All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended its planned national caucus and national executive committee (NEC) meetings. Abubakar Kyari, acting national chairman of the APC, spoke to reporters after an emergency gathering of the party’s national working committee (NWC) on Monday. The NWC sit-down which was held at the party’s headquarters in Abuja was called after the “resignation” of Abdullahi Adamu and Iyiola Omisore as national chairman and national secretary of the ruling party, respectively. Kyari said the change in the party’s leadership necessitated the postponement of the meetings. The acting national chairman said a new date for the meetings would…

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, has described President Bola Tinubu’s plan to hand out N8,000 to 12 million households for six months as a brazen attempt to divert public funds. Special Assistant on Public Communications to Abubakar, Phrank Shaibu, made this known in a statement on Thursday. He said Tinubu’s plan to spend $800m on palliatives under an opaque arrangement was reminiscent of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s conditional cash transfer and Covid-19 intervention initiative which saw politicians keeping food items and provisions in their homes while the poor went hungry. He…

The presidential election court has reserved judgement in the petition filed by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) against the election of President Bola Tinubu. The five-member panel of the court led by Haruna Tsammani, adjourned for judgement on Friday, after all the parties adopted their final briefs. In the petition marked CA/PEPC/04/2023, the party is contending that Tinubu was improperly sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) since he nominated Kashim Shettima as his vice-presidential candidate for the election. It claims that at the time Shettima accepted to be APC’s vice-presidential candidate, he was still the party’s candidate for Borno…

Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party in Nigeria, has condemned the insecurity in the country’s Southeast, saying the frequent sit-at-home order in the region is criminal. “What is going on in the Southeast is essentially a criminal activity that must be nipped in the bud, with all hands being on deck, security agencies, and the people alike,” Obi tweeted on Thursday via his Twitter handle. Obi, who was making a general comment on the rising insecurity in Nigeria said it was “disturbing” that gunmen enforcing the sit-at-home order in the Southeast have continued to disrupt businesses…