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Nigeria’s opposition leaders have broken into bitter factions over plans to present a single candidate against President Bola Tinubu in 2027. Fresh feuds erupted after former President Olusegun Obasanjo moved to broker a joint ticket between Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso. Obasanjo’s political aides insist the former general personally engineered the alliance to build a…
Twenty three years after the Alliance for Democracy lost five of the six states it controlled in the South West, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reopened one of the Fourth Republic’s most contested political arguments, rejecting claims by former Ogun State Governor, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, that he deceived Yoruba political leaders ahead of the…
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, has declared that the party has moved beyond the period of uncertainty caused by prolonged litigation and is now focused on rebuilding ahead of the 2027 general elections. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Ohuabunwa expressed confidence that the…
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…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has moved swiftly to shut down a circulating report claiming he was offered ₦500 billion to enter the 2027 presidential race and pull South-South votes away from Peter Obi, describing the entire account as a fabrication designed to drag him into a controversy he had no hand in. The rebuttal came…
Political parties are moving at sharply different speeds to beat a fast approaching deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission for uploading candidates ahead of the 2027 general elections, with the ruling party and the leading opposition platforms reporting smooth progress even as smaller parties wrestle with the commission’s online portal. INEC has…
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….
The ruling All Progressives Congress has tightened its hold on Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber, pushing its strength to 88 senators after four lawmakers elected in the June by-elections took their oaths of office, a development that leaves the opposition with its slimmest presence since the 10th Senate was constituted. The four were sworn in…
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…
Governor Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress has been re-elected to a second term in Ekiti State, defeating 13 challengers and becoming the first governor in the state’s history to retain power through immediate re-election. The Independent National Electoral Commission declared Mr Oyebanji winner in the early hours of Sunday, June 21, 2026,…
