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Sunday, 27 February 2022 06:35

INEC releases revised timetable for party primaries, campaign, 2023 elections

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the schedule of activities for the 2023 general election. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, gave the breakdown on Saturday at a media briefing in Abuja. According to him, the presidential election was initially scheduled to hold on February 18, while governorship polls were fixed for March 4, but the dates had to be reviewed following the signing of the electoral act amendment bill. However, with the latest announcement, political parties are expected to begin collection of forms from INEC from March 1, 2022. See a breakdown of the schedule of activities below. Activity Presidential/national…

Saturday, 26 February 2022 06:14

Buhari signs amended Electoral Bill into law with suggestion for deletion of one crucial clause

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the reworked Electoral Amendment bill into law. The president signed the bill about at the Presidential Villa on Friday – in the presence of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and other officers. The signing comes a few days after a presidential media aide, Femi Adesina, assured that Buhari will assent to the bill. Before he signed it, the president sought an amendment to the bill by asking the National Assembly to delete Clause 84(12) of the bill. The clause reads, “No political appointee at any level shall…

Thursday, 24 February 2022 06:35

Zamfara Assembly impeaches deputy governor, replacement sworn-in hours after

Zamfara State House of Assembly has impeached the state’s deputy governor, Mahadi Ali. This is coming barely three hours after the House received the report of the investigative panel constituted by the state’s chief judge, Kulu Aliyu. Eighteen members of the House voted for the impeachment move, following which the Chief Judge of the state inaugurated an Investigative panel to probe the deputy governor. In a press briefing, however, Mr Ali lashed at the members for going ahead with the move despite court order. A total of 20 members were present at Wednesday sitting of the Assembly and they all…

Wednesday, 23 February 2022 06:17

APC zones party chairmanship to North after govs’ meeting with Buhari

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) has agreed on a zoning arrangement for party offices ahead of the national convention. El-Rufai spoke on Tuesday at a media briefing after a meeting of the progressive governors’ forum (PGF) with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja. According to the Kaduna governor, in line with the agreed arrangement, positions earlier held by the north will now go to the south and vice versa. Before the appointment of a caretaker committee chaired by Mai Mala Buni, Yobe governor, Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo from the south, was national…

Tuesday, 22 February 2022 06:27

APC announces new date for national convention, gives details of zonal congresses, others

Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved March 26 for the National Convention of the party. John Akpankudohede, national secretary of the CECPC, said this when he spoke with journalists shortly after the committee’s closed-door meeting in Abuja on Monday. The party had earlier in the day written the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) postponing its national convention initially slated for February 26. It also told the commission that it would conduct its zonal congresses on March 26. But Akpankudohede said after Monday’s meeting of the CECPC that activities for the national…

Monday, 21 February 2022 06:07

Buhari to meet APC gov as party prepares to postpone convention

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to postpone its much-touted elective national convention slated for February 26, 2022. Multiple sources hinted to one of our correspondents last night that the convention would be postponed over some unresolved issues in the party. While the convention was slated for this Saturday and a letter already transmitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the matter, the party was yet to constitute and publish names of the convention sub-committees. Similarly, the party is yet to zone the National Working Committee (NWC) offices. Investigation revealed that the ruling party has not…

Sunday, 20 February 2022 06:28

Oyetola wins Osun APC gov ticket; Aregbesola kicks

Gboyega Oyetola, Osun state governor, will be the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the July 16 governorship election. The governor, who is seeking a second term in office, defeated Moshood Adeoti and Yusuf Lasun to win the governorship primary on Saturday. The results were announced around 3am on Sunday by AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Kwara state governor and chairman of the Osun APC primary election committee. “I hereby certified that Gboyega Oyetola, having secured the number of highest votes cast at the primary election and having secured all guidelines contained, is hereby declared winner,” he said. Oyetola was adjudged…

Saturday, 19 February 2022 06:19

Tension in Osun as Oyetola, Aregbesola’s factions of APC fight for party’s gov ticket

