Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has disclosed reasons why he stepped down his presidential ambition to support the candidacy of Atiku Abubakar at the recent presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party. The governor, who was also a presidential aspirant on the platform of the party before his late withdrawal where he asked his supporters […]
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The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has released 20 names as chairmen and members of sub-committees of the special convention to oversee its primary election slated for Monday and Tuesday. According to the document released on Saturday by the party’s Assistant Director Media and Publicity, Edegbe Odemwegie, those on the list are members of the […]
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Gaskiya Youth Movement, a youth group that says it is a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to disqualify Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, one of the party’s presidential aspirants. Umar Iliyasu, Suleiman Baba and Abubakar Adamu, on behalf of the group, filed a suit on June […]
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Presidential aspirant and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has attempted to provide clarity to his comments about being responsible for making Muhammadu Buhari Nigeria’s president. In a statement on Friday, Tinubu said the media subjected his utterances in Abeokuta, Ogun State, to “gross misinterpretations.” “To a degree, the erroneous interpretations […]
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The screening committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) did not disqualify any of the 23 presidential aspirants that appeared before it, a member of the committee has clarified. The member made the clarification on Friday night to correct the report that 13 of the aspirants have been disqualified. According to the member, who asked […]
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Nigerians will on Saturday discuss the country’s next general elections and the preparedness of its electoral commission. The event, slated to be held at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre in Abuja, will afford Nigerians an opportunity to engage the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, on his agency’s preparation for the elections. The […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State has inaugurated three reconciliation committees aimed at settling any issues that might have arisen during the party’s primary elections statewide. This was contained in a statement by the party’s spokesman in the state, Mr Kennedy Ikantu Peretei, who said that this was “with a view to bringing […]
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A presidential aspirant and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, opened up on his role in the emergence of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) as the President in 2015. The former Lagos State governor, while addressing the Ogun State APC delegates at the Presidential Lodge, Abeokuta, said Buhari, after losing […]
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Buhari will have his way, stakeholders say APC governors root for a colleague as a candidate, disagree on zoning Team has been set up to dialogue with Tinubu to accept Osinbajo as a consensus candidate, says presidency source Rotate power to South to retain the presidency, Akeredolu warns APC Lawan campaign organisation names Orji Kalu […]
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Buhari not looking north for successor — Source South-West divided between Tinubu and Osinbajo How Aregbesola created problems for Tinubu The seven-man Presidential Aspirants Screening Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, led by Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has cleared all the 23 aspirants it screened for Monday’s primaries. A source close to the committee […]
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