By Mohammed Mamman/Ahmed Abba Damaturu, Oct. 3, 2018 Hajiya Khadija Ibrahim, Minister of State Foreign Affairs, defeated her step son, Mohammed Ibrahim to clinch the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for Damaturu/Gulani/Gujba/Tarmuwa, Yobe federal constituency. Prof Abba Gambo, the Returning Officer of the election, announced on Wednesday that Khadijah polled 1,295 …
Read More »Primary: Ambode congratulates Sanwo-Olu, thanks Tinubu
By Folasade Adeniran Lagos, Oct. 3, 2018 Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has conceded defeat and congratulated the winner of the Lagos All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship primaries, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Ambode, in a state broadcast on Wednesday, urged all Lagosians to immediately support the party’s gubernatorial candidate in …
Read More »PDP National Convention: Gov. Wike meets Atiku Abubakar
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Tuesday held a consultative meeting with Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential aspirant and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar at the Government House Port Harcourt. The presidential aspirant arrived Government House Port Harcourt in company of former Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and …
Read More »Protests trail APGA Rep primaries in Anambra
Awka, Oct. 3, 2018 Some aspirants of the Federal House of Representatives seeking to contest on the platform on All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra have condemned the primaries in some constituencies. The aspirants who spoke to newsmen in Awka on Wednesday described the exercise as a `charade and …
Read More »All results of Imo APC primaries, fake – Oshiomhole; Gulak panel disbanded
By Ismaila Chafe Abuja, Oct. 2, 2018 The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday described the results being circulated as the outcome of the Imo governorship primaries as fake. Oshiohmole stated this while fielding questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting …
Read More »Uzodinma is winner of APC governorship primary election in Imo-Gulak
The chairman of the Imo State governorship primary election, Ahmed Gulak, has declared Senator Hope Uzodinma winner of the election. Gulak said, at a press conference in the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja where he officially declared the result, that Uzodinma polled 423,895 to defeat the other aspirants. …
Read More »Lagos primary: I’ve not conceded victory to anybody as elections have not held – Ambode; Lagos APC defies panel’s order, declares Sanwo-Olu winner
By Bolaji Buhari Lagos, Oct. 2, 2018 The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu as winner of Tuesday’s governorship primary. This was contrary to the position of the Clement Ebiri-led panel, which had earlier declared the election that produced Sanwo-Olu as winner as …
Read More »Bauchi governor emerges APC gubernatorial candidate
By Mohammed Ahmed Kaigama Bauchi,Oct. 2, 2018 Gov.Mohammad Abubakar of Bauchi on Tuesday clinched the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial ticket after two days of uncertainty about the fate of the primaries in the state. Announcing the outcome of the exercise, Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Prof. Ahmed Bakari, said …
Read More »2019: Ben Bruce withdraws from Bayelsa East senatorial race
The Senator representing the Bayelsa East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Ben Murray Bruce, has voluntarily withdrawn from the race for the Bayelsa East Senatorial District. Bruce announced his withdrawal from the Senatorial contest in a letter dated October 2, 2018, addressed to the State …
Read More »Guber Primaries: Ugwuanyi returns unopposed in Enugu; Wike, Emmanuel, Masari emerge in Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Katsina
By Emma Acha, John Amieyeofori, Isaiah Eka, Zubairu Idris Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has been returned unopposed as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 2,895 delegates drawn from the 17 local government areas of …
Read More »Delegates, aspirants in show of shame as violence mars PDP governorship primary in Gombe
Barely thirty minutes after the commencement of the Governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the banquet hall of the Government House Gombe, the exercise came to an abrupt halt following the eruption of violence. It took the intervention of security operatives who tried to calm frayed …
Read More »Tambuwal in Nasarawa State …Promises to tackle Farmers/ Herdsmen violence, develop solid minerals sector
The Presidential hopeful of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has said that government would developed the solid mineral sector in Nasarawa state and other parts of the country. Speaking when he met with delegates and leaders of the PDP in Akwanga, Nasarawa …
Read More »I am not new in politics, says ex-IGP