There is heavy security presence at the secretariat of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun ahead of the party’s primary election today (Saturday). The security presence may not be unconnected to the clashes that have been recorded in parts of the state over leadership crisis. There are currently two factions of the APC in Osun — the Ilerioluwa Group is the faction loyal to Gboyega Oyetola, the governor, while The Osun Progressives (TOP) has the backing of Rauf Aregbesola, minister of interior and former governor of the state. Both factions have been at loggerheads over control of the state chapter…

Wednesday, 16 February 2022 06:17

Who’s Buhari’s Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola referring to here? “…because we placed him higher than where he ordinarily should be, he started to think he is our god.”

Interior Minister and former Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, was in Osun State on Monday to meet his supporters in respect of the governorship election.Below is the excerpt of his speech: “I’m happy that we sent for you all and you honoured our invitation. Those we specifically asked to be invited here are party leaders from the ward level to the state. They are the critical stakeholders and I’m certain they are the ones here. “Although some, who are not with us would be here also – the informants to the other camps. But we’re no longer afraid of no…

Thursday, 10 February 2022 06:29

Northern elders to Akeredolu: Threatening the North won’t give presidency to the South in 2023

Northern Elders Forum (NEF), yesterday, knocked Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, for saying any political party that fielded its presidential candidate from the North would lose the election. The group stressed that every northerner has the right to compete and contest for the presidential seat in 2023, adding that the North could equally take a similar position by canvassing support for a northern candidate against the South. Speaking with our correspondent, NEF Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, however, stressed that such utterances would only make the country suffer because Nigerians will end up selecting leaders, not on…

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Sunday, 06 February 2022 06:18

Top Emirs are reportedly lobbying Goodluck Jonathan to defect to APC and run for president again. This is their calculation

Some northern traditional rulers have reportedly begun lobbying former President Goodluck Jonathan to defect to the All Progressives Congress and run for President in view of the raging debate of zoning between northern and southern elements, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. “Jonathan has spoken with Buhari on the matter and he is considering joining the APC,” an associate of the former President authoritatively confirmed this to Sunday PUNCH on Saturday. It was learnt that two top traditional rulers in the Northwest and one in the Northeast had encouraged the former President to give the Presidency another shot. “The deal is for…

Thursday, 03 February 2022 06:12

APC state congresses produced factions controlled by govs, Ministers, senators in many states. Here are the winners and losers as APC inaugurates state chairmen

Factions of the All Progressives Congress in several states loyal to some ministers and senators are set to lose out as APC has perfected plans to inaugurate state chairmen loyal to the governors at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday (today). Some of the losers include Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola; Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo; and Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. Others who lost out include former Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, Kabiru Marafa and a former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’Aziz Yari’. Several state chapters had been divided into…

Thursday, 03 February 2022 06:11

Senate confirms ‘APC card-carrying member’ as INEC commissioner

Senate has confirmed Rhoda Gumus as a national commissioner (Southsouth) of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Gumus, a nominee from Bayelsa state, is said to be a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), a civil society organisation (CSO), had petitioned Senate President Ahmad Lawan against her nomination. In the petition dated January 26 and acknowledged by the office of the senate president, Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA national coordinator, said the CSO found documents proving that Gumus is a card-carrying member of the ruling party. The documents were said to have been attached to…

Tuesday, 01 February 2022 06:12

Buhari receives amended Electoral Bill for assent

President Muhammedu Buhari has received the authenticated copies of the Electoral Bill 2022. A statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Affairs (Senate), Babajide Omoworare, said Clerk to the National Assembly, Olatunde Amos Ojo, transmitted the authenticated copies, yesterday. According to Omoworare, “this was done in accordance with the provisions of Section 58 (3) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the Acts Authentication Act Cap. A2 LFN 2004. “Mr President had withheld assent to the Electoral Bill 2021 transmitted to him on November 19, 2021. The Electoral Bill was thereafter reworked by the National Assembly…

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