Tag: APC

Lagos: No fresh primary in any council, says APC

Aminu Imam

The All Progressives Congress, (APC), Lagos State chapter, has said there is no fresh primary schedule for any council in the State . It added that no result from the primaries held in the 57 councils had been cancelled. It added that although there had been petitions against some candidates for the June 24 local government election in the state, the panel set up on the petitions had yet to submit its report. Some aspirants of the party in the state had claimed on Monday that new primary elections had…

Read More

Violence breaks out at APC mega rally in Kano

Aminu Imam

Violence broke out at the mega rally of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano on Saturday. The rally, which was organised to welcome former governorship candidate of the Green Party of Nigeria (GPN), A. A. Zaura and other decampees into APC, took place at Sabon-Gari area of Kano metropolis. While the Speaker of Kano State House of Assembly, Hon Hamisu Chidari, was giving his goodwill message, some of the party members in attendance started exchanging blows. The incident almost disrupted the rally as people fled in different directions.…

Read More

APC releases timetable for Congresses

Aminu Imam

…Silent on National Cconvention All Progressives Congress (APC) Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee yesterday agreed to release guidelines for the conduct of ward, local, State and ward congresses. The meeting, chaired by Yobe State governor and Chairman of the the committee, Mallam Mai Mala Buni, mandated the Director of Organisation, Professor Al-Mustapha Ussiju Medaner, to release the detailed timetable. According to sources within the Party, the congresses had been tentatively fixed to hold between July and the end of October. The meeting was however silent on the gathering of the highest…

Read More

Infrastructure Dev’t: Buhari setting new standards for future administrations to build upon – APC

Ishaku Yohanna

Godwin Amunde A group, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Legacy Awareness & Campaign, said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is building infrastructure that will drive Nigeria’s’ growth and prosperity. In a statement signed by Lanre Issa-Onilu, Ismaeel Ahmed, Tolu Ogunlesi and Salihu Moh Lukman, the group argued that President Buhari has committed more resources on infrastructural development than previous administrations and broken Nigeria’s decades-old infrastructure development jinx while setting new standards for future administrations to build upon. The statement reads: “More road and rail infrastructure are being built and/or completed…

Read More

Buhari, Osinbajo, others to speak at book launch on APC score card

Ishaku Yohanna

Godwin Amunde President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, are scheduled to speak at the public presentation of a book ‘APC’s Litmus Test’ written by the Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) Dr. Salihu Moh. Lukman. According to a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday and signed by former APC National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu, the book is a contribution to APC’s quest to bolster its democratic credentials towards engendering political stability,…

Read More

2023: Buhari’s top ally floats factional APC in Kano

Aminu Imam

President Muhammadu Buhari’s top ally and a former National Chairman, The Buhari Organisation, (TBO), Abdulmajid Danbilki Kwamanda, has created a new APC Akida in Kano, following irreconcilable differences with the leadership of the ruling party in the State. Briefing newsmen on the emerging development yesterday in Kano, Danbilki Kwamanda accused Governor Ganduje and the APC State caretaker Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas, of strangulating the party with unpopular and undemocratic terms. The APC stalwart, known to have championed President Buhari’s ideologies since 2003 when the President first contested under the former All…

Read More

‘Probe APC if you are unbiased’, PDP tells EFCC

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDP-GF) has expressed his dissatisfaction over the action of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), to investigate the Party. Recall that a member of the opposition party, Kassim Afegbua, in April petitioned the EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over the alleged misappropriation of the Party’s funds. According to the petition, Afegbua asked that the PDP leadership account for N10 billion allegedly realised from the sale of forms in the 2019 general election.This made the anti-graft agency…

Read More

“Why I joined APC” – Cross River Gov., Ben Ayade

Aminu Imam

Cross-River State governor, Ben Ayade, has explained that he defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), to the All Progressive Congress, (APC), in order to ‘help build Nigeria’. Ayade announced his defection yesterday after meeting with some APC governors in Calabar, the State capital. Citing the reason for his defection, the governor stated that he is committed to joining forces with President Muhammadu Buhari in building a country we can be proud of. “Having seen and known the president and his commitment to this country, his nationalistic disposition and all…

Read More

‘Nigerians are starving, dying’, PDP tells Buhari, APC

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government to end what the party referred to as their insensitivity and take urgent steps to address the worsened food insecurity and the attendant hunger and starvation across the nation. The PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, made this assertion in a statement issued yesterday.  The Party lamented that under Buhari, over 82.9 million Nigerians can no longer afford their daily meals due to the failure of the administration to take practical…

Read More

Oyo: APC challenges Makinde to justify monthly ‘N1bn security vote’

Aminu Imam
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State

The All Progressives Congress, (APC), has lamented reported cases of killings, banditry, kidnapping and related vices across the 33 local government areas of Oyo State and called on the State governor, Seyi Makinde, to justify his collection of N1 billion monthly as security vote. A chieftain of the party, Fatai Adesokan, made the allegation while featuring on a political programme on IBR 92.5FM at the weekend in Ibadan. He expressed dismay that despite the huge monthly security vote, the situation still remains as it is now in Oyo State, adding…

Read More