…
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Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State emphasized his opposition to Atiku’s ambition to emerge as the country’s president at the PDP’s campaign flag-off in his state where he shunned the presidential candidate and instead gave prominent roles to the G-5 faction of the party. The G-5 is a group of five PDP governors, including Governor Ugwuanyi, determined to block the emergence of Atiku over grievances about the conduct of the party’s primaries and the candidate’s refusal to honour the north-south power rotation agreement governing the country’s politics. Atiku was a conspicuous absence at the event where his foes within the…
A previous call by the PDP for Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, EFCC, to arrest and prosecute Atiku Abubakar over a fraud involving the staggering sum of N500m fraud staged through ‘SPVs’, a term revealed by an aide to the former Vice President to describe shell companies used by Atiku to divert public funds, has led more Nigerians to question the wisdom of his choice as the party’s standard-bearer in the coming election. Media reports and internal party records show that in 2006, the PDP found Atiku culpable of stealing N500million in party funds through a Marine Float Account, a controversial entity…
Residents of Osun State are upbeat over the court’s affirmation of the victory of the APC and Adegboyega Oyetola in the July governorship contest held in the state last year. Mr Oyetola, whose first term in office recorded key reforms and notable administrative achievements, successfully overturned INEC’s declaration of the PDP’s Ademola Adeleke as the elected governor after proving the existence of infractions, including overvoting, that affected the final vote count. In the Friday judgement delivered by the Election Petition Tribunal, INEC was directed to immediately issue a fresh certificate of return to Mr Oyetola, recognizing him as the winner…
The presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has faced questions over his state of mind and mental fitness after his daughter, Ms Hauwa Abubakar, alleged in an astonishing expose that he was under a spell cast by his first wife, Titi Abubakar. The developing story, which bears all the trappings of a dramatic family feud unbecoming of a man seeking the nation’s highest office, came as Hauwa took to the internet to reveal the alleged occultic practices of Mrs Titi Abubakar whom she accused of keeping a tight leash on the former Vice President. Hauwa said Titi was in…
Adegboyega Oyetola looks poised for another term as the governor of Osun state after an Election Petition Tribunal declared him the winner of the July 16 contest in the state, effectively nullifying the previous announcement of Ademola Adeleke over an established case of overvoting. Oyetola petitioned the election’s outcome with the argument that the electoral body, INEC, failed to comply with the Constitution and provisions of the Electoral Act in the processing of the results and the declaration of Adeleke as the winner despite evidence of infractions in multiple polling units. In a majority decision delivered by Justice Tetsea Kume,…
Igbo supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), are restricting access to the popular Alaba International Market in Lagos, with an arbitrary and widely-condemned condition that only confirmed LP voters be allowed to conduct trade. The illegal action executed by a migrant group of Igbo traders from the eastern part of the country was documented in a video recording which has since gone viral and sparked criticism from other Nigerians who deemed the measure as extreme, tyrannical, and in violation of constitutional freedoms, including unhindered access to public spaces. In the video, the Igbo traders…
APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has dismissed notions of a rift between him and the country’s leaders, President Muhammadu Buhari, after his comments during the party’s rally in Ogun state sent the rumor mill into overdrive. Whilst speaking at the rally in Abeokuta on Wednesday, Tinubu blamed the fuel scarcity experienced in the country and the controversy surrounding the redesign of the naira and its availability to most Nigerians days to the set deadline by the CBN on saboteurs working to block his victory. He alleged that the fuel scarcity, which has complicated mobility in parts of the…
The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has maintained a curious silence as his supporters, widely regarded as ‘Obidients’, have for days subjected the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, to various forms of attacks and online ridicule for debunking previous reports of endorsing the embattled candidate. The Sultan, who stands as the head of Nigeria’s vast Muslim community, had earlier rebuked the Obi campaign for its irresponsible attempts to “draw him into partisan politics” after it became obvious that the campaign was behind false reports alleging that the religious leader endorsed their candidate. In the statement…
Former Governor of Kano State and the presidential candidate of the NNPP, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has blamed the sectional approach of rival Peter Obi, who is running on the Labour Party platform, for the breakdown in the merger proposal between both parties. Prior to now, speculations were rife of a possible merger between Obi, who joined the Labour Party after dumping the PDP, and Kwankwaso, a stalwart politician with cult-like following in Kano State. The coalition, many reasoned, would help the fringe candidates mount a serious challenge to the dominant and better-known APC and PDP, Nigeria’s major political parties. But…