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A spokesperson for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election campaign has urged Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike and All Progressives Congress governors to stop trading words in public and channel their energy into mobilising votes for the 2027 election. Ima Niboro, one of the spokespersons of the APC presidential campaign council, made the call on…
Social Democratic Party presidential candidate Adewole Adebayo says he would find a place in his cabinet for Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, but only on one condition: that the minister says a great deal less in public. Speaking in an interview with Symfoni, Adebayo offered an assessment that resists the…
The political atmosphere in Rivers State is becoming increasingly competitive ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 general elections, with the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and allies of Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, exchanging remarks over the likely direction of the contest. The latest disagreement followed comments attributed by the ADC to Wike during a…
Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara did nothing wrong by reconciling with the political camp that produced him, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has declared, insisting that “there is no sin in politics” as the two men close the book on a rift that plunged the oil rich state into more than…
The battle for control of the Peoples Democratic Party returned to familiar ground on Friday, as a Federal High Court in Abuja struck out a suit that sought to force the electoral umpire to recognise the Kabiru Turaki led Interim National Working Committee, leaving one of Nigeria’s oldest political parties still split down the…
Pressure is mounting on the Independent National Electoral Commission to state plainly whether it has handed the Candidates’ Access Code for the 2027 general elections to any faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, as a prominent civil rights group warns that the electoral body risks overtaking a case still pending before the courts….
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has offered one of his most candid political self-assessments yet, describing his years in the Peoples Democratic Party as time spent in the “wrong party” and insisting that his true political home has always been with the All Progressives Congress. The remark, delivered in Abuja on Friday, adds another layer…
A fresh round of power struggles has broken out inside Nigeria’s major political parties as the Independent National Electoral Commission’s nomination portal opened for the 2027 general elections, with rival factions and state chapters fighting over who controls candidate uploads before the submission deadline. The flashpoint is the Peoples Democratic Party. The faction backed…
Nyesom Wike has told the Peoples Democratic Party to abandon any hope of returning to office through entitlement, declaring at the party’s 109th National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja on Wednesday that political power is seized through struggle rather than handed over. Addressing party faithful, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and PDP…
Barely 14 of every 100 registered voters in Nigeria’s capital turned up for the February 2026 Federal Capital Territory council elections, a turnout so thin that some polling units recorded a single ballot. The figure has hardened a worry that now shadows the Independent National Electoral Commission as it prepares for the 2027 general…