2019 elections in nigeria

The immediate past governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Dankwambo, is currently in a closed-door meeting with the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, at his presidential penthouse in Abeokuta. He arrived the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential library complex at exactly 1.10pm with his entourage...

Pressure is currently on President Muhammadu Buhari to bow out of the 2019 presidential race, Daily Independent has reliably gathered. The president is currently on a 10-day vacation in the United Kingdom (UK) and findings indicate that the holiday may be extended for another 11 days. Credible...

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State had, yesterday, said that the Igbo alone cannot make or produce a President of Igbo extraction when the time comes. Governor Okorocha had also claimed that the Igbo do not honour their own. READ MORE HERE

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Friday that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar should not count on him for support in his latest bid to actualise his life-long ambition of being elected the president of Nigeria. READ MORE HERE

As the competition for the presidential ticket of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party gets stiffer in the run-up to the 2019 general elections, the party has said that it will rely on Nigerians to help the party choose its candidate for the presidential election. The National Publicity...

The People’s Democratic Party has said their presidential slot is open for all to contest. The clarification came following media reports that the party had cleared Senate president Bukola Saraki, Sokoto State governor Aminu Tambuwal and Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso to contest for the post while...

Nollywood Actor and legal practitioner, Kenneth Okonkwo, has said the Igbos will continue to wander in the wilderness if they turn their backs against Buhari in 2019. READ MORE HERE

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given room for Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State, former governor of Kano State, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Senate President Bukola Saraki to contest its presidential ticket ahead of the 2019 general elections READ MORE HERE

At a political gathering where he was given the opportunity to speak, actor/politician, Kenneth Okonkwo, asked Nigerians to file behind President Buhari in the coming election. He particularly asked people in the South East to support President Buhari because if they don't they would wonder in...

A Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld the powers of the National Assembly to make laws including the Bill amending election sequence. The appellate court also dismissed the judgement of a Federal High Court in Abuja, which on April 25 stopped the National Assembly from overiding the assent of...

Presidential aspirant Kingsley Moghalu met with fellow aspirants Fela Durotoye, Omoyele Sowore and a host of other aspirants in a consultative meeting of presidential aspirants on Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Many Nigerians have clamoured for the new crop of young presidential aspirants to band...

Sokoto state Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has formally announced his defection from APC to PDP. He made the announcement on Wednesday while addressing a gathering at Government House, Sokoto. READ MORE HERE

Segun Showunmi, spokesman of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, has revealed that it would be disastrous if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) fails to field his principal as its candidate in the 2019 presidential election. Showunmi said Atiku deserved the presidential ticket of the PDP...

Former Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, today declared himself a sole presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 election. Lamido insisted that among all the presidential aspirants, he remained the only one without a “membership lacuna.” READ MORE HERE

Following the defection of former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), his spokesperson, Binta Spikin, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will not win in Kano State in the 2019 general election. READ...

The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Friday claimed that the governors of Sokoto and Kwara states, Aminu Tambuwal and Abdulfatah Ahmed respectively, would leave the All Progressives Congress. Amaechi also claimed that Tambuwal had presidential ambition, and that President...

Gunmen suspected to be assassins in the early hours of Friday murdered, Sunny Ejiagwu, the All Progressives Congress chairman in Ideato North Local Government of Imo state. READ MORE HERE

Senator representing Kaduna central in the National Assembly, senator Shehu Sani on Thursday, July 26, declared that he remains a member of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC). NAIJ.com gathered that the Senator said this while fielding questions from journalists at the APC national...