Politics

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 ...

Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed November 19 for judgment in a suit challenging the emergence of former Governor Yahaya Bello as the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Kogi Central. The judge fixed the date on Monday after lawyers in the suit adopted their final brief of arguments. A senatorial aspirant of the APC in Kogi Central, Momoh Yusuf Obaro, had dragged the APC, Yahaya Bello and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, before the court claiming to be lawful winner of the May 18 primary election conducted by the party. He prayed the court to declare him the candidate of the APC and that his name be forwarded to the electoral body as such. The aspirant also requested the court to compel INEC...

The presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has appointed Senator Augustine Okwudiri Akobundu as Director-General of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council ahead of the 2027 general elections. In a statement, Phrank Shaibu, Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Campaign Council, said on Thursday that Akobundu’s responsibilities would include coordinating the party’s campaign structures across the country. Akobundu, a retired Colonel of the Nigerian Army, former Minister of State for Defence and serving senator representing Abia Central Senatorial District, is expected to coordinate the political and operational activities of the campaign. According to the statement, the campaign council will be chaired by Kashim Ibr...

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, has joined the Nigeria Democratic Congress, three months after resigning from the African Democratic Congress over alleged manipulation of its presidential primary. Lawal announced his defection to the NDC in Abuja on Tuesday, declaring his support for the party’s presidential ticket of Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso ahead of the 2027 general elections. Speaking after he was received into the opposition party, the former SGF said Nigerians concerned about insecurity, hunger and other challenges facing the country should support the NDC. He said, “Anybody in Nigeria who has the interest of our country at heart and sympathy for the suffering that is ongoing in our country, along with insecurity, hunger, i...

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, says it does not trust the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to protect its votes in the forthcoming 2027 general elections. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Bolaji Abdullahi, made this statement on Monday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today. According to him, the party is making arrangements to collate its votes, warning that INEC’s technical failures undermine trust. “Don’t forget that I ran for Senate in the 2023 election. What many of us did, and not only myself, was that we trusted INEC when they told us there would be automatic transmission of results to the IReV. “Then what happened afterwards? They said that, due to some technical glitch, the results could not be transmitted au...