The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has released the timetable for the 2019 general elections. Going by the dictates of the schedule, the 2019 presidential election is only 423 days away – Presidential and National Assembly elections for Saturday, 16th February. Also scheduled for the same day is the election into the Senate and the […]
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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress’ (APC), Gen. Buba Marwa, on Tuesday, said so far, there is no better presidential candidate for the 2019 presidential election in the APC than President Muhammadu Buhari. Marwa, who is also a former military governor of Lagos State, made this disclosure in Yola after a meeting of stakeholders comprising […]
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has boasted that he will defeat President Muhammadu Buhari hands down in the 2019 presidential election because the president has wasted a lot of his massive goodwill. He said defeating Buhari will be a cakewalk for him if the president runs against him. Atiku said Buhari has become politically weak […]
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Former President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has said he will not rest until the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) returns to presidency in 2019. He maintained that he takes responsibility for the defeat of the PDP in the 2015 general elections. The former Nigerian leaders said this when he received Bode George, a chairmanship aspirant […]
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Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, says there is no automatic ticket for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. The governor stated this on Thursday while speaking with state house correspondents after a meeting with the president. Okorocha, who is chairman of the Progressives governors’ forum, an association of governors under the platform of the ruling All Progressives […]
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Ohaneze Ndigbo, an Igbo socio-cultural group, has told Igbos living in the north to make friends with northerners, so that the group can produce Nigeria’s President in 2023. The call was issued on Sunday in a communique’ at the end of a meeting held in Minna, Niger State. The statement restated the group’s resolve to […]
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At least 189 groups, which worked for the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, have endorsed him for the 2019 election. Abu Ibrahim, leader of the Buhari Support Group (BSG), disclosed this after meeting with Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja on Friday. He said he led a delegation to Aso Rock to […]
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has assured Nigerians that the present administration would complete the second Niger Bridge before the end of 2019. Osinbajo stated this on Friday in Onitsha at the official flag-off campaign of Mr Tony Nwoye, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Anambra. He said that N2 billion had already been […]
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Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue says President Muhammadu Buhari deserves to stand for re-election in 2019 because he remains the only credible person with capacity to deliver up to 2023. The governor stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with Mr. Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, […]
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Vice-President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said he has no plan of running for presidency in 2019. According to Reuters, Osinbajo was asked at the Financial Times Africa Summit in London if he had considered running, he said he had not thought about it, adding: “None of that is on the cards”. There have […]
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