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Former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, has emerged victorious in the All Progressives Congress, APC, senatorial primary election for Kogi Central Senatorial District after recording a landslide win across all five local government areas in the district. Results released after the exercise showed that Bello secured overwhelming votes in Adavi, Ajaokuta, Ogori-Magongo, Okehi and...

By Charles Thomas | National Concord In a primary election that reshuffled the political deck in one of Nigeria's most strategically watched senatorial districts, Lawmaker Erondu Uchenna Erondu Jnr has emerged as the APC's candidate for the Abia South Senatorial District ahead of the 2027 general elections routing former NALDA Executive Secretary Prince Paul...

In Imo State politics, the Orlu zone has always been where giants go to settle scores. And in 2027, the Imo West Senatorial District is once again the arena only this time, the combatants are not strangers to each other. They have shared the same party, the same constituency, and in some cases, the same enmities for...

Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the All Progressives Congress, APC, primaries have triggered a political earthquake within the House of Representatives, with more than 50 serving lawmakers either losing their return tickets or opting out of the race entirely. The development signals one of the biggest shakeups in the history of the Green...

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has emerged unopposed as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress for Bende Federal Constituency ahead of the 2027 general elections. Kalu’s emergence followed a pronouncement by registered APC members across the 13 electoral wards that make up the federal constituency.

The man who, by his own account, held the door open for Alex Otti to become Governor of Abia State now wants to walk through that door himself. Hon. Ceekay Igara, the Labour Party's National Vice Chairman for the South-East zone, has officially purchased his Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms to contest the...

Desmond Elliot has publicly apologised to Femi Gbajabiamila over tensions arising from the Lagos State House of Assembly leadership crisis. The Surulere Constituency I lawmaker made the apology during an appearance on TVC’s Your View programme on Friday, where he described Gbajabiamila as his political mentor and appealed for forgiveness if he had offended...

A member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Sadisu Mahmud, popularly known as Mahmud Buba, has come under intense scrutiny following allegations that his official records contradict his publicly declared age. The controversy erupted after the aspirant, who declared interest in contesting for the House of Representatives seat for Sabon Gari Federal Constituency in...

Prince Paul Ikonne wants Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe’s head politically speaking and he is not mincing words about it. The Abia South APC senatorial aspirant, speaking to journalists at his country home in Aba, delivered a withering verdict on Abaribe’s nearly two decades in the Senate, saying the region’s most prominent legislator has left nothing...

The All Progressives Congress has cleared several serving governors including Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma, Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara, and Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun for their respective governorship primaries, even as a torrent of petitions continued to flood the party's screening panels and an explosive political purge unfolded in Rivers State. Fubara's...