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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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2023: Dogara hits APC, says Muslim-Muslim ticket will fail

Aminu Imam

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has described the adoption of a same-faith presidential ticket by the All Progressives Congress, APC, as a political move that is guaranteed to end in spectacular failure. Dogara stated this while delivering the keynote address at a summit, tagged: Meet The Church, organised by the Nigeria National Christian Coalition (NNCC) with the theme: The Role of the Church in Nation-Building. Taking a swipe at the APCs insistence on fielding Muslim-Muslim presidential candidates, he said, In their convoluted posturing, they have placed…

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2023: APC campaign council accuses NLC of hypocrisy over fuel subsidy removal

Aminu Imam

…Fault support for Peter Obi    The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has accused the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) of being hypocritical over the burning issues of fuel subsidy removal in the country. The Council Director, Media and Public Affairs, Festus Keyamo, in an issued statement yesterday, faulted the leadership of the NLC for promising to mobilise its members across the 774 local government areas in Nigeria to ensure victory for Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in next years presidential election. Justifying the councils…

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2023: “Work toward delivering highest votes to Tinubu/ Shettima”, Lalong urges NCentral APC

Aminu Imam

Plateau State Governor and Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Simon Lalong has charged its North-Central zone to give the Tinubu/Shettima ticket the highest number of votes in the forthcoming presidential elections. Governor Lalong expressed this optimism yesterday in Jos, the State capital, when he received the North-Central Zonal Chairman and members of his Committee on a courtesy visit to the Government House. Lalong said the party is very strong in the North-Central States despite losing Benue State one out of its six States after the…

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“Place Peter Obi, supporters under security watch”, Keyamo urges security agencies

Aminu Imam

The Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council and Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, has called for Mr Peter Obi the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, to be place under security watch. Keyamo made the call for Obi and some his supporters to be under security watch as a reaction to a trending incendiary video with a fake message by one of his supporters called Powell Glad Legbe (on his Facebook page) calling on Yorubas not to vote for Peter Obi. According…

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2023: ‘North youths unfairly treated by APC leadership structure’ – Tinubu/Shettima media group

Aminu Imam

An All Progressives Congress (APC) northern media youth group, the APC Media and Mobilisation Group for Tinubu/Shettima, (BATIMA), has lamented that northern youths are unfairly treated by the parties leadership structure. The BATIMA DG, Kingsley Omadoye, in an issued press statement yesterday, stated: “We are groups of individuals who have been in the party since its merger stage till date. We are members of the different political parties that made up the APC. (CPC, ANPP, ACN, and APGA). We observe that the lingering information about our Northern brothers and fellow…

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2023: G-37 pushes for Rotimi Amaechi as APC presidential candidate over Tinubu’s fitness

Aminu Imam

A political pressure group pushing for the Rotimi Amaechi presidential bid in the upcoming 2023 general elections, the G-37, has called on delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to ignore some presidential aspirants who are promoting ethnic championship. Urging Nigerians to support former minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, national coordinator of the group, Comrade Evans City, said it is becoming clearer every day that some peoples interest is to divide the party across tribal lines. In an issued statement yesterday, the G-37 said this set of persons have been…

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PVC Registrants: ‘N’West zone still deciding factor for APC in 2023 elections – Youth Leader

Aminu Imam

The All Progressives Congress (APC) North-West youth leader, AbdulHamid Umar Mohammad, has described the geo-political zone as a deciding factor and stronghold to take the partys presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to victory in the 2023 General elections. The youth leader, who stated this in an issued statement, assured that the North-West geo-political zone will deliver the highest number of votes, especially from the young ones, to the partys presidential candidate, noted that there is a need to carry more youths from the region along in the party affairs, because…

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2023: ‘Tinubu is not withdrawing from presidential race, hes 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 partys 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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