Tag: All Progressives Congress

2023: ‘Tinubu is not withdrawing from presidential race, he’s strong, healthy’ - APC-PCC 

Aminu Imam

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC-PCC), has debunked what it described as the false and misleading posts on various social media handles of supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party that Bola Tinubu the ruling party’s presidential standard bearer is withdrawing from the race on health grounds. Festus Keyamo, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment and APC-PCC spokesperson, in a statement, said the post is nothing but a figment of their warped imaginations. According to him, Tinubu is strong, healthy and fit…

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APC presidential campaign council to be ready next week – Sources

Aminu Imam

The Presidential Campaign Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), will be ready next week, ahead of the September 28 kick-off date of the presidential campaigns, according to a top party leader. The APC leader was quoted as saying that “the team is almost ready. We are taking our time to accommodate all interests in the party and support groups in the country at large. We don’t want to take anything for granted. The council will be ready in time before the commencement of the presidential campaigns on September…

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2023: Crisis rocks APC over composition of Presidential Campaign Council list

Aminu Imam

The composition of the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s Presidential National Campaign Council list has led to a crisis in the party ahead of the 2023 general elections. It was learnt that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party is not pleased with the role allotted to them in the council. According to a source who spoke to newsmen, major directorate positions in the council are led by loyalists of the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This is coming after Tinubu submitted the presidential campaign council…

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‘APC will triumph in South-East in 2023 poll’, Uzodimma boasts

Aminu Imam

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win the 2023 elections in the South-East geo-political zone. The Governor, who is also the Chairman of the APC Presidential Campaign Council in the South-East, said this at a seminar organised by the party for its candidates in Owerri, the State capital, noted that it was the only party with structures in all the 774 local government areas in Nigeria. Uzodimma said: “APC is already winning, and will win in the South-East; because APC is the only…

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2023: “I’ve no rift with APC Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu”– Tinubu 

Aminu Imam

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has played down reports that he is at odds with the party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu ahead of 2023 general elections. Tinubu, who stated this when he visited the National Secretariat of the party for a meeting with the National Chairman and members of his National Working Committee, (NWC), stressed that they have come a long way and that he has no ill will toward Abdullahi. It was gathered that Tinubu held a closed-door session with the…

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2023: ‘Muslim-Muslim ticket will spell doom for Party’, APC group tells Buhari

Aminu Imam

Supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC), under the auspices of ‘The League of Concerned Christian Youth in the APC‘, have said the party is pressing the self-destruction button for sticking to the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket for the 2023 elections. The youths said the decision by the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to choose Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate portrayed the APC in bad light before the generality of Nigerians. The convener of the group, Patrick Maiyaki, yesterday, in Abuja, said that President Muhammadu…

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2023: Buhari warns APC decampees not to link their anti-candidate campaigns, to him

Aminu Imam

President Muhammadu Buhari says he remains a “disciplined soldier” of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and will, in all the coming elections, support only those candidates fielded by the party and no other. The president made his position known in a statement by his media aide, Garba Shehu, on Wednesday, in Abuja. The Nigerian leader also warned decamped party members and some others who are still in court against official candidates of the APC that they are on their own and that nobody outside the party should link what they…

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2023: Onanuga, Alake, Keyamo to head media directorate of APC presidential campaign

Aminu Imam

A former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN), Bayo Onanuga, along with a former Commissioner of Information in Lagos State, Dele Alake, and the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, are to head the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council. While Onanuga was appointed Director of Media and Publicity, Alake was announced as Director of Strategic Communication. The former Lagos State commissioner held this same position when President Muhammadu Buhari sought re-election in 2019. In an issued statement yesterday, Onanuga said Festus Keyamo, who…

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APC Govs, stakeholders mull Adamu’s replacement

Aminu Imam

…As its NWC fixes emergency NEC meeting for September Strong indications have emerged that the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, might be eased out soon, if plans by governors elected on the platform of the party and other stakeholders pull through. Adamu, a former governor of Nasarawa State and Senator, was elected in March, despite a strong opposition mounted by APC governors.  The governors, alongside other regional leaders, had settled for Tanko al-Makura, also a former governor of Nasarawa State and a serving senator.…

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2023 Muslim-Muslim APC Ticket DG: “Pope hasn’t told me I’m wrong” – Gov. Lalong

Aminu Imam

Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, has lambasted Christians who oppose his acceptance to serve as the Director-General (DG) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Organisation, saying that, as a Catholic with the highest Papal award, the Pope has not told him that what he is doing is wrong. The Governor, who met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, in Abuja yesterday, while fielding questions from newsmen, said that as an awardee of the United Kingdom (UK)’s Knight of Saint Gregory, he remains a staunch Catholic despite…

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