Supporters of Peter Obi, Nigeria’s former Labour Party presidential candidate and a leading opposition figure from the 2023 election, say they are being stopped from registering as members of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), a Nigerian political party, both online and in person. The supporters, widely known as Obidients, describe themselves as part of a youth-driven political movement that rose around Obi’s presidential campaign and has remained active in national politics. One supporter, identified as Joe, told reporters that he and others went to a registration centre to sign up, but were turned back after it became known that they…
Author: Oluwadara Akingbohungbe
Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, a Nigerian politician, former governor of Kano State in northern Nigeria, and the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), has told his supporters that he will not abandon his political beliefs for personal benefit. Kwankwaso spoke in Kano on Friday, shortly after news emerged that Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and a group of political office holders had resigned from the NNPP. Those said to have left the party with the governor include several local government chairmen, some members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives (the lower chamber of the National Assembly), and…
Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has resigned from the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), blaming worsening internal disagreements and unresolved leadership disputes within the party. The decision was announced in a statement issued on Friday, 23 January 2026, by the governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa. According to the statement, Yusuf submitted a resignation letter to the NNPP chairman in Diso-Chiranchi Ward, located in Gwale Local Government Area of Kano State in northern Nigeria. The resignation is to take effect from Sunday, 25 January 2026. In the letter, the governor thanked the party for giving him a political platform…
Daniel Bwala, a Special Adviser on Policy Communication to Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara is the recognised leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s ruling party, in Rivers State, an oil-producing state in southern Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. Bwala made the comment during an interview on Hard Copy, a political programme on Channels Television, a major Nigerian broadcast news station, on Thursday, 22 January 2026, as tensions continued in Rivers State over a political dispute that has led the Rivers State House of Assembly, the state’s lawmaking body, to begin impeachment steps…
The Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Simeon Amadi, has explained why he refused to set up a seven-member panel to investigate Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy, Professor Ngozi Nma Odu, as impeachment moves against them continue. In Port Harcourt, there were also reports of a quiet, largely empty Government House as the Governor did not resume duties amid the unfolding political crisis. In a letter addressed to the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule, Justice Amadi said he could not act on the lawmakers’ request because of court orders already in place.…
Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, a former Special Adviser on Political Matters to President Bola Tinubu, has said former Vice President Atiku Abubakar should step aside and drop any plan to contest the 2027 presidential election. Baba-Ahmed, who also previously spoke for the Northern Elders Forum, made the comments on Thursday, 22 January 2026, while speaking on Arise News Television’s programme, The Morning Show. He said Atiku choosing not to run would be a major personal decision that could help change Nigeria’s political culture and show voters that the opposition can move away from recycling familiar figures. “And of all those things,…
The Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Simeon Amadi, has turned down a request to set up a judicial panel to investigate Governor Siminalayi Fubara, pointing to an existing court order. The Rivers State House of Assembly had asked the chief judge to constitute a seven-member panel to probe the governor and his deputy, Ngozi Odu, over allegations of gross misconduct. However, in a letter dated Tuesday, 20 January 2026, and addressed to the Speaker of the House, Martins Amawhule, Justice Amadi said he could not proceed with the panel because the court order restrained him from taking that step.…
Segun Sowunmi, the convener of a political group known as The Alternative, has criticised the coalition push being built around the African Democratic Congress, saying the most successful coalition model in Nigeria’s recent politics was formed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former President Muhammadu Buhari and cannot be copied easily. Speaking on Television Continental’s Breakfast programme on Thursday, 22 January 2026, Sowunmi argued that the coalition that produced the All Progressives Congress was the outcome of years of steady party work, clear political identity and long-term planning, not a quick arrangement. He said those behind the current African Democratic…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to Yakubu Adamu, the Bauchi State Commissioner for Finance, who is facing trial over alleged terrorism financing and money laundering involving about $9.7 million. In a ruling delivered on Wednesday, 21 January 2026, Justice Mohammed Umar admitted Adamu and his co-defendants to bail in the sum of ₦100 million each, saying the applicants placed enough information before the court for him to exercise his discretion in their favour. As part of the conditions, the judge directed each defendant to present two sureties, with the court stating that the sureties must be…
A social media post by ADC News, an account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has triggered fresh debate in Nigeria’s opposition politics after it claimed that Peter Gregory Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State in south-eastern Nigeria and the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in Nigeria’s 2023 election, is set to “return to Labour Party with all his structures.” In the post, the account wrote: “Peter Obi to return to Labour Party with all his structures as his ally takes control of Labour Party. He has not resigned from LP.” The claim surfaced the same day a…