Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress, APC Campaign Council, Gov. Simon Lalong, has approved the inclusion of some members of Kannywood into the council. Lalong made the announcement in a statement signed by his Spokesperson, Dr Makut Macham, in Jos the state capital. The APC presidential campaign DG said the inclusion of the actors was aimed at deepening the participation of creative artists from the northern region in the campaigns. He said the Kannywood group has Abdul-Mahmud Amart as Director, Ismail Afakallah as Deputy Director and Sani Mu’azu, as the Secretary, with other…
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The Director of E-Media Publicity of the Abia State gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Aguoru, has advised against attempts to disrupt academic activities at Ngwa High School under the guise of political campaign rallies. This comes on the backdrop of the planned flag-off of electioneering campaigns by the candidate of the Labour Party, Alex Otti scheduled on 10th November 2022, with a rally billed to take place at Ngwa High School Aba. Otti had in a press release during the weekend, invited the 2023 Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, and his running-mate,…
Major roads in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, were on Tuesday blocked as members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) staged a solidarity walk for the presidential candidate of the party, Bola Tinubu and Governor Dapo Abiodun, who is seeking reelection. On Tuesday morning, the Ogun State Government closed the road linking Kuto to Okemosan, NNPC and Abiola Way, affecting human and vehicular movements. The walk also caused heavy traffic gridlock in other parts of the State capital where roads were not totally closed. Our correspondent reports that traffic regulators, including the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) had a…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked Chijioke Edeoga as the governorship candidate of the Labour Party for Enugu State. Recall that Evarest Nnaji, popularly referred to as Odengene had approached the Abuja court to challenge the May primary election that produced Chijioke as the party’s candidate. Justice Evelyn Maha who dismissed the primary election ordered the party to conduct a fresh primary election within 14 days. The duo were members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but defected earlier in the year to battle for the LP ticket for the forthcoming governorship elections. Details shortly…
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Akwa Ibom chapter, Pastor Umo Eno has urged the people not to be carried away by vague promises, rhetoric and populism by some candidates seeking to score cheap political points in the 2023 elections. He said they should rather consider competence and pragmatism in making a choice of their candidate. Eno stated this on Tuesday during the party’s governorship flag-off campaigns held at the Nest of Champions International Stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital. He said, “Fellow Akwaibomites, this election is beyond populism, rhetoric and vague promises but pragmatism, capacity and…
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has warned that there shall be no voting for any unaccredited person. This was stated by the new Resident Electoral Commissioner in Jigawa State, Prof. Muhammad Lawal Bashar, while briefing newsmen at the commission’s headquarters in Dutse. He said the commission will begin the display of voter registration from 12 to 25 November 2022. He explained that the exercise will take place at the registration area(wards) level and at local government INEC offices across Jigawa State. According to him: “Under Section 9(6) and 19(1) of the Electoral Act, 2022, the commission will commence the…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky warned against more potential Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, while the mayor of Kyiv urged residents to consider preparing to leave temporarily if the capital lost water and power supplies. Diplomacy U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan has held undisclosed talks with top Russian officials in hopes of reducing the risk the war in Ukraine spills over or escalates into a nuclear conflict, the Wall Street Journal said. President Joe Biden’s administration is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal to engage in peace talks unless…
Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, has told Nigerians to vote for him based on the competence he has not on ethnic or entitlement sentiments. Speaking during the Presidential Town Hall series organized by Arise TV on Sunday, the former Anamabra State Governor said that Nigerians should vote for him because he has the capacity to take the country out of its current predicament. He explained that it is nobody’s turn, saying that rather, it is the turn of the youth and the women. He told Nigerians not to vote for Peter…
The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said the office of the president and Vice President are not the same thing. Obi spoke at the Arise TV’s residential debate in Abuja while responding to a question from a former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye. Melaye had asked Obi if the Office of the president and the Vice President were the same thing, considering the uncoordinated networking among security agencies. Responding, Obi said: “The office of the President and the Vice President is not the same; there is a Commander in Chief. The burden stops at somebody’s desk. “He…
Ahead of the 2023 presidential election in February next year, a group of Abuja-based pastors and bishops, have expressed their support for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC. This was made known in a statement jointly signed on Sunday by Apostle Babatunde Oguntimehin, and Revd Friday Obi, national president and secretary, respectively. The clerics under the body known as the Nigerian Coalition of Pastor for Good Leadership stated that it would not be fair for Nigerians to jettison the capacity of Tinubu on the altar of the contentious Muslim-Muslim ticket. The group also noted…
