The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirants have continued to talk tough, claiming that they are the best aspirant to reposition Nigeria if given the presidential ticket of the party. Interestingly, no fewer than seven aspirants including the governors of Ekiti and Jigawa States, Kayode Fayemi, Abubakar Badaru, former governors of Akwa-Ibom and Ogun States, … [Read more…]
INTRIGUES and tension reigned in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the party and presidential aspirants put finishing touches to their preparations for today’s Presidential primaries. The campaign offices of some of the presidential aspirants were beehives as supporters streamed in and out with information that would help the cause of their candidates. Amid … [Read more…]
Six top southern aspirants will today engage in a fierce battle for the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Though the party’s northern governors on Saturday backed power shift to the South with Jigawa State Governor, Abubakar Badaru dropping his aspiration, Senate President, Ahmed Lawan and Kogi State Governor, Yaya Bello, are … [Read more…]
Twenty six million Nigerians want me to be president in 2023: Yahaya Bello Governor Yahaya Bello, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All progressives Congress (APC) says 26 million Nigerians are ready to support to realise his ambition to become Nigeria’s president in 2023. “It is high time we deemphasised this issue of … [Read more…]
Ogba wins Ebonyi PDP governorship ticket Obinna Ogba, the senator representing Ebonyi Central senatorial zone, has won the rescheduled governorship primary election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi. The election was held on Sunday at the party’s secretariat in Abakaliki. The accreditation of delegates and voting began around 8:00 p.m. … [Read more…]
Northern APC Govs, others, zone Presidential ticket to the South Hopes for the emergence of a southerner as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been rekindled as 11 northern governors elected on the platform of the ruling party and other political leaders from the region, yesterday resolved that the presidential ticket … [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…]
–INEC says it’s not aware The composition of the delegates that will elect the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress on June 6, 2022 remains a subject of controversy as a Federal High Court in Kano State, on Friday, ruled that Section 84 of the Electoral Act did not prevent statutory delegates from … [Read more…]
2023: Kwankwaso is NNPP’s sole presidential candidate—Founder The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) says Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, a former Governor of Kano State, remains its sole presidential candidate to fly its ticket in the 2023 general elections. Dr Boniface Aniebonam, NNPP pioneer National Chairman and founder, disclosed this at a news conference on Friday in … [Read more…]