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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...

Siminalayi Fubara has denied widespread speculation that he has dumped the All Progressives Congress for the Nigeria Democratic Congress ahead of the 2027 general elections. The Rivers State governor clarified his political position during an inspection tour of the newly completed General Hospital and remodelled Neuropsychiatric Hospital in the state. Fubara...

A group of residents and stakeholders under the banner of Aba-Ngwa People for Justice, Equity and Fairness has launched a pointed public campaign against what they describe as the prolonged monopolisation of the Abia South Senatorial seat by one bloc of the zone, demanding a rotation of the seat to Old Aba ahead of the 2027 general...

Aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress in Abia State have formally petitioned the party’s National Screening Committee, demanding the disqualification of former Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji, from the party’s House of Representatives primary ahead of the 2027 general elections. The petition, signed by lead...