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Tinubu Claims that Prayers Helped Him Win Party Ticket

21Jun

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Tinubu Claims that Prayers Helped Him Win Party Ticket

Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential candidate for the APC, has attributed his success at the party's National convention to prayers. Tinubu stated that his response to the gang-up against him and his presidential bid in the party was to pray. Tinubu made this known when he visited the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu on Sunday, June 19 2022. Explaining his reason for pushing for the actualization of this dream, he said "There is no Lagos indigene that has had the opportunity to become President of Nigeria, despite the contribution of the state to national stability and progress. See Also: Bola Ahmed Tinubu Emerges APC Presidential Flag Bearer "The highest position attained by any Lagosian in national leadership is the position of Chief Judge of the Federation. I took up the...

Bola Ahmed Tinubu Emerges APC Presidential Flag Bearer

8Jun

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Elections, News, Nigeria

Bola Ahmed Tinubu Emerges APC Presidential Flag Bearer

Bola Ahmed Tinubu has emerged as APC's Presidential flag bearer for the 2023 general elections. Prior to the start of the convention, no one was exactly sure how the events will play out. The front runners going into the elections were Tinubu, the Vice president, Osinbajo, Rotimi Amaechi and Senate President, Lawan. There had bee news of a consensus candidate in the person of Lawan. This was however refuted. See Also: APC Presidential Primaries: Voting In Progress For 14 Aspirants The picture started getting a bit clearer when, before the start of the polls, about 6 candidates stepped down for Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The candidates that stepped down are: Mrs Uju Ohanenye, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Mr Dimeji Bankole, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Ibikunle Amosun and Pr...

No Amount Of Intimidation Can Stop Me – Tinubu

21Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

No Amount Of Intimidation Can Stop Me – Tinubu

A Presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Bola Tinubu, Sunday, vowed that no amount of intimidation could halt his presidential ambition in 2023. He said this during his consultation with the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi and the Olubadan-designate, Oba Lekan Balogun. Tinubu had in January visited President Muhammadu Buhari to register his readiness to contest in the 2023 elections. Speaking at the Olubadan-designate’s palace in Ibadan, the National Leader of the APC insisted that no amount of intimidation could stop him from fulfilling his ambition.He said his visit to Oyo and Ibadan was borne out of his respect for the royal stool, and to seek their blessings, cooperation and prayers to lead the country come 2023. See...

18Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Buhari’s Minister, Adamu Adamu Appointed Patron of Tinubu Support Group

The director-general of the Tinubu Support Organisation, Aminu Suleiman has announced the appointment of Adamu Adamu, Buhari’s minister of education as the patron. Suleiman made the announcement during a visit to the minister at his Abuja residence. He then handed Adamu the appointment letter. Suleiman who was accompanied by the Federal Capital Territory coordinator of the TSO and other officials of the organisation were warmly received by the minister and his staff. In a post made on Facebook, Suleiman told the minister that his team was at his residence to pay homage on behalf of the millions of members of TSO across the country and those in the diaspora. See Also: Tinubu Visited Me To Seek Support For Presidential Ambition – Yakasai According to Suleiman, the...

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

5Feb

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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...

Nigerians Must Stand Against Insurrectionists, Killers – Tinubu

12Jun

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News, Nigeria, Press Statement, Security

Nigerians Must Stand Against Insurrectionists, Killers – Tinubu

As Nigeria marks Democracy Day today, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has urged Nigerians to stand against insurrectionists and killers destroying the country’s democratic institutions. Tinubu said this in a statement he signed on Friday titled, ‘June 12, 2021: Democracy Day Statement’ – amid secessionist agitations from the South-East and South-West. Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor, said one of the inspiring accounts that would be written about Nigeria was how it transitioned from the darkness of authoritarian military suppression into the light of democracy and the establishment of popular government based on the sovereign will of the people. The statement read, “On this memorable day, we mark, with respect, and honour the sacrifi...

Tinubu dismisses reported rift with Buhari

28Apr

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Interview, News, Nigeria

Tinubu dismisses reported rift with Buhari

A national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Monday, reacted to the various challenges bedevelling Nigeria, saying all nations would go through difficult times. He said the difference would be in how to communicate the challenges to citizens and how to make it easier for them to bear. Tinubu stated this in an interview with State House correspondents shortly after a closed-door meeting he had with the President, Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The former Lagos State Governor, who was accompanied by a former national chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande, said one of the steps in addressing the challenges was exchanging ideas with the leadership, which he was in the Presidential Villa to do. He said, “The best way forwar...

#ENDSARS: Please, Please and Please, Call off the Protests – Tinubu to Protesters

20Oct

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Human Rights, Justice, Lagos News, Law Enforcement, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Youths

#ENDSARS: Please, Please and Please, Call off the Protests – Tinubu to Protesters

Tinubu has pleaded with the #ENDSARS protesters to please call of the protests. In a series of tweets titled "Protests – The Remedy for National Maladies is More, not Less, Democracy" the former governor of Lagos State and the self-acclaimed strongman of Lagos politics note among other things that the demands of the protesters were being attended to by the government. The full statement read thus: "Protests – The Remedy for National Maladies is More, not Less, Democracy "For the past twelve days, our country has witnessed massive protests by youths in different cities, which were ignited by widespread disenchantment with the gross human rights abuses including torture, extortion, harassment intimidation and even extra-judicial killings of Nigerians by members of the disbanded S...

Tinubu’s Last-minute Video, Wike’s Sagacity and Other Reasons Obaseki Won Ize-Iyamu

21Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Features, News, Nigeria

Tinubu’s Last-minute Video, Wike’s Sagacity and Other Reasons Obaseki Won Ize-Iyamu

When Governor Godwin Obaseki decamped from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on June 19, 2020, many political analysts cheered him for resisting the attempt by his former party to frustrate his political ambition. It was a tough call for him having gone through the hassles of the then prearranged screening exercise that saw him lose to his opponent in the just concluded election, Osagie Ize Iyamu. Governor Obaseki had raised an alarm prior to the screening that there were attempts by the hierarchy of the APC to disqualify him from the primaries to favor a candidate handpicked by the then national chairman of the APC. Although there were efforts to resolve the crisis between Governor Obaseki and Comrade Adams Oshiomole, both men decided ...

Don’t Cry for Bola Ahmed Tinubu by Femi Aribisala

30Jun

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Nigeria

Don’t Cry for Bola Ahmed Tinubu by Femi Aribisala

Will the Jagaban of Borgu ever learn? Unfortunately for him, he has taken a route without a plan B. The article reproduced here was written in 2015. It predicted the comeuppance of Bola Tinubu in the APC. I have decided to re-submit it for publication because what was obvious to so many of us on the sidelines what oblivious to Bola Tinubu. We always knew it was a matter of time before he was used and dumped by his Northern coalition partners. But Tinubu was so blinded by ambition, he could not even see his nose in the mirror. The chicken is coming home to roost now. Will his Excellency, the Jagaban of Borgu, “the Ashiwaju of Yorubaland,” ever learn? Please read this again and have a good laugh in light of what is happening to Tinubu in the APC today. Master of illusion ...