Category: Politics

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has warned the All Progressives Congress against giving its presidential ticket to a northern candidate. In a post on Facebook on Thursday, Akeredolu, who is the Chairman of the Southern Nigeria Governors’ Forum, charged the party to work hard to retain power by rotating the Presidency to the South. […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s aide, Reno Omokri, has said the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has no moral justification to question President Muhammadu Buhari’s appeal of choosing the presidential candidate that would succeed him in 2023. The former presidential assistant also criticised the President for making such a comment, stressing […]

More facts have emerged from the meetings held so far by the state governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress on the consensus candidate to fly the party’s flag in the 2023 presidential election. President Muhammadu Buhari, at a meeting with the governors urged them to allow him to pick a consensus […]