Former Vice-President of Nigeria and presidential aspirant, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is the worst since democracy returned to Nigeria in 1999. Atiku said this on Saturday when he paid a courtesy visit to Ahmed Makarfi, former caretaker committee chairman of the opposition party. Makarfi is also a presidential aspirant […]
Continue ReadingOkafor Ofiebor /Port Harcourt A governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has declared that the party cannot adopt indirect primaries to elect its candidates in the state. Abe made the declaration when he appeared on a live programme of the African Independent Television […]
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President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, said the major thrust of his presidential aspiration was to unite the nation and set it on the path of sustainable economic growth. Saraki made this known while addressing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders and members in Enugu on Thursday on his ambition to be the Presidential candidate […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to hold President Muhammadu Buhari culpable for “violating” provisions of the electoral act. This position is occasioned the donation of presidential nomination form bought for Buhari by a group known as the National Coordinator of Nigeria Consolidation Ambassador Network (NCAN). On […]
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Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says fake news is the only weapon used against a performing government like theirs. The minister said this on Thursday when he visited People’s Daily newspaper in Abuja. Mohammed alleged that respectable media organisations make accusations against the president without backing their claims with evidence. He said the media is […]
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Officers of the Nigeria police force and some supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) clashed at the party headquarters in Abuja on Thursday. The protesters besieged the area as former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar submitted his presidential nomination form. The clash resulted in the officers firing gunshots into the air to disperse the protesters. A […]
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The Nigeria Consolidation Ambassadors’ Network, a group, on Wednesday in Abuja picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) Expression of Interest and Nomination forms for President Muhamnadu Buhari to re-contest the presidency in 2019. This made President Buhari the first aspirant to pick the forms as the APC commenced sales of the forms to aspirants for […]
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The special adviser to Senate President Bukola Saraki on media, Yusuph Olaniyonu, has wondered what the business of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is with his principal’s aspiration to be president. Yekini Nabena, APC’s acting spokesman, had described the presidential aspiration of Saraki as a joke on Wednesday. But in a statement, Olaniyonu said the […]
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*Pleads With Wike to Leave Tinubu and Amaechi Out of His Dirty Politics *Pleads with the Riverine, Ijaws, Kalabaris to unite and utilize the opportunity that the candidature of Cole offers The resolve by most of the leaders and stakeholders of the Rivers state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to adopt Arch. Tonye […]
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Former Senate President, David Mark has joined the presidential race, promising to fix the economy in two years. Addressing officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) when he picked the presidential nomination form at the party’s secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday, Mark said his military background is an added advantage. Mark said judging by the […]
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