The former Director-General of Peter Obi’s Presidential Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, has attributed the wave of defections from the Labour Party (LP) to its failure to establish a sustainable structure following the 2023 elections. This statement comes in the wake of the defection of six LP lawmakers to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in … Read more
702 members from LP, APGA, PRP, and PDP in Makera Constituency defected to APC to support the party in the upcoming local government elections. EKO HOT BLOG reports that no fewer than 702 members from the Labour Party (LP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), People’s Redemption Party (PRP), and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Makera … Read more
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lampooned Governor Siminalayi Fubara, accusing him of showing disrespect towards President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. According to the party, Fubara is not responding positively to the president’s intervention in his ongoing dispute with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom … Read more
Saraki said it would be unjust to expect him to join the APC in 2023. The former Governor of Kwara State also downplayed the possibility of running for the presidency in 2023. Ekohotblog reports that Bukola Saraki, a former Senate President, has dismissed the possibility of returning to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Saraki stated … Read more
. . .the decision before Nigerians is a pre-emptive one; one that will prevent the next #EndSARS protest rather than necessitate it. The phenomenon of political defection is by no means new in Nigeria’s increasingly dramatic political arena. Since the advent of civilian rule in the country, it has become par for the course to … Read more