Tag: All Progressives Congress

APC: South-East leaders seeks unity

Aminu Imam

Caution Tinubu, Jonathan, Atiku on 2023 Prominent leaders from the South-East geo-political zone have appealed to its members to shelve petty animosities and antagonism and work as as united team towards winning the 2023 general election for the party. The APC stalwarts, which included the host governor, Hope Uzodimma, members of House of Representatives, Nkiruka Onyejeocha and Chinedu Ogah; Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnia Onu; member of the APC Interim Committee, Sen. Ken Nnamani; Managing Director of Nigeria Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Dr. George Muoghalu; Senators Osita Izunaso,…

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“Nigeria not close to becoming failed State”, APC replies naysayers

Aminu Imam

The All Progressives Congress, (APC) has said Nigeria is nowhere close to becoming a failed state, despite the doomsday wishes of those it called “naysayers and opposition partisans. According to the Secretary of the Party’s Caretaker and Convention Planning Committee, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe, “The President Muhammadu Buhari government is not oblivious to the country’s challenges and is visibly and frontally addressing them”. He said, “President Buhari’s administration which sees the urgent need to have a better policing system for the country and is embarking on sweeping police reforms and…

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Six PDP chieftains defect to APC ahead of 2023

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been hit with defection again, as six of its chieftains in Oyibo local government area of Rivers State joined the All Progressives Congress (APC). The new defectors, according to reports, include Adolphus Nweke, Onyema Ihenna, Ibekwe Okere, among others. It was gathered that the defectors were received on Wednesday by the party leader in Oyibo, Gift Okere, and Caretaker Committee chairman, Chamberlain Okorie. Claiming that the PDP has crashed in the area following the defection of key executives to the APC, he urged the…

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“To say I sponsor bandits insulting”, Zamfara Gov. tells APC

Aminu Imam

Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle, says he finds it insulting for the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) to accuse him of sponsoring bandits in his State. The Zamfara State governor, who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP),  in 2019, said the State was “a colony of banditry in the whole world” during the APC administration of his predecessor, AbdulAzeez Yari. Matawalle, however, claimed that though insecurity has not totally been eliminated in Zamfara but terror attacks have drastically reduced in the state since he came…

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Katsina students’ release vindicates Buhari – Tinubu

Aminu Imam

…Schoolboys abduction not stage-managed, says Lai Mohammed The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, said yesterday, the release of the abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, by armed bandits has vindicated President Muhammadu Buhari. Recall that armed bandits had last Friday invaded the college and took away the students after a gun duel with the police. The students were later released in Tsafe, in Zamfara State, last Thursday and were transported back to Katsina on Friday, exactly seven days after their abduction…

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APC sweeps Gombe LGAs election

Aminu Imam

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gombe State has won 11 Local Government Areas (LGAs) chairmanship seats contested for in the election held yesterday. The announcement was made by the Chairman of Gombe State Independent Electoral Commission (GOSIEC), Sa’idu Shehu Awak, while declaring results of the election yesterday evening. The GOSIEC Chairman said that all the candidates of the APC were duly returned as elected after the voting were concluded and results collated at the various local government areas across the State. The ruling APC won all the 11…

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“Under my watch, no strong man will control APC” ? Gov. Buni

Aminu Imam

Yobe State governor and chairman, All Progressives Congress, (APC) Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, has said that the vision of his team is to build a party where no strong individual would be in control of its structures and party organs. He gave the commitment yesterday, while speaking at the 2020 Annual Conference of the APC Press Corps, which was held at Valencia Hotel, Abuja. Represented by the Secretary of his CEPC, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, Gov. Buni maintained that the scheduled membership registration, revalidation and…

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2023: “Buhari, Tinubu, others agreed S/West’ll produce presidential candidate” – Lagos APC Chair

Aminu Imam

The Caretaker Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), in Lagos State, Tunde Balogun, has disclosed that the founding fathers of the party had an agreement in 2014 that the South-West geopolitical zone will produce the party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 election. He said it would be “dishonourable” for the party to jettison the agreement now, adding that President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and many other persons made the “gentleman’s agreement”. There have been insinuations among some party members and chieftains…

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2023: APC vows to sack PDP in Rivers

Aminu Imam

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has vowed to sack the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State at the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The State’s Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, Isaac Abbot-Ogbobula, revealed this at the weekend in Port Harcourt while inaugurating the APC caretaker committees in the 23 local government areas of the state. Abbot-Ogbobula said he was inaugurated as the State’s caretaker committee chairman by the National Caretaker Committee following the dissolution of all the structures of APC by the party’s National Executive Council. Describing the development…

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2023: APC dissolves wards, state, zonal, national structures

Aminu Imam

Ø  Grants waivers to Umahi, Dogara, all other new members  The National Executive Committee, (NEC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) yesterday dissolved all states, zonal, and national party structures. The party’s NEC also extended the tenure of the party’s Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, led by Yobe State governor Mai Mala Buni, by six months. Picture Caption: House Speaker, Yakubu Dogara (l) and Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi (r) The decision was taken at a meeting of the committee at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, which was attended by President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President…

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