There was pandemonium on Wednesday morning as gunshots were fired at the All Progressives Congress secretariat along Woji Road, GRA, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, during screening. Hundreds of the APC members loyal to a former federal lawmaker, Senator Magnus Abe, thronged the premises, alleging hijack of state assembly aspirants...
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By ONWUKA UDEM -E The level of infrastructural decay that has plagued Abia state, particularly in the last eight years, is simply befuddling. It has left in its trail a near sense of hopelessness in a state that is ordinarily promising and endowed with tremendous potentials. The state of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked the purported adjustment to its timetable and schedule of activities for 2023 general elections making the rounds on social media. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, said in a statement late Monday night, said the report...
Former Jigawa Governor Saminu Turaki on Monday said that he would work with Alhaji Sule Lamido, who succeeded him as governor of the North-Western state, to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress in 2023. Turaki spoke in Dutse shortly after meeting with the Jigawa chapter of the Peoples Democratic...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has assured that the All Progressive Congress (APC) will surely win all elective positions in the State come 2023. Governor Mutawalle gave the assurance shortly after arriving at the Sultan Abubakar 111 International Airport, Sokoto with all APC bigwigs...
Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum, has withdrawn from the presidential race in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and has returned to work. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who monitored development at the ministry in Abuja on Monday reports that Sylva withdrew having...
Ms Hasfat Abiola -Costello, Director-General, Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation, says she stands with Gov. Yahaya Bello (GYB) of Kogi in the race for APC presidential ticket and not South West aspirants. Abiola-Costello said her backing Bello was because she had seen in him, qualities of the kind of...
The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen has dropped her senatorial ambition in the 2023 election. Tallen made this known in a statement in Abuja. She said her decision was to enable her focus on the foundation laid towards the advancement and realisation of gender equality in leadership positions...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Guzamala Social Media Forum has raised alarm over threats of loosing their Jobs for supporting their choice of political party other than the All Progressive Congress (APC), ruling party of aspirants that are currently serving in office. The Chairman of Guzamala Social Media Forum,...
ENGAGEMENTS BY Chidi Amuta Democracy was never intended to amuse nor was politics meant to offend. The ritual of periodic leadership renewal through elections was instead meant to be a serious business to guarantee the health of the polis. The Athenian and Roman senates were collections of people of knowledge...
Members of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State have begged former the national leader of the party and presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to pick the state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, as his running mate in the 2023 presidential race. Tinubu had last Thursday visited Kaduna to canvass...
Aisha, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in Abuja charged stakeholders in the All Progressive Congress (APC) to rally support for female Aspirants of the party. She gave the charge at a summit of APC female aspirants ahead of the party’s primary elections. She said the summit aimed...
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers and PDP presidential aspirant on Saturday, said that he remained the only PDP aspirant that could win against the ruling APC. Wike, in company of some PDP chieftains, made this remark when he met national delegates of the Lagos chapter of PDP in Ikeja....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched a discreet investigation into the finances of the 18 political parties in the country and their presidential aspirants. This followed the humongous fees paid for expression of interest and nomination forms by aspirants vying for various elective offices in the...
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) says it is the best option to form the next national government in view of current economic and security challenges facing the country. Its National Chairman, Dr Victor Oye, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Friday, that APGA is...
The National Leader of the APC and presidential aspirant on the platform of the party, Ahmed Tinubu, says he is the only one running for the presidential race in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election. He disclosed this on Friday while addressing delegates of APC at the Niger State Government...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressive Congress (APC) delegates in Katsina State have been called upon to grant a consensus to DR. Umaru Dikko Radda as the candidate of APC in the 2023 Governorship Elections in the state. A group comprising of The Coalition Of Civil Society...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has challenged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to come clean in its fight against corruption and not be selective as they are currently doing. Governor Ortom spoke on Friday, when he received at the Benue Peoples House,...
Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, has shown that he is the ultimate devil’s incarnate and that shouldn’t be of any surprise to the global community. In the last seven years, the world has been watching him with uncanny sense of pity as the master mourner each time he joins...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Reactions has continued to trailed the sudden removal of the Paramount ruler of Calabar South Professor Itam Ogar by the Cross River State Government The Cross River State Government had fired Professor Itam Ogar for alleged involvement in partisan politics. He was alleged to...