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The African Democratic Congress has accused President Bola Tinubu and the ruling party leadership of keeping former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai in custody out of raw political terror. The opposition party claims that Abuja is using state anti-graft and security apparatuses to paralyze the influential northern politician ahead of the 2027 general elections. The…
President Bola Tinubu has formally retained Vice President Kashim Shettima as his running mate for the 2027 presidential election. The decision effectively kills months of heavy intra-party scheming and intense speculation regarding the structure of the ruling party’s next ticket. The All Progressives Congress confirmed the continuation of the pairing after the vice president submitted…
The leader of the opposition National Democratic Coalition, Peter Obi, has called on President Bola Tinubu to drop his re-election ambitions and retire. Speaking during a widely broadcast interview, the former Anambra State governor argued that the president lacks the physical capacity and operational stamina required to steer the country out of its economic and…
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has waved off the notion that Peter Obi represents any real danger to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election prospects, declaring on Tuesday that the former Anambra State governor “cannot even face” him, let alone the president, as the jostling for the 2027 presidency sharpens. Speaking during an interview…
The Kano State chapter of the African Democratic Congress has rejected a declaration by its national leadership purporting to dissolve the state executive committee. Musa Ungogo, the state chairman, dismissed the announcement as an unconstitutional manoeuvre lacking structural backing. This sudden friction exposes deep structural fractures within the minority opposition party as regional leaders fight…
Nine political parties have collected their official web access codes from the Independent National Electoral Commission. The All Progressives Congress, the African Democratic Congress, and the Labour Party lead the first batch of collectors. These codes grant access to the dedicated online candidate nomination portal. The development marks the official commencement of the electronic phase…
The Nigeria Democratic Congress says it has uploaded the name of its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s nomination portal, even as the party fights a Federal High Court ruling that voided the order behind its registration. The party’s National Leader, Senator Seriake Dickson, who represents Bayelsa West, disclosed this…
The Independent National Electoral Commission is locked in a bitter dispute with political parties over portal access codes for candidate nominations. Opposition groups claim the commission is using technical delays to compromise the 2027 election timeline. Electoral officials insist that access tokens will only go to legitimate party executives. This digital bottleneck threatens to disrupt…
Prominent leaders of the National Democratic Coalition have fiercely rejected historical claims made by former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar. The pro-democracy veterans, Colonel Tony Nyiam and Chief Ayo Opadokun, dismissed assertions published in the general’s new autobiography, Call of Duty. Abdulsalami claimed that NADECO figures privately lobbied him in 1998 to extend military…
Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has chosen to file a no-case submission in his criminal trial for alleged wiretapping. His defence lawyer, Paul Erokoro, announced the decision before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday. The move followed an announcement by the Department of State Services that it had concluded its prosecution. State…
