Author: Anule Emmanuel

President Bola Tinubu’s Special Assistant on social media, Olusegun Dada has said that he was honoured to be named director of new media for the All Progressives Congress’s 2027 presidential campaign. In brief remarks, Dada thanked President Tinubu and senior party officials for the appointment and said he accepted the post “with humility and a clear understanding of the demands of the assignment.” He pledged to bring “innovation and commitment” to the role as the party prepares for next year’s general election. “New media has become central to communication, public engagement and participation in public discourse,” Dada said, adding that…

By Sunday Dare In the architecture of modern political opportunism, few spectacles rival the breathtaking hypocrisy of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s recent policy pivot. To watch a self-styled statesman—who less than four years ago cast himself as an uncompromising apostle of market-driven reform—scramble to promise the reintroduction of petrol subsidies is nothing short of political apostasy. This isn’t merely a tactical policy disagreement; it is a sordid, stingy manipulation of the public psyche, designed to hoodwink unsuspecting citizens through an unpardonable exploitation of temporary economic pain. Atiku’s vacillation stands as a monument to a fading presidential ambition gone completely awry, exposing…

By Tunde Rahman Osun State woke up last Sunday with the same government it went to bed with: that of Governor Ademola Adeleke. With Adeleke’s victory in the August 15 election, the opposition may be having a new talking point for 2027. The governor ran on the Accord Party platform, polling 511,067 votes to defeat his main challenger, Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress, who got 444,815 votes. Governor Adeleke thus earned a second term and a critical triumph in the last off-cycle poll before the January 2027 presidential election. Besides giving the Accord Party a South-West…

The Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has said that his administration will marshal support for President Bola Tinubu’s re‑election campaign in 2027, describing the state development projects as a pathway to massive votes. Governor Aiyedatiwa who received leaders of the Ondo chapter of the City Boy Movement, a pro‑Tinubu group, on Saturday said his agenda — which he listed as road construction, health and education improvements, and youth employment programmes — would make it “easy to sell the Renewed Hope message in Ondo State.” “Every action we take that impacts the people positively is a vote for the president,”…

Former Governor of Zamfara State and Senator Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, has accepted the post of Director-General of the All Progressives Congress’s presidential campaign council for President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 reelection bid. In a statement signed by Bayo Onanuga, the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, the administration listed President Bola Tinubu as chairman of the campaign council and Vice‑President Kashim Shettima as vice‑chairman I. Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma has been named secretary. “I accept this responsibility with deep gratitude and seriousness,” Senator Yari said in the statement, thanking President Tinubu and party leaders for the appointment. He described…

First Lady Oluremi Tinubu has urged Muslim women to draw on faith and resilience to meet social and economic challenges, calling on them to reaffirm responsibilities to family and nation as she opened the 41st national conference of the Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN). Represented by the wife of the Vice President Hajiya Nana Shettima at the three-day gathering in Abia State, Mrs. Tinubu described the conference theme, “Faith, Resilience and Responsibility: Muslim Women Responding to Challenges,” as a timely “call to action.” In a statement by Kwapchi Bata Hamman Special Assistant to the President, Media and…

Former Governor of Zamfara State Abdulaziz Yari, has been appointed Director-General of the All Progressives Congress’s (APC), presidential campaign council as President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima were named chairman and vice chairman, respectively. The council list, released by the presidency on Saturday also named Governor Hope Uzodimma as secretary. Senator Ajibola Bashiru and Hadiza Bala-Usman  as deputy and assistant secretaries. In a statement by Special Adviser on Informer and Strategy to the President Bayo Onanuga, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, the APC national chairman, will serve as a vice chairman alongside party leaders who will assist the President. President…

The All Progressives Congress candidate in last month’s Osun State governorship race Bola Oyebamiji has urged Governor Ademola Adeleke to rein in supporters and prevent post-election violence. Oyebamiji stated this while briefing State House Correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Bola Tinubu. He said President Tinubu had urged restraint and reminded political leaders that “governance is ultimately about the people,” a message the APC hopeful said should guide behaviour while legal and administrative disputes play out. “We are still reviewing the books,” Oyebamiji told reporters. “By the time we spread our sheet, we will be able to get back…

President Bola Tinubu on Friday ordered the suspension of three Permanent Secretaries after investigators uncovered yet another fake agency operating within the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa that the agency was operating under the name National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project Office. He said the discovery prompted immediate administrative action. The suspended permanent secretaries include M.S. Danjuma, Engineer Nadungu Gagare and Richard Pheelangwah, Dr. Aliyu said. The ICPC…

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday dismissed a rival’s promise from the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to reinstate petrol subsidies as evidence of “serious ignorance” about public finance. The President and his team have consistently argued that removing the costly policy was a necessary step toward fiscal stability. Speaking at the Presidential Villa Abuja, while receiving the Governor of Osun State Ademola Adeleke, President Tinubu responded to comments by ADC’s Atiku Abubakar, who recently pledged to restore the subsidy if elected in 2027. The former Vice President Atiku had also accused the Tinubu administration of failing to…