Tag: Tinubu

2023 Election: Asari-Dokubo backs APC Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket

Aminu Imam

…Says Tinubu will win A frontline Niger-Delta activist, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, has backed the Muslim-Muslim of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the 2023 presidential elections. Asari-Dokubo, speaking in a live interview on Facebook, said Muslims did not complain in 1979 when the Late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, a Christian of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) had a Christian running mate, Philip Umeadi, and the Late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, a Christian, of the Nigerian Peoples Party (NPP) had Dr. Ishaya Audu, also a Christian as running mate. While accusing Christians of…

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2023: VP Yemi Osinbajo speaks on Muslim-Muslim ticket

Aminu Imam

…Opposes Tinubu-Shettima Presidency Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and his erstwhile political godfather, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, are on another collision course few weeks after the duo squared up at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primaries in Abuja, where the latter emerged victorious. The vice-president fired the first shot on Monday, when he spoke against the choice of former Governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima, as running mate to Tinubu. It was gathered that Osinbajo had expressed serious objection to the adoption of a Muslim-Muslim ticket. According to a reliable source,…

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2023: Afenifere dumps Tinubu, declares support for Peter Obi

Aminu Imam

The leader of the pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has endorsed Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for the 2023 presidency. Adebanjo gave the endorsement while speaking on an online radio programme, yesterday. He said Obi has the ability to “rule independently” and would not disappoint Nigeria. He said he has lost confidence in Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag bearer, as well as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. According to him, “It is only Peter…

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2023: Northern Youths group rejects el-Rufa’i endorsement by TSO as Tinubu’s running mate

Aminu Imam

Northern Youths, under the umbrella of the North-East Stakeholders Forum of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have kicked against the open endorsement of Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmed el-Rufa’i, by the Tinubu Support Organisation (TSO) as the ideal candidate for the vice-presidential slot. The TSO had described el-Rufa’i as the best among the contenders being proposed as running mate to the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The TSO Director-General, Aminu Suleiman, while briefing newsmen in Kaduna on Monday, said that they had decided after a consultative meeting with critical…

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2023 Presidency: “Neither Atiku nor Tinubu can fix Nigeria” – Ango Abdullahi

Aminu Imam

The Convener of the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Prof Ango Abdullahi, has said that neither the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, nor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), can fix Nigeria’s challenges. In an interview the elder statesman granted yesterday, Abdullahi said Nigeria will be in chaos if either Tinubu or Atiku emerges president, adding that the duo have nothing to offer the country. According to him, the presidential candidates of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and that of the New…

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2023 APC Ticket: Votes strength will determine Tinubu’s choice of running mate – Campaign Coordinator

Aminu Imam

The North-Central Coordinator of Tinubu Campaign Organisation, Abdul-Azeez Yinka-Oniyangi, has said numbers will be the major consideration in picking a running mate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential flag-bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Yinka-Oniyangi disclosed this while speaking about the rationale behind the choice of a running mate for Tinubu on a television programme on Friday. Recall that according to reports, Tinubu had named Kabiru Ibrahim Masari as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election, though he is believed to be a ‘place holder’ pending when a substantive…

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APC VP Slot: Finally, Tinubu breaks silence on Muslim-Muslim ticket

Aminu Imam

The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has finally broken silence to the rumour making rounds that he has picked a Muslim as his running mate in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The former Governor of Lagos State, who outrightly condemned the rumour, said contrary to the purported news he intends to pick a Northern Christian as his running mate. Tinubu stated this yesterday, while addressing newsmen in Ekiti State during the party governorship rally for the June 18 gubernatorial election in the State.…

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‘Only a Tinubu can break cabal holding Nigeria down’ – Ex-NUPENG scribe

Aminu Imam

A former General Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, (NUPENG), Chief Frank Kokori, has said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is the only living politician capable of breaking the cabal holding Nigeria down. Kokori, an APC elder in Delta State, while speaking with newsmen yesterday in his residence in the Ethiope-East local government area of the State, applauded Tinubu’s emergence as the party’s flagbearer for the 2023 general election, saying, “I don’t think there’s a better…

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2023 APC Flag-bearer: Osinbajo breaks silence, congratulates Tinubu

Aminu Imam

…Says all must unite for his victory Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has broken his silence since he lost the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential ticket, congratulating the winner, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for his victory at the primary. Tinubu, who contested the party’s presidential ticket with 13 other aspirants, polled 1,271 votes at the election to pick the ticket. The immediate-past Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, came second with 316 votes, while Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo came third with 235 delegate votes. Osinbajo, in a statement yesterday, congratulated Tinubu on his victory at…

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2023: Atiku congratulates Tinubu on victory at APC primary

Aminu Imam

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has congratulated his All Progressive Congress opponent, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, on winning the ruling party’s presidential ticket. The former vice president took to his social media pages to congratulate the former governor of Lagos State, stating that the APC presidential primary was a hard-fought contest. “Congratulations, @officialABAT, on your emergence as your party’s presidential candidate. It has been a hard-fought contest, but that you prevailed confirms your tenacity”, he wrote.

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