By Abdullahi Shugaba Dutse, Sept. 29, 2018 Alhaji Abba Suleiman, a former Inspector General of Police (IGP), has described himself as not a new comer in politics saying he is not new in politics. Suleiman, who is contesting for the Jigawa Central senatorial seat, made the remark in an interview …
Read More »Kwankwaso: I am Nigeria’s next president
By Martha Nyam Jos, Sept. 27, 2018 Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, former Kano governor and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential aspirant, says he will “easily beat President Muhamadu Buhari” if given his party’s ticket to face the APC candidate in 2019. Kwankwaso, who spoke on Thursday in Jos, during a consultation …
Read More »Towards APC’s new governance model By Sufuyan Ojeifo
An opportunity of an informal meeting with the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, recently in Abuja, in company with some politician friends was quite instructive. The intellectual engagement that ensued illuminated the ideas of the comrade chairman about the party’s governance model that will …
Read More »Convention Venue: PDP youth group rejects Rivers
By Emmanuel Afonne Abuja, Sept. 26, 2018 PDP Concerned Youth Association (PCYA), one of the youth groups in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has rejected the choice of Port Harcourt, Rivers for the party’s national convention on Oct. 6. The group’s Coordinator, Mr Emmanuel Willie and Secretary Malam Nura Lawal, …
Read More »Osun: Don’t boycott supplementary polls, TMG begs PDP, others
The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) on Wednesday called on all the aggrieved or dissatisfied parties not to boycott the Osun State supplementary elections, but to instead “put up a brave fight to the finish line.” The organisation also warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure that its officials with …
Read More »Osun rerun: Arrest of PDP chieftains recipe for anarchy- Secondus warns ……..reminds IGP of the repercussions of thwarting the will of the people.
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has warned that the arrest,harassment and intimidation of PDP members ahead of Thursday’s rerun election in Osun state is a recipe for anarchy. Prince Secondus said that the All Progressives Congress, APC, has in conjunction with the Police and …
Read More »2019 presidency: My pro bono advice to PDP By Sufuyan Ojeifo
There is a burgeoning fallacy in the camp of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which seems to have gained traction in the permutations and calculations for the 2019 presidential power politics: that just anyone that is fielded as presidential candidate will defeat incumbent president and presumptive candidate of …
Read More »Gov. Wike dares PDP over national convention
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that there will be consequences if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) succumbs to pressures from planted PDP Presidential Aspirants to move the party’s National Convention away from Port Harcourt. He further declared that the State will not support any desperate PDP Presidential Aspirant …
Read More »2019 poll: PDP begins screening of presidential aspirants
By Emmanuel Oloniruha Abuja, Sept. 24, 2019 The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday commenced the screening of its Presidential aspirants for the 2019 election. The party’s National Convention is scheduled for Oct. 5 and Oct. 6. The screening chaired by former Vice President Namadi Sambo was conducted at the …
Read More »Oyetola denies rift with Aregbesola, commends Osun electorate
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Candidate in Osun State, Alhaji Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola, has denied there is rift between him and the state Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, over last Saturday’s election. Oyetola described insinuations in some quarters to that effect as “irrational and present only in the imagination of …
Read More »Tinubu versus Ambode: What goes around comes around By Bolanle Bolawole
turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Whatever decision Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode eventually takes on his botched or controversial second term, he will have to rue the saying “what goes around comes around”. Four years ago, others got disappointed by the godfather so that he, Ambode, could be appointed, as it …
Read More »President Buhari, wife Aisha arrive New York for 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly
2019 Presidency: Jonathan backs David Mark
Yenagoa, Sept. 24, 2018 Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday threw his weight behind the presidential ambition of Sen. David Mark, saying the former senate president will strengthen the bond of unity in Nigeria. The former president, who hosted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant in his Yenogoa residence, said …
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