Tag: APC

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 partys 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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2023: APC asks INEC to replace Lawan with Machina as Yobe-North senatorial candidate

Aminu Imam

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise Bashir Machina as the partys authentic candidate for the Yobe-North senatorial district in the 2023 general elections. The APC, in a letter dated October 12, titled: Notification of Court Judgment In Favour of Bashir Sheriff, and signed by its National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu and the Secretary, Iyiola Omisore, directed INEC to also publish the name of Machina in its portal, in line with the court order. Recall that a Federal High Court in Damaturu, Yobe…

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2023: APC approves Tinubus manifesto

Aminu Imam

…To consult Buhari on campaign commencement date The All Progressives Congress, (APC), has said that the long-awaited draft manifesto of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Bola Tinubu, has been surgically reviewed and approved by APC stakeholders. Spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Festus Keyamo, disclosed this to newsmen after a meeting of the council, the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling party in Abuja. He said the draft manifesto was presented by Tinubu to the organs of…

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Presidential Campaign:’No alternative to APC victory in 2023′ – Buhari

Aminu Imam

President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Women’s presidential campaign Team to work hard towards ensuring victory for the party in the 2023 general elections. The president, who made the call at the inauguration of the APC Women’s team in Abuja yesterday, said the call had become imperative because there was no alternative to APC electoral victory in the 2023 presidential election. Buhari, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari, enjoined members of the team to take the party to greater heights…

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2023: APC Presidential Campaign Team sets to inaugurate women’s wing at Villa on Monday

Aminu Imam

Following the campaign windows opened by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently, the Organising Committee of the Tinubu/Shettima Women Presidential Campaign Team has declared Monday, October 10, as the date for the formal inauguration of members of its various committees. According to the campaign team, the event is expected to be held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on the said date. Recall that Nigerias First Lady, Aisha Buhari, was last week announced as the Grand Patron of the Womens Wing of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Team. The wife of…

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2023: “Without State governors, APC will lose in 2023” – APC Chairman, Adamu

Aminu Imam

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has said the ruling party would lose the 2023 presidential elections without the support of governors who are members of the party. Adamu stated this at the opening session of a meeting of State governors, the National Working Committee (NWC), and other stakeholders at the partys national secretariat yesterday, in Abuja. Recall that APC governors were reportedly aggrieved over the composition of the partys presidential campaign council, released recently by the Secretary of the Council, James Faleke.…

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2023 General Elections: APC to kick-start campaign at Villa October 10

Aminu Imam

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to kick-start campaigns for the forthcoming 2023 general elections on October 10. According to a party source, party chieftains who got nominated into the APC Presidential Campaign Council, to be chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari, and the Women’s wing, to be led by First Lady, A’isha Buhari, would be inaugurated on that date at the Dome Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja. It was gathered that certain members of the APC held a crucial meeting, yesterday, in Abuja, ahead of the return of the…

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2023: APC capitulates to Governors, suspends inauguration of Presidential Campaign Council

Aminu Imam

In a move to pacify aggrieved State governors, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has suspended the inauguration of its 422-man campaign council earlier fixed for today, Wednesday. Plateau State Governor and Director-General, Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Simon Lalong, disclosed this in an issued statement yesterday. A party source told newsmen that the decision was taken to pacify aggrieved governors whose nominees were missing on the list that was released at the weekend. According to the source: The APC Presidential Campaign Council got the hint that some of…

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2023: ‘APC irresponsible, doesnt deserve re-election’, Says Peter Obis LP

Aminu Imam

The Labour Party (LP) has dismissed the re-election bid of the ruling All Progressives Congress as an attempt to further plunge Nigeria into the abyss of economic disaster. It said Nigerians who have been on the receiving end of this corruption-ridden administration which has visited nothing but misery on the Nigerian populace, can ill afford to queue behind the APC that has failed on all indices of governance. The Labour Party’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Arabambi Abayomi, who stated this in Abuja, yesterday, said it remains an undisputed fact that…

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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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