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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has appointed Nollywood actor and lawyer Kenneth Okonkwo as his spokesperson, ending weeks of open friction that followed the African Democratic Congress chieftain’s public rejection of the party’s vice presidential choice for the 2027 general election. Okonkwo announced the appointment in a statement posted on his official X page…
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress for the 2027 election, has laid out a governance blueprint built around education, healthcare, and mass industrialisation, promising to place human capital development at the centre of any administration he leads. In a statement issued on Wednesday to mark the new month, Obi framed his…
Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has raised the alarm over what he describes as a fresh and coordinated attempt by elements within the ruling establishment to deploy political and legal machinations to keep his party off the ballot ahead of the 2027 general election. Atiku disclosed…
A fresh dispute over Nigeria’s troubled electricity sector has opened between the Presidency and the opposition, after Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, dismissed a campaign pledge by Peter Obi to raise power generation and distribution by at least 10,000 megawatts within four years. Onanuga criticised the recent promise by…
The Presidency has dismissed as “childish, hollow and an unworthy distraction” the call by Nigerian Democratic Congress presidential candidate Peter Obi for President Bola Tinubu’s resignation, framing the demand as a misreading of Nigeria’s constitutional order and a reaction to the All Progressives Congress’s recent electoral gains. In a statement signed on Monday by…
A fresh demand for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to step down has emerged from the opposition, with Nigeria Democratic Congress presidential candidate Peter Obi pointing to the resignation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as a model of political accountability the Nigerian leader should follow. Obi made the call in a statement on his…
The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has exempted its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and vice presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, from a newly introduced anti defection oath designed to discourage elected officials from abandoning the party after securing victory at the polls. The decision, disclosed by the party’s National Secretary, Ikenna Enekweizu, during an appearance on Channels…
Peter Obi, the former Anambra State governor and a leading opposition figure ahead of the 2027 election, has declared his readiness to die for Nigeria, arguing that genuine leadership demands the ultimate sacrifice in the face of the country’s worsening security crisis. Obi spoke in a recent episode of the Black Box interview on…
The African Democratic Congress has officially named former Minister of Transportation and ex-Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi as its vice-presidential candidate for the 2027 presidential election, pairing him with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on the opposition coalition’s ticket. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, announced the decision on Monday through a statement…
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, has renewed his call for the release of detained Indigenous People of Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu, declaring that there is no justification for his continued detention. Obi made the remarks during an interaction with Nigerians in Washington, D.C., in a video that has been…
