The emergence of Former Senate President Bukola Saraki and Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State as the preferred aspirants for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential ticket has failed to achieve the desired outcome of presenting a united front against the ruling APC. Messrs Saraki and Mohammed, alongside Governor Aminu Tambuwal and Hayatu-Deen, had resolved to go into the consensus arrangement to reduce the number of aspirants going into the battle for the ticket. After weeks of moving around the country, the consensus arrangement, brokered by the former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida, and announced by Ango Abdullahi, selected…
The ruling APC in Cross River State has advised aspirants for different political offices to decamp if they are not satisfied with consensus arrangements in the party. Chairman of the party, Alphonsus Eba spoke over a radio programme. Many aspirants in the state who were told to accept the consensus arrangements have expressed displeasure. Eba said it is not compulsory for disenchanted ones to remain stuck in APC when they can decamp or form their own parties. “If any one of you feels dissatisfied with the decision of the party to go for consensus candidates you can decamp to other…
…Ana Ekwu Ekwu, Ana Eme Eme The foremost contender for the representation of the good people of Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency, Rt. Rev. Daniel Imo, (RDI) has today, Friday, April 29, 2022, at the APC Headquarters Abuja, picked his Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms in his avowed commitment to represent the Constituency in the Green Chambers of the National Assembly. The process was completed after making all the necessary payments to the tune of #10,000,00 (TEN MILLION NAIRA), the official amount payable to the party. As we have always maintained, without being immodest, Rev. Daniel Imo is going into the…
Leading Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Yahaya Bello, on Wednesday, picked up his Expression of Interest and Nomination Form to contest for the 2023 presidential election. Bello, who was the first to pay the N100 required for the forms, was received by a mammoth crowd of party faithfuls and support groups from across the country, who have been urging him to run for President. Addressing the mammoth crowd that had come to welcome him, Bello said, “Right now, what we have ahead of us is a task of canvassing and consulting all party faithfuls, leaders, delegates and…
There has been a massive hoopla in the public space about the 100million fixed by our great Party the All Progressive Congress APC as cost for the Presidential Nomination Form. Typical of everything Nigerian the many discussants and ideologues have left unattended the reason the Party put such a huge amount as the cost for Presidential normination form. But does the Party not have the right to prune down the number of contestants/Aspirants? Does the Party not have the right to manage what would become a tortuous Presidential Primaries by reducing the number of Aspirants the way it deems best?…
Hundreds of supporters, including women and youth groups, Friday, stormed the office of former President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja calling on him to contest for President in 2023. The supporters arrived at the office with a musical band around 8:50 a.m. They lamented that since he left office, hunger, insecurity, and unemployment, among others have become the order of the day. The supporters said that both men and women have turned to beggars because of the unfavorable policies of the present administration. Speaking, Ms. Ngozi Okafor said since the former President left in 2015, both men and women have been…
Kayode Oyero and Victor Ayeni Leader of Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has said that presidential aspirants from the South-West geopolitical zone including Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, should forget their presidential ambitions. He said it was the turn of the South-East to produce Nigeria’s next President after the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in May 2023. The elder statesman made his position known in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH on Tuesday. According to him, it is an injustice for a South-West President to emerge in 2023 after ex-President…
The All Progressives Congress will choose its presidential candidate through an indirect primary election. The decision was reached at the party’s 11th National Executive Committee meeting held at the Transcorp Hotel in Abuja. Also, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and other leaders of the party transmitted their powers to the National Working Committee of the APC to make decisions for a period of 90 days. Among those who will be contesting the APC Presidential primary are Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, former Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi; and Governor…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has fixed N100 million for its presidential nomination and expression of interest forms. APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morgan, disclosed this while addressing journalists in Abuja, on Wednesday. Earlier, the National Executive Council (NEC) of the APC transferred its powers to the National Working Committee (NWC). APC’s NEC transferred its power to NWC under the leadership of its National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu for the next 90 days. National Secretary of APC, Senator Iyiola Omisore told the gathering that Senate President, Ahmed Lawan moved the motion and was seconded by Governor Nasir El-rufai.
ABUJA—Director-General, Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation, Hafsat Abiola-Costello, has said Nigerians of all walks of life would play the godfather role to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State when he is elected President in the 2023 election. She also said in a free, fair, and credible contest, Yahaya Bello has what it takes to beat other presidential aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to get the ticket. Abiola-Costello, stated this while addressing a world press conference on the aspiration of Governor Bello and his chances at the delegate election. Abuja yesterday, said: “One of the major qualities…
