Tag: Bola Ahmed Tinubu

2023: APC approves Tinubu’s manifesto

Aminu Imam

…To consult Buhari on campaign commencement date The All Progressives Congress, (APC), has said that the long-awaited draft manifesto of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Bola Tinubu, has been surgically reviewed and approved by APC stakeholders. Spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Festus Keyamo, disclosed this to newsmen after a meeting of the council, the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling party in Abuja. He said the draft manifesto was presented by Tinubu to the organs of…

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2023: Tinubu spites PDP, calls it ‘party of termites’  

Aminu Imam

The presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Bola Tinubu, has described the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a “political party of termites”. Tinubu stated this during the inauguration of the Tinubu-Shettima Women Presidential Campaign Team at the State House Banquet Hall, in Abuja. “Our opponents spent 16 years, they had forgotten that the highway is an economy, electricity is mandatory for industrialisation. They don’t understand the transmission lines and the need for maintenance. They couldn’t make a down payment for the trail track. They are a…

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2023: Buhari, Tinubu to meet on vexed Presidential campaign issues

Aminu Imam

A series of meetings have been scheduled to hold between the national leader and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the leadership of the Party, aggrieved former presidential candidates and President Muhammadu Buhari, before the official kick-off of the campaigns, according to a top party source. The source said Tinubu had to return to the country to dispel rumours about his health and also put his divided house in order. He added that the Campaign Organisation is running against time to address key challenges…

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Tinubu returns from UK, lands in Abuja

Aminu Imam

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has returned to the country after observing a 10-day rest in the United Kingdom. The APC flagbearer landed in Abuja to the warm embrace of party chieftains and supporters. He was received by a delegation led by his running mate Senator Kashim Shettima, former APC chair, Adams Oshiomhole, and others. He alighted from the plane that conveyed him to a shout of ’Jagaban’ and ’Asiwaju’, in a video shared by the spokesman of his Presidential Campaign Council,…

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2023: 121 pan-Yoruba groups adopt Tinubu as presidential candidate

Aminu Imam

One hundred and twenty-one pan-Yoruba civil society, community-based groups in the South-West geo-political zone, under the aegis of Alliance for Yoruba Democratic Movements, (AYDM), has adopted the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The group made the declaration yesterday, during its conference held in Ikeja, Lagos State. Taiwo Ajayi, of the South-West Progressive Youth and People Movement, who made the declaration on behalf of AYDM, said for the past three months AYDM has held a string of consultations with…

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2023 Presidential primaries: Ex-Minister asks court to disqualify Tinubu, Atiku over ‘vote buying’

Aminu Imam

The immediate-past Minister of State for education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has filed a suit before an Abuja Federal High Court seeking to void the election of Bola Tinubu as presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC). Nwajiuba, who was an APC presidential candidate but received only one vote in the June 8 primary despite staying away, accused Tinubu of bribing delegates with dollars. The suit, filed alongside a non-governmental organisation, (NGO), the Incorporated Trustees of Rights for All International, is also praying the court to disqualify Atiku Abubakar, candidate of…

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2023: Outgoing APC governors fume over list of Tinubu’s campaign council

Aminu Imam

…Threaten sabotage Some outgoing governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have threatened to sabotage the presidential campaign of their party and its candidate, Bola Tinubu, in their respective States. The aggrieved governors, under the aegis of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), accused the party and its candidate, Tinubu, of disregarding their nominations to the presidential campaign council. The Secretary to the APC campaign council, James Faleke, announced the constitution of the campaign council, at the weekend, listing 422 members, including many who are to work at the regional…

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Economist Intelligence Unit predicts victory for Tinubu in 2023 polls

Aminu Imam

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), an arm of The Economist of London, has predicted victory for Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, in the 2023 presidential election. The UK-based platform, in a new country report published by a Nigerian business publication yesterday, said the controversy of the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket will not affect Tinubu’s chances in the elections. “We expect Tinubu to take the presidency, and recent developments have only reinforced our thinking. It does not appear that a Muslim-Muslim ticket will weigh significantly on Tinubu’s electoral…

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Arewa New Agenda: Northern Coalition to table demands for Tinubu, Atiku, Kwankwaso others

Aminu Imam

A coalition of professional organisations in Northern Nigeria, under the aegis of the ‘Arewa New Agenda’, on Wednesday assembled in Abuja to brainstorm on the demands they would table before presidential candidates for the 2023 elections. They articulated their agenda in Abuja during the opening ceremony of the conference organised by ANA, in collaboration with Arewa House, with the theme: “Building strategic imperatives of the Arewa agenda”. The coalition promised to harmonise their agenda and interest of the North with regards the 2023 election and present their demands to the candidates.…

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2023 Southern Presidency:  Why PDP Govs. dumped Atiku, backs Tinubu’s presidential bid

Aminu Imam

There are strong indications that some governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), have pledged to work for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in the 2023 general elections following the crisis rocking the opposition party in recent times. Recall that the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the PDP presidential candidate and the subsequent announcement of Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as the vice-presidential candidate, as well as the refusal of the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu,…

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