President Muhammadu Buhari will chair an emergency meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC National Caucus in Abuja on Mpnday. The meeting was called to discuss prevailing national issues, especially the postponement by the Independent National Electoral Commission of the earlier scheduled Feb. 16 Presidential and National Assembly elections till Saturday, 23 February. NAN reports […]
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The National Assembly has announced the postponement of its resumption scheduled for Tuesday Feb. 19 to Tuesday Feb. 26. The Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr Mohammed Sani-Omolori, made this known in a statement on Sunday. He said the postponement became necessary following the postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections to Saturday, Feb. […]
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Uche Secondus, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has asked Mahmood Yakubu to resign as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Speaking through Ike Abonyi, his media aide, shortly after the elections were postponed by INEC, Secondus said his party was rejecting the new dates. He said it was a “deliberate, […]
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The presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has alleged that the All Progressives Congress led government of President Muhammadu Buhari engineered the postponement of elections announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC early Saturday morning to disenfranchise Nigerians. “This postponement is obviously a case of the hand of Esau but […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rescheduled presidential and national assembly elections. The elections will now hold on February 23. The governorship and state assembly elections will now hold on March 9. He said the decision was taken after a careful review of the plan for the exercise. “Following a careful review of the […]
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The Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s Thursday night broadcast as a farewell speech. Reacting to President Buhari’s characterization of the opposition in a nationwide broadcast, Atiku Abubakar described the president as a failed steward who has consistently distorted and twisted facts and events. Atiku, in […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari addressed all Nigerians in a nationwide broadcast on Thursday, making a last pitch on why he should be re-elected on Saturday. He urged Nigerians to choose between the old regime, where resources were squandered and his administration that has demonstrated prudence in managing scarce resources. He asked Nigerians to choose real infrastructure […]
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Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says though Atiku Abubakar is his friend, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will retire from politics on Saturday. In a statement on Thursday, Tinubu said he could not find much good in the policies and programmes of the PDP to […]
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The Spokesman of the House of Representatives, Mr Abdulrazak Namdas (APC-Adamawa) says burning of card readers at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Anambra is unfortunate. Namdas in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja, said preventive measures should be put in place to forestall future occurrence […]
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According to a news report by Channels, four persons have been killed during a stampede at the presidential campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress in Portharcourt, Rivers State. The Spokesman for the Rivers Police, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed this to Channels Television on Tuesday. According to him, four others who sustained injuries are currently […]
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