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The African Action Congress has inaugurated its Presidential Campaign Council for the 2027 general election, unveiling a nationwide structure that will coordinate the re-election bid of its presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, and his running mate, Haruna Garba Magashi, across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The party announced the inauguration in a statement…
The African Democratic Congress will formally inaugurate its Presidential Campaign Council today, Friday, October 9, 2026, at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, marking the transition of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s third bid for the presidency from a coalition-building exercise into a fully activated national campaign operation. Senator David Mark, a retired…
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, has said he would moderate petrol pump prices across the country if elected president in 2027 by removing corruption from the subsidy system and improving domestic refining arrangements. Speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Thursday, 10 September 2026, Obi stated: “We’ll moderate fuel…
The proposal by a pro President Bola Tinubu support group for Peter Obi to withdraw from the 2027 presidential race and support the incumbent has opened a larger question about the political arithmetic of the Southeast, and whether an alliance between the region and the Southwest can realistically alter the succession calculations ahead of…
The Department of State Services’ reported decision to seek a pause in the cybercrime prosecution of African Action Congress presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore until after the 2027 election has reopened a legal and political question that goes beyond one defendant: what happens to a criminal case when the accused is also an opposition presidential…
A combative pledge by President Bola Tinubu to “wrestle” his rivals ahead of the 2027 general election has drawn a sharp rebuke from former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, reigniting a bitter contest over the state of Nigeria’s economy and the direction of the country’s public finances. Tinubu had, during an audience with the leadership…
The African Democratic Congress has waved aside a forecast by former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, that its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, will lose the 2027 election, describing the projection as a personal prayer rather than an evidence based assessment. Special Adviser to the ADC National Chairman on Research, Policy…
Senator Adams Oshiomhole has dismissed Peter Obi’s renewed promise to serve a single four year term if elected president in 2027 as unrealistic and born of desperation, reigniting debate over whether one tenure is enough to reset Nigeria’s troubled economy and security architecture. Speaking on TVC’s Beyond the Headlines, the Edo North senator and…
A decades old United States forfeiture matter that has shadowed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since his years as a private businessman has been thrust back into the centre of Nigeria’s political contest, this time through the corridors of power in Washington rather than the courtrooms of Abuja. Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C., a Washington based…
Kenneth Okonkwo, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and aide to the party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, has explained that the choice of former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi as running mate for the 2027 election was intended to demonstrate that Atiku holds no prejudice against the Igbo people. Okonkwo made the…