The National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, told nine APC Governors at a meeting yesterday that primaries are crucial to democracy. A source at the meeting in the State House, Marina, Lagos, said the former Lagos State Governor emphasized the importance of primaries to democracy. He admonished the party leaders to safeguard in the preparation for the choice of standard-bearers. Last week, the Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum and...

Rotimi Akeredolu, Ondo State Governor who hopes to secure the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for a second term as governor of the state, said he preferred direct primary election. Mr Akeredolu said contrary to insinuations by the Unity Forum, that he wanted an indirect primary because he was afraid of losing, he was not afraid of any mode of election. “We’ve not come out as a government that we are opposed to direct primary,...

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has won all the electoral positions contested in the Local Government Council polls held on May 30 in Benue. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the elections were conducted in 23 local government councils across 276 council wards of the state. The elections, which were adjudged by a team of election observers led by Ibrahim Sheka from Kano, as having low turn out, featured five political parties. The five...

The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai has added a fresh twist to the silence between him and the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. At a Webinar in commemoration of the 63rd birthday of the Minister of Interior and former Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, El-Rufai says Aregbesola remains his man anytime any day but that Tinubu is not his man. According to Malam El-Rufai, this is due to...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the country’s democracy and electoral processes will not be affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The commission made it known that election will still go on as schedule irrespective of the fact that there is coronavirus pandemic in the country. It added that “while the Commission takes the COVID-19 pandemic seriously, our democracy and electoral process cannot be truncated for this reason, particularly because health authorities...