Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha has been declared winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Taraba governorship primaries rerun. Retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chairman of the electoral committee announced the results in Jalingo on Friday. Buratai said that Bwacha scored 778 votes to emerge winner, while Sen. Yusuf Yusuf came second...
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The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has described as victory for the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Supreme Court Judgement affirming him as Yobe APC Senatorial candidate. He stated this while briefing news men on Monday, in Abuja, after the judgment was delivered by Justice Centus Nweze of the apex...
A Former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has urged Nigerians to support the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu in the Feb. 25 presidential election. Buratai, who was the immediate past Ambassador of Nigeria to the Republic of Benin, made the...
Fr. Hyacinth Alia has been declared the winner of the rerun primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue having polled 410,682 votes. Chairman, Rescheduled Election Committee, Sen. Basheer Lado, announced Alia as winner in Makurdi on Thursday. Lado said the first runner-up was Dr Matthias Byuan...
Stakeholders and the people of Enugu East Senatorial Zone in Enugu State have adopted Dr Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP (PDP) as their preferred governorship candidate ahead of the March 11 gubernatorial elections. They openly ditched the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), All Progressives Congress (APC),...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the scheduled Bola Ahmed Tinubu/Shetima presidential campaign rally will hold in Ilorin on Jan. 17. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Mohammed Salman, the State Secretary of the party, in Ilorin on Monday. “I hereby confirm from the Leader of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo have disagreed over Gov. Hope Uzodimma’s scorecard within three years in office. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gov. Uzodimma assumed office on Jan. 14, 2020, following a judgment of the Supreme Court...
The Court of Appeal, Abuja on Friday, upheld the nomination of Shehu Umar as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Bauchi South Senatorial District in the Feb. 25 election. A three-member panel of judges, in two separate judgments, set aside the Nov. 21, 2022 judgment by...
Sen. Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto North), has urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters in Sokoto State to go and collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs). Wamakko, the APC leader in the state, made the call on Thursday shortly after returning to Sokoto from an official engagement outside the state....
The second term bid of Gov. AbdulRahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is now causing disquietness among the leadership of National Association of Kwara State Students (NAKSS). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the association had been engulfed in leadership...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Wednesday, adjourned a suit filed by Mr Akanimo Udofia, a factional governorship candidate of Akwa Ibom All Progressives Congress (APC), until Jan. 23 pending an Appeal Court decision in a similar matter. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that since the...
The spokesperson of the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of trying to frustrate the cashless policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria to engage in vote buying in the 2023 election. The Senate on Thursday urged the CBN to extend its...
Hundreds of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Accord members have defected to All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defectors were received into APC at the open ground of Methodist Primary School, Apaara in Oyo town....
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Oyo State chapter has called on the police to investigate the killing of Hakeem Mudashiru, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member in Oyo town. The call came, even as PDP in the state accused APC of sponsoring a ‘killer squad’ to assassinate its member....
Speaker of the House of Representatives ,Rep Femi Gbajabiamila says the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) , Sen. Bola Tinubu will serve the interests of all parts of Nigeria if elected in 2023. Gbajabiamila made the statement on Saturday in Lagos, while speaking at the Surulere Constituency...
Gov. Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi says the All Progressives Congress (APC) remains the only option for Nigerians. This is contained in a statement in Abuja on Friday by Badugu’s Special Adviser on Media, Mr Yahaya Sarki. The governor made the remark at the inauguration of the zonal campaign rally...
Sen. Sandy Onor, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Candidate in Cross River, said that the poor performance of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration in the state had made the campaign easier for his party. Onor, who currently represents Cross River Central in the Senate, stated this on Saturday...
Alhaji Jamil Gwamna, a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Gombe State, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). This is contained in a statement signed by Ibrahim Sani, Media Assistant to Gwamna and issued to newsmen in Gombe on Saturday. Sani said Gwamna announced his...
The Taraba State Governorship governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha, says the crisis bedeviling the party in the state will soon be over. Sen. Bwacha, who stated this at a media briefing in Jalingo, said all litigations challenging his emergence as the state governorship...
The first lady, Aisha Buhari, has urged all members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to close ranks and ensure victory for the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential bid in the forthcoming 2023 election. Mrs Buhari was speaking on Thursday when she inaugurated the APC Women and Youths Wing of the...