ABUJA — Bukola Saraki, former senate president, has hinted at his interest to contest in the 2023 presidential election. He indicated this in a series of tweets made through his Twitter handle on Thursday. He noted that Nigerians will have a greater sense of their nationality if he was allowed to lead the country. Although there have been calls for the former senate president to contest in the 2023 presidential election, he has not officially...

ABUJA — Professor Femi Olufunmilade, a renowned professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies has submitted his letter of intent to vie for the office of the president of Nigeria in the next general elections on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Olufunmilade, a former personal assistant to the late Chief Bola Ige, was a founding member of three major political parties: the defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD), the defunct Congress for Progressive...

ADO EKITI — The Chairman, All Progressives Congress Primary Election Committee for Ekiti State and Governor of Jigawa State, Abubakar Badaru, said on Wednesday that party members who would vote in the primary elections across 177 wards in the state would queue behind their preferred aspirant’s poster. Badaru said that the stakeholders and aspirants had resolved that only members with valid membership cards and as well as voter cards would be allowed to participate in...

ABUJA — The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has countered a claim by a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that Permanent Voters’ Cards have expired. Tinubu had made the claim while addressing women leaders of the APC who paid him a visit in Abuja, on Tuesday. The former governor of Lagos State also lamented that there had been a decline in the number of eligible voters in recent times. Reacting, Chief...