Tag: APC

2023: APC approves Tinubu’s 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 Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, was last week announced as the Grand Patron of the Women’s 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 party’s national secretariat yesterday, in Abuja. Recall that APC governors were reportedly aggrieved over the composition of the party’s 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, doesn’t deserve re-election’, Says Peter Obi’s 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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Bandits attack Kaduna APC Guber candidate’s entourage; kidnap two party chieftains, injure 3

Aminu Imam

Bandits have attacked the entourage of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State and abducted two chieftains of the party. It was gathered that the recent attack took place on Thursday night, at Tashar-Iche village, along the busy Kaduna-Kachia road, when party leaders and chieftains accompanied the APC gubernatorial candidate, Senator Uba Sani, to Kafanchan, in Kajuru LGA for a political engagement. According to a party stalwart, they were returning from Kafanchan, after interfacing with Christian leaders in the Southern senatorial district ahead of the 2023 general elections.…

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2023: ‘Buhari directed exclusion of Osinbajo, SGF from APC presidential campaign council’ – Keyamo

Aminu Imam

The spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, says President Muhammadu Buhari ordered for the exclusion of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and the Secretary to the Government of Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, from the council. According to Keyamo, President Buhari “specifically directed that the Vice-President and the SGF should be left out of the campaign council in order to concentrate on the governance of the country and administration of government”. The exclusion of Osinbajo and Mustapha, both Christians, had raised concerns in some quarters that…

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