Comrade Muhammad Abubakar Wase, the Plateau state Coordinator of Asiwaju Patriotic Youth Alliance (APYA) has congratulated the New All Progressive Congress (APC) National Chairman, Prof Nentawe Yilwatda. GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Yilwatda was picked to take over from Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who stepped down recently due to health reasons. Professor Yilwatda is currently the Minister…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that four senators from two different states on Wednesday officially announced their resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The lawmakers from Akwa Ibom and Osub States announced their resignation from the party on the floor of the plenary of the Nigerian Senate. According to the lawmakers, they dumped the PDP for…
The Peoples Democratic Party caucus in the House of Representatives on Wednesday lost three of its members to the ruling All Progressives Congress. The defectors, two from Osun and one from Edo State, cited what they called the internal strife in the leadership of the PDP. The lawmakers who announced their defection during plenary are…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it has more supporters and followers than any other political party to claim the position of Nigeria’s leading opposition party to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Addressing reporters yesterday at the party’s national secretariat at Wadata Plaza in Wuse, Abuja, PDP’s spokesman, Mr. Debo Ologunagba, described the…
The 2023 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Adamawa State, Senator Aishatu Ahmed Binani has defected to the African Democratic Congress, ADC. Binani’s media aide, Maulud Usman confirmed the development to DAILY POST Sunday afternoon, clarifying that the politician flew into Yola on Saturday evening and made the declaration of her defection…
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has demanded a full audit of Nigeria’s refineries, citing recent reports that allege that successive governments have spent nearly $18 billion on the rehabilitation of the three major refineries in the country. In a statement by the ADC’s national publicity secretary and coalition spokesperson, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party questioned…
Few weeks after his house was marked for demolition, Hon Marcus Onobun, the lawmaker representing Esan West, Esan Central and Igueben in the House of Representatives, is set to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). Onobun, a former Edo Speaker, is the only Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member elected to the National Assembly. He was,…
The Technical Adviser to Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri on Print Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Wisdom Oniekpar Ikuli, has confirmed the possibility of an imminent defection of the governor to the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing the move as “non-negotiable and sacrosanct.” Ikuli, who is also the convener of Concerned Bayelsa Stakeholders, made the…
The Chairman of the Action Democratic Congress in Osun State, Charles Omidiji, has said the reported plan by Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, to join the All Progressives Congress may give his party a chance to win next year’s governorship election in the state. Omidiji, in an exclusive interview with Sunday PUNCH, said many members…
Amid growing rumour over the alleged plan by Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun to decamp to the All Progressives Congress (APC), the leadership Caucus of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, on Saturday declared that they will follow him anywhere regarding his next political moves. The caucus, which passed a vote of confidence on…