Tag: 2023

2023: Tinubu spites PDP, calls it ‘party of termites’  

Aminu Imam

The presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Bola Tinubu, has described the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a “political party of termites”. Tinubu stated this during the inauguration of the Tinubu-Shettima Women Presidential Campaign Team at the State House Banquet Hall, in Abuja. “Our opponents spent 16 years, they had forgotten that the highway is an economy, electricity is mandatory for industrialisation. They don’t understand the transmission lines and the need for maintenance. They couldn’t make a down payment for the trail track. They are a…

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Tinubu returns from UK, lands in Abuja

Aminu Imam

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has returned to the country after observing a 10-day rest in the United Kingdom. The APC flagbearer landed in Abuja to the warm embrace of party chieftains and supporters. He was received by a delegation led by his running mate Senator Kashim Shettima, former APC chair, Adams Oshiomhole, and others. He alighted from the plane that conveyed him to a shout of ’Jagaban’ and ’Asiwaju’, in a video shared by the spokesman of his Presidential Campaign Council,…

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2023: “We’ll shock the whole system” – YPP presidential candidate

Aminu Imam

The presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Malik Ado-Ibrahim, has said that the party will shock the whole system during the 2023 general elections. Ado-Ibrahim stated this during an interview on a television programme, yesterday. According to him, YPP’s structure is different from all other political parties, saying the intention of the party is to communicate directly to the people. The presidential candidate added that over 100 million young Nigerians are ready to go and vote for a leader they can believe in. He said, “We want to…

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2023: ‘No rally is allowed at Lagos Lekki Tollgate’ – Lagos Police warn Peter Obi, supporters

Aminu Imam

The Lagos State Police Command has warned the Labour Party’s Presidential candidate, Peter Obi and his supporters not to hold any rally at the Lekki Tollgate today, Saturday. Obi’s supporters had planned to hold a rally for their candidate at the Lekki Tollgate on Independence Day, but a Federal High Court in Lagos had stopped them from doing so. The court ordered the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the Lagos Commissioner of Police to ensure that the order is enforced. However, a statement issued by the Command’s spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin,…

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2023 Presidential primaries: Ex-Minister asks court to disqualify Tinubu, Atiku over ‘vote buying’

Aminu Imam

The immediate-past Minister of State for education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has filed a suit before an Abuja Federal High Court seeking to void the election of Bola Tinubu as presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC). Nwajiuba, who was an APC presidential candidate but received only one vote in the June 8 primary despite staying away, accused Tinubu of bribing delegates with dollars. The suit, filed alongside a non-governmental organisation, (NGO), the Incorporated Trustees of Rights for All International, is also praying the court to disqualify Atiku Abubakar, candidate of…

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2023: Wike, Ortom, Makinde, two other governors shun Atiku’s presidential campaign inauguration in Abuja

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) State governors in the camp of their Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, were conspicuously absent at the official inauguration of the party presidential campaign council and the Atiku Abubakar book launch, yesterday. Recall that the party, yesterday, formally inaugurated its 2023 Presidential Campaign Council, headed by Akwa-Ibom State governor, Udom Emmanuel. The event, which took place at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, attracted the party’s chieftains from across the country. However, the State governors in Wike’s camp boycotted the event. They include Samuel Ortom, of Benue;…

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Rally: Court orders Obi’s supporters not to converge at Lekki toll gate

Aminu Imam

A Federal High Court in Lagos, yesterday, ordered the Labour Party (LP) and its supporters not to converge at the Lekki Toll Gate in furtherance of its planned #Obidatti23 Rally, scheduled for Oct. 1. The presiding judge, Justice Daniel Osiagor, made the order following an application brought by 10 persons seeking, among others things, to restrain the party its presidential candidate, Peter Obi; Obi’s running mate, Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, and their loyalists from holding the rally. The plaintiffs include Adedotun Ajulo, Salamatu Lewi, Hakeem Ijaduola, Ogunbona Akinpelu and Owolabi Oluwasegun. The…

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2023: ‘Babachir Lawal undermining goodwill of northern Christians’ – Dati

Aminu Imam

The Chief of Staff to the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Yakubu Dati, has accused former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), David Babachir Lawal, of trying to isolate Christians in northern Nigeria from playing significant roles in the mainstream politics of Nigeria. Dati said Lawal has no mandate to speak on behalf of northern Christians, insisting that the former SGF has no clout even in his own local government area. According to him, “The last time I checked, Babachir Lawal does not…

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2023: Fresh crisis brews in APC, as its NWC rejects Presidential Campaign Council list

Aminu Imam

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has disassociated itself from the recently released comprehensive Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) list. NWC hinged its decision on several factors, ranging from its failure to give final approval to the list, to the collapse in the consultations between the eggheads of the presidential campaign council and the three-man Committee set up by the NWC to harmonise the list. A member of the NWC, who spoke to newsmen in Abuja, argued that the fact that the PCC released the list…

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“Disregard North and pay a heavy price” – Northern Broadcast Media Chieftain tells presidential candidates

Aminu Imam

The Chairman, Northern Broadcast Media Owners Association, (NBMOA), Alh. Abdullah Yelwa, Ajiyan Yauri, has called on political parties and their candidates not to make the mistake of underrating the potency of the broadcast media stations in the North as political campaigns are set to commence. Alhaji Yelwa, who is the founder and chairman of Caliphate Radio/Television, said, “We note with deep concern the tendency of some political actors to prioritise the use of a few Lagos-based television stations for political messaging in the North.  According to him, “Political education and…

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