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Before the swearing-in ceremony on May 29, the Reformed Oodua People’s Congress (Reformed) has urged security agencies to immediately step up security around President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In a statement released on Friday, the group’s national president, Dare Adesope, said that this was necessary in response to alleged threats made by some politicians who continue to oppose his victory and the impending inauguration.   Adesope urged the security agencies to be vigilant while specifically mentioning...

Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate for the general election of 2023, was present at the reception for newly elected and reelected governors held on Thursday in Abuja. On Thursday night, he tweeted images from the event along with the statement, “This afternoon, I joined other party leaders at the welcome reception for newly elected and returning governors, as well as send-forth for outgoing governors of our great party, the #OfficialPDPNig. “While congratulating...

The All Progressives Congress (APC), the party in power, has been shaken by the micro-zoning of the leadership of the 10th National Assembly, and five senators have threatened to rebel in opposition to the party’s and the president-elect Bola Tinubu’s decision. At a meeting with the APC leadership and members of its national working committee in Abuja on Thursday, May 11, The Punch reported that senior senators and candidates for the position of the next...