APC SCREENING CONFUSION: Oyegun clarifies status of Tinubu, Osinbajo, Amaechi, Lawan, others The Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led Presidential Screening Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has clarified reports that it disqualified 10 of the 23 presidential aspirants of the party. This happened on a day it emerged that Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State remained … [Read more…]
COURT ORDER: APC rules out statutory delegates The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, restated its position on statutory delegates ahead of its Presidential Convention slated to begin tomorrow. While the party had stated that only elected ad-hoc delegates would participate in its presidential primary election, there was confusion at the weekend following reports that … [Read more…]
We will move the economy of the state from $4.4B to $30B, says Peter Mbah, Enugu PDP Governorship Candidate The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) standard-bearer in the forthcoming 2023 governorship election in Enugu State and a former Commissioner for Finance in the state, Barrister Peter Mbah, has promised to uplift the living standard of the … [Read more…]
Just In: PDP reschedules congresses in Lagos, Imo, Benue & Katsina The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has endorsed repeat of elections in Lagos, Imo, Benue, and Katsina States. In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Debo Ologunagba, on Saturday, clarified that the decision was reached following thorough … [Read more…]
Detained Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari will on August 29, know his fate when Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court will render judgment in a suit seeking to extradite him to the United States of America (USA), for trial in alleged internet fraud. The date was fixed on Friday after counsel … [Read more…]
No fewer than 68 serving Senators and 187 members of the House of Representatives have promised to throw their weight behind the presidential ambition of the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, ahead of the Special Convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The legislators drawn from across party lines announced that they are ready … [Read more…]
AHEAD of the primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC to pick its candidate for the 2023 Presidential election, Presidential aspirant and Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan said he would support any aspirant the party and the President think can do better, adding however that he believed he would emerge as the party flagbearer. … [Read more…]
Ahead of the All Progressives Congress, APC special convention slated to hold between 6th and 8th June 2023, a top supporter of President Buhari and member of the Presidential steering committee, Hon Obidike Chukwuebuka has called on to him to allow APC delegates to decide the fate of 13 presidential aspirants successfully screened by the … [Read more…]
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, is expected to meet ruling All Progressives Congress presidential aspirants latest Sunday. The president was said to be planning a trip to Ghana today (Saturday), without resolving the consensus crisis rocking the party. A top government official told one of our correspondents on condition of anonymity that the President … [Read more…]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant and former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, yesterday moved fast to douse the anger created by the speech he delivered last Thursday while on a consultation visit to the delegates of the party in Abeokuta, Ogun State, during which he bragged about installing President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice … [Read more…]
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has released the 2023 general election regulations and guidelines. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this Friday in Abuja at a special meeting of the Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security ICCES, called to review the security arrangements for the Ekiti state governorship election. Prof. Yakubu said the commission … [Read more…]
The APC presidential aspirants from the South-West are expected to hold a final meeting in Abuja today (Saturday) to decide on the way forward. The seven presidential aspirants from the South-West are Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; APC stalwart, Bola Tinubu; Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State; former Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun; Deputy Majority Leader of … [Read more…]