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Umahi Picks APC Presidential Nomination Form
29Apr By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
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Umahi Picks APC Presidential Nomination Form

Daave Umahi Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi has picked the nomination and expression of interest forms of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The governor announced this in a post last night on his verified social media handles. Umahi displayed the receipt of the N100,000,000 form, which is for expression of interest and nomination forms Read Also: Nwajiuba Receives APC Nomination Form For President, Speaks On ASUU Strike He joined the APC in November 2020 from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the party on whose platform he won two governorship elections. The governor said he would replicate the prudent management of the state’s resources, which enabled him to transform Ebonyi, at the national level, if elected as the president. Source: Nation
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2023: APC Orders Amaechi, Ngige To Resign Within 72 Hours Or Forget Ambition
27Apr By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
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2023: APC Orders Amaechi, Ngige To Resign Within 72 Hours Or Forget Ambition

Chris Ngige A new guideline released by the leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday has stipulated that all political appointees who aspire to participate in its primary elections at all levels must resign at least 30 days after the conduct of the primaries. The new guideline automatically leaves some of President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointees like Transportation Minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and his Labour counterpart, Chris Ngige, who are gunning for the 2023 presidency, with just three days to resign or forget their ambitions. This is in consideration of the fact that the APC primary election for the presidency, according to the ruling party’s timetable has been scheduled to hold between May 30 and June 1. By implication, the new guidelines have als...
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2023: Buhari Made Me See Things – Osinbajo
27Apr By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
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2023: Buhari Made Me See Things – Osinbajo

Yemi Osinbajo Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday, said working under President Muhammadu Buhari has equipped him with the competence to run Nigeria. Mr Osinbajo spoke during a visit to the Alake of Egbaland, Adedotun Gbadebo, at his palace in Abeokuta. The visit was part of the vice president’s consultation with prominent persons and APC delegates to seek support for his presidential ambition ahead of 2023. He arrived in Ogun, his home state, on Tuesday and met Governor Dapo Abiodun, with the governor declaring support for him ahead of the party primaries next month. Mr Osinbajo said although he was not a politician when the party nominated him as Mr Buhari’s running mate in the run-up to the 2015 election; he is now immersed in politics and can lead Nigeria. “By p...
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2023: Lamido Slams PDP Elders Over Endorsement Of Saraki, Bala As Consensus Candidates
24Apr By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
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2023: Lamido Slams PDP Elders Over Endorsement Of Saraki, Bala As Consensus Candidates

PDP Former Governor of Jigawa State and one of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftains in the country, Sule Lamido, has slammed northern elders over the recent endorsement of two aspirants as the party’s consensus presidential candidates. Lamido stated this in a statement, which he personally signed and issued to Daily Post on Saturday. He was reacting to the outcome of a northern leaders’ meeting in Minna, Niger State, where former Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Governor of Bauchi state, Bala Mohammed were shortlisted as northern consensus candidates. In a communique signed by former Vice-Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, the northern leaders said the election of Saraki and Bala Mohammed was arrived at based on certain criteria adopt...
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2023: Osinbajo Seeks Oyo APC Delegates’ Support For Presidential Bid
23Apr By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
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2023: Osinbajo Seeks Oyo APC Delegates’ Support For Presidential Bid

Yemi Osinbajo Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, says he has garnered enough experience to lead Nigeria as the president come 2023. He made the disclosure on Friday in Ibadan during a parley with Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Osinbajo had visited Ibadan to pay homage to the Olubadan of Ibadanland and meet with the delegates. The vice president had on April 11 declared his intention to seek his party’s ticket to run for the office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Mr Osinbajo said that everything he learnt as vice president and acting president had prepared him for the office. “I have served in the Federal Government of Nigeria for the past seven years. And I have been involv...
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N100m Form: Buhari, APC Corrupting Nigeria’s Democracy – Ozekhome
22Apr By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
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N100m Form: Buhari, APC Corrupting Nigeria’s Democracy – Ozekhome

APC Human Rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress and the President, Muhammadu Buhari, of corrupting the nation’s democracy by pegging the party’s presidential nomination form at N100 million. He slammed the President, whom he said, decried the high cost of form before his emergence for supporting the outrageous fee. Ozekhome questioned where the likes of the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbanjo, the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, among others would get the money to purchase the form. He disclosed this in a statement on Thursday night. The statement read, “The party hopes to rake in #1.5 billion from the 15 aspirants that have so far declared interest in the presidential race. By this singular act, the APC has shown a shocking insatia...
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At Close of Nomination, 17 PDP Presidential Aspirants Purchase Forms
21Apr By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
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At Close of Nomination, 17 PDP Presidential Aspirants Purchase Forms

PDP At the close of the submission of completed presidential nomination forms of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, 17 presidential aspirants were listed for further screening ahead of the party’s primary elections. The aspirants, who beat the deadline, were two-term governor of Kwara State and immediate past President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki; former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; former Speaker, House of Representatives, and Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal; former President of the Senate and former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim. Others included former Minister of Federal Capital Territory and Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed; former Minister of State for Education and Rivers State Governor, N...
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Nigeria Needs Problem Solver, Not Consensus Candidate —Peter Obi
20Apr By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
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Nigeria Needs Problem Solver, Not Consensus Candidate —Peter Obi

Peter Obi A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential aspirant in the 2023 general election, and former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday, explained that Nigerians did not need a consensus candidate but a problem solver that can fix Nigeria. Obi who met with PDP delegates and other officials of the Party, at Salt Lake Hotel, Abakaliki, added that Nigerians were looking forward to having somebody that can make Nigeria productive and pull Nigerians out of poverty. He lamented that the country was presently “insecure. Nigeria is not unified and Nigeria is unproductive and it is collapsing.” According to him: “Going by the enormity of Nigeria’s problems, they are not looking for a consensus candidate. They are looking forward to somebody who will start solving t...
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2023: God Has Spoken To Me – Ngige Speaks On Presidential Ambition
17Apr By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
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2023: God Has Spoken To Me – Ngige Speaks On Presidential Ambition

Chris Ngige The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, says he will soon announce his decision on whether to run for the 2023 presidency or not. Ngige said he used the season of lent to commune with God, and he spoke back to him. Speaking when he met his followers in Awka, Anambra State on Saturday, the minister said he has consulted widely and would soon reveal his decision. According to Ngige, he would disclose his position on running for the Presidency or not on Tuesday or Wednesday. Read Also: 2023: Omo-Agege Declares For Delta Governorship Ngige said: “I want to assure you that the period of lent we ended it last night. “And during this period, we communed with God; we did our fasting; we talked to God and the angels and God spoke back to us. God ha...
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2023: Olu of Warri Didn’t Endorse Tinubu – Palace
16Apr By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
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2023: Olu of Warri Didn’t Endorse Tinubu – Palace

Bola Tinubu The Olu of Warri, His Majesty, Ogiame Atuwatse III, has rebutted claims of the endorsement of an All Progressives Congress presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, ahead of the 2023 elections. The rebuttal comes after media reports claimed that the Warri monarch endorsed Tinubu when a delegation of the South West Agenda for Asiwaju and Delta State for Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited him at his palace on Thursday. According to the statement signed by the Head, Back Office Operations, Office of the Ogiame Atuwatse III, Oriiz U. Onuwaje, the reports were taken out of context to suit a narrative. Onuwaje noted that the Olu of Warri had no political affiliation to any party or candidate vying for any office in the forthcoming elections, accusing the writer of contravening the Pala...
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