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2023: APC cancels nomination fees for female aspirants

Aminu Imam

Ahead of next year’s 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 year’s 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 APC’s 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 party’s 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 party’s presidential candidate. Ayodele said, “On the candidate for the presidency in 2023, the cabals are…

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Insecurity: “You don’t 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-Rufa’i, 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 Buhari’s 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 (SWAGA’23), the idea of a consensus presidential candidate for the APC is unacceptable…

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“No administration has touched Nigerians’ lives like Buhari’s” – New APC Chairman, Adamu

Aminu Imam

The just-elected National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, says in the history of Nigeria, no other government can match the Buhari administration in terms of touching lives. Adamu said this in his inaugural speech as chairman of Nigeria’s ruling party. “For almost seven years now, APC administrations at the Federal, state and local levels have been battling night and day in order to enhance the livelihood of Nigerians through various policies, programmes and projects. “No administration in the history of Nigeria has performed as much…

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APC National Convention: Six chairmanship aspirants step down, back Buhari’s candidate

Aminu Imam

Six persons vying for the position of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), have stepped down from the contest. The six former candidates have reportedly backed Senator Abdullahi Adamu, who is the choice of President Muhammadu Buhari, as their consensus candidate. This was contained in a letter sent to the Chairman of the APC Election Sub-Committee on Friday, signed by Senator George Akume, who was also among those vying for the position. Meanwhile, there was chaos at the entrance of Eagle Square, Abuja, yesterday, as security agents…

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‘Amaechi will run for Presidency’ – Group insists

Aminu Imam

…Says he’ll end S’East, S’South agitation The National Coordinator, Amaechi Mandate Group, Emeka Chukwu, has described the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as the best replacement for President Muhammadu Buhari in next year’s general election, saying it is the minister’s destiny to run for the presidency. He also said his group had not embarked on a proxy campaign, saying that Amaechi is interested in the presidency and that he will run for the office. Chukwu, who stated this on a television programme in Abuja, said, “Amaechi possesses all the…

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