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Monday, 01 August 2022 06:36

PDP govs, leaders meet Wike in Abuja

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Sunday met some of his colleagues elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party and some other party faithful who were behind his presidential campaign. The meeting held at the Rivers Governor’s Lodge, Abuja, was the first by the group after the party’s special national convention which produced Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential candidate. A member of the party’s Board of Trustees, Jerry Gana, spoke with journalists, on behalf of the group, after the meeting. Gana said, “We know that developments will unfold and when they do, we shall brief Nigerians. We…

Saturday, 30 July 2022 07:03

APC/Tinubu’s Muslim-Muslim ticket is a fatal error; we’ll look for another platform for 2023 - Dogara

Yakubu Dogara, a former speaker of the house of representatives, has kicked against the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Dogara conveyed his displeasure on Friday at the APC Northern Christian Leaders Summit. The APC came under criticism after Bola Tinubu, its presidential candidate, picked Kashim Shettima, a former governor of Borno, as his running mate. Dogara said it is hogwash to assert that no Christian is competent to be Tinubu’s running mate. The former speaker said the ticket would create disunity in the party and the country at large. He described Tinubu’s decision as a “fatal…

Saturday, 30 July 2022 07:02

Northern Christians will fight Muslim-Muslim ticket with prayers, PVCs - Babachir Lawal

Babachir Lawal, former secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), says the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 presidential election will be resisted with prayers. Lawal said this at the APC northern Christian leaders summit on Friday. Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, picked Kashim Shettima, former governor of Borno who’s also a Muslim, as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election. The development elicited outrage from key stakeholders, particularly the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). Commenting again on the issue, Lawal said: “Clearly, there is an agenda to politically, religiously, and economically…

Saturday, 30 July 2022 07:00

Wike to Atiku: ‘I will reply to your lies against me line by line’

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for allegedly telling lies against him. Reacting to Atiku’s claim that a committee has been set up to reach out to him, Wike said he was not aware of any committee set up by PDP or the party’s presidential candidate for that purpose. Wike disclosed that both Atiku and the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, had not reached out to him after the party’s presidential primary in May. The governor described as unfortunate the unguarded public comments credited to respectable party members against him…

Thursday, 28 July 2022 06:51

Opposition Senators push for Buhari's impeachment over worsening insecurity

Opposition Senators pushed for President Muhammadu Buhari to face impeachment, 10-months before the end of his second term in office, over the country's spreading security problems, the Senate minority leader said on Wednesday. Nigerians go to the polls in February 2023 to elect a new president in a hotly contested vote where security and the state of economy will be the main issues. At a closed Senate session, Senators of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) tried to introduce a motion giving Buhari six-weeks to improve the country's security or face impeachment, Philip Aduda said. "Nowhere is safe in Nigeria, even…

Saturday, 23 July 2022 06:49

The Obi, Kwakwanso factor may push 2023 presidential election into a runoff - US institute

2023 presidential election may go into a runoff with the emergence of Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, a delegation of United States-based National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, said on Friday. According to them, the 2023 elections would be a departure from some of the political dynamics that defined previous polls in Nigeria. The delegation of the NDI/IRI which visited Nigeria from July 13-22 and led by Secretary of State for Ohio, Frank LaRose, stated these while presenting its first joint pre-elections assessment statement to journalists in Abuja.…

Thursday, 21 July 2022 06:21

‘Bishops’ who attended unveiling of Tinubu’s running mate didn’t have enough time to learn how to wear Bishop garments - CAN

Christian Association of Nigeria on Wednesday dissociated itself from ‘Bishops’ who attended the unveiling of the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, saying they were desperados who went there for themselves. The organisation said that although the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu, was free to “hire mechanics and other artisans and sew clerical garments for them”, that effort would only add to their many ropes but would not change the need for fairness and justice. Vice President of CAN (19 Northern States and Abuja) and its chairman in Kaduna State, Joseph Hayab, said this…

