The Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Alake, has attributed the source of the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to investment in the stocks of blue chip companies. Mr Alake spoke about Tinubu’s wealth during an appearance on Channels Television’s Sunday...
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Mr Ladipo Johnson, spokesperson of the Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso Presidential Campaign organisation, has dispelled speculations that the candidate is considering backing other candidates. Johnson was reacting to speculations on social media that the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) presidential candidate, Kwankwaso, was considering stepping down for either the PDP...
The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu says the 2023 general elections in Nigeria will mirror many aspects of the recent presidential poll in the Republic of Kenya, among which are electronic transmission of results and expected outcome. In a statement on Sunday, Okechukwu said the...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Saturday said no vote of confidence can save the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, just as the assurance tool passed by the party’s National Executive Committee in April 2021 failed to save Ayu’s predecessor, Uche Secondus. “I...
Mr Charles Aniagwu, Spokesman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, says sacking the party National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, would have deepened the party’s crisis. Aniagwu stated this on Saturday in a Television programme monitored in Asaba, while giving reasons why the PDP was exploring other options toward resolving its...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Saturday welcomed hundreds of defectors from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party. Those at the event in Port Harcourt, the state capital, include PDP Chairman in Rivers, Desmond Akawor; former Board of Trustees’ member of the APC, Sam-Sam Jaja;...
Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, wife of All Progressives Congress (APC) 2023 presidential candidate says she will give voice to the voiceless if she becomes the country’s next first lady in 2023. She said this on Saturday in Abuja when she visited Karon-Majigi Ward of Gwarimpa and Yar Goje Community of...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja met behind closed door with Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi. Speaking to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, Umahi said he was in the State House to invite the president to inaugurate new Ebonyi State Governor’s Lodge, recently completed...
By GABRIEL AGBONIKA, Nasarawa – Barely three weeks to the commencement to the 2023 National and State governmental election campaign in Nigeria, the Keffi Local Government in Nasarawa State has inaugurated its powerful team to pilot the campaign activities in the area. The Chairman of Keffi Local Government Council,...
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before Justice Hadiza Shagari of a Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna. The party is challenging the list of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates for Governorship and State Assembly seats published by INEC on...
Mrs Uju Ohanenye, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain on Friday in Abuja, said Nigeria’s current security and other challenges predated President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. She said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of the inauguration of her NGO, ‘9ja Save Nigeria...
Gov. Hope Uzodimma of Imo, says the All Progressives Congress (APC), will triumph in the South-East in the 2023 general election, because it is the only party with structures in all the 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the country. Uzodimma, also the Chairman of APC Presidential Campaign Council...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has adopted a grassroots structure for its electioneering campaign for the 2023 general election. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba said this at the end of the meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party in Abuja. Ologunagba said that...
The Presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has pledged that he would meet the expectations of the party and Nigerians when elected president in 2023. Abubakar made the promise during his remarks at the PDP 97 National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Thursday....
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers says the resignation of the the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Sen. Walid Jubrin is a distraction. Governor Wike, who made the remark at Ahoada on Thursday, described it as charade. Jubrin who resigned his position yesterday, said that his...
Alhaji Ibrahim Bilal, the embattled Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa, says he is still a card carrying member of the party. Bilal gave the clarification on Thursday in Yola while reacting to online reports over his alleged defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He...
A factional governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun, Segun Showunmi, says nobody can buy him over in pursuant of his governorship ambition. Showunmi made the declaration at a pre-campaign news conference on Thursday in Abeokuta. According to him, no one has the resources to buy...
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike on Thursday insisted that Iyorchia Ayu must step down as the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party. Wike said the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, told him in person when he won the May primary that Ayu must vacate his position as...
The Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Board of Trustees (BoT), Sen. Walid Jibrin, has resigned from his position. Jibrin, who announced the resignation during the board’s meeting in Abuja, Thursday said his decision was in the interest of the party and its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, ahead of 2023...
The All Progressive Congress in Lagos State has replied the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate’s call for the resignation of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Olajide ‘Jandor’ Adediran, the PDP candidate, had called for Mr Sanwo-Olu’s resignation following the building collapse incident in which six persons died. The party’s spokesperson in...