The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned political parties participating in the Edo and Ondo states governorship elections against nominating ineligible candidates The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu gave the warning on Wednesday during the second virtual consultative meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES). The INEC boss warns that parties must adhere to constitutional provisions. Citing the experience in the last two governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states and...

The suspended National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has said that the claim of the party’s Deputy National Secretary, Victor Giadom, that he had taken over the acting chairman’s role is against common sense. Oshiomhole who spoke on Channels TV programme, “Politics Today”, said the party is ruled by its guidelines. Oshiomhole added that the Court of Appeal did not suspend the National Working Committee from functioning and the constitution...

The leader of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), party in Adamawa state, Senator Abdul’Aziz Murtala Nyako has swiftly reacted over  Wednesday’s defection of ADC chieftains to the ruling PDP in the state, describing it as mere political propaganda, adding that, “PDP would hear from ADC.” Sen. Nyako in a statement credited to his Facebook wall said, ” ADC Adamawa has created an enabling political environment for the PDP led Government in Adamawa to govern in...

The Federal Government has described the statement by Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, which claimed, among other things, that Nigeria’s debt to revenue ratio was 99 per cent, as scaremongering anchored on a false premise. The government made this known in a statement signed by Segun Adeyemi, Special Assistant to the President, Office of the Minister of Information and Culture, where Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of...