Wednesday, 20 July 2022 06:30

Adeboye never endorsed Tinubu’s presidential ambition - RCCG

Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) says Enoch Adeboye, its general overseer, will not endorse the presidential ambition of any candidate for the 2023 general election. The RCCG was reacting to online reports that Adeboye met Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), over the weekend. The reports also claimed the clergyman is not opposed to the APC’s Muslim-Muslim ticket and that he is in support of the presidential bid of the former Lagos governor. But in a statement on Tuesday, RCCG described the report as false. While asking Nigerians to disregard the report, RCCG said legal…

Tuesday, 19 July 2022 07:02

Oyo deputy gov was impeached and a new one inaugurated immediately. This is the political-legal drama that involved the three arms of Oyo govt

Oyo State House of Assembly on Monday removed Rauf Olaniyan as deputy governor of the state. The lawmakers quickly approved the nomination of Adebayo Lawal as replacement. Shortly after the approval, the state Chief Judge, Munta Abimbola, also inaugurated Lawal as Olaniyan’s successor. Olaniyan’s removal by the Peoples Democratic Party-dominated House followed the recommendations of the seven-man panel raised by the Chief Judge to probe allegations of financial recklessness, gross misconduct and insubordination among others levelled against Olaniyan. Governor Seyi Makinde quickly nominated Lawal, a lawyer and Chairman, Oyo State Housing Corporation, as the new deputy governor. The nomination of…

Monday, 18 July 2022 07:00

Davido, personalities, key issues that tilted Osun gov election in Adeleke’s favour

The 2022 governorship election in Osun State has come and gone but Nigerians would not forget it in a hurry. For various reasons, the election became a subject of interest. One should not expect less since it is the last off cycle governorship election before the 2023 general elections. All Progressives Congress (APC) wanted to retain its hold of the state, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was bent on extending its frontiers in the Southwest region. At the end of the day, the winner carried the day. However, some persons played key roles in the victory of Ademola Adeleke.…

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Sunday, 17 July 2022 05:53

Adeleke denies APC’s Oyetola second term as PDP pulls upset in Osun gov election

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to declare the candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ademola Adeleke, the winner of the just concluded governorship election in Osun State, Southwest Nigeria. Adeleke, a former senator and younger brother to the state’s first governor, Isiaka Adeleke, defeated the incumbent governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gboyega Oyetola, by a margin of about 44,426 votes. Based on computation of the final results announced by the electoral commission, INEC, the PDP polled about 403,374 votes while the APC polled about 358,948 votes. INEC is currently collating the final…

Saturday, 16 July 2022 07:35

Osun gov election holds today. This is how much APC, PDP, others have set aside to buy votes

In continuation of the illegal practice of vote-buying that has characterised elections in the country, many political parties participating in today’s governorship election in Osun State have devised new strategies to induce voters, findings by Saturday PUNCH revealed. Our correspondents gathered that in spite of serial denials by the parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party have concluded plans to pay between N2,000 and N10,000 per vote. It was also learnt that the parties had since Tuesday distributed the money to the wards and polling units to avoid being stopped by security agencies. The PDP,…

Saturday, 16 July 2022 07:32

INEC extends voter registration by two more weeks, including weekends

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says continuous voter registration (CVR) will end on July 31, 2022. The commission made the decision at an extraordinary session which took place on Friday. The electoral umpire said the exercise has also been extended to eight hours daily — from 9am to 5pm — instead of the current duration of six hours daily. Festus Okoye, INEC commissioner for information and voter education, said the exercise will now include weekends as against only weekdays. INEC had earlier fixed June 30 as the deadline for the ongoing CVR ahead of the 2023 elections — but the…

Saturday, 16 July 2022 07:30

Methodist Prelate: ‘I’ll support presidential candidate who has no money to share’

Samuel Kanu-Uche, prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria (MCN), says he will only support a presidential candidate who doesn’t engage in vote-buying. He spoke on Friday in Enugu at the graduation ceremony of 160 members of the church from the Enugu diocese, who were trained on various vocational skills. The prelate advised Nigerians against selling their votes, adding that politicians who engage in vote-buying have nothing to offer in terms of service to the nation. He, however, did not name which candidate he would support for the presidency. “I know that most of the candidates has nothing to offer, but…

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