By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Tinubu Campaign Organisation (TCO) has followed the heated debate that the choice of our vice presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima has generated in the country . It restated that religion or ethnicity was far from the calculations of the All Progressives Congress and...
2023 Presidential Election
National Chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Adamu Abdullahi, has confessed that he does not underestimate Peter Obi of the Labour Party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other opposition political parties and their candidates ahead of the 2023 general elections. The APC strong man, during...
The Vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima has broken his silence on the controversy surrounding the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the ruling party ahead of forthcoming general elections. Shettima was recently announced as the vice-presidential candidate of the APC by the party’s flagbearer and former...
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, has faulted the announcement of a Muslim-Muslim ticket by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Lawal, in a note he personally signed on Tuesday, described the decision as a “disastrous error.” Mr Tinubu on...
*Why VP argued for a Christian running mate for APC presidential flagbearer. The eventual adoption of a Muslim-Muslim ticket by the presidential flagbearer of the ruling APC has ignited a new wave of tension in the party as the country’s most senior Christian official, the Vice President is said...
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Monday called on Yoruba sons and daughters to unite and support the presidential aspiration of Sen Bola Tinubu. Sanwo-Olu made the call at the 2022 edition of the Annual Ojude Oba Festival in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. He urged the Yoruba race to...
Three Governors of the All Progressives Congress on Friday arrived at the private residence of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for a closed door meeting. The Governors are Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State. The details of the...
By; JEROME-MARIO UTOMI It is no longer news that following the grievances which flows from the alleged unfair treatment and disrespect of Mr Nysom Wike, the Executive Governor of Rivers state, by the presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubabakar in the process of nominating running mate, a wave of ‘secessionist’...
Labour Party flagbearer, Peter Obi has said the 2023 Presidential elections will be based on saving the country and not on one’s turn, ethnicity, or religion. Speaking while fielding questions on Arise Tv Morning Show on Thursday, the presidential candidate of Labour Party said it would be based on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked a purported leaked document claiming it budgeted N6.5 trillion for vote-buying to ensure victory at the 2023 presidential election. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Felix Morka, who debunked the report in a statement on Monday in...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – More groups within the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the northeast have continued to reject the Muslim/Muslim ticket being muted in the party for the presidential election in 2023. Speaking with journalists in Bauchi separately, the groups said that choosing a Muslim from the...
Mr Kola Abiola, presidential candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) said on Wednesday in Abuja that the party would win the 2023 presidential election. Kola, scion of deceased Chief MKO Abiola said PRP’s victory would be synonymous with that of his deceased father on June 12, 1993. He...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar Former Kano State Governor, Rabui Musa Kwankwaso has pledged to tackle insecurity, provide quality education and initiate good economic policies that will boost the country’s economy if elected president in forthcoming 2023 general election. Alhaji Kwankwaso made the pledge on Monday while delivering a speech...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A PDP chieftain in Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua has congratulated the former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu on his emergence as the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate in the forthcoming election. Prince Afegbua in a statement on Sunday also congratulated the APC...
The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu, says that the just-concluded All Progressives Congress (APC) national convention has proved nay sayers wrong and those that thought that the party will collapse. Mr. Okechukwu, a foundation member of APC, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has described the just-concluded presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as one of the most competitive and peaceful in the history of Nigeria’s democracy. President Buhari stated this on Thursday in a letter addressed to Gov. Atiku Bagudu of...
Prince Adewole Adebayo has emerged the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate for the 2023 presidential election. Adebayo scored 1,526 votes at the party’s National Convention on Wednesday in Abuja to emerge as the party standard bearer, defeating the only co-contestant, Khadija Lamidi who polled 83 votes. The Convention Retuning...
The crisis rocking Labour party appears to be festering as a faction of the party led by Mr Calistus Okafor has held its National Convention to elect Ambassador Jude Ezenwafor as its presidential flagbearer. “What we are doing here today is to elect a man who is worthy to...
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, on Wednesday met with governors elected on the platform of the party to strategise on securing victory for PDP in the 2023 general elections. The Chairman of PDP Governors Forum, Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, told newsmen after...