President Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressives Congress(APC) Governor’s are in a closed-door meeting in the Executive Council Chamber of of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting, which started around 3pm, was rescheduled following postponement of the earlier one by President Buhari last week just before he traveled to Belgium for the EU-African Summit. The meeting […]
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Senator Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State, has said media reports quoting him as saying he was “ready to get dirty” to achieve his presidential ambition were taken out of context. His media aide, Tunde Rahman, in a statement on Monday, said his principal, while referring to some of the unwarranted attacks against him, […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be stampeded into signing the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, the Presidency told Nigerians yesterday. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said it was hasty for some groups to hassle the President over their perceived delay in signing the Bill that was transmitted by the National […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors will meet today to further discuss the party’s forthcoming National Convention. The chairman of Progressives Governor Forum Governor Abubakar Bagudu disclosed this on Tuesday after a crucial meeting of the forum in Abuja. The Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), at the end of its 20th regular […]
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Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, was absent at his Ifofin Ward 8, Ilesa East Local Government, even though primary election was held in the area and Governor Gboyega Oyetola was declared the winner. Oyetola won by 309 votes against 146 recorded for Moshood Adeoti, the candidate supported by Aregbesola. Speaking with our correspondent, factional chairman of […]
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A coalition of civil society organisations has declared Tuesday, February 22 2022 as a national day of protest to demand immediate assent to the reworked Electoral Amendment Bill by President Muhammadu Buhari. The CSOs said they would organize peaceful public direct-action activities to further the demand to assent to the Bill. The coalition urged its […]
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Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, on Saturday emerged winner in his ward, Iragbiji, Boripe Local Government Area of the state, during the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary. Announcing the result of the direct primary at St. Peters Primary School, ward 001, Iragbiji, Mr Samson Oyebade, the electoral officer, said Oyetola scored 1,612 votes, to beat […]
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• Mulls Use Of Existing Laws, Readjustment Of Election Dates • Commission Has Extensive Powers Under Existing Laws To Conduct Credible Poll — Lawyers • Delayed Assent By Buhari Deliberate, Say CSOs • Human Tendencies, Not Laws Bane Of Nigeria’s Electoral Process, Former INEC Commissioner Declares There are strong indications that unless the Independent National […]
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An uneasy calm has settled over Osun State as the All Progressives Congress holds its governorship primary on Saturday (today). The tension is a result of a fierce battle for the sole ticket of the party between the Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola and a former Secretary to the State Government, Moshood Adeoti. Adeoti, […]
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Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), has restated his support and stand for the election of a young President in the 2023 general election. He said the youths share the vision of Nigeria’s founding fathers to actualise the nation’s dreams. Babangida spoke yesterday when a 40-year-old All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant, Adamu […]
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