The group of 17 factional lawmakers of Edo State House of Assembly loyal to the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, met yesterday amid tight security in Benin, the state capital. They alleged that there were plots to attack them by unspecified persons. The legislators later inaugurated seventeen committees for […]
Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday made a startling revelation on how leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) provided documentary evidence that led to the disqualification of Governor Godwin Obaseki from the governorship race. The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress had set up a […]
Clearly, striving to ensure that the country’s economy is shielded from the devastating impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is not easing pressure on lenders to increase lending to the private sector, writes Tony Chukwunyem LDR policy In a letter to deposit money banks (DMBs) posted on its […]
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State and the man behind the controversial suspension of immediate past National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, in his ward 10, Etsako West Council Area of the state, Stephen Oshawo, yesterday said he has no regret taking that decision. Oshawo’s action had contributed to Oshiomhole […]
In a season of partisan frenzy, with many red-eyed politicians focused on various power-grab projects, discipline, party supremacy and rule-governed processes become threatened, as it was in the enclave of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) until recently when a decisive presidential intervention was brought into the mix. President Muhammadu Buhari’s intervention had reduced the […]
An Abuja High Court sitting in Jabi yesterday dismissed a suit filed against the immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, and three others. The said suit, which was filed by Comrade Mustapha Salihu and five others, had prompted the court to grant an interim order on March 4 suspending […]
Ondo State Government yesterday described as mischievous a report making the rounds that members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state jubilate over the removal of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as the party’s National Chairman by the Court of Appeal. Instead, Commissioner for Information, Mr. Donald Ojogo during a press briefing emphasized that […]
Indigent young graduates of Edo State origin, under the aegis of the ‘Bury Godfatherism in Edo’ yesterday declared that the September 19 governorship election will mark the end of ‘godfatherism’ in the state politics. Coordinator of the group, Osaro Idemudia, recalled how in 2007, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole fought and defeated godfatherism during the hay days […]