Politics

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party’s and 2027 Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), presidential candidate, to withdraw from the 2027 presidential race, citing alleged financial liabilities linked to his administration as governor of Anambra State. The APC Presidential Campaign Council made the call in a statement issued by its spokesman, Dele Alake, on Friday night. Alake said Obi should honour an earlier pledge to step aside from the presidential race if liabilities were established against his administration in Anambra State. The council claimed that official financial records had already established the liabilities and urged the former Anambra governor to keep his word. The statement also criticised Obi, who is now the pr...

Hon. Nuu’man Muhammad Imam, a Senior Special Assistant to Katsina State Governor Dikko Umar Radda, has resigned from his position amid reported tensions between political camps linked to the governor and former Governor Aminu Bello Masari. Imam, who served as Senior Special Assistant on Community Development Programme and Coordinator for the Batagarawa/Charanchi/Rimi Federal Constituency, announced his resignation in a letter dated October 5, 2026. The former Chairman of Rimi Local Government Council said he took the decision after careful consideration. In his resignation letter, Imam thanked the Katsina State Government for giving him the opportunity to serve and expressed particular appreciation to Governor Radda for his support and confidence. It has been an honour to contr...

Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) chieftain Buba Galadima has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of systematically bribing opposition candidates at the state and federal levels with cash sums ranging from N50 million to N200 million, alongside vehicles, to force ticket forfeitures ahead of the 2027 general elections. Speaking during an interview on Arise Television's Prime Time program on Tuesday night, October 7, Galadima asserted that President Bola Tinubu and APC governors are attempting to evade competitive contests by securing uncontested victories across elective seats. Galadima claimed that financial inducements are being actively coordinated from the federal capital, alleging that an operative from Zamfara State is currently dispersing funds to opposition figu...

Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has claimed that the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate, Peter Obi is not a threat to President Bola Tinubu.  He, however, said Obi is his brother. Featuring on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, the minister said: “Peter Obi is my brother and friend. My position about integrating the Southeast into the main stream of the nation never changed as a governor. “When Buhari was there I publicly asked the Southeast to give Buhari 25 percent while I gave Atiku 75 percent in my state. “So my position has not changed, my position is that we should have a broad mind. Peter Obi is not the only Southeast candidate contesting, we have three other Southeast candidates that are contesting. “So Peter Obi is not a t...

Federal Capital Territory Minister and Rainbow Coalition leader Nyesom Wike has asserted that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) cannot secure victory in Rivers State during the upcoming general elections, claiming that electoral outcomes in the state will continue to be predetermined. Speaking on Saturday, October 3 at a gathering organized by Uzugbani Ekpeye in Ahoada East and West Local Government Areas, Wike dismissed the political prospects of his former ally and current ADC vice-presidential candidate, Chibuike Amaechi. The minister challenged voters to assess candidates based on verifiable track records rather than political rhetoric, while pointing to Amaechi’s historical electoral performance since their political parting. Recalling their past collabora...

The Labour Party Youth Wing has proposed an alignment with the All Progressives Congress and groups supporting President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 presidential election. The proposal was contained in a statement signed by the Edo State Labour Party Youth Leader, Ken Omusi, on Saturday, posted on the party’s official X handle following a virtual meeting involving the party’s National Youth Leader, Prince Kennedy Ahanotu, five national zonal youth leaders and 32 state youth leaders. According to the statement, the meeting was held on Friday to discuss the party’s political direction amid what the participants described as a prolonged crisis within the Labour Party and the future of youth participation ahead of the 2027 elections. The youth leaders reportedly mandated Ahanotu to ...

The Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Abdul’Aziz Abubakar Yari, has appealed to northerners to allow President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to complete his eight-year tenure as a way of respecting the established principle of rotational presidency in Nigeria. Yari, who spoke to journalists at the Kano Government House after holding a closed-door meeting with Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf on Saturday, said the only viable option now was for the North to be gentlemanly in the arrangement and allow Tinubu to complete his eight-year tenure. The former Zamfara State governor said the North should understand and respect the political arrangement that brought the presidency to the South in 2023, arguing that the presidency had been held by a northerner for ...