Category: Politics

Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has told the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to rescue himself from the political wilderness that he is presently, rather than jumping up and down, seeking media attention, by turning himself into critics of everything, including the most ridiculous. …

The Cross River State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Barr. Venatius Ikem has been reelected for a second term of four. Venatius Ikem was reelected alongside 38 other members of the State Executives of the party during the 2025 State Congress of the party, held on September 27, 2025, at the Venetian Arena…

A former commissioner for works and transportation in Ekiti, Mrs Ogun Funmilayo Theresa, has picked the nomination and expression of interest forms of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2026 governorship election in the state. Speaking after obtaining the forms at the PDP headquarters, Ogun described the moment as a huge milestone in…

Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has said that self-appointed Activist and Publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, was only afraid of his “scamming shadow,” describing his allegation that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Wike wanted to assassinate him as “one of…

Notable leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who are loyalists of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, have demanded the retention of the 2021 convention’s zoning arrangements, insisting that the National Chairman must remain in the North-Central. The PDP leaders, who met in Abuja on Monday night, under the auspices of Eminent…

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Saturday, expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the ongoing local government election in the state. He also hailed President Bola Tinubu for making sure that the election was conducted, saying; “since the Supreme Court has said there is nothing like caretaker committees in local…

The decision of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) National Executive Committee (NEC) to zone the presidency to the South, and retaining the National Chairman of the party in the North has been described as another clear vindication of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike and the G-5’s position in 2022. The Minister’s Senior…

State Chairmen of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), former Governors, National Assembly members, serving and former National Working Committee members and other notable stakeholders from the Southern Nigeria have disowned the meeting scheduled for Lagos today, by some group in the party with the aim of zoning positions.  The PDP leaders dismissed “any resolutions, communiqués,…

Baring any last minute change of plans, a former Senator in Ekiti State, Biodun Olujimi, will defect from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the next few days. Sources who are privy to this plan told our reprepreseting Ekiti South Senatorial District is targeting ambassadorial appointment and those…

Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has said that the Senator representing the FCT, Ireti Kingibe, is already blinded by the spirit of her impending electoral woe, and can never see the positive transformation going on in Abuja and the FCT satellite towns.  Olayinka…