The Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor-Kalu, has congratulated the Peoples Democratic party for electing former vice-president Atiku Abubakar, as the party’s candidate for the 2023 presidential election. Kalu in a statement on Sunday stated that Atiku’s victory in the PDP presidential primary election meant that Nigerians has understood...
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The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu, says the focus of the party is to win the 2023 general elections. Ayu stated this in his remarks at the 2023 PDP National Convention held on Saturday in Abuja to elect the party’s flagbearer for the...
The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital has ruled that former President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to contest the 2023 presidential election. The presiding judge, Justice Isa Hamma Dashen gave the judgement on Friday. Justice Dashen also held that Jonathan’s right to vie for the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with the Vice President and All Progressives Congress aspirant, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, after the completion of the vice president’s 2023 Presidential Bid consultations with the state Governor’s and delegates. The Vice President had visited the 36 States...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A former Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, has charged delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the state to vote for the Founder of Belema Oil, Tein Jack-Rich, at the presidential primary during the National Convention of the party. According to him, the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Former Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi has dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Mr. Obi announced his resignation in a letter dated Friday, 20th May, 2022, and addressed to the National Chairman of the party. In the letter, Mr. Obi gave reasons for...
Nigeria needs continuity in government – Osinbajo*_ With about a week to its presidential primaries, commendations have continued to pour in from state governors, their deputies, and stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, who is running for president. On Sunday, in Kebbi...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo on Monday stormed Maiduguri city with his campaign team from Damaturu, Yobe State capital for a consultative meeting with the national delegates of All Progressive Congress (APC) from Borno state. On his arrival, the vice president went straight to...
The race to the 2023 presidential elections is becoming intense and defining as it poses a vital phase for rethinking Nigeria’s survival and reality of the future from May 29, 2023 when a new set of leaders that will pilot the affairs of Nigeria will be inaugurated. Many have...
Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, former Minister of State for Education, says about 3,150 Nigerians contributed money to purchase his N100 million All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential nomination form. Nwajiuba, who left the Buhari administration on May 10 to join the presidential race, said this when he spoke with newsmen in...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A frontline presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has laid out his plans on how he would address Nigeria’s electricity problem should he become the country’s next president. Governor Ayade unveiled his blueprint in an...
A front-line politician in South-East, Chief Ndubuisi Ebiliekwe, says the Presidency of Igbo extraction is not negotiable going with the premises of fairness, justice and oneness of the nation. Ebiliekwe, a popular Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain in South-East, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has paid a visit to former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta on Monday to consult and solicit his support for his presidential ambition in 2023. He was accompanied on the visit by Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and Gov. Samuel Ortom of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The APC National Leader and presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu has assured the people of Borno that if he is elected as the next President of Nigeria come 2023, he will exploit all the state’s natural endowment especially oil exploration and resuscitation of the Lake...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has postponed the screening of its 2023 presidential aspirants earlier scheduled for Monday, May 23. Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary announced this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. He said the party regretted any inconveniences caused by the postponement, adding...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – One of the leading presidential aspirants of the APC, Chief Rotimi Amaechi has advised Borno State delegates to vote for their conscience in the forthcoming party primaries. Chief Amaechi also urged the delegates to ensure that they vote a credible and tested candidate who...
Mr. Kayode Fayemi, the Ekiti State Governor and one of the Presidential aspirants under the All Progressive Congress (APC), says the unity of the country will be his main priority if elected President. Fayemi, who is also the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), said this on Sunday...
The Emir of Kastina, Dr Abdulmuminin Usman, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has got the experience needed to effectively steer Nigeria as president. The traditional ruler expressed this view while receiving the vice president who was on a courtesy call to his palace on Saturday in Kastina. Osinbajo was...
Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and a presidential aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called for unity and oneness in the party as it prepares for the 2023 general elections. Tambuwal gave the advice on Saturday in Abakaliki while addressing party faithful, delegates...
Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, Presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC), says he is more experienced than Osinbajo, Tinubu and other aspirants vying to clinch the party’s presidential ticket ahead of the 2023 general elections. Amaechi stated this in an interview with newsmen shortly after an interactive session with...