Tag: 2018 Elections

Nigerians Will Resist Any Candidate Put Forward By Buhari In 2023 — PDP
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Nigerians Will Resist Any Candidate Put Forward By Buhari In 2023 — PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party has reacted to a statement by President Muhammadu Buhari that he would not talk about his successor in 2023. During a recent interview, Buhari said he would not reveal the person that would succeed him, but he would be playing his cards until the 2023 general election because he did not want the fellow eliminated before his time. Reacting, the opposition party advised the President to perish the thoughts of presenting any candidate as his successor in 2023. Read Also: Debt Servicing Gulps 76% Of Revenue The party warned that Nigerians don’t need Buhari to decide his successor in 2023. The PDP also stated that Nigerians would firmly resist any presidential candidate Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, would field in 2023. In a series of tw...
Buhari’s Exit In 2023, Solution To Nigeria’s Problems – Afenifere
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Buhari’s Exit In 2023, Solution To Nigeria’s Problems – Afenifere

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Tuesday, said neither President Muhammadu Buhari nor his party, the All Progressives Congress, can solve the problems facing the country. The group said it had lost hope in Buhari solving the country’s problems, saying the exit of the President in 2023 will end the problems facing the country. The group’s acting leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, said this while addressing journalists after the group’s monthly meeting held in his Sanya -Ogbo residence, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. The octogenarian accused the President of having a vested interest in the activities of herdsmen who he said, should have been declared terrorists. Adebanjo insisted that the group might not be part of the coming election if the country is not restructured...
2023: UK Will Deny Election Riggers Visa, British High Commissioner Says
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2023: UK Will Deny Election Riggers Visa, British High Commissioner Says

British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, has disclosed that the United Kingdom will not grant visas to Nigerians who rig election in 2023. Laing in an interview with Vanguard urged Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his predecessor Rotimi Amaechi, to ensure peaceful conduct of elections in the state in 2023. She said, "I do have some sympathy for Nigeria because if we as the UK have one of these problems your country has today, we will be struggling. Here, you deal with everything, from insurgency to kidnapping, to piracy off the Gulf of Guinea and you don't have such a large army and police force for a country of this size. "The only way you turn this thing around is that the government has to build the trust of its people, to have the people working with the g...
Nigeria: Pst Chris Okotie Declares Intention to Contest the 2019 Presidency
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Nigeria: Pst Chris Okotie Declares Intention to Contest the 2019 Presidency

Popular Nigerian Pastor, Chris Okotie has officially declared his intention to contest for the 2019 Presidency. Speaking in his Church today, he said his decision was based on the obvious need for intelligent and capable leadership in the country. He added that it was time to save the Nigerian dream from further worsening. On the issue of the party he would be contesting on, he said he had written to the ruling party APC and the main opposition party the PDP to adopt him as their candidate. He said "In sincere consideration I humbly and sincerely ask that the APC adopt me as the presidential candidate. I have extended the same gesture to the APC too. This is the time to demonstrate our love for this country."