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2023: Don’t Give APC Tickets To ‘Highest Bidders’, Buhari Warns Party Leaders

27Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

2023: Don’t Give APC Tickets To ‘Highest Bidders’, Buhari Warns Party Leaders

President Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday, warned the new National Working Committee, NWC of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC against allowing the party primaries to be influenced by “highest bidders”. President Buhari gave the warning at the just concluded 2022 APC National Convention held in Eagle Square, Abuja. Buhari urged the new APC leaders to always promote internal democracy and equal opportunities for all members of the party, asking those who may not get the party ticket to always embrace the spirit of sportsmanship. Read Also: APC Convention: Senator Adamu Emerges Chairman By Consensus “l passionately appeal to you all to support the incoming National Working Committee, NWC to promote unity and avoid sentiments that are capable of causing d...

APC Convention: Senator Adamu Emerges Chairman By Consensus

27Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

APC Convention: Senator Adamu Emerges Chairman By Consensus

APC After days of negotiations and disagreements, the preferred candidate of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, for the position of the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, was ratified as the new party chairman late Saturday night. The ratification of Adamu and other members of the incoming National Working Committee and Zonal Leaders of the party was part of activities at the convention of the party, which commenced on Saturday and ended in the early hours of Sunday at the Eagles Square, Abuja. Adamu, a former governor of Nasarawa State, who had emerged as a consensus candidate, was not among those who initially expressed interest in the chairmanship position. However, he was later drafted into the race by the Presidency and some gover...

PDP Asks Court To Declare APC Convention Illegal, Seeks Party’s Deregistration

26Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Judiciary, News, Nigeria

PDP Asks Court To Declare APC Convention Illegal, Seeks Party’s Deregistration

APC Ahead of the National Convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress scheduled to hold on Saturday (today), the opposition Peoples Democratic Party has asked the Abuja division of the Federal High Court to declare the planned exercise unconstitutional and illegal. In addition, the PDP equally seeks an order of court de-registering the APC as a political party having failed to meet the requirements of sections 222(a), 223(b) and 225 of the 1999 Constitution. The main opposition party further asked the court for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission from recognising, communicating with, dealing with or having any business whatsoever with the APC as a registered political party. In a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/ 389 2022 and...

Buhari’s Preferred Candidate To Become APC National Chairman Revealed

25Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Buhari’s Preferred Candidate To Become APC National Chairman Revealed

The Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari told governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), that he would prefer Abdullahi Adamu to emerge as the party’s national chairman. Following a meeting with the President on Wednesday, the chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), Atiku Bagudu, made it clear that the APC governors would support Buhari’s preferred chairmanship candidate. Speaking on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Thursday, Lalong claimed Buhari wants the party’s national chairmanship slot to be zoned to the north-central. Read Also: APC Presidential Ticket: Tinubu, Bello, Umahi, Others Learn Fate May He said: “The president said he preferred the chairman should come from the north...

APC Haunted By Its Failures, PDP Replies Femi Adesina

24Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

APC Haunted By Its Failures, PDP Replies Femi Adesina

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, was unconcerned about the suffering and agony of Nigerians. The opposition party was reacting to a recent statement credited to the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. Femi Adesina Adesina had in the statement, Tuesday, said the PDP was seeking to destabilise Nigeria by threatening the country with comments that promote anarchy, social upheaval and disorderliness. PDP had on Monday, warned that Nigeria’s situation was getting to a boiling point and could trigger a nationwide agitation that might be worse than the October 2020 #EndSARS protest. But in a statement yesterday, Debo Ologunagba, PDP spokesperson, said the ruling party was “frustrated and haunted” by...

Sack: Umahi, Deputy Notify Court of Appeal Against Judgement

22Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Sack: Umahi, Deputy Notify Court of Appeal Against Judgement

Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State yesterday filed an appeal against the Federal High Court’s judgment ordering him and his deputy, Eric Igwe to vacate office as Governor and Deputy Governor of Ebonyi State respectively. This is just as the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that Umahi and Igwe can no longer exercise the functions of Ebonyi State governor and deputy governor respectively However, Umahi through his lawyer, Chukwuma Machukwu-Ume, accordingly applied to the court to withdraw the application for stay of execution of the judgment pending their appeal at the higher court. Justice Ekwo had in a judgment delivered on March 8, ordered the applicants to vacate the elected offices they occupied owing to their defection from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)...

Tinubu Endorses Sanwo-Olu For Second Term

21Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Lagos News, News, Nigeria

Tinubu Endorses Sanwo-Olu For Second Term

Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu will this weekend kick-off his declaration for a second term at the national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja. A prominent member of the Governors Advisory Council (GAC) who is also one of the apex leaders of APC in Lagos state, told newsmen on Sunday that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former Lagos state governor had endorsed Sanwo-Olu for a second term and had instructed the party leaders to work for his reelection. “Sanwo-Olu is coming back. I can authoritatively confirm that to you. He is likely to declare and will kick off his re-election campaign this weekend at Eagles Square, the venue of the national convention of the APC on March 26 in Abuja” . See Also: APC is Focusing On Its Promises — Sanwo-Olu “Th...

APC Presidential Ticket: Tinubu, Bello, Umahi, Others Learn Fate May

20Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

APC Presidential Ticket: Tinubu, Bello, Umahi, Others Learn Fate May

Presidential aspirants on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress will have to wait till May to know who among them will fly the party’s flag in the 2023 presidential election. It was also learnt that the party would peg money for its presidential nomination form at N50m. Some of the aspirants like a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello; Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi and a former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Kalu; and ex-Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha have openly declared their interest to succeed the President, Muhammadu Buhari, whose second year tenure ends on May 29, 2023. Other aspirants rumoured to have presidential ambition in the party but have yet to declare their intention includ...

APC Crisis: Factions Vow Not To Withdraw Cases, Court Vacates Order Stopping Convention

19Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Judiciary, News, Nigeria

APC Crisis: Factions Vow Not To Withdraw Cases, Court Vacates Order Stopping Convention

Factions in some state chapters of the party have said they won’t withdraw their pending cases in court, noting that the President’s directive that suits against the party be withdrawn was only advisory and not by fiat. Some of the court cases however border on the legality of the Mai Mala Buni-led caretaker committee. This is in spite of the court ruling that vacated an order restraining the party from holding its convention. In Zamfara State, the Publicity Secretary of the faction loyal to Senator Kabiru Mafara, Bello Bakyasuwa, said they had seven pending cases against the party in court. He however maintained that they would not withdraw the cases. Bakyasuwa told Saturday PUNCH in a telephone interview, “We will not withdraw our cases no matter what happens because we are...

APC Crisis: Buni Remains In Charge Of APC As INEC Scuttles Govs’ ‘Coup’

12Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

APC Crisis: Buni Remains In Charge Of APC As INEC Scuttles Govs’ ‘Coup’

An attempt by some governors of the All Progressives Congress to sack the Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the APC, Governor Mai Mala Buni, seems to have hit a brick wall following the refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission to recognise the acting Chairman of the party, Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State. APC Bello had written a letter to INEC requesting that the commission attends the APC’s National Executive Council meeting scheduled for next Thursday where Buni and the APC Secretary, Senator John Akpanudoedehe, were expected to be removed. The commission informed the CECPC that the letter of invitation was not signed by the National Chairman and National Secretary of the CECPC, Buni and Akpanudoedehe, respectively. Hence,...