By: Abudu Olalekan Bala Mohammed speaks in Abuja Abuja’s humid air thick with politics. Saturday rolls around, PDP’s Convention Communication Sub-committee just got sworn in. Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed steps up to the mic. He’s the PDP Governors’ Forum chair, you know. And bam—he drops it. “I’m more than concerned” about governors and bigwigs jumping…
By: Akinde S. Oluwaseun The Lagos chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) just went scorched earth on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) this weekend. They said the current wave of defections? Not random. This exodus is the bitter, unavoidable result of deep internal rot. Years of deceit. Lack of core ideology. Serial betrayal among…
By: Abudu Olalekan The halls of Nigeria’s Senate are about to witness what might be an interesting showdown. Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is coming back today. Yeah, you heard that right – after spending six whole months in the political wilderness. Listen to this. Her lawyer, Victor Giwa, told Reportersroom that she’s ready to walk right…
By: Abudu Olalekan Ibadan woke up loud. Drums. Chants. Flags everywhere. The Oyo APC Youth League poured into the streets on Saturday for what they called a Loyalty Walk, and it did feel like one—loyalty in motion. By mid-morning, major roads looked like a moving sea of green and white. Not a small crowd. Youths…
By: Abudu Olalekan It’s back. The Jonathan question. Will he run or won’t he. In quiet rooms and noisy halls, one name keeps circling the 2027 conversation. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The ground is, loudly. Multiple members of the African Democratic Congress, including folks on its National Working Committee, told Reportersroom they’ve been in touch with…
By: Abudu Olalekan The political chessboard for 2027 is already being set. And the first moves are, well, something else. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar made a splash. He joined the African Democratic Congress, the ADC, and then, in an interview with BBC Hausa, he said something that got everyone talking. He said he’d step…
