Tag: Tinubu

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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APC Flag: Tinubu speaks on Lawan’s emergence as Party’s consensus candidate

Aminu Imam

The Legal Directorate of the Tinubu Campaign Organisation has opened up on the emergence of the announcement by the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s National Chairman, that Senate President, Ahmed Lawan is the Party’s consensus candidate. According to an issued press statement, signed by its Director, Legal Directorate, Babatunde Ogala, “The media is inundated with reports that the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress has unilaterally announced the purported adoption of a certain aspirant the consensus presidential candidate of the APC for the forthcoming presidential election in 2023.…

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APC Primaries: Tinubu, Osinbajo, Amaechi, others scramble for 7,800 delegates

Aminu Imam

Presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC), among them Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo; the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, amongst others, are to battle for 7,800 delegates to grab the party’s ticket for the 2023 general elections. According to a document obtained from the party leaders, a total of 7,800 delegates are going to participate in the selection of the presidential candidate of the ruling party. Aside from the trio, five other aspirants; Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State, Yahaya Bello of Kogi State,…

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2023: “No presidential aspirant surpasses Tinubu” – Ganduje

Aminu Imam

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, of Kano State, has said that the people of the northern part of the country have no other presidential aspirant to support than the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Ganduje made the remark at the inauguration of an office for the ‘Northern Youth Professionals for Tinubu’, (an organisation that Supports Tinubu’s presidential ambition), which was held along Hadeja Road, in Kano yesterday. The Governor, who was represented at the occasion by the Managing Director of Kano Road Traffic Agency,…

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APC Governors celebrate Tinubu at 69; say ‘We look up to you for inspiring guidance’

Ishaku Yohanna

By Godwin Amunde The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) has described Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a source of inspiration and guidance. This is contained in a congratulatory message to Tinubu as he celebrates his 69th birthday. The Chairman of the Forum and the Governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu, in a statement issued Sunday said the governors acknowledged and commended Tinubu’s untiring and selfless leadership and commitment to a united prosperous Nigeria. The statement reads: “We in particular wish to acknowledge and commend your untiring and selfless leadership and commitment…

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INSURGENCY: TINUBU CHALLENGES MILITARY TO CHANGE TACTICS IN TACKLING BOKO HARAM

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

By: Adamu Aliyu Ngulde, Maiduguri The national leader of All Progressives Congress APC and former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited Governor Babagana Umara Zulum in Maiduguri with a call on the Nigerian military to change their strategy in tackling Boko Haram insurgency. “We have been on this (Boko Haram) for sometime, We have seen the reaction of the federal government, we have seen the reaction of the armed forces, this is no longer a conventional warfare, this is more tactical, more crude. In such situation what we…

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Winning Ondo will brighten our chances of claiming 2023 Presidency – Tinubu

Ishaku Yohanna

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has revealed how Southwest can claim the 2023 presidency. Speaking in Akure, Ondo State on Saturday during a meeting with the traditional rulers for re-election of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, the former governor said ensuring that the APC wins Ondo governorship poll would be an added advantage to the South-West’s quest for 2023 presidency. Tinubu said APC leaders in the state as well as South-West and national level were united to ensure that Akeredolu was re-elected in the forthcoming election…

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