2019 elections

Laide Raheem, Abeokuta Former president Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, hit President Muhammadu Buhari again saying he is a failure and unworthy of a second term in 2019. Obasanjo said contrary to news report, which quoted him as giving the incumbent government a pass mark, “the mediocre...

Dayo Johnson AHEAD of the Ekiti state governorship election, a Non Governmental Organisation, Patriots for Better Nigeria (PBN) has threatened to challenge Dr Kayode Fayemi’s suitability to contest the election. Fayemi The group said it would mount a judicial challenge to stop the Independent...

Ekiti Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe into N5 billion allegedly earmarked to buy votes during the Saturday’s primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Fayose expressed worries over movement …...

Presidential aspirant, Fela Durotoye, has charged married Nigerian women to deny their husbands who do not have permanent voter’s card (PVC) sex. He said that wives should ‘lock up’ their husbands who don’t have their PVCs by July 1, 2018, while urging young unmarried women to ward … Read...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) yesterday told President Muhammadu Buhari to forget re-election in 2019 if the killings going on across the country continue. The umbrella … Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2vXbX2H Get More Nigeria Metro News

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said one of the reasons he parted ways with his former party, the All Progressive Congress (APC), was the inability of President Muhammadu Buhari to address the negative manner in which the party was being run. Mr Abubakar stated … Read more via...

Recently, several sudden deaths have occurred in the 8th National Assembly and the lawmakers – Senators and members of the House of Representatives, are jittery especially now that the 2019 election year is approaching. Solomon Ayado writes It is a reality that nobody wishes to die and...

Less than three months to the Ekiti State governorship election, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has expressed its determination to produce the next governor by defeating the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led government. The State Secretary of SDP, Oludele Bankole, … Read more via...

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Plateau, Mr Gwaman Datong, has urged the electorate to take part in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) to empower them for voting in the 2019 general elections. In a statement issued in … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria...

The Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, thursday asked the youths to mobilise themselves and have representatives in government and stop bothering old people like himself. Soyinka gave the charge while speaking with journalists after he delivered a lecture to commemorate the … Read...

Prof. Adebayo Williams, a scholar, journalist and novelist is also the Chairman, Publicity Committee, Abraham Aderibigbe Adesanya Memorial Committee. He spoke on the exemplary role of the late former Chairman of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) and Afenifere, Senator Abraham … Read...

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday, asked the youths in the country to mobilise themselves and vote out old and failed political leaders. Noble Lareate, Playwriter and Poet, Prof Wole Soyika Soyinka spoke with newsmen after delivering the second...

The senator representing Rivers South-east district in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Abe, wednesday formally declared his intention to contest for the governorship of Rivers State in 2019 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Abe, who made the declaration while...

All the 24 governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressive Congress(APC) on Tuesday announced their endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari’s candidature for the 2019 presidential election. Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo made the position of the governors known to State...

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) of planning to rig the 2019 general election with the use of underage voters, manipulation of voters’ data and creation of new polling units. The party also claimed the...

Kaduna— Former Governor of old Kaduna State and National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, has said that even if the All Progressives Congress, APC and President Muhammadu Buhari rigged the 2019 elections, they will still lose … Read more via Vanguard News –...

Executive Governor of Gombe State, Alhaji Hassan Ibrahim Dankwambo has urged Nigerian youths to get their PVCs as BBNaija 2018nwill come to an end today and they will seemingly have … Read more via Nairaland Forum – https://ift.tt/2qRYpjo Get More Nigeria Political News

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied creating 30,000 additional polling units in order to compromise the 2019 general elections. Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party`s (PDP), on Friday alleged that INEC was planning to …...

The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, has expressed disappointment over the federal government’s poor attitude to the attraction of foreign investors. Sanusi said this in an interview with journalists at the on-going US-Nigeria Investment Summit 2018 taking place in Washington DC. The...

Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti, has described the third force movement proposed by former president Olusegun Obasanjo as “no force”. The former president had called for a coalition that would wrestle power from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in...