Within the receding months, certain groups – political and socio-cultural groups including professional bodies – have been mounting pressure on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta to throw his hat into the ring for the 2023 presidential election. Aside these groups, certain noteworthy individuals from Delta and across the length...
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A former aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, on Sunday, predicted the outcome of the 2023 presidential election and the chances of both ruling All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party ahead of the exercise. He said that should the APC zoned its presidential ticket to South...
In 2008, when it became clear to analysts of the United States presidential election that Senator Barack Obama could surpass their expectations and beat favorite Hillary Clinton to the ticket of the Democratic Party, Hillary’s team decided to float a kite aimed at halting the rapid disintegration of her...
The former Senate President and presidential aspirant under the People Democratic Party (PDP) Bukola Saraki says the choice of Leadership Nigerians make in 2023 is critical to the nation’s economic development. He said this while addressing the party’s delegates in Minna, the Niger State Capital ahead of the forthcoming...
Governor of Bauchi State Bala Mohammed has said he does not believe in zoning ahead of the 2023 presidential elections but rather believes that the focus should simply be to find a leader who is capable of leading Nigeria. Governor Bala made the comments during an interview on Channels...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sule Lamido on Saturday said the consensus decision reached by “some Northern Elders” does not reflect the position of PDP members in the North. Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed and former Senate President Bukola Saraki said on Friday that they had emerged...
The first lady, Aisha Buhari, has urged political parties to always consider women as running mates to candidates contesting elections into various positions across the country. Buhari was speaking on Saturday night when she hosted Presidential Aspirants from various political parties to a Ramadan (Iftar) breakfast at the State...
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed has ascribed his endorsement as northern pressidential consensus candidate of the PDP alongside former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, as the work of God. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Northern PDP Elders Forum led by Prof. Ango Abdullahi, on...
The drive to produce a consensus presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for 2023 election has collapsed . This was disclosed in a statement issued on Friday night by the Tambuwal Campaign Organization (TCO), the campaign platform of a PDP Presidential Aspirant, Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Attempts by rival aspirants to smear the name of the Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, were vigorously refuted by the Osinbajo Support Movement on Friday. Some media had falsely reported that the Vice President shared N250,000 each to delegates of the...
Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, says he has garnered enough experience to lead Nigeria as the president come 2023. He made the disclosure on Friday in Ibadan during a parley with Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Osinbajo had...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan says he is yet to decide whether or not to yield to pressure by different groups urging him to contest the 2023 presidential election. He said this on Friday in Abuja when his committee of friends and some youths from across the country visited him...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Despite its denial, the Tinubu campaign team has been unmasked as sponsor of the blasphemous campaign posters against Professor Yemi Osinbajo, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This is according to a statement issued on Thursday by The Director of Media & Publicity, Osinbajo...
Sen. Kabiru Gaya, Chairman, The Progressive Project (TPP) says moneybags within and outside the APC will lose their monies in any contest against the people’s will. He said this at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja, on his assumption of office as chairman of TPP. He explained that...
Ex-Anambra State Governor and Presidential aspirant, Peter Obi has promised to turn the country around in four years if elected into office in 2023. Mr Obi stated this in Awka, Anambra State capital during the Anambra Central Senatorial District stakeholders’ briefing/town hall meeting organised by Senator Uche Ekwunife to...
The President of Christ Apostolic Church Worldwide, Arogungbogunmi, Pastor Henry Ojo, has said that God told him that only two of the presidential aspirants who have disclosed their intentions so far have the love of the country at heart. He urged Nigerians to shun ethnic and religious sentiments by...
A foundation member of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Osita Okechukwu says the N100million nomination forms for presidential aspirants is to maintain the axiom of Mr President not to fund the party with public funds. The APC on Wednesday announced the fees to be paid by aspirants for various...
The Peoples Democratic Party has again extended the date for its sale of nomination and expression of interest forms to Friday. The last day for the submission of already completed forms is now Monday April 25, 2022. The National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba, disclosed this in a statement...
The Nigeria Diaspora for Asiwaju (NDA), says sustaining legacies of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration lies with delegates to the party’s presidential primaries. Mr Ayobami Oyalowo, NDA National Spokesperson, said this in an open letter to delegates to the party’s presidential primary election slated from May 30 to...
Sen. Adesoji Akanbi, the National Vice-Chairman, South-West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA), says Nigeria needs a unifier like Bola Tinubu as the next President to further promote unity and peace in the country. Akanbi (APC-Oyo South Senatorial District) made the assertions while hosting members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists...