The APC beyond Buhari, By Chidi Amuta

The APC was birthed out of Mr. Buhari’s resilient appetite for presidential power. Its victory in the 2015 presidential election satisfied that hunger and lavishly fed it for eight years. His victory then was a product of both his northern regional cultic followership and a nationwide rejection of Mr. Jonathan’s bumbling presidency. Eight years afterwards, […]

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Former Kano gov, Ganduje emerges as APC national chairman

Former Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje and spokesperson for the ninth Nigerian Senate, Ajibola Basiru, were on Thursday officially ratified to replace the immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu and former National Secretary, Iyiola Omisore respectively. The decision was taken barely an hour after President Bola Tinubu […]

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Catalogue of Lootings in Nigeria: How Corruption Under PDP Became Child’s Play Under APC, By Femi Falana

1. Diversion of N40 billion from Federation Account A company, Continental Transfert Technique had been hired by the Ministry of Interior to collect the Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Alien Card (CERPAC) Fee of $2,000 per annum from every expatriate in Nigeria. The revenue from 2019 comes to an average of N40 billion per annum. […]

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Adamu, Omisore resign as national chairman, secretary of APC

National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced the  resignation of the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdulahi Adamu, and the Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore. Senator Abubakar Kyari, the Deputy National Chairman, North, made the announcement after the meeting of the NWC held on Monday at the party’s secretariat in […]

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Election Petition Court reserves judgement in APM’s petition against APC

Nigeria’s Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), on Friday, reserved judgement in the petition of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) challenging the conduct of the February 25 elections wherein Bola Tinubu was declared as the elected president. APM is seeking the disqualification of Tinubu on the grounds of unlawful nomination of the Vice President, Kashim Shettima. […]

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There’s no Ministers’ list yet ―Omisore, APC Nat. Sec.

National Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Iyiola Omisore has said that the purported list of Ministerial nominees are mere speculations. Omisore who sat for an interview on Channels Television, said the ruling party is still consulting and the Ministerial list is not ready. He noted that it is the prerogative of […]

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I regret campaigning for APC —Actress Ronke Oshodi Oke

Nigerian star actress, Ibironke Ojo-Anthony professionally known as Ronke Oshodi Oke, has revealed reason she regretted campaigning for the All Progressives Congress (APC) following the EndSARS protest that rocked the country in October 2020. Speaking in a recent interview with Chude Jideonwo, Ronke Oshodi slammed the APC-led government for failing on its campaign promises. She said: […]

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Tribunal moves to merge all petitions against Tinubu, APC and INEC

Nigeria’s Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), sitting in Abuja, has disclosed plans to merge the three separate petitions seeking to nullify the outcome of the 2023 presidential election by virtue of paragraph 50 of the First Schedule of the Electoral Act to merge all the petitions and decide them together. This view was supported by […]

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In a secret memo in May 2022, Kayode Ajulo warned APC against fielding candidate with dual citizenship, criminal records

In its publication of 23rd May 2022, The Punch newspaper published a story that Kayode Ajulo, a lawyer and rights activist wrote a secret memo to president Buhari warning the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to field candidate with dual citizenship and or criminal records and that 22 of the 25 APC candidates jostling for […]

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Keyamo, APC celebrate illegal declaration of Binani as Adamawa ‘governor-elect’ (Tweets)

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo SAN, has celebrated the illegal declaration of the Adamawa State governorship candidate, Aisha Dahiru, as ‘governor-elect’. “Just woke up in the US to this wonderful news. I am screaming my head off here! This is such a glass-shattering watershed for the women of Nigeria! Huge […]

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Why APC not at rest, having no peace of mind over Obi ―Fayose

Isaac Fayose, brother to former Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, has given reasons why the All Progressives Congress (APC) is rattled over the loss of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Fayose, while reacting to a video of how Peter Obi was received by some Nigerians in the diaspora, said the level of reception […]

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Court orders Tinubu to be served with petitions through APC

Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, on Friday, ordered that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, should be served with copies of petitions seeking to nullify his election, through substituted means, on APC. The ruling followed separate ex-parte applications that were brought before the court by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, […]

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Machiavellian democracy and APC of Buhari and Tinubu, By Azuka Onwuka

When the People’s Democratic Party was in power for 16 years, from 1999 to 2015, many Nigerians, especially members of the opposition, complained of the party’s haughtiness, highhandedness and fixation with victory. PDP was accused of seeing election as a “do-or-die affair.” The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was a member of the opposition […]

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INEC declares APC’s Bola Tinubu president-elect

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, as the winner of the Saturday, February 25, presidential election. The Chairman of the Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the final result at exactly 4.10 a.m. Wednesday, March 1, said after days of collation of results from […]

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INEC announces APC as winner of presidential election in Ekiti state

The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Ekiti state has announced the results for the presidential election in the state and said the All Progressive Congress (APC) won. See below: A- 69 AA- 29 AAC- 108 ADC- 1337 ADP- 737 APC- 201, 494 APGA- 268 APM- 46 APP- 91 BP-46 LP- 11,397 NNPP- 264 NRM- 131 PDP- […]

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Why APC will win presidential election —Keyamo

Nigerian Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win the February 25 presidential election, because it is the most popular party in Nigeria. Keyamo, also a spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC) (PCC), stated this when he appeared at the News […]

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APC plans to swap N21 billion for vote-buying ―PDP Digital Media head, Ehilebo alleges

The Head of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Digital Media, Barrister Tony Ehilebo has claimed of a certain intelligence that the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), is planning to swap N21 billion it had set out for vote-buying. He, however, said that the efforts of Governor Nasir El-Rufia of Kaduna State and his […]

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To vote APC in 2023, you must first hate yourself (II), By Sonala Olumhense

Last week, I opened my case for Nigerians not to vote for the All Progressives Congress this year. I refer to Nigerians who are led by reason, not sentiment; by the facts, not conjecture; by logic, not hot air; by self-respect, not idol worship. Such a Nigerian, wherever he may be, is a witness to the perfidy […]

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