Politics

David Umahi, governor of Ebonyi state, has denied decamping from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The Ekiti State House of Assembly has adjourned legislative business until October 8, citing issues of harassment and insecurity.

About 17 aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress are currently jostling to succeed Osun State governor Rauf Aregbesola in office.

National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, on Tuesday, urged Ekiti State governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, not to renege on his electioneering campaign promises of prompt settlement of workers’ backlog of salaries.

Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday expressed satisfaction with the outcomes of the Saturday July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State.

Forum of Senior Special Assistants to Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State Tuesday supported the decision of the National Working Committee of the party to use Direct Primary to pick the party’s governorship candidate on Thursday.

A member of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Husain Kangiwa, says the All Progressives Congress victory in Saturday’s Ekiti governorship election is a testimony of the party’s popularity in the country.

A group, under the aegis of Kogi Youths Advocates of Good Governance (KYGG), has urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) and people of the state to ensure the emergence of Yahaya Audu, the younger brother of late Prince Abubakar Audu as the Senator to represent Kogi East in the forthcoming election.

A youth group known as the Benue Youth Alliance For Ortom 2019 (BYAFO 2019), has vowed to continue to stand with Governor Samuel Ortom in his efforts to give a new direction in the Nigeria’s Food Basket State in spite of the persecutions he is facing.

A former governorship aspirant and chieftain of Accord Party (AP) in Ogun State, Omooba Segun Adewale, has decried the alleged vote buying in the just concluded Ekiti governorship election, describing the development as “worrisome and detrimental to Nigeria’s democracy”.

Concerned members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State have said it is desirable for the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to be back in its fold to enable the party win in state election next year.

The Ogun State chapter of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), has commiserated with the victims, particularly families whose members lost their lives in flood which ravaged the Abeokuta metropolis last Friday.

Gboyega Oguntuase, Ekiti State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in a post-election press conference accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies of conspiring to subvert the will of the electorate.

A few months ago, the world was stunned with the pitch to palace story of George Weah who after enjoying an illustrious football career went on to become the president of his country, Liberia.

Crisis is brewing in the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as hundreds of aggrieved youths of the party have accused Governor Godwin Obaseki of using them to win the 2016 governorship election in the State but later dumped them.

The Deputy National Chairman (North), Sen. Lawal Shu’aibu, has summoned to Abuja for an urgent meeting the two main actors in the tussle for leadership of the Benue chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Netherlands was a sign of reprimand for the spate of bloodletting, extra-judicial executions, illegal arrests, arbitrary detention, torture and reported disappearances in the country.

Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, has said the party platform on which he will contest for his second term ticket for Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District in 2019 will not matter much.