Tag: ASPIRANTS

2027: “Some Gov’ship aspirants spent ₦20bn-₦30bn in party primaries” – EFCC Boss

Aminu Imam
EFCC Boss on aspirants

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, in Ilorin yesterday, hinted that some governorship aspirants in Nigeria spent between ₦20 billion and ₦30 billion to secure electoral victory. Delivering the inaugural High-Level Guest Speakers’ Series organised by the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies (CPSS), University of Ilorin, on the theme: ‘De-risking and Mobilising Critical Stakeholders for Peaceful and Credible 2027 Elections in Nigeria’, Olukoyede said that huge financial resources deployed during elections often compel elected officials to divert public funds after assuming office in a…

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2027: “Aspirants over 55yrs disqualified from ADC” – Nafi’u Bala declares

Aminu Imam
Nafi'u Bala on aspirants

The factional National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Nafi’u Bala Gombe, has announced a significant shift in the party’s eligibility criteria for the upcoming general elections. In a move that is set to reshape the internal politics of the party, Gombe declared that any aspirant who has surpassed the age of 55 will no longer be permitted to run for office under the ADC banner. The factional chairman made this disclosure during a recent interview with a foreign Hausa radio broadcast service, where he laid out a vision…

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2023: MKO Abiolas daughter explains why she stands with Yahaya Bello, not SWest aspirants

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Ms Hasfat Abiola -Costello, daughter of late MKO Abiola who is the Director-General, Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation, says she stands with Governor Yahaya Bello (GYB) of Kogi State in the race forAPC presidential ticket and not South West aspirants. Abiola-Costello said her backing Bello was because she had seen in him,  qualities of the kind of leader Nigeria needed  at this point in time. She said this on Monday while addressing newsmen in Lagos ahead of the APC presidential primaries slated for May 30 and 31, in Abuja. Abiola-Costello, daughter…

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2023: 93 from 500 APC aspirants jostle for 25 seats in C/River Assembly

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

No fewer than 93 All Progressives Congress (APC) members are gunning for the partys tickets that will enable them to contest the 25 seats in the Cross River House of Assembly. Chairman of APC in Cross River Alphonsus Eba disclosed this in a telephone interview on Monday in Calabar. Eba said that initially more than 500 party men and women aspired to contest the 25 assembly seats. According to him, after much dialogue with the aspirants, bordering on issues of zoning, political strength and consensus, the party was able to…

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