The Coalition for Good Governance in Kwara State has canvassed support for the nomination of the senator-elect from Kwara Central, Dr. Bukola Saraki as the next President of the Senate. The group in a statement on Monday said Bukola had performed creditably well as the governor of Kwara State. The group also added that […]
The apex Igbo socio-political group, Ohanaeze, yesterday lent its voice to the clamour for the South-east geopolitical zone to produce the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. It argued that both President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) owed that to the zone. President-General of Ohanaeze, Chief Raph Uwechue, said in Abuja […]
Ranking members of the House of Representatives from the North-east zone of the country are beginning to position themselves for the position of deputy speaker. Some of the members who met with the Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Obudu, Haliru Bello, according to a source, got a tacit backing for the […]
There were strong indications that the South-East has lost out in its bid to produce the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the zone has recently be making a strong bid for the position, owing its impressive performance in the just-concluded election. After the South-South, the South-East […]
The search for the next Speaker of the House of Representatives has split the ranks of returning members into three power blocs, setting the stage for infighting and scheming among the lawmakers, an investigation has shown. This is amid the uncertainty over which of the six geopolitical zones in the country will produce the […]
When the late flambouyant and effervescent Senate president, Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, called the shots in politics, not much was heard of his wife, Margery. But she was strongly behind the late senator, who she called the master. Mrs. Okadigbo, who said she learnt a lot from her husband, recently stepped into the political arena, where […]
AS part of his ongoing consultations on the formation of the next administration in line with the federal character principle enshrined in the constitution, President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday invited the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, to the Obudu Cattle Ranch in Cross River State, venue of his seven-day retreat. Sources in Abuja […]
The House of Representatives embarked on another one-week recess on Wednesday barely 24 hours after its members resumed from their general elections break. There were two different accounts of what led to the sudden break. While one had it that the recess resulted from the absence of two key principal officers — the Speaker, […]
The scramble for juicy slots in the emerging cabinet of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president-elect is already threatening the warm relationship between certain stalwarts of the party in the South-west, Daily Sun can authoritatively reveal. A former governor in the South -west who recently lost out in his bid for senatorial seat and a […]
ABUJA—SENATOR David Mark was, yesterday, confident of enjoying a second term as president of the Senate. Mark’s quest was being buoyed by suggestions in Abuja that the present zoning arrangement and the Senate’s standing rules on ranking would be upheld in the forthcoming leadership contest. Vanguard learnt that Mark and his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, […]
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