Even before the ink with which Supreme Court Justices wrote the 2023 presidential election judgment dried on the paper it was written, the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje, was already dreaming of a two-term tenure of eight years for his principal, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Like a young lad giddy with excitement after being given a lollipop, Ganduje “directed” former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, not to contest the 2027 presidential election because, according to him, Tinubu would seek a second term and would definitely win again.
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Amid the controversy over the harassment of Yoruba kings by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a human rights advocacy group, the Muslim Rights Concern, has called on the National Assembly and state Houses of Assembly to liberate traditional rulers in the country by repealing laws that give state governors power to depose kings.
An Ilorin based legal practitioner, Babatunde Ahmed, has advised politicians in the country to make empowerment a habit and not a campaign tool for election.
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has denied reports that it perverted the course of justice by allegedly conniving with some politicians.
A group known as All Progressives Congress (APC) Elders Council in Bayelsa State had raised alarm over the alleged move…
This followed the release of several visions that Apostle Paul Okikijesu of Christ Apostolic Miracle Ministry said God gave to him on Sunday.
Bishop Adeoye on Saturday stated that for Nigeria to move forward, the present crop of politicians must be shown the way out.
The Advocacy for Integrity and Economic Development has urged the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to stop wasting “limited testing kits” on political office holders and government officials.
A retired Naval Officer and former representative of Adamawa Central Senatorial District, Senator Abdul-Azeez Nyako, says politicians should largely be blamed for the current security challenge in the country rather than the military.
Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, a former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, says politicians are responsible for activities of bandits terrorising the country.
In a statement on Thursday in Lagos, Okogie said that many politicians failed to keep their campaign promises when elected into offices.
The Oyo State Signage and Advertising Agency has warned politicians and other stakeholders to stop indiscriminate pasting of posters or face sanction.
The President of the Association, who is also the Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kehinde Bamigbetan, made the call on Wednesday at the opening of the third Africa Political Summit taking place in Nairobi, Kenya.
Besides plans to unleash violence, the TMG said its investigations have revealed that politicians have embarked on the distribution of money, food items and gifts in 12 Local Government Areas of the state, with the aim of inducing the indigenes to vote in their favour.
The Chairman, Board of Trustees, Catholic Action, Peter Agbontaen, made the call at a dinner held at the Knight of St. John International Temple, Our Lady Queen of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral, on Saturday in Abuja.
Edgal made the promise on Tuesday, during his meeting with Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and Heads of Departments at the Command’s Headquarters, Ikeja.
Abayomi Shogunle, the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit, gave the warning in Osogbo on Tuesday.
The NBA president, bubakar Mahmoud (SAN), gave this warning at the N100 million endowment fund, organised by the association in support of access to justice for the North-east region.
Idris spoke at a one-day retreat on: “Electoral Logistics in Preparation for the 2019 General Elections’’ organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission in Lagos on Thursday.
The monarch therefore warned politicians against igniting fresh crisis that could deepen the unfortunate tension, which recently engulfed Amassoma, a host community to the Niger Delta University in Wilberforce Island.