POLITICS

A member of the House of Representatives, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, who represents Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency of Abia State, has declared her intention to contest for the seat of the Speaker. Onyejeocha made the declaration despite the decision of the leadership of her party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), to support the …

By Olasunkanmi Akinlotan Strong indications have emerged that the President of the Nigerian Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, seems to have disbanded the Ogun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal headed by Justice Chinwe Onyeabo. A source in the judiciary reliably hinted PLATFORM TIMES that an internal memo had …

Adebayo Adelabu, All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Oyo State. Five weeks after he lost the gubernatorial election, the gubernatorial candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Adebayo Adelabu, has described his defeat as a “blessing in disguise.” Mr Adelabu, who lost the March 9 …

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state says he will talk more on politics, the 2019 governorship election, as well as other elections in the state, after he leaves office as Governor on May 29. Amosun who made this known during a Press Conference on the 2019 African Drum Festival, at …

The ruling party, APC has finally responded to the long petition submitted at the court of Appeal by the opposition PDP and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar praying the court to nullify the election of APC’s Mohammodu Buhari as the original winner of the February 23rd, 2019 Presidential election. The …

The Governor of Imo State, Chief Rochas Okorocha has advised the people of the South-East to shelve their 2023 presidential ambition, saying that the race for the nation’s number one seat would directly be between the North and the South-west . He said the rejection of the All Progressive Congress …

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Kano State, Abdulmajid Danbilki Commander, has cautioned politicians from the North against allowing National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, dictate the tune of politics in their region. Commander said Tinubu should not be allowed to decide Northern politics at …

BY KAYODE OGUNDELE Tanko Yakasai, elder statesman and political adviser in the second Republic, says the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) might field Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo or Bola Tinubu, a national leader of APC, in 2023. Speaking with The Interview, Yakasai said the region played a key role in the …

BY ABUSATAR HAMED  The newly elected member of the Ogun state House of Assembly, Hon. (Chief) Mrs. Lateefat Bolanle Ajayi has assured her people of Yewa South local government of fulfilling her electoral promises. Fondly called Olufela, she said this on Thursday March 28, 2019, shortly after she received her …

The former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel (OGD), reently, resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and also quit partisan and active politics. In a letter addressed to the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, Otunba Daniel stated that his decision to quit …