The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party will on Monday meet with the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over the selection of his running mate and strategy for winning the February 25, 2023 presidential election. A ranking member of the BoT confided in one of our correspondents...
2023 Presidential Election
Two days after President Muhammadu Buhari indicated a template for his successor in the forthcoming All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Primaries, Governors of the ruling party are beginning to rally behind the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, who is believed to fit the President’s description. As at last...
Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River says it is the turn of Southern Nigeria to produce the country’s next president in 2023 after the expiration of the eight years of President Muhammadu Buhari in office. According to a statement by Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Communication Tinubu Campaign...
A pastor of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) Abule Egba, Lagos has revealed the All Progressives Congress (APC) aspirant God showed him will win the 2023 presidential election. Pastor Alamu David said God showed him that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The cleric, in a statement, explained:...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has charged Governors of the All Progressives Congress to ensure that the forthcoming convention to pick a presidential candidate reflects all the values and virtues of the party. At a meeting Tuesday at State House, Abuja, the President told the 22...
A former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, on Monday said going by the chain of event recently in Nigeria’s political space, Vice-President Prof Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) “may step down” for Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) when the ruling party holds...
Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, has emerged as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party ahead of the forthcoming general elections. His emergence as the party’s flagbearer follows his victory at the presidential primary of the Labour Party. The party conducted the primary for its presidential ticket on...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo continued his ongoing consultations and engagements with stakeholders and delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday in Nasarawa State, with the State Governor and Emir of Lafia commending his leadership qualities, describing him as the best among the...
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi has said that his ambition to fly the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket in the 2023 presidential election is not a do-or-die. Fayemi, also the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), stated this in an interview with newsmen in Gombe, after a consultative meeting...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – *President trusts VP’s capacity, by God’s grace, he will get the APC ticket, says Nasarawa Speaker Consultations with the people is critical in governance and important for national development, especially in a country as diverse and complex as Nigeria, according to Vice President, Yemi...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Chairman of The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has debunked the rumours making the rounds the that he is planning to joining the 2023 presidential election under the platform of the APc. A statement issued to NATIONAL ACCORD on Sunday...
A clergyman, Felix Aluko, says former President Goodluck Jonathan will be returned to Aso Rock, Abuja if he decides to vie for the 2023 Presidential Election. Aluko, the senior pastor of the Resurrected Assembly (GROM), made the prophetic declaration on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that Jonathan would return...
No empire lasts forever. History is filled with examples of even the most powerful empires that have crumbled either due to implosion or explosion. As powerful and formidable as the Roman, Carthage, Assyrian, Persian, and Babylonian empires were, they all crumbled due to their inability to withstand sustained pressures...
Nigerians should stop looking for consensus candidate and look for “problem solvers’’ as presidential materials for 2023. Mr Peter Obi, Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential aspirant made the declaration at Abakaliki on Tuesday, while addressing newsmen during his consultation with PDP faithful in Ebonyi. “Nigerians want a person who...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A pan-Nigeria group, One Nigeria Democratic Initiative (ONDI), has faulted the on-going campaign by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to undermine the decision of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to leave its Presidential ticket open to the most popular candidate. The PDP had...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar says his enduring persistence in contesting for the office of the president of Nigeria is borne out of his passion to rekindle the Nigerian dream. Abubakar stated this while making his official declaration for the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the Peoples...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday met with the APC Senate Caucus at the National Assembly. Tinubu, at the meeting held in Abuja, said he was at the National Assembly to seek counsel, partnership, and support of the lawmakers for his presidential bid....
A Local Government Chairman in Ekiti State and Publicity Secretary of the Afenifere Renewal Group, Mr Michael Ogungbemi, has declared that the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has the requisite qualifications and competence to lead Nigeria to a greater height if elected President. He described Fayemi as one...
A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Mrs Patience Key, has promised to make Nigeria an industrial hub, if elected in the 2023 presidential election. Key made the promise on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), when she arrived...
Thousands of youth from across the six states of the South-West, on Saturday, converged on Lagos to draw Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi out to contest the 2023 presidential election. The youths, who insisted that it was Bello or no other person for President in 2023, vowed to rewrite...