Road to 2023: Peter Mbah will consolidate Ugwuanyi’s achievements –USA Igwesi The pioneer leader of Enugu State House of Assembly and former member of the House of Representatives, Ikemba U.S.A Igwesi has praised Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for ensuring the emergence of a technocrat, Mr. Peter Mbah, as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) standard bearer in … [Read more…]
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, has met with with governors elected on the platform of the party over preparations for next polls. We gathered that a meeting at the PDP presidential campaign headquarters, Legacy House, in Abuja, attended by the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, discussed issues … [Read more…]
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said the emergence of Tinubu has reassured the party of winning the presidential poll. In a letter of congratulations he personally signed, Lawan said outcome of the election process had shown that Tinubu was the popular choice of his party. The letter read: “The Presidential Primary of our great party, the … [Read more…]
Smarting from his landslide victory at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential Special Convention, former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has vowed to crush the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which he mocked as ‘geckos’ in the presidential poll slated for 2003. Tinubu had defeated 13 others to set up an electoral challenge … [Read more…]
WITH the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a southern Muslim as the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, focus has shifted to those who are likely to emerge as his running mate. There are also fears that his running mate may be a Muslim from the North to enhance the chances … [Read more…]
Labour Party, yesterday, debunked rumour making the round that it conducted parallel Presidential primaries that produced a factional Presidential candidate, in the person of one Samson Uchenna. The party, in a statement issued by the Acting National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi Oluwafemi and made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, noted that … [Read more…]
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…]