•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...
•Tinubu and Brigade of Guards Less than two years into Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s first term in office, former Benue State Governor and Secretary to Government of the FederationSGF), Senator George Akume has declared that those nursing presidential ambition, particularly from the North should shelve such aspiration, saying no vacancy in Aso Rock unti...
•National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, has appealed to the party’s 2023 presidential flag bearer, Peter Obi, Abia State Governor, Alex Otti and other aggrieved bigwigs to return to the party. Abure made the plea in an exclusive interview with our correspondent, reports Satu...
•Late Prof Chinua Achebe Awka, the capital city of Anambra State, will be agog on Saturday, as top public figures, writers, intellectuals, literary activists, book lovers, and others, will honour the late literary icon, Prof Chinua Achebe. The young writers in the state are set to host the 2024 edition of the Chinua Achebe Literary […]...
•Late Dada Yar’Adua Vice President Kashim Shettima; former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, Governor Umar Dikko Radda, and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, were among the dignitaries who attended the funeral service of the mother o...
•Peter Obi, Rabiu Kwankwaso, and Atiku Abubakar The three leading opposition figures in Nigeria are discussing the possibility of a merger to salvage Nigerians from hunger and widespread insecurity ahead of the 2027 presidential election, a spokesman for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said. PDP deputy national spokesman Ibrahim Abdulla...
•Soludo and Peter Obi The National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Chief Ralphs Okey-Nwosu, has threatened to commence legal action against Anambra Governor Chukwuma Soludo and former governor, Peter Obi over the account of not less than N3 trillion from the federation account to local governments. The action, he said, will ...

