Category: Politics

A coalition of presidential aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have demanded for the resignation of the National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. The group, which includes governorship, senatorial, House of Representatives, state Houses of Assembly aspirants on the platform of the party, also accused Oshiomhole of working for the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), by deliberately weakening the party to make victory easy for the opposition in next year’s general elections. In a statement signed by two presidential aspirants of the party; Alhaji…

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The manner in which some of the primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress were conducted has been condemned by wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari. She particularly took a swipe at the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, who she accused of allowing impunity under his watch. Mrs Buhari made her position known in a series of tweets she posted on her verified Twitter handle, @aishambuhari, on Sunday. She regretted that Oshiomhole, despite his activism background, could allow such a conduct under his leadership. She said the conduct negated…

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The Tambuwal Campaign Organisation has said that the outcome of the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will not contested in court. The party’s elective convention is gradually winding down in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The organisation, in a statement by its spokesperson, Dr. Okey Ikechukwu, said that they believed the fact that the process was transparent, open, free and fair. The statement stressed that all the agents of the presidential aspirants attested to the credibility of the exercise. The statement commended “the convention committee, party…

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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has polled 1,532, at the end of the count of votes at the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), To beat 11 other contestants. His closet rival, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state scored 693 votes. Atiku, a native of a Fulani village of Jada in Adamawa state, was earlier at the end of votes sorting declared the winner of the primary by his agents Messrs Gbenga Daniel and Ben Bruce. With the win, Atiku Abubakar would have to face incumbent President Muhammadu…

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Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed was affirmed as the consensus candidate of the People Democratic Party(PDP) for Kwara South Senatorial District in the 2019 General Elections. He was affirmed by all delegates from the seven local government councils of Kwara South Senatorial district at the zonal primaries held in Omu Aran. Ahmed attributed his emergence as the PDP Kwara South Senatorial Candidate to the inclusiveness championed by the Saraki political family in the state. In a personally signed statement issued in Ilorin, Governor Ahmed thanked the Senate President, Dr.…

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The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has upheld the governorship primary election held in Lagos state yesterday. There had been confusion on the status of the exercise held in the 245 wards spread across the 20 local governments of the state, following its cancellation by the Chief Clement Ebri-led electoral panel set up by NWC to supervise the poll in which the Managing Director of Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC), Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, was his sole challenger. Ebri had told a press conference…

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Prof. Pat Utomi and Chief Great Ogboru have both emerged as governorship candidates at different venues of the APC primaries in Asaba. While Ogboru emerged yesterday at the Federal College of Education College (Technical), Asaba, venue of the primaries supervised by Gen. Lawrence Onoja (rtd) with 3,292 votes from a total of 3,515, Utomi was late on Sunday adopted by Chief Cyril Obodo-led faction on consensus at Nerise Hotel venue, also in Asaba, with 2,481 votes. The Prophet Erue faction’s primaries, which began amid crisis on Sunday, finally started at…

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The senator representing Adamawa Northern Senatorial District, Binta Garba, has said the Peoples Democratic Party, in the twilight of the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, approached her, as the Chairman of the Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, to dump the APC. Garba said she was offered over N300m by the PDP so that Governor Jibrilla Bindow, the then candidate of the APC, would not scale through. She said her refusal to accept the bait from the then ruling party averted a crisis with the party gaining…

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-Rights group wants him Impeached A Human Right group, Global Integrity Crusade Network (GICN), has urged the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to compel the Inspector General of Police to prosecute the Governor of Adamawa state, Muhammad Jibrilla Bindow over offences bothering on perjury. In the originating summons, a copy of which was made available to journalists, the Governor was said not to have completed his secondary education at the Government Secondary School, Mangu, Plateau State, as claimed. Among the relief sought by the plaintiffs is an order…

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Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has condoled with the people and government of Kwara State over the death of Funke Adedoyin, who was a member of the House.  In a condolence message, Dogara described the late Adedoyin as a vibrant lawmaker and dedicated public servant, whose death came as a shock.He prayed for the repose of the soul of the deceased and for God to comfort those she left behind.  Until her death, Adedoyin, who once served as minister of state for Health, represented Irepodun Isin/Ekiti /Oke…

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