The internal crisis within the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) escalated today as the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) suspended its National Chairman, Alhaji Shehu Musa Gbam, alongside two other top officials. Also suspended with immediate effect are Nze Nnadi Clarkson, the National Auditor, and Uchechukwu Chukwuma, the Natio...
•Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State The Ondo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Akure, has upheld the election of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, dismissing multiple petitions challenging his victory in the November 16, 2024, polls. In a judgement delivered yesterday and lasting over eight hours, the three-member tribuna...
•Nasir El-Rufai Former Kaduna State governor who defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Nasir El-Rufai, has said that he expects the ruling party (APC) to inject virus into the SDP and cause a crisis just as it did with the Labour Party and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). […]
•Dr. Obinna Simon Chairmanship aspirant for Abuja Municipal Area Council under the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Dr. Obinna Simon, has urged council workers and teachers to use their votes to hold the current leadership accountable for not implementing the N70,000 minimum wage. Simon lamented that with the current economic str...
•Tinubu and bandits The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has observed that the federal government under President Bola Tinubu is clueless on how to stop the killings in parts of the country. The party lamented that the country’s security architecture is “getting unimaginably demobilised and incapacitated” by murderous non-state actors, reports Sa...
•Peter Obi The Interim National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement Worldwide, Yunusa Tanko, today, Peter Obi, is a member of the party till further developments. Tanko, a campaigner for the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), said the former Anambra State governor has not joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP), reports Ch...
•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 ...
•Former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai The Kaduna chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has disowned former Governor Nasir El-Rufai, stating that he is not a recognised member of the party. Recall that the founding member of the All Progressives Congress(APC) recently dumped the ruling party for the SDP, reports The Nation. Th...
•Peter Obi With Nigeria’s 2027 presidential election about two years away, political permutations and combinations have begun with actors shopping for special purpose vehicles among the 19 registered political parties in the country to realise their dream to occupy the Aso Rock, the nation’s seat of power in the political capital city of Abuja...
•Barau and Ganduje The 2023 vice presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Yusuf Buhari, alongside the party’s Kano State governorship candidate, Bala Mohammed Gwagwarawa, as well as members of the Kano State Working Committee (SWC) and 38 local government chairmen and secretaries yesterday dumped the party for the All Progr...