The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has tackled his counterpart from the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, for failing to attend the presidential debate in Abuja. Kwankwaso said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, was better than Tinubu. Okowa represented the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar at the debate organised by Arise Television and the Centre for Development and Democracy, CDD, in Abuja on Sunday. Expected at the debate were Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP; Kwankwaso, Atiku and Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC.…
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s long march, which was suspended after the failed assassination attempt on party chief Imran Khan last week, will resume on Thursday, two senior party leaders said on Monday. Speaking to party workers at Zaman Park in Lahore, Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced that the long march will resume on Thursday from the same location where the attack on Khan took place. Another senior leader Faisal Javed Khan also said that the party’s long march will resume on November 10. This is the third time that the party has changed the date of the long march which came…
Abia State House of Assembly candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Umunneochi Constituency, Engr Ejike Chukwu, has blamed successive administrations of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the past twenty years for the dilapidated state of infrastructure and worsening economy of the state. Pointing out that the state is bedevilled by decaying road infrastructure, soaring unemployment rate and unending power outages, the politician insisted that the ruling PDP government in the state has failed in all indices of governance and therefore has nothing to show to justify the mandates given to the party by Abia electorates since…
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Ogun State has asked Governor Dapo Abiodun, the Inspector General of Police and the Director of State Security Service to ensure the security of lives and property before, during and after the 2023 general elections. The Chairman of the NNPP in Ogun, Olaposi Oginni, said this on Monday during a meeting with officials and candidates of the NNPP at the party secretariat in Abeokuta. Oginni appealed to Abiodun to ensure that the peace being enjoyed in the political space at the moment is not tampered with. He alleged that some members of the…
APC national women’s leader, Dr Betta Edu has pledged to mobilise 40 million Nigerian women to vote for the presidential candidate of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu next year. She made the pledge when she received a Leadership Woman of the Year Award from Igbere TV, an online platform in Nigeria. The Award was received on behalf of Edu by Deputy National women leader, Zainab Ibrahim “We have so far mobilised several millions of women for our principal, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. We are targeting beyond 40 million women to vote for him during next year’s presidential election. “It is…
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, has said he never borrowed during his time as the governor of Anambra State. The former governor of Anambra State disclosed this on Sunday during the Arise TV Town Hall meeting that hosted presidential candidates from various political parties in Abuja. “During my time as a former governor, I served for eight eights. If you go to that state you will find that I never borrowed from any financial institution in Nigeria. I have never been invited or questioned about any missing money anywhere. “The day I left the…
The New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of planning to buy Nigerians like sacrificial rams in the upcoming 2023 general election. The NNPP gubernatorial candidate in Jigawa State, Mallam Aminu Ibrahim Ringim, stated this on Saturday at the commissioning of the party’s headquarters in Aujara ward, Jahun Local Government. He said APC and PDP plan to use the money to buy votes from Nigerians during the coming 2023 general election. “Don’t reject any money given to you to defraud you of your votes; collect the money is…
Engr. Chucks Ololo, brother-in-law of former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has dumped the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Labour Party (LP). The governorship aspirant under the All Progressive Congress in the 2019 general elections made this known at the LP state party secretariat in Owerri, Imo State. The former APC chieftain said his defection was to join forces with LP to salvage the country through the vision of the presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi. Ololo, who is the husband to Okorocha’s younger sister, Ogechi Ololo, said aside from ensuring that his over 5000 supporters join him in LP, he…
Some members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Sokoto State. The APC Chairman in the state who received the defectors on Sunday said the latest defection was another set of scores of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members from Dundaye, Gumburawa and Gidan Bubu districts in Wamakko Local Government Area of the state. The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, who spoke at the event, described the development as a success. “The APC administration under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari has brought positive developmental projects aimed at impacting the lives of…
Yusuf Idris, Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State has said there is no President like incumbent Muhammadu Buhari in the history of Nigeria. The spokesperson said the President had done well since he assumed office in 2015. Idris told NAN that the programmes, policies, and achievements of the administration were not getting enough publicity. The politician said only Buhari initiated a social investments programme that has various components. He listed N-Power, the Conditional Cash. Transfer, TraderMoni and Senior Citizens’ welfare, among others. Idris noted that in Zamfara, more than 200,000 people have benefited in the…