By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Edde Iji Edde, a Professor of Theater and Communication Art University of Calabar has emerged the State Chairman of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP). Prof. Edde, who is a former Commissioner in the State was the sole aspirant for the office of Chairman and...
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Gombe State Governor, Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya is to chair the All Progressives Congress (APC) Budget Committee for its presidential primary special convention while the Minister of Finance, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed will serve as the Committee Co-chair. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Felix Morka, the party’s...
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...
Former Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Farouk Aliyu, on Wednesday said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has five potential candidates that can defeat the Peoples Democratic Party’s flagbearer in 2023. Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s ex-Vice President emerged as the PDP candidate for next year’s general election, after...
Rep. Chris Azubogu, representing Nnewi North/Nnewi South/Ekwusigo at the National Assembly has emerged the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the 2023 Anambra South senatorial district election. Azubogu polled 116 votes at the primary election held in Awka to defeat Emmanuel Nwachukwu (113 votes), Ben Nwankwo...
Atiku Abubakar has received his certificate of return as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), calling on party members to work together in their mission to rescue Nigeria from the “misrule” of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The former vice president said this on Wednesday at...
A former Chief Judge of Anambra State, Retired Justice Peter Umeadi, has emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Justice Umeadi who is the sole presidential aspirant of APGA was declared the winner of the primary election of the party on Wednesday. His candidacy...
Sen. Rochas Okorocha, one of the presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday night, appeared before the party’s seven-man 2023 Presidential Screening Committee. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okorocha, the immediate past Governor of Imo represents Imo West in the Senate. He had...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has been successfully screened by the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Screening Panel. Osinbajo spoke with newsmen shortly after emerging from the screening held on Tuesday at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. The vice president said the exercise was fruitful and expressed optimism on the...
BY RICHARD ABU, Abuja – The Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Wali Jibrin has expressed happiness over the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the flag bearer of the party in the forthcoming 2023 general election. Senator Jibrin in his congratulatory...
Sen. Bola Tinubu, a frontline presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday appeared before the party’s John Odigie-Oyegun-led seven-man Presidential Screening Committee. According to a statement issued by Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director-General Tinubu Campaign Organisation, the former two-term Lagos State governor answered questions bordering on his...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Two serving Senators in Bauchi State have failed in their bid to return to the Senate as they lost out in the senatorial primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The affected lawmakers are Senators Adamu Bulkachuwa and Senator Lawal Yahaya Gumau representing North and...
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...
The presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has said the former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, could have been his running. Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano State, spoke on Monday following speculations that the-now presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) was...
BY RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – A frontline senatorial aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nasarawa State, Barr. Labaran Magaji has said an impending danger awaits the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) if serious measures are not taken against irregularities in the party. Bar. Magaji...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A group of aggrieved State House of Assembly aspirants for the All Progressives Congress, in Bauchi State, has called on the National Working Committee of the party to cancel the primary election recently held and a new one conducted. The Interim Chairman, Saleh Nabayi,...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has congratulated the former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on his nomination as the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the just concluded party primary held in Abuja. In a statement on Monday by his Chief...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday fixed June 22 to hear a suit filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the retrial of Chief Olisa Metuh, former National Publicity Secretary, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The court fixed the date following the EFCC’s appeal at...
A presidential aspirant, Professor Pat Utomi, has stepped down for his co-contender, Mr Peter Obi, for the ticket of the Labour Party ahead of the forthcoming general elections. The political economist and management expert announced that he was stepping down for the former Anambra State governor on Monday at...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The African Democratic Congress (ADC) aspirant for the Bakassi/Akpabuyu/Calabar South Federal Constituency, Andrew Thomas, has given an assurance that if nominated and elected, he would provide effective representation by doing things differently. Mr. Thomas, who is an American veteran journalist gave the pledge on...