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I Will Defeat Tinubu As APC Candidate If PDP Fields Me – Fayose

5Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria

I Will Defeat Tinubu As APC Candidate If PDP Fields Me – Fayose

A former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has described as heresy or lose talk the claim that he has pledged to support the presidential ambition of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Instead, Fayose, who said he might consider joining the 2023 presidential race, boasted that should the People Democratic Party pick him as a presidential candidate and Tinubu gets the APC ticket, he would trounce the former Lagos governor at the polls.Fayose added that Nigerians would be doomed if they fail to replace the APC with the PDP in Aso Rock come 2023. The ex-governor spoke in an exclusive interview with Saturday PUNCH.Responding to a question on his alleged pledge to back Tinubu’s presidential ambition, Fayose said, “I have said it over...

APC Zones Chairmanship Seat To North-Central, Lists South-East For Secretary

19Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

APC Zones Chairmanship Seat To North-Central, Lists South-East For Secretary

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress may have decided to zone the National Secretary position of the APC to the South-East while the North-Central will get the chairmanship of the party. The deputy national chairman (South) is expected to go to the South-South. A top chieftain of the APC revealed this to The PUNCH even as he stated that the party would be alternating certain positions. He said positions that were occupied by northerners in the last National Working Committee would be given to southerners and vice versa. The chieftain said, “Discussions are ongoing. So far, we have agreed that the North-Central will take the national chairmanship position while the South-South will take the national deputy chairman (South) and then the South-East will get the national se...

National Convention: APC Governors Propose Feb 26, Al-Makura, Musa Lead In Party Chair’s Race

18Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

National Convention: APC Governors Propose Feb 26, Al-Makura, Musa Lead In Party Chair’s Race

Former Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State and the lawmaker representing Niger East, Senator Sani Musa are favoured by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress to emerge as the national chairman of the APC. A top source in the party said while Al-Makura was being favoured by most of the governors, some strong forces in the Presidency and the Senate were backing Musa. These came to the fore on Monday as the APC governors at their meeting in Abuja on Sunday agreed to hold the party’s national convention on February 26 and February 27, 2021. However, the decision on the convention is subject to the final approval of the National Executive Committee of the party led by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Electoral Act states that any political party planning to hold its n...

Imo Has Collapsed Under Uzodinma, Says PDP

17Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Imo Has Collapsed Under Uzodinma, Says PDP

The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has described as disastrous, the two years reign of Hope Uzodinma as the Governor of the state. PDP in a statement issued by its state publicity secretary, Emenike Nmeregini, on Monday, accessed the two year anniversary of Uzodiinma as governor and accused him of underperforming. The main opposition party said that within two years, the Uzodinma’s administration had politicised insecurity in the state and had allowed bandits, kidnappers and terrorists to overrun the state. It also alleged that the state is now the unemployment capital of the country, owing to bad governance. According to PDP, the state is now the most indebted state in the South-East zone, owing to what it called bogus borrowing with proper utilisation of th...

APC Govs Meet Sunday, To Insist On Convention Before Presidential Primary

8Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

APC Govs Meet Sunday, To Insist On Convention Before Presidential Primary

The ruling All Progressives Congress will meet on Sunday, January 9, to decide a substantive date for the party’s national convention. This is partly in response to the caution issued by President Muhammadu Buhari, in an interview with the Nigerian Television Authority, which aired on Thursday. In the interview, Buhari warned that by dilly-dallying, the APC might be setting itself up for defeat by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 presidential election. The Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum and governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, met with the President at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, on Friday. Speaking with State House Correspondents, Lalong noted that deliberations at the Sunday meeting would centre on picking a date for the party’s convention. ...

PDP’ll Take Over If APC Leaders Fail On Convention – Buhari

7Jan

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

PDP’ll Take Over If APC Leaders Fail On Convention – Buhari

The President, Muhammadu Buhari, has warned that if the leadership of the All Progressives Congress fails to get its act together on time, the Peoples Democratic Party will take over. This is as he said, there will be no kingmaker roles in the party, and all aspirants must work hard to earn their ranks. Buhari said this in an interview with the National Television Authority, which was aired on Thursday evening. Speaking on the APC National Convention earlier slated for February 2022, the President said the party must work within the timeframe available, determine a substantive leadership, and chart its course ahead of the 2023 elections; otherwise, it risks being displaced by the opposition. Read Also: Why State Police Is Not An Option —President Buhari He said, “We have a ...

13Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

APC Numb to Ongoing Bloodletting — PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday said the governing All Progressives Congress has become numb to the violence and bloodletting that is now routine across Nigeria. It also said the APC has clearly demonstrated that it was not a political party but a conglomeration of strange bedfellows. The new National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologun-Agba, said this in an interview with newsmen, in Abuja. He said, “…about numbness to violence, numbness to bloodshed. Anywhere in the world that you find a leadership that is true leadership, they won’t go on vacation during a crisis. Read Also: Declare Miyetti Allah As Terrorists, They Have Bandits As Members — Governor Ortom Tells Buhari “When destruction happens to countries, a president of that country is expected to step f...

I Won’t Withdraw Petition Against Soludo –Andy Uba

11Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, Judiciary, News, Nigeria

I Won’t Withdraw Petition Against Soludo –Andy Uba

The All Progressives Congress in Anambra State has said that it will pursue the governorship elections at the tribunal because it has enough evidence that the elections were manipulated. Speaking with Saturday PUNCH, the Deputy Director, Senator Andy Uba Governorship Campaign Organization, Mr Ikechukwu Onyia, said Uba believed that the declaration of the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Prof. Charles Soludo as the winner of that election was faulty. Onyi said the APC candidate approached the tribunal in line with Electoral Act and constitution. Onyia stated that Uba had a strong case at the tribunal because his votes at some places like Abatete and Oba in Idemili North were not recorded. He commended the tribunal’s ruling granting the inspection of the Certifie...

APGA Refutes Obiano, Soludo’s Planned Defection To APC

22Nov

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

APGA Refutes Obiano, Soludo’s Planned Defection To APC

The All Progressives Grand Alliance has denied the alleged planned defection of the incumbent Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, and the Governor-elect of the state, Chukwuma Soludo, to the All Progressives Congress. The National Co-ordinator of APGA Media Warriors Forum, Chinedu Obigwe, who debunked the story on Monday at a press briefing in Awka, Anambra State, described the claim in some quarters as “a lie from the pit of hell.” Shortly after the Anambra State November 6 governorship poll, rumours stated that Obiano and Soludo would join APC as one of the conditions given to them by powers that be to allow a free and fair poll in the state. The PUNCH had reported that prior to the election that there was a threat of a declaration of a state of emergency on the state by t...

Zoning has Come to Stay, Say Southern APC Chieftains

9Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Zoning has Come to Stay, Say Southern APC Chieftains

Some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress in the southern part of the country have said power should shift to the southern part of the country in 2023 for the sake of equity and fairness. They noted that even though zoning is not expressly stated in the constitution, it has become inevitable for peace and justice to reign in the country. This came amid open debate between northern and southern governors over the region that should produce the next president when the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), completes his second tenure in 2023. In an interview with one of our correspondents, a party chieftain from the South-East and Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu, said zoning of the presidency was a settled matter and does not require fres...