Adams Oshiomhole on Tuesday described the results being circulated as the outcome of the Imo governorship primaries as fake. Oshiohmole stated this while fielding questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday. The APC chairman also revealed that the party had disbanded the Ahmed Gulak-led Committee that conducted the party’s governorship primaries in Imo. According to him, another committee will be set up immediately for the conduct of fresh primaries in the state before the end of the week. “Imo was not too good news for today,…
Author: David Folami
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has cleared the former governor of Abia State, Dr. Uzor Kalu and Yusuf A. Haruna to contest the Party’s Senate Primaries for Abia North and Kogi Central Senatorial districts respectively. This was made known in a statement signed by the party’s spokesman, Yekini Nabena. Also, Nabena has said that he is not aware of the cancellation of the Lagos state governorship primary election.
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole affirmed the recently released result of the Lagos governorship primary election. According to TVC News, Oshiomhole dismissed the cancellation of the election and said the exercise was in order. The APC chairman made this known while briefing newsmen after a meeting with President Buhari. The Lagos state chairman of APC, Tunde Balogun has declared Babajide Sanwo-Olu winner of the governorship primaries in Lagos. According to Balogun, Sanwo-Olu got 970, 851 votes and Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode pulled in only 72, 901 votes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the…
Akinwunmi Ambode has accepted his loss of the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the victor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Sanwo-Olu, a former commissioner, beat the incumbent in the APC’s Lagos State governorship primary election that was conducted at all wards in all 20 local government areas of the state on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. In Tuesday’s election, Sanwo-Olu polled 970,851 votes, hundreds of thousands of votes more than Ambode’s 72,901 votes. Ambode conceded defeat during a press conference on Wednesday, October 3, and congratulated Sanwo-Olu over his victory and praised the party. He said, “Dear Lagosians, APC is…
Aminu Tambuwal, on Wednesday, October 3, 2018, met with former President Olusgeun Obasanjo in Ogun state. According to reports, Tambuwal arrived Obasanjo’s residence around 7:39 pm and was immediately ushered in to see the former President. The Sokoto state Governor is a presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Tambuwal dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the PDP on Wednesday, August 1, 2018. Buhari’s personal assistant on social media, Lauretta Onochie recently accused Tambuwal of wanting the president dead in bid to take over his government. Onochie said this while reacting to the Governor’s statement…
Babajide Sanwo-Olu has thanked Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, for putting up a good fight in the race to win the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC). While speaking on his victory on Tuesday, Sanwo-Olu wished the governor the best for the remainder of his tenure ahead of the 2019 election to elect a new governor. “I think it’s also important to thank the executive governor of Lagos state, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode for a good fight. I wish him the best in the remainder of his tenure,” he said. In his acceptance speech, Sanwo-Olu praised the APC’s national…
Bukola Saraki, a Presidential aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday urged delegates ahead of the party presidential primaries not to vote on sentiment. Saraki gave the advice during consultation visit to delegates and supporters of PDP at the party Secretariat in Uyo. “It is time as a country that we do not vote on sentiment, we should not vote because we come from the same part of the country. “We should rather vote for a man or woman that we believe will move the country forward,” Saraki said. He said that all over the world today, there…
The Delta state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expelled Senator Ovie Omo-Agege. Omo-Agege is the Senator representing Delta Central Senatorial district in the Nigerian Senate. This was made known in a statement signed by the Delta state APC Legal Adviser, Dennis Nwanokwai on Wednesday, September 3, 2018. According to reports, “At an emergency meeting of the State Working Committee (SWC ) of our great party APC led by Chief Cyril Abeye Ogodo held today 3rd October 2018, the Delta State SWC took a decision to expel Senator Ovie Omo Agege for his continuing anti-party activities that have…
Some aggrieved members of the Ondo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have called for the resignation of the party’s national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. The members National Assembly aspirants who were disqualified from participating in the party’s primary election in Ondo. The disqualified aspirants include: former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Victor Olabimtan, Tunji Abayomi, Lucky Ayedatiwa, Odunayo Akinrinlola, Felder Olatunji and Chief Morayo Lebi. According to Tribune, the spokesman of the group, Tunji Abayomi said Oshiomhole lacks the intellectual capacity to lead the ruling party. “Oshiomhole has failed as APC party chairman, he does…
Paris Saint-Germain responded to their 3-2 loss away at Liverpool in their opening Champions League Group C match with a Neymar-inspired 6-1 slaughtering of Red Star Belgrade at Parc des Princes on Wednesday. Thomas Tuchel’s men made light of the unusual atmosphere inside the stadium because of the closure of the Auteuil end — home of PSG’s ultras — and a designated section for away supporters through a Neymar hat trick and further goals from Edinson Cavani, Angel Di Maria and Kylian Mbappe. Marko Marin netted for the Serbs, but it was the scantest of consolation goals as the French…
