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‘Why CBN’s Emefiele should join presidential race’ – APC group

Aminu Imam

A group, under the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), which described itself as Emefiele Mobilisation Team, (EMT), has justified the calls on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to join the 2023 presidential race. The Team Leader and National Coordinator of EMT, Dr. Jacob Attah, spoke at a news conference at the weekend in Lokoja, on behalf of the National Executive Committee of the group. According to the group, Emefiele represents a unique opportunity to achieve peace, unity and development in the country if he…

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2023 APC Presidential Flagbearer: Amaechi joins presidential race

Aminu Imam

May slug it out with Tinubu, Osinbajo, Umahi, Emefiele, others The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has declared his interest to contest the presidential election in 2023. He made the announcement in Port Harcourt yesterday, at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, while addressing a crowd of supporters and leaders of the All Progressives Congress, (APC). In the ministers declaration speech which was titled: Forward With Courage, he declared that he will contest the partys presidential ticket to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari. I stand before you today to declare my intention and…

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“APC has nursed its wounds and healed itself”, Says Buhari, as he meets Adamu, Buni

Aminu Imam

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met with the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, and Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni. The meeting took place at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The ruling party is preparing for its primary elections ahead of the 2023 poll. Recall that on March 26, the APC held its National Convention where it elected new national working committee (NWC) members. Before the convention, Buni was Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the party for almost two years. The Yobe State governor…

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2023: APC cancels nomination fees for female aspirants

Aminu Imam

Ahead of next years general election, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has granted a financial waiver to all female aspirants on its platform, expressing greater commitment to gender mainstreaming. National Woman Leader of the party, Dr. Beta Edu, who disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja, said the decision was approved by Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee, (NWC). The landmark decision puts to end the frustration often faced by female aspirants, most of who found it difficult to cough out the required 50% of nominations fees paid by their…

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2023: APC cancels nomination fees for female aspirants

Aminu Imam

Ahead of next years general election, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has granted a financial waiver to all female aspirants on its platform, expressing greater commitment to gender mainstreaming. The landmark decision puts to end the frustration often faced by female aspirants, most of who found it difficult to cough out the required 50 percent of nominations fees paid by their male counterparts. National Woman Leader of the party, Dr. Beta Edu, who disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja, said the decision was approved by Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National…

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APC denies presidential primary timetable in circulation

Aminu Imam

The ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), has denied knowledge of a purported primary election timetable in circulation on social media as well as in a section of the media. According to the earlier reports, the APC was said to have tentatively fixed primaries to pick its presidential candidate for May 30, 2022, and governorship primaries was also billed to hold on May 24. However, the APCs National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Felix Morka, said the party leadership only began the conversation on the subject matter yesterday at a meeting, but that…

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2023: ‘APC cabals will deceive Buhari, pick wrong presidential candidate’ – Primate Ayodele predicts

Aminu Imam

The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has revealed that certain cabals in the All Progressives Congress, APC), will deceive President Muhammadu Buhari on the selection of the partys presidential candidate, ahead of the 2023 general elections. According to the cleric, in an issued statement by his spokesman, Oluwatosin Osho, the same APC cabals are considering the Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, or the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, as the partys presidential candidate. Ayodele said, On the candidate for the presidency in 2023, the cabals are…

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Insecurity: “You dont take a knife and rip open your belly”, APC Chair to el-Rufa’i, Amaechi

Aminu Imam

The new Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), and a former governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has told Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, and the Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, that he does not know how they were thinking about the security situation in Nigeria, saying it was wrong for one to take a knife and rip open his stomach. Adamu, who spoke in an interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, (BBC), asked why he never took offence if people called him a…

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Northern APC Youths, Women in ‘mother-of-all’ rally to Villa, adopts Tinubu as Consensus candidate

Aminu Imam

Thousands of women and youths from across the 19 northern States, yesterday, converged on Abuja and marched to the Presidential Villa to demand the adoption of All Progressive Congress, (APC) National leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as the consensus candidate of the party in the forthcoming presidential election. According to the women and youths, Tinubu is the only person fit and capable among all those that have been declaring their intention to turn around the economy of the country. Led by one Patriot Yakubu Dauda, they said the APC youths and…

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Consensus Candidacy: Why APC presidential aspirants may contest against Buharis choice Prof. Sagay

Aminu Imam

Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay, (SAN), has said there is nothing wrong if the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), adopts the consensus method in choosing its presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections. Recall that the party, at its national convention last week produced its new set of National Working Committee (NWC) members through a consensus arrangement. However, some stakeholders in the party, especially the South-West Agenda for Asiwaju 2023 (SWAGA23), the idea of a consensus presidential candidate for the APC is unacceptable…

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