A lawyer and financial analyst, Mr. Peter Mbah has won the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primaries for the 2023 general election in Enugu State. Mbah, former Chief of Staff to then Governor Chimaroke Nnamani, had emerged victorious during the Party’s primary election conducted on Wednesday at the Nnamdi Azikwe Stadium, Enugu. He scored 790 […]
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Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, and Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi have consulted with delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo. The trio consulted with the delegates in separate meetings in Owerri, the Imo capital, on Tuesday, ahead of the APC’s presidential primaries slated for May 29. The News Agency […]
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Former Deputy President of the Senate, Chief Ike Ekweremadu has announced his withdrawal from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primaries. The Director-General, Ikeoha Campaign Organisation, Mr Charles Asogwa, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Enugu. Recall that the PDP had fixed May 25, 2022 as its primaries to select the flag-bearer of […]
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A former Senator, Dino Melaye has said he lost the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senatorial primary in Kogi State because some people ganged up against him. It could be recalled that the, lawmaker representing Kabba/Bunu Ijumu Federal constituency, Tajudeen Yusuf, defeated Melaye to clinch the PDP’s senatorial ticket in the state. In a rerun election […]
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The Minority Leader of Nigeria’s Senate and a frontline governorship aspirant of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has formally withdrawn from the PDP governorship primaries scheduled for today (Wednesday). Abaribe who made known his withdrawal from the exercise in a press statement cited use of “imaginary delegates list […]
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Nigeria’s ruling, All Progressives Congress, APC, has issued a revised timetable of activities for its governorship, State House of Assembly, Senate and House of Representatives primary elections. This was contained in a statement which was signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka. According to Morka, governorship primary election would hold on Thursday, 26th […]
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Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, has described Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as President Muhammadu Buhari’s number one confidante. El-Rufai said Osinbajo had earned the respect of Buhari, state governors, and Nigerians in general. He spoke during Osinbajo’s consultative meeting with delegates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kaduna Monday. El-Rufai noted that Osinbajo has […]
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Some suspected political thugs and hoodlums on Monday attacked the campaign train of the Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola. The thugs also attacked the bus of the Correspondent Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) ,which was in the governor’s convoy. The attack of the Osun NUJ correspondent chapel bus took place at Arapajo […]
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Ikengboju Gboluga, the incumbent member, representing Okitipupa/Irele Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives has emerged the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2023 general elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that of the 69 delegates who voted at the primary on Sunday in Okitipupa, Ondo State, Gboluga polled […]
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The President of Nigeria’s Senate and presidential aspirant for the 2023 general elections under the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Ahmad Lawan, Sunday, said he was still in the race. Lawan spoke on the heels of reports in some quarters that he had withdrawn from the presidential race to pursue another term in the senate. […]
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