The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday said it was learning from the recently conducted Ekiti and Osun governorship elections ahead of 2023 general elections. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC Chairman, made this known in Abuja at the Yiaga Africa Post-election Roundtable and Public Presentation of Final Report on...
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has appealed to party stakeholders and supporters to avoid making statements capable of compromising the party’s unity. The former Vice President made the call in a statement signed by his Media Adviser, Mr Paul Ibe, in Abuja. Abubakar urged stakeholders...
Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina state said his state is locked down for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. While featuring as a guest on Journalists Hangout, a current affairs programme Wednesday evening on TVC, Masari dismissed the candidate of the Labour...
A political support group, Asiwaju Project Beyond 2023, says reported ongoing talks between the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu and Gov. of Rivers, Nyesom Wike, is a good omen for the party ahead of 2023 general elections. The Director-General of the group Barr. Realwan Okpanachi...
Mr Abdulhamid Mohammad, the All Progressives Congress (APC) North-West Youth Leader, has urged Igbos in Nigeria to vote for the presidential candidate of the ruling party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the 2023 general elections. Mohammad made the appeal on Tuesday while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
When millions of people are cheated for too long, restitution becomes not just a costly process but substantial in financial and human terms; inferior education, poor housing, unemployment, poor healthcare facilities-Martin Luther King Jr. It is not only a barefaced truth that Nigeria’s youngest citizens have crawled out of...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Labour Party Chairman of Cross River State, Ambassador Ogar Osim has cautioned supporters and members of the party in the state never to incite the public or spread hate speech in efforts to market their presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi. Amb. Osim asserted that their...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged the electorate to verify their information on the preliminary register of voters on display from Aug.15 to Aug.21. This is contained in a statement by the INEC Federal Capital Territory (FCT) office, tagged “Nationwide Display of Preliminary Register of Voters”, made...
Tonto Dikeh, veteran Nigerian actress has revealed that she planned quitting her acting career in Nollywood after the governorship election in Rivers State. The actress, who was recently unveiled as the deputy governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Rivers State, made this disclosure during an interview...
Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar on Thursday boasted that he had the most proactive plan to lead Nigeria out of darkness. Abubakar stated this in a statement he issued on Thursday in Abuja. Abubakar said that having keenly observed developments in the power sector...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT) has solicited strong support for the Reconciliation Committee set up to resolve all misunderstandings within the party ahead of 2023 general elections. The BOT Chairman, Sen. Walid Jibrin, made the call in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday. Jibrin...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday inaugurated 152 ward coordinators for Cross River Central, ahead of its governorship campaign in October. Mr Paul Ishabor, the Director-General of the PDP’s reclaim Cross River mandate group, performed the ceremony in Calabar. Ishabor urged the wards coordinators to focus on issue-base...
Rep. Eta Mbora (PDP – Cross River) said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remained the better option to reset the nation’s “bleeding economy”. Mbora, who represents Odukpani/Calabar Municipal, said this while speaking with newsmen in Calabar on Tuesday. The lawmaker, who expressed concern over the poverty level, the...
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Rivers, Mr Darlington Nwauju, says it is almost certain that the party will takeover the state in 2023. Nwauju, also the acting APC Publicity Secretary in the state, said this when he visited the State Executives of the Correspondents’ Chapel of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has no plan to resign his position, Mr Simon Imobo-Tswana, his Special Adviser on Media and Communication, has said. Imobo-Tswam made the clarification in a statement on Monday in Abuja. “We restate,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in collaboration with Solar Security and Consult Company Limited have organized a one day sensitization workshop for police officers in the North East on election security management The workshop with the theme ”...
Popular comedian, Mr. Macaroni, has alleged that some persons have made threats on his life and his family because he refused to support a certain presidential candidate. Macaroni, who disclosed this via his Twitter handle, however did not disclose the name of the presidential candidate. According to him, Nigerians must elect the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the All Progressives Congress (APC) has no senatorial candidate for Yobe north and Akwa Ibom north-west districts for the 2023 elections. Festus Okoye, INEC spokesperson, said this on Sunday in an interview on Channels Television. In June, INEC had excluded Ahmad Lawan,...
Chief Ikechi Emenike, the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) Governorship Candidate in Abia, has said that the party is heading for landslide at all levels in the 2023 general elections. Emenike said this on Sunday in his Umukabia Okpuala country home, near Umuahia, when he unveiled a Third Republic Abia...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has directed his Special Adviser on Legal Affairs, Barrister Hauwa Abubakar to oversee the Borno State Ministry of Justice. The directive follows the unanimous nomination of Barrister Kaka Shehu Lawan, the former State Commissioner of Justice and State...