The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) released the final list of presidential candidates of all the political parties contesting next year’s general election on Tuesday, 20 September 2022. According to the list, there are 18 registered political parties, and by extension, 18 presidential candidates who are hoping to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari, whose tenure would elapse on 29 May 2022. However, though there is a level playing field for all the 18 contenders, even as...

Festus Keyamo, spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, has taunted the critics of Bola Tinubu. In a tweet after Tinubu returned to the country on Thursday, Keyamo described the APC candidate as “the master of the game”. “Many have said I have died; others claim I have withdrawn from the presidential campaign. Well… Nope. This is the reality: I am strong, I am healthy and I am READY to serve Nigerians...

Babangida Aliyu says the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, is the healthiest among the contenders for the presidential seat. The former governor of Niger State made the remark in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, during the declaration of support for Abubakar by 20 volunteer groups in the southwest. He was taking a swipe at Bola Tinubu, the presidential flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Tinubu had, last Sunday,...

Daniel Bwala, a spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, says the All Progressive Congress (APC) will be defeated in 2023. Bwala, while reacting to the massive turnout of Peter Obi’s supporters for a rally in Lagos State on Saturday, said APC is losing its influence. Supporters of Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, held a rally in Lagos on 1 October and marched through the streets with flags and posters to drum support...

The crisis rocking the biggest political opposition party in Nigeria, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a new dimension as some members of the national working committee from the southern part of the country are returning their share of the alleged ₦15 billion loot to the coffers of the party. The NEC members made this known to newsmen in their separate letters addressed to the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu. In his...

ABUJA — Following the commencement of campaigns ahead of the 2023 polls, presidential candidates across all political parties on Thursday signed a peace accord. All the candidates and the national chairmen of their parties signed the peace accord organised by the National Peace Committee (NPC) led by the former head of state, Abdulsalami Abubakar, at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. Some of the candidates that signed the accord were Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic...