Tag: All Progressives Congress

“Buhari won’t make 2023 presidential election a do-or-die affair like Obasanjo” – APC PCC Spokesman, Keyamo

Aminu Imam

President Muhammadu Buhari will not make the 2023 presidential election a do-or-die affair like former President Olusegun Obasanjo did in 2007, Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN), has said. Obasanjo, who nominated the Late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as his successor had said the 2007 elections would be a do or die affair for Nigeria and his then party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), adding that he would give it all it takes to ensure his party’s victory in the elections. Speaking with newsmen on allegations that President Buhari…

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2023: ‘Some APC leaders sponsoring calls to set up Interim Govt. after Buhari’, Buba Galadima alleges

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A leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is behind calls for an interim government to run the country after Muhammadu Buhari’s 8-year term ends in 2023. This is less than a hundred days before the general elections. In a published interview at the weekend, Galadima, a close ally of former Kano governor Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who is the NNPP’s presidential candidate, called the people behind the move “enemies of Nigeria and democracy.” He said that some…

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2023: APC raises ??190m in donations in less than two minutes

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The APC has broken a fundraising record in the annals of our political history.  Yesterday at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, the APC Presidential Campaign Council unveiled a crowd funding for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima, and in less than two minutes raised over N190 million. Considering that no individual can donate more than N50 million, this is good news for the APC and a big boost to the ruling party. This demonstrates that Nigerians believe in the ability of the APC presidential candidate and his running mate…

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2023: “ICC is not competing with PCC” – TSG National Coordinator

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The two Presidential Campaign Councils of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are not competing with each other, but working towards the success of its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the general elections. National Coordinator of the Tinubu/Shettima Grassroots Independent Campaign Council, (ICC), Ali Silas Agara, stated this when he supervised the inauguration of Deputy Directors and Assistant Directors of the Media Directorate, under the Director, Media, of the Council, Ntufam Hilliard Eta, yesterday, in Abuja. According to him, “The ICC and the Presidential Campaign Council, (PCC) are working…

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BVAS: Adamu recants, says APC not opposed to new electoral technologies

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National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has disclaimed reports going round that he is opposed to the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Results Viewing Portal, IReV, for next year’s general election. Adamu, at a news conference yesterday in Abuja, said he was only concerned about the challenges of electricity supply and irregular telecommunication signals in some voting districts of the country. The APC helmsman had earlier been reported to have said that he was…

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“APC, Tinubu will win in 2023” – Buhari

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…Says APC lucky to have him as presidential candidate  Ahead of the 2023 general elections, President Muhammadu Buhari says the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is lucky to have the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu as its presidential candidate.  The President made his prediction on Wednesday, in an interview in the United Kingdom after meeting with His Royal Majesty, King Charles III in Buckingham Palace. According to the President, APC is lucky to have Tinubu as its presidential candidate. When asked about the chances of his party (the…

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Just In! PDP files fresh suit against APC

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Nigeria’s main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has filed a fresh suit against the All Progressives Congress (APC), asking the Federal High Court in Abuja to sack the party’s National Working Committee (NWC), led by Abdullahi Adamu. In the fresh suit, according to reports, the PDP accused the ruling party of illegality in the process that produced the party’s national officers and candidates. The suit, filed by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ayo Kamaludeen Ajibade, on PDP’S behalf, demanded that all candidates produced by the APC for the…

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Presidential Campaign List: ‘Excluded members given other roles’ – APC

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The Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) and Governor of Plateau State, Dr. Simon Lalong, on Friday, doused tension brewing among party supporters when he announced that members who didn’t make the PCC list have big roles to play at the regional, zonal and grassroots level. Lalong made the clarification at the unveiling of the Action Plan and PCC inauguration at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The development is coming barely 24 hours after the APC released a fresh PPC list on…

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2023: “I can’t speak on Osinbajo, Lawan, Amaechi’s commitment to Tinubu project” – APC Chairman, Adamu

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The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has opened up on the silence of some presidential aspirants who lost out in the June 8 Special Presidential Convention of the Party. Adamu said while they remain members of the party, he could not assess the level of their commitment to the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu presidential project. Although Tinubu had won the ticket of the party during the convention, however, some of his rivals like Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President Ahmad Lawan, and former…

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2023: APC releases amended Presidential Campaign Council list

Aminu Imam

The Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) appeared to have made decisive inroads into the party’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), as it has released a fresh list, naming Adamu as second in command of the council, yesterday. In the list, which was signed by the National Secretary of the party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, as opposed to the initial 422-member list signed by the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the president, Muhammadu Buhari was still named as Chairman of…

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