Nigeria’s political landscape appears to be a single-party state, with the All Progressives Congress (APC) consolidating power at an alarming rate while opposition parties like the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) crumble under the weight of defections and internal structural failures. Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori’s recent defection to the APC on April 23, is just … Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) finds itself in murky waters of irrelevance and structural collapse, drowned by a relentless wave of defections that have stripped it of its superior dominance in Nigerian politics. The latest blow came on April 23, when Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori and other party members from the state defected to … Read more
Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori’s defection from the PDP to the APC, has hit the Nigerian political landscape like a storm. A move that many like myself have viewed it as a betrayal of the democratic trust of Delta’s electorate, arguing that it undermines political integrity, risks destabilizing governance, and threatens Nigeria’s fragile democracy. This … Read more
By Peter Okoye Political parties have been the bedrock of every democracy in the world. Democracy, often described as the government of popular consent, is made possible through the involvement and participation of political parties, whose members are ideologically bound together. In its conceptualisation, a political party is an organized group of people who share … Read more
The 2025 federal budget, amounting to N48 trillion with a revenue forecast of N35 trillion, resulting in a deficit exceedingp N13 trillion or 4% of GDP, reflects a continuation of business-as-usual fiscal practices. This represents a persistent trend under the APC-led administration since 2016, wherein budget deficits have been consistently presented, accompanied by an increasing … Read more
Ondo State voters will head to the polls tomorrow, Saturday, November 16, 2024, to elect a new governor, in an off-cycle election. This is coming 11 months after the death of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, who died after a prolonged battle with leukemia and prostate cancer. The election which is to hold in 3,933 polling units … Read more
Dr. Paul Akintelure, the All Progressives Congress (APC) aspirant for the Ondo governorship, has passed away, as confirmed by the APC spokesperson in Ondo State, Alex Kalejaye. Akintelure, a former medical doctor turned politician, had recently expressed concerns about threats to his life. His spokesman, Oladapo Akintelure, stated that despite the escalating threats, Akintelure remained … Read more
Daniel Bwala, spokesperson for Atiku Abubakar’s 2023 presidential campaign, expressed support for President Bola Tinubu during a visit to the State House in Abuja. Despite his People Democratic Party (PDP) affiliation, Bwala commended Tinubu’s decisions, highlighting governance cost-cutting policies and unbiased handling of alleged ministerial infractions. In this report Crispng.com would highlight 10 negative things … Read more
On November 11, Bayelsa State is poised for a significant gubernatorial election, representing the first off-cycle polls conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) since the 2023 general election. Established on October 1, 1996, by the military government of General Sani Abacha, Bayelsa State was carved out of Rivers State and is situated in … Read more
By Femi Oluwasanmi The dissolution of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressive Congress (APC) by the National Executive Committee (NEC) in the recent time seems to have prevented the party from a calamitious end where disintegration would have been the next level of action if the rancorous relationship within the party had … Read more
By Jerome-Mario Utomi The current crisis rocking the national leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC), and underlying suspicion or is it animosity within the party in Edo state that recently culminated in the defection of Godwin Obaseki, the state Governor, his deputy, nine members of the Edo state House of Assembly and all the … Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has opposed the recent reduction of petrol price across the country from N125 to N123.5 per litre by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA). The opposition party, in a statement, said the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government’s decision to reduce pump price of fuel by a meagre N1.50k was indicative … Read more