Tag: Tinubu

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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2023: “Peter Obi, a capitalist whose ideology conflicts with that of Tinubu” – Atiku’s campaign Spokesman, Bwala

Aminu Imam

The newly-appointed spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign, Dr. Daniel Bwala, has said that the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, is a capitalist, whose ideology conflicts with that of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Bwala, who stated this during an interview on LibertyTV/Radio political programme: “Democracy in Practice“, on Friday, said Peter Obi’s so-called agenda was part of the PDP agenda for the 2023 general elections. Bwala, a legal practitioner with over ten years of experience, alongside former Senator, Dino Melaye, were on August 4…

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2023: Speculations heighten as Obasanjo, Atiku, Wike, Obi, Fayose, others meet in London

Aminu Imam

Speculations on Nigeria’s political scene as the 2023 general elections draws near have heightened, with some political heavy-weights reportedly taking part in meetings in far away London, United Kingdom. Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, met with the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi, and the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, who had been earlier reported to have also had talks on Wednesday with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, also in London. Wike is said to have attended the meeting…

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Atiku-Wike Feud: PDP considers South-West for Ayu’s replacement

Aminu Imam

…Tinubu meets Wike, Makinde, Ortom in London   There are strong indications that some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are pushing for the replacement of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as the party’s National Chairman with a South-West person, following the call for his resignation. A source privy to the development, who confirmed the party move to newsmen, said that the issue is yet to be decided, but said stakeholders have begun to consider some South-West candidates as a possible replacement, adding that the consensus opinion of members is that Ayu…

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2023: ‘Tinubu govt. will replicate Lagos, Borno in Nigeria’ – Shettima

Aminu Imam

The vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Kashim Shettima, has stated that the administration of the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and himself, will replicate the achievements recorded by Tinubu in Lagos if they both win the 2023 presidential election. This was stated by the former Borno State governor yesterday, at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA), which is being held in Lagos. Shettima, who spoke at a panel session held at the event, asked Nigerians to follow the man that knows…

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2023: Obasanjo insists on power shift to South

Aminu Imam

…Knocks PDP over choice of Atiku Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has insisted that it is the turn of southern Nigeria to produce the country’s president in the forthcoming 2023 General Elections. Speaking in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Wednesday, when he received the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former president criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for choosing former vice-president Atiku Abubakar, as its presidential candidate. According to the former president, the PDP’s decision is not politically correct and is against the…

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2023: ‘Peter Obi needs N50bn to defeat Tinubu’, Says Fayose

Aminu Imam

The younger brother to former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, Isaac, has said the Labour Party, (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, needs N50 billion to win the 2023 election. In a video, Fayose said Tinubu has both the structure and the money to become Nigeria’s next president. According to him, Obi’s online popularity is not enough to ensure his victory in 2023, stressing that he needs N50 billion to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu in 2023. He noted that the Labour Party presidential candidate lacks…

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