Barrister Mukhtari Shehu  Shagari  has in the past served as Commissioner of Justice in Sokoto State; Minister of Water Resources during the Obasanjo administration and was as deputy governor of Sokoto State for the two terms of the Aliyu Wamakko administration. He has severally contested aspired to be governor of the state and has again set machinery in motion to vie for the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP ahead of the 2019 General Election.

A group of stakeholders in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Cross River State styled as the Concerned Indigenes of Cross River State has petitioned the national chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus over alleged undemocratic activities of Governor Ben Ayade in the state.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola ignored sound counsel from former Governor Bisi Akande not to impose Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, immediate past secretary to the state government, SSG, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti has said.

Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said Senate president, Dr Bukola Saraki, must resign his position since his current party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was in the minority in the Senate and the House.

A chieftain of  All Progressives Congress, APC, in Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Otu Toyo, has said that Nigeria needs competent and patriotic legislative representation to achieve the restructuring of the country.