Gabriel Amalu

The debate whether the endorsement of candidates for various elective positions in 2027 and other forms of promotion of preferred candidates, ahead of the party primaries and the statutorily provided

The concerns raised about the challenges facing the opposition political parties as we approach the 2027 general elections are not unfounded. With 10 governors (and still counting) abandoning their former

On October 28, 2025, this column had made a prediction with regards to the encomiums showered on the then newly appointed INEC chairman, Prof Joash Ojo Amupitan. Could it be

As his trajectory even before 1999 would show, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a dyed in the wool, party man; and it is interesting that he turned 74 years in

For now, the joke is on Nasir el Rufai, the petit former governor of Kaduna State in his travails with anti-corruption agencies over allegations of corrupt practices. As governor, El

Even as the kaleidoscope of the 2027 presidential election looms large, all seems eerily quiet in the southeast. At the moment, the All Progressive Congress (APC), controls Imo, Ebonyi, and

Some international news networks have tagged the war between the United States of America and Israel on one side, and the Islamic Republic of Iran on the other, as Trump’s

In the light of the new enlightenment for state police, I choose to repeat this article first published here, on February 6, 2024. With national security on tenterhooks, the call

The All Progressive Congress (APC), has dealt a severe blow to the fledgling African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the much anticipated council elections in the Federal Capital Territory, held last

The election period in Nigeria is a time for real-time political drama and soap opera by key political actors. For the uninitiated, the consequence is the risk of high blood

Those who argue that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is accursed may actually have a point. A party which had a stranglehold dominance of the Nigerian political space for 16