Coming from a man like Chief Tom Ikimi, one of the country’s most enduring political figures, the memo to the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC Chief Bisi Akande was indeed unnerving.

Alhaji Khamisu Mailantarki (APC), the member representing Gombe/Kwami/Funakaye Federal Constituency of Gombe State at the House of Representatives, has protested against the conduct of APC’s ward congress in the state.

As a matter of fact some are openly advocating and canvassing the
idea. Whether we like to admit it or not this is the subject of heated
discussions in many party circles today with some party leaders being
for it whilst others are against it.

On the issue of budget, they have raised our alertness. I think we are going to match them intellectually. I am not going to comment on their claims that PDP members are intellectually inferior to them because that is totally out of the way.

There will be display of tempers, outpouring of invectives, recriminations and lamentations.
There have been consultations across the country as the South-west is making spirited efforts to reach out to the South-east, South-south and the Middle Belt to build a consensus.
For the Jonathan administration, the turn around by the opposition may have saved the conference from credibility problem since the Yoruba have been the champion of national dialogue.

CRISIS is brewing in All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo North senatorial district of Edo State, ahead of the 2015 state and National Assemblies election, following the disagreement between the ethnic groups in the area over the choice of the senatorial candidate of the party.

WHEN the Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDPGF) was established on February 24, 2013, it emerged on Nigeria’s political horizon as a child of circumstance facing an uncertain future.
It came at the time that the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) was waxing strong as a united body and keeping the Presidency on its toes on matters affecting the states, the governors themselves and the polity.

The Nasarawa State Deputy Governor, Damishi Luka, on Monday renounced his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

WITH less than four months to the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State, the major political parties are making frantic efforts to outwit one another ahead of the polls. The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and the Labour Party, LP, are presently the frontline political parties that will slug it out at the polls.

Twenty prominent politicians and their supporters in Zaki Local Government, yesterday, decamped from their different political parties including APC, APGA and PDM to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

THE leadership of the Labour Party, LP in Delta State, yesterday, faulted the jerking up of the state 2014 Appropriations Bill by N59 billion, vowing that any attempt to use the state’s money for election would be resisted.

IMMEDIATE past national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, yesterday, took a swipe at the the All Progressives Congress, APC, describing it as a commercial party whose leaders focus mainly on money

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the police of selective enforcement of its ban on political, socio-cultural and religious rallies at the nation’s airports

The good news about Nigeria is that life is never dull – there are always moments of drama and fun. The movement of the former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakir from the Peoples‘ Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Party (APC) has been described by Atiku as normal in Nigeria‘s political evolution. It should be recalled with considerable amusement that the former Vice-President is not new in the game of seeking political green pastures. Perhaps, he is an adept in such a game of political opportunism. Who would not seek the prime political prize in a country where ‘everything goes‘?

Hon. Andrew Uchendu was the Leader of the members of the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) in the House of Representatives amongst whom 37 later defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC). He is also the Chairman, Committee on Public Service Matters of the House. Uchendu, who represents the Ikwerre/Emohua Federal Constituency of Rivers State, in this interview, says there is no going back to the PDP.