2019 election news

Senate President and director-general of the Atiku Presidential Campaign, Dr Bukola Saraki Wednesday claimed President Muhammadu Buhari is not in charge of affairs in Nigeria. Speaking on AIT breakfast program, Kakaaki, Saraki said the President has shown lack of capacity-- Read more via The...

Despite in police custody, Senator Dino Melaye’s campaign train hit the Yagba West, Local Government today in Kogi State. Up Nigeria!... Read more via Welcome To Ladun Liadi’s Blog – http://bit.ly/2AXrShN Get More Nigeria Metro News

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said that the present administration has brought so much hardship on Nigerians. He called on Nigerians to ensure the removal of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2019. Saraki spoke Tuesday during a programme aired on...

Senate president, Bukola Saraki, has urged his Kwara State supporters not to be afraid of federal might which he said supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are relying … Read more via pulse.ng – Nigeria’s entertainment & lifestyle platform online – https://ift.tt/2Ecn9ew Get More...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says his candidacy is an opportunity to bring about a Nigeria of “our collective dream” and aspiration... Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2r32YHX -- Get More Nigeria Political News

Ahead of 2019 general elections , about 2000 supporters of People Democratic Party in Gombe State have defected to the All Progressives Congress APC in the State including by the younger brother of Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo Buhari Dankwambo came after the failed efforts of his brother and some...

Suddenly, what seemed yesterday like a near-comatose PDP is now a resurgent party, buoyed by President Olusegun Obasanjo’s endorsement of the man he once vowed would rule Nigeria over his “dead body”. The PDP is now seriously threatening President Muhammadu Buhari’s bid for a second term...

Gov. Peter Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said the 2019 presidential election will not be a contest between PDP and President Muhammadu Buhari but a straight fight between the president and Nigerians who are tired of his misrule. Fayose In a statement, Fayose said Buhari has Nigerians …...

Jeremiah Useni, a Senator representing Plateau South senatorial district, has emerged the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau for the 2019 election. Useni polled 1,018 votes to defeat 12 other candidates at the party’s primary held on Sunday. 2,097 delegates...

Nigerian presidential hopeful Atiku Abubakar said he will scrap a system of multiple exchange rates to attract foreign investment and accused President Muhammadu Buhari of failing to deal with the nation’s security challenges. “I would definitely … Read more via Nairaland –...

There is palpable anxiety in the polity as the National Assembly joint Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) meets today, to continue deliberation on the contentious budget of the electoral umpire for the conduct of the 2019 general elections. The committee had...

The presidency in Nigeria erupted in anger on Tuesday and described as fake news and fiction a report claiming that the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and Saudi Arabia have begun mounting pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election next year. Read...

According to a source, Saraki is considering the possibility of running on the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) platform. There are indications that the.... Read more via Pulse.ng – https://ift.tt/2O8uC0s Get More Nigeria Political News

The Biafra Zionists Federation, BZF, on Friday vowed that no election would be conducted in the defunct Biafra region during the 2019 general elections. This came from the self-acclaimed President of the BZF, Barr. Benjamin Onwuka. He spoke to journalists in Enugu a day after he was … Read...

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar Sunday paid a private visit to Nigeria’s former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, at his Minna uphill residence in Niger State... Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2lNAAXW Get More Nigeria Political News

A former deputy governor of Nigeria’s central bank and Young Progressive Party’s presidential aspirant in the next general elections has said President Muhammadu Buhari must be rejected at the polls in 2019.... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2IGBJcy Get More Nigeria Political News

“Youth of the State” under the Coalition of Youth in all the three Senatorial Zones of Kaduna State has met and resolved to urge Hon. Aminu Abdulfatah to make himself available for the exalted seat of Kaduna State Governor in the forthcoming elections in 2019. The group that … Read more...

STRONG indications have emerged that as the All Progressives Congress, APC holds its National Convention today, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, is set to replace the new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP with his structure of the Social...

In its determination to mend fences with former members ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has intensified moves to convince former President Olusegun Obasanjo to rejoin the party in the next few weeks. The post How PDP is secretly wooing Obasanjo appeared...

Widening splits in Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s ruling All Progressives Congress are jeopardizing his bid for re-election next year. As the APC holds its national convention to elect party executives on Saturday, it’s threatened by defections as well as infighting between the...