President Muhammadu Buhari’s former minister of sports, Solomon Dalung has dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Dalung, who served in the first term of Buhari’s administration, submitted the letter of his withdrawal from the party to the Ward Chairman of the party in SabonGida Ward, Langtang South LGA of Plateau State. The letter which […]
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The Osinbajo for President Media Council has raised an alarm over the alleged plot to malign the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, ahead of the All Progressives Congress’ primary election. Osinbajo is a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress. The council made this known in a statement titled, ‘Exposed: Plot to […]
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INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission has lost no fewer than 9,836 smart card readers in over 42 attacks on its offices and staff in three years. Also, more than 1,149 persons, including INEC employees and security officers were killed in the three elections held in 2011, 2015 and 2019. Ballot […]
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as governor set to declare 2nd term bid The Governance Advisory Council, GAC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, on Monday, approved and sealed a second term bid in office for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. By this approval, the coast is now clear for Sanwo-Olu to re-contest for governorship slot on the platform […]
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APC President aspirants The growing number of presidential aspirants in the All Progressives Congress has become a point of debate among politicians, political observers and other stakeholders, Chukwudi Akasike writes. There is no doubting the fact that the 2023 presidential race is gathering momentum and Nigerians are getting set to elect another leader. Before the […]
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Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, has again urged the Peoples Democratic Party to put him forward as its presidential candidate in 2023, saying he is the only one capable of dislodging the ruling All Progressives Congress from power. According to him, what Nigeria needs now is an honest president and that person is none […]
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Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Sokoto, Rt Revd Matthew Kukah, has listed the qualities to be possessed by anyone who would become Nigeria’s next president. He listed the qualities in his Easter Message on Sunday titled, ‘To mend a broken nation: The Easter metaphor’. Mentioning the qualities, the cleric said Nigeria needs a person […]
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Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, has stated that the state pardon granted by the President Muhammadu Buhari to a former Governor of Plateau, Joshua Dariye, and his Taraba State counterpart, Jolly Nyame, convicted for corruption, was a disservice to the judiciary. Wike, who stated this in Minna, on Saturday, when he visited delegates of the […]
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The unsettled question of the falling apart of Mr Akinwunmi Ambode and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has come to haunt the presidential aspiration of the latter, it has been learnt. Ambode was denied a second term in office in 2019 after Tinubu and the Governance Advocacy Council, […]
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Ohanaeze leader, Ambassador George Obiozor Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, on Friday, said it won’t support the presidential ambition of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and All Progressives Congress National Leader, Bola Tinubu. Ohanaeze National Publicity Secretary, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, who stated this in an exclusive interview, emphasised that it was the turn of […]
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