Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas and Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council for Bayelsa governorship election, says the party will retain the state in the Nov. 11 election, going by recent developments. Kefas stated this at the meeting of the council on Thursday in Abuja. “Our campaign is...
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The Kogi Chapter of the APC has rejected the choice of persons by the Party’s National Working Committee (NWC) as replacements for the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party and the former Zonal Organising Secretary, who resigned recently. The State APC Chairman, Abdullahi Bello in a...
Sen. Adams Oshiomhole (APC Edo-North Senatorial District) says President Bola Tinubu-led administration will leave a legacy of being the one that turned the socio-economic and political fortunes of the nation around. Oshiomhole, former National Chairman of the APC, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Committee of the Diaspora Chairmen (CDC) has congratulated the newly inaugurated ministers by President Bola Tinubu, urging them not to let the masses down. Prince Stephen Tella, APC Chairman, Spain chapter and CDC Secretary General, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
The Police Command in Kano State has banned protest by political parties and their supporters sequel to mounting tension over alleged financial inducement of the Kano Election Petition Tribunal. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Usuani Gumel, announced the ban at a news conference in Kano. while addressing newsmen at...
A former chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in South Africa, Mr Bola Babarinde, says President Bola Tinubu must be ready to step on toes in order to achieve the Renewed Hope agenda of his administration. Babarinde, in a statement made available to the News Agency of...
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo, Mr Martins Sadoh, has said that capacity of candidates should determine the choice of successor to Gov. Godwin Obaseki in 2024 and not ethnicity. Sadoh, a security expert based in Netherlands, said this in a statement made available...
Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodimma on Saturday unveiled Mrs Chinyere Ekomaru as his running mate for the November 11 governorship election in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the unveiling took place at an APC stakeholders’ meeting in Owerri. The governor also presented...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday in Abuja reassured Nigerians that no stone will be left unturned in his administration’s multifarious efforts to stimulate the economy and make it work for the greatest good of all Nigerians. The President stated this in a...
Sen. Adams Oshiomole (APC-Edo) says the embattled Edo deputy governor, Mr Philip Shaibu is not welcome in the All Progressives Congress (APC). Oshiomole said this in Benin on Thursday when he spoke with newsmen on his reaction to the rumour of Shaibu’s planned defection from the Peoples Democratic Party...
The three Zonal and 21 Local Government Areas Chairmen of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) have defected to the APC in Kogi, an official has disclosed. M Onogwu Mohammed, Media Aide to Gov. Yahaya Bello, made the disclosure in a statement in Lokoja on Thursday. He said ...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, says Shaibu Audu, son of late Prince Abubakar Audu, who emerged as Ministerial nominee by President Bola Tinubu emerged through a fair process. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Bello stated this on Sunday when family of the late Audu paid...
The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON) Mr Osita Okechukwu has absolved President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of any blame in the nomination of only five people from the South-East as members of his cabinet. Criticism had trailed Tinubu’s ministerial list, with some South-East leaders accusing him of marginalising the...
A former Commissioner for Information and a chieftain APC in Kogi Dr Tom Ohikere, has pledged to ensure the victory of the party’s governorship candidate, Alhaji Usman Ododo in the state’s Nov. 11 governorship election. Ohikere, a close ally of Sen. Smart Adeyemi, one of the governorship aspirants in...
Kogi State’s ministerial nominee, Prince Shaibu Audu-Abubakar, on Thursday, paid a thank you visit to Gov Yahaya Bello. Audu-Abubakar is among the additional 19 ministerial nominees of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This is according to a statement issued in Lokoja by Bello’s media aide, Onogwu Mohammed. ...
President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima and members of the Progressive Governors’ Forum have arrived the Congress Hall of Transcorp Hilton in Abuja, venue of the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Members of the party in the National Assembly and APC chieftains...
By MARK JANG, Jos – The All Progressives Congress (APC), has congratulated former Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, on his nomination as minister-designated. The APC Chairman in the state, Mr Rufus Bature, in a statement signed by State Publicity Secretary, Sylvanus Namang, described Lalong’s nomination as “well deserved”. The...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday in Abeokuta ended its defence in the petition filed by Ladi Adebutu, the Ogun governorship candidate of the PDP. In the petition against Gov. Dapo Abiodun at the election petition tribunal, marked EPT/OG/GOV/03/2023, PDP and Adebutu are challenging his victory based...
Sen. Abdula’ziz Yari (APC-Zamfara) says the Senate is doing its best to ensure thorough screening of President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial nominees of. Yari stated this when he answered questions from newsmen shortly after he paid a private visit to Vice-President Kashim Shettima at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday in...
Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi says his style of leadership keeps attracting more defectors from the opposition parties in to All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Bello described the situation as a “plus” and “blessing” to the APC in its quest for victory in the upcoming Nov....