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Sheriff Oborevwori, speaker of the Delta house of assembly, has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary in the state. Oborevwori polled 590 votes to beat his closest rival, David Edevbie, commissioner for finance during the James Ibori administration, who polled 113 votes. While Oborevwori is the preferred candidate of Ifeanyi […]

Umo Eno, the preferred candidate of Udom Emmanuel, governor of Akwa Ibom, has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship ticket in the state. Philip Shuaibu, deputy governor of Edo state and chairman of the primary electoral committee, declared Eno as winner of the exercise held at the Akwa Ibom international stadium on […]

Titus Uba, speaker of the Benue house of assembly, has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship ticket for the state. The election was held at the Aper Aku Stadium in Makurdi, the Benue capital. Uba polled 731 votes to defeat his closest rival, Benson Abounu, Benue deputy governor, who scored 81 votes. […]

Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra and presidential hopeful, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He disclosed his intention to resign in a letter addressed to the party. The former governor’s decision to leave the PDP comes days before the party’s presidential primary is scheduled to hold. […]

Dele Momodu, publisher of Ovation magazine, says he lacks the financial capacity to compete with Nyesom Wike, Rivers governor, and former President Atiku Abubakar ahead of the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Momodu is one of the presidential hopefuls of the opposition party, and he will lock horns with Atiku […]

Ahmadu Fintiri, governor of Adamawa, has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary in the state. The governorship primaries of the party are taking place today across the country. Fintiri secured the party’s ticket to contest in 2023 after polling 663 votes. Six hundred and sixty-eight delegates participated in the […]

The political trajectory of Nigeria in the next four years will be initialised this Saturday – as the two leading political parties (the APC and the PDP) select candidates for the 2023 presidential election. The fate of our nation rests in the whimsical repository of a few deciders. We can divine the future possibilities […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says the persons behind the “wild” killings in the south-east should expect a tough response from the security forces. Anambra, a state in the geopolitical zone, has recorded a spate of violence in the past few weeks, resulting in killings and the destruction of properties. Police authorities have attributed […]

A new video of some passengers abducted by gunmen during the Abuja-Kaduna train attack has been released. In the short clip, six passengers, including a Pakistani, were seen sitting and kneeling in front of the camera with a gun-wielding man in green balaclava marshalling them. According to Arise TV, the footage was […]