Valentine Ozigbo, a governorship hopeful, has challenged the legitimacy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial primary conducted on April 5, in Anambra State, in a lawsuit he filed at the Federal High Court, Awka. The suit which named the APC, Mr. Nicholas Ukachukwu, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as defendants, also sought the nullification of Ukachukwu’s nomination, urging the party to recognise Ozigbo as the rightful candidate. In an accompanying personal statement...

Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, has written to President Bola Tinubu, charging him to suspend his retreat in France and return home to address pressing national issues. Obi wrote through his X, formerly Twitter handle on Wednesday, stressing that the President cannot be resting peacefully in Paris while Nigeria burns. The former Anambra State Governor wrote, “I’m compelled at this time in our lives as...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that President Bola Tinubu should declare a state of emergency on his disastrous presidency, stressing that Nigeria is in a full-blown state of emergency. The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections, in a press statement on Wednesday said, “On April 2, 2025, President Bola Tinubu flew out to France. Had this absurd announcement come just a day earlier, Nigerians would have dismissed...

President Bola Tinubu has decried the latest attack in Plateau State and expresses profound sorrow over the recent bloodshed and tragedy that has claimed the lives of over 40 individuals.” The President in a press statement on Monday signed by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, condemned the violence and extended his sympathies to Governor Caleb Mutfwang, the state government, and the people of Plateau while urging him to summon the necessary...

Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the renewed attacks in Plateau State that claimed many innocent lives on Sunday. It will be recalled that no fewer than 47 people were killed on Sunday in Zike community in Kimakpa area of Kwali district of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State. The deadly Sunday attack took place over a week after a similar attack in Bokkos Local Government Area in which scores of...

…Says Rivers People Didn’t Elect You Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George has told the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-ette Ibas (rtd) not to flout court orders. George, in a press statement on Friday urged Ibas not to do anything illegal which he’ll regret later when he leaves office on September 18, reminding him that Rivers’ people didn’t elect him into office. He also advised him...