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2023 Election: Search For Presidential Candidate Outside Party Structure A Loss Of Confidence – PGF DG To APC leaders

Ishaku Yohanna

Godwin Amunde The Director-General of Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) – the umbrella body of Nigerian Governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) – Dr. Salihu Lukman, said moves by some leaders of the party to push negotiation for the emergence of a 2023 presidential candidate outside the party simply means loss of confidence on the structures of the party. Dr. Lukman described the move as a threat to internal unity among APC members and leaders and asked the partys hierarchy to perish the thought. This is contained in a statement titled: APC…

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Kaduna LG council elections: PDP defeats APC in Chikun, & Kajuru LGAs

Aminu Imam

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant, Salasi Musa, has been declared winner of the Chikun local government Chairmanship election in Kaduna State. The Returning Officer, Dr. Sanusi Gambo, who announced the results of the election yesterday, said Salasi Musa polled 19,402 votes, to derail the re-election dream of the APC incumbent Sama’ila Leeman, who scored 14,829 votes. The PDP also won eight of the 12 councillorship seats, and the ruling APC won four, Gambo indicated. The Kaduna State Independent National Electoral Commission (KAD-SIECOM), had initially announced Sept. 4 for the…

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2023: “With Osinbajo-Zulum ticket, APC would win election before 12 noon” APC Chieftain, Dr.Gololo boasts

Aminu Imam

A chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress, (APC), Dr. Garus Gololo, has advised the party to field Vice President, Yemi Osibanjo, and Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, for an overwhelming victory in the 2023 presidential election. Speaking in an interview in Abuja on Friday, Gololo said Osibanjo has displayed competence, loyalty, hard work and statesmanship to pilot the affairs of the country. Gololo said, with dialogue and negotiation, power could rotate to the South, despite the fact that the North has the numbers, adding that the South might…

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Defection: Femi Fani-Kayode may emerge as APC spokesperson

Aminu Imam

…As ex-minister gets automatic waiver, heads think-tank ahead 2023 Former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, who defected to the All Progressives Congress, (APC), from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), may emerge as the National Publicity Secretary of the ruling party at its next National Convention slated for between November/ December this year. According to sources, aside that, the former minister has been confirmed to have earned an automatic waiver even as a pro-North political pressure think-tank has secretly made Fani-Kayode its National Coordinator ahead of the 2023 presidential race. The…

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2023: “No automatic ticket for Jonathan if he joins us” ? APC

Aminu Imam

The ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), has reacted to speculations about the political future of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan especially in the lead up to the 2023 presidential elections, saying its comments on the former president was grossly misrepresented by a section of the populace. National Secretary of the APC Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe who issued the clarification Friday in Abuja said while the party would grant a waiver to all new entrants, it however does not translate to automatic candidacy. Speculations were rife on…

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“God told me to join APC” - Fani-Kayode

Aminu Imam

Says he is wooing Oyo, Bauchi, Enugu governors to join party Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress, (APC). Fani-Kayode made the declaration at the Presidential Villa, Abuja after he was presented to President Muhammadu Buhari as a member of the APC.  The former spokesman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council was introduced to the president by Yobe State governor and Chairman of the APC National Caretaker Committee, Mai Mala Buni and his Zamfara State counterpart, Bello…

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2023: Chieftain cautions APC against imposition of candidates

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Chief Ben Adaji, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba, has cautioned the party against imposition of candidates and party leaders, ahead of 2023 poll.Adaji said this when he spoke with with newsmen in Jalingo on Thursday.The chieftain, who is a former aspirant for the Ankpa, Omala and Olomaboro Federal constituency House of Representatives seat in Kogi, said that past experiences had shown that the practice had always resulted in negative consequences.Adaji noted that the fall of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019, was largely…

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Corruption: “Amaechis APC looting confession vindicates us” PDP

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has said that the confession by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, that stealing is going on quietly under President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC), vindicates its stand that the APC is a haven of thieves and treasury looters. The party asserted that the confession also further confirmed that the Buhari-led APC administration has been providing official cover for corrupt officials, who have turned government agencies into cash cows and Automated Teller Machines (ATM) for themselves, their cronies, family members and mistresses. PDP, in…

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APC states pledge allocation of 15% annual budget to health sector

Ishaku Yohanna

Godwin Amunde The All Progressives Congress (APC) controlled states have agreed to commence the allocation of 15 percent of their annual budgets to the health sector. This was one of the decisions taken at a meeting of Commissioners for Health and Executive Secretaries of Primary Health Care Development Agency in APC-controlled states held in Ilorin, Kwara State. A communiqu, which was jointly signed by the Director-General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman and the Commissioner of Health, Kwara State Dr. Raji Razaq, stated that the move is aimed at improving maternal and child healthcare…

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Anambra Guber: VON DG, Okechukwu, urges APGA members to fully Integrate into APC

Ishaku Yohanna

Godwin Amunde The Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, has urged members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra State to fully integrate into the All Progressives Congress (APC), citing history of long cosy political understanding dating even back to 2013 when a faction of APGA joined the merger of APC. He equally said that in 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari more or less saved His Excellency Willie Obiano from his traducers, hence his re-election. Okechukwu, who is also one of the founding members of APC, said…

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