Roberto Firmino has revealed he feared he was going to be blind in one eye after he was caught by Jan Vertonghen during Liverpool’s win over Tottenham Hotspur last month. Firmino was forced off in the 2-1 victory at Wembley and taken to a hospital in London, where it was confirmed he sustained an abrasion of the eye. Sources said that the FA would be taking no disciplinary action against Vertonghen, with the governing body believing the incident to be entirely accidental. “I was scared of going blind in one eye and not being able to see again,” Firmino told…
Jurgen Klopp has said Liverpool deserved to get beat by Napoli in the Champions League on Wednesday as they suffered their second defeat of the season when Lorenzo Insigne scored an injury-time goal for a 1-0 win at the Stadio San Paolo. Napoli wasted a number of golden opportunities before Insigne’s late intervention, while Liverpool failed to record a single shot on target in a Champions League game for the first time since 2006. “No attempts on target, I don’t remember when that happened last time,” Klopp told a news conference. “I think we had a big part of that…
Cristiano Ronaldo again denied allegations that he raped a woman in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009, writing on Twitter on Wednesday that it is an “abominable crime” and that the claim is being made “by people seeking to promote themselves at my expense.” According to a civil lawsuit filed in state court in Las Vegas last week, Kathryn Mayorga, who was then 25, alleged that Ronaldo raped her in his hotel room in the city, then was coerced into signing a nondisclosure agreement in 2010 in an out-of-court settlement in exchange for $375,000. It asks for general damages,…
The woman accusing Cristiano Ronaldo of sexual assault has been interviewed twice by law enforcement officers in recent months and plans to cooperate further, her attorney said Wednesday, as the Las Vegas police department has reopened its investigation into the case that centers around one of the sports world’s most famous athletes and an alleged assault from 2009. Kathryn Mayorga, who has filed a civil lawsuit against Ronaldo alleging that he raped her in a Las Vegas penthouse suite nine years ago, is still in “active therapy” to deal with the emotional impact of the alleged assault, according to her…
Lionel Messi thought Tottenham looked lost at times as he scored twice in Barcelona’s 4-2 win over the Premier League side at Wembley on Wednesday. Philippe Coutinho and Ivan Rakitic fired Barca into a two-goal lead at the break as the La Liga champions looked to bounce back from a three-game winless run. Messi added two more after half-time, with Spurs twice threatening a comeback through goals from Harry Kane and Erik Lamela, but it was the opening 45 minutes which left the Argentine forward most satisfied. “We were aware that with the results we have had there were doubts,”…
Mauro Icardi took advantage of an error from PSV Eindhoven goalkeeper Jeroen Zoet to gift Inter Milan a 2-1 victory in their Champions League Group B clash on Wednesday. Inter, who also won their group-stage opener, inflicted a second defeat on PSV as Radja Nainggolan fired in an equaliser after Pablo Rosario scored his first goal in three years to give PSV the lead. The victory was deserved on the balance of play, though PSV can point to bad luck in crucial moments and will feel somewhat aggrieved, as shown by the plastic bottles that were launched from the stands…
Mauricio Pochettino certainly called it when, the day before his side met Barcelona at Wembley, the Tottenham manager admitted he could not find a solution for dealing with Lionel Messi and that he just told his players to relish the experience of facing against arguably football’s greatest-ever player. “I am not going to try to find a solution,” Pochettino said on Tuesday. “I am going to say to the players: ‘Enjoy playing against Messi.’ This is the type of player that you are going to remember. For your ego, it’s a thing that you are going to tell your kids…
Borussia Dortmund’s blistering start to the season under manager Lucien Favre gathered momentum as the Bundesliga leaders consigned ailing Monaco to a 3-0 defeat in the Champions League on Wednesday. Jacob Bruun Larsen, brought on at the break after a mediocre first half from Favre’s unbeaten high-flyers, broke the deadlock within six minutes before strikes from Paco Alcacer and captain Marco Reus heaped more misery on Monaco. Dortmund’s storming second-half display kept them at the top of Group A alongside Atletico Madrid, with both sides on a maximum six points, but for Monaco, who have not won any of their…
Naby Keita was taken to hospital as a precaution after injuring his back during Liverpool’s 1-0 defeat at Napoli on Wednesday, according to the club. Keita was carried off on a cart inside 19 minutes of play at the Studio San Paolo, having injured himself in a duel with match-winner Lorenzo Insigne. The midfielder was complaining of severe back pain when being attended to by Liverpool’s medical staff. A source said that Liverpool are staying in Italy on Wednesday night and hope Keita will fly back to Merseyside with the rest of the squad on Thursday. But the source said…
Senator Ademola Adeleke, the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the Osun governorship election has dismissed Thursday’s rerun election as a coup that has no place in a democracy. While the rerun election in the affected polling units were taking place on Thursday, September 27, 2018, Adeleke cried out that the system has been rigged to favour the APC. He complained that PDP supporters were being denied access to ballot papers in the governorship rerun election. “What is happening in Osun State now is not an election. What we have is a coup. That is what we are…