PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Over 14.3 million youths from South South and South Eastern part of NIgeria have indicated interest to support Governor Yahaya Bello’s presidential ambition come 2023. The National Coordinator, Nigerian Rescue Mission (RENMISS) Abdullahi Damat, disclosed this on Sunday while addressing various youth groups during a...
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In 2008, when it became clear to analysts of the United States presidential election that Senator Barack Obama could surpass their expectations and beat favorite Hillary Clinton to the ticket of the Democratic Party, Hillary’s team decided to float a kite aimed at halting the rapid disintegration of her...
The former Senate President and presidential aspirant under the People Democratic Party (PDP) Bukola Saraki says the choice of Leadership Nigerians make in 2023 is critical to the nation’s economic development. He said this while addressing the party’s delegates in Minna, the Niger State Capital ahead of the forthcoming...
Governor of Bauchi State Bala Mohammed has said he does not believe in zoning ahead of the 2023 presidential elections but rather believes that the focus should simply be to find a leader who is capable of leading Nigeria. Governor Bala made the comments during an interview on Channels...
Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun says keeping to promises he made to people of the state in the last three and half years of his administration with limited resources, will give him victory in the July 16 governorship election in the state. The governor said this at an engagement...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will begin the sale of Nomination and Expression of Interest forms on Tuesday. A source in the APC’s media office in Abuja confirmed the development to Channels TV on Sunday. It was gathered that the exercise, which was scheduled to begin on Saturday,...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sule Lamido on Saturday said the consensus decision reached by “some Northern Elders” does not reflect the position of PDP members in the North. Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed and former Senate President Bukola Saraki said on Friday that they had emerged...
Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has endorsed the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Chief Francis Nwifuru as his successor. The endorsement was contained in a statement signed by the Special Assistant to the Governor on Media and Publicity, Francis Nwaze and made available to newsmen on Saturday....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday announced that it would hold its 96th National Executive Committee (NEC) on Wednesday, May 4. National Secretary of PDP, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, who announced this in a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja, said the meeting would...
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed has ascribed his endorsement as northern pressidential consensus candidate of the PDP alongside former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, as the work of God. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Northern PDP Elders Forum led by Prof. Ango Abdullahi, on...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Deputy Governor, Hon Manir Muhammad Dan’Iya (Walin Sokoto) after indicating interest to succeed his boss, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has submitted his “Expression of Interest and Nomination Form” to the state PDP office. Speaking at the party’s office before the submission, Hon Dan...
The drive to produce a consensus presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for 2023 election has collapsed . This was disclosed in a statement issued on Friday night by the Tambuwal Campaign Organization (TCO), the campaign platform of a PDP Presidential Aspirant, Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – The governorship aspirant of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Kwara state, Mr. Sunday Babalola, has said that votes do count in Nigerian elections just as he urged Nigerians to get their Permanent Voters Card (PVC) to exercise their civic duty. Speaking in Omu-Aran,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Attempts by rival aspirants to smear the name of the Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, were vigorously refuted by the Osinbajo Support Movement on Friday. Some media had falsely reported that the Vice President shared N250,000 each to delegates of the...
Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, says he has garnered enough experience to lead Nigeria as the president come 2023. He made the disclosure on Friday in Ibadan during a parley with Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Osinbajo had...
A total of 150 social clubs, associations and professional bodies in Borno are combining to pay the N50 million needed to buy nomination forms for Gov. Babagana Zulum. The clubs and associations are seeking Gov. Zulum’s re-election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The coalition made...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan says he is yet to decide whether or not to yield to pressure by different groups urging him to contest the 2023 presidential election. He said this on Friday in Abuja when his committee of friends and some youths from across the country visited him...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, ordered former Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, to vacate his seat as member representing Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro Federal Constituency in Bauchi State. Delivering judgment, Justice Donatus Okorowo, declared that having defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has revealed why he did not meet Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki when he visited the State last week. Wike, who was in the Edo State capital as part of consultation for his presidential aspiration, neither met with Obaseki nor his deputy, Philip Shaibu. He...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called on academics and members of other professional bodies to participate actively in the task of making Nigeria a better place for all. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said the vice president received, on a courtesy visit to...