•Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar There are indications about increasing hide and seek among the core promoters of the rainbow coalition being put together by some politicians across board to fight President Bola Tinubu for the 2027 presidency. Some interests within the coalition are increasingly becoming worried because the seeming lukewarm attit...
•Abure and Obi Stakeholders of the Labour Party (LP), led by the party’s 2023 Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, and Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, have endorsed the Senator Nenadi Usman-led National Caretaker Committee (LP-NCC) to steer the affairs of the party until a national convention is held. The decision was reached during the LP Natio...
•Abure, Otti, Obi and Nenadi The protracted leadership crisis in the Labour Party (LP) deepened today as the two opposing parties summoned separate National Executive Council (NEC) meetings on the way forward after last Friday’s Supreme Court judgement on the matter. While the Barrister Julius Abure-led party leadership has summoned a NEC meet...
•Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar A longlist of notable politicians including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and ex-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi are in talks to join the Social Democratic Party (SDP). This is according to the SDP presidential candidate in the 2023 election Adewole Adebayo. Adebayo said Atiku and ...
•Atiku, Tinubu and Obi The House of Representatives today passed for second reading a bill seeking to bar individuals above 60 years from contesting for the offices of President and Governor in Nigeria. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Ikeagwuonu Ugochinyere, proposes amendments to the 1999 Constitution to revise eligibility requirements for these ...
•Sule Lamido A former Jigawa State governor and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has asked former leaders of the party that defected to other parties to return to the PDP for it to reclaim power in 2027. He restated that the opposition would not succeed in fighting President Bola Tinubu by […]
•El-Rufai, Atiku and Obi Key opposition leaders yesterday formally announced a coalition aimed at unseating President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027, but several unanswered questions linger. Observers are asking how leaders with different ideologies, ambitions, and party affiliations can work together to fulfil their promise to Nigerians, reports D...
•Atiku, Obi, Kwankwaso The 2027 general elections are about two years away and the realignment of forces to dislodge the All Progressives Congress (APC) from power, especially at the federal level appears to be on the upswing. In an interview published by this paper last week, a former presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, [&h...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is ready for any challenge from opposition leaders during the 2027 general election, the presidency said yesterday. It faulted comments by the political opponents against the administration, describing them as “distracting” and “Machiavellian,” reports The Nation. The presidency advised the leading opposition figure...
•Peter Obi, Kwankwaso and Atiku The former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has refuted rumours circulating recently that he reached an agreement with opposition presidential candidates Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), to share power by alternating terms. In an in...

