Tag: Tinubu

‘Igbo should reflect on reality of Tinubu’s presidency’ – Nnamani

Aminu Imam

A former Enugu State Governor, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, has said that it is not late for the Igbo to reflect on and carefully X-ray the looming reality of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2023. Nnamani, who is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Cooperation & Integration in Africa/NEPAD, in an issued statement in Abuja, asked Igbos several questions concerning their relationship with the Yoruba, noting that the Yorubas are not their problem. In his piece, titled: “The Igbo insularity and its Yoruba Wahala”, Nnamani asked: “How did the Igbo…

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2022 APC Convention: “I have nothing against Osinbajo” – Tinubu

Aminu Imam

…Says “It is over” The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, says he does not have anything against Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. Tinubu stated this on Monday, in Kano, when he addressed a group, who worked for the presidential bid of Osinbajo. Recall that in the build-up to the APC presidential primary; there were varied reactions after the vice-president declared his bid to contest the presidency with Tinubu also in the race. Speaking on Monday, Tinubu said there was no issue between him and the vice-president.…

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2023: “Presidential contest not for comedians”, Atiku tells Tinubu

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has told his All Progressives Congress (APC) opponent, Bola Tinubu, that running for president of the country is not for comedians. The PDP candidate’s media aide, Paul Ibe, said this in an interview yesterday, in response to a recent comment by Tinubu about his principal. While speaking on Sunday at an interactive session with members of the Tijjaniyyah sect at the Kano Government House, Tinubu had said he won’t be a part-time president who will share his time between Dubai and…

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2023: ‘Atiku’s huge support in Edo, others signpost of APC’s extinction’ – PDP

Aminu Imam

The spokesperson of Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, has said that the empty streets that greeted the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in Kano at the weekend is a signpost of ruling party’s extinction. On the other hand, Ologbondiyan said the huge crowd of Nigerians that received the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, at his campaign rally in Benin, Edo State, as well as the two separate rallies held in Bida and Jibia in Niger and Katsina…

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2023 Election: Northern Coalition to publish Atiku, Tinubu, Obi’s promises  

Aminu Imam

The Arewa Joint Committee that interacted with some presidential candidates ahead of the 2023 presidential election said on Tuesday that the exercise was not meant to endorse any particular candidate for the forthcoming election. The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, Jam’iyyar Matan Arewa, the Centre for Historical Development and Research (Arewa House), and the Arewa Research Development Project make up the Arewa Joint Committee. On the invitation list of the Arewa leaders for the interactive meeting were the presidential candidates of the…

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2023: “God will punish us if we don’t support Tinubu” – Lagos CAN Chairman 

Aminu Imam

The Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Stephen Adegbite, has vowed to mobilise support for the presidential aspiration of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. According to him, this is on account of the Asiwaju’s tremendous support for the Christian community, not only in Lagos but in the entire South-West region. Reverend Adegbite further said: “God will punish us if we don’t support Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I have told our friends from the North…

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2023: Okupe mocks APC, describes Tinubu’s Lagos rally as failed ‘catch-up’

Aminu Imam

The Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe, has mocked the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the recent rally held in support of its 2023 presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Okupe, in an interview on a television programme at the weekend, described the “five million-man” solidarity rally for Tinubu in Lagos as a “catch up” not well done. The rally, convened by the chairman of transport workers in the State, Musiliu Akinsanya, a.k.a MC Oluomo, is considered as a reply to a series of rallies earlier…

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2023: ‘Campaign publicly for Tinubu or resign’ – APC NWC member challenges Ngige, others

Aminu Imam

A member of the Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Murtala Yakubu Ajaka, has directed political appointees on the platform of the Party to either campaign publicly in support of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ticket or immediately resign their appointments from the party-led administration. The APC chieftain was reacting to comments made on a national television programme on Friday, by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, where he failed to publicly…

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2023: ‘Buhari directed exclusion of Osinbajo, SGF from APC presidential campaign council’ – Keyamo

Aminu Imam

The spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, says President Muhammadu Buhari ordered for the exclusion of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and the Secretary to the Government of Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, from the council. According to Keyamo, President Buhari “specifically directed that the Vice-President and the SGF should be left out of the campaign council in order to concentrate on the governance of the country and administration of government”. The exclusion of Osinbajo and Mustapha, both Christians, had raised concerns in some quarters that…

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2023: ‘North youths unfairly treated by APC leadership structure’ – Tinubu/Shettima media group

Aminu Imam

An All Progressives Congress (APC) northern media youth group, the APC Media and Mobilisation Group for Tinubu/Shettima, (BATIMA), has lamented that northern youths are unfairly treated by the parties leadership structure. The BATIMA DG, Kingsley Omadoye, in an issued press statement yesterday, stated: “We are groups of individuals who have been in the party since its merger stage till date. We are members of the different political parties that made up the APC. (CPC, ANPP, ACN, and APGA). “We observe that the lingering information about our Northern brothers and fellow…

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