Violence broke out at Okwagbe community in Jeremi 3, Ughelli south local government area of Delta state as Jeremiah Oghoveta, a chairmanship aspirant, was stabbed to death. One Tete Pippah was said to have attacked Oghoveta after an argument ensued over allegations of hijack of electoral materials by a side. Oghoveta reportedly disagreed with some other […]
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Musa Mahmud, chairman of the Adamawa Congress Committee for All Progressives Party, APC, has announced the shifting of Saturday Ward Congress to Sunday. Mahmud made the announcement shortly after a meeting with some stakeholders who protested that many candidates were yet to obtain the nomination forms to contest the election. Some of the stakeholders that […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s “technical stopover” in the UK as a constitutional breach. Buhari left the US on Tuesday after meeting with President Donald Trump and some top businessmen. However, has has not been seen in Nigeria since then. Reacting to complaints over the president’s absence, Garba Shehu, senior […]
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Sen. Dino Melaye has thanked the people of his constituency for “rising to his defence” by shunning the verification exercise held on April 28 to recall him from the Senate. Melaye, in a statement issued in Lokoja on Sunday, also thanked the political leaders, elders and traditional rulers in Kogi West for “rescuing him from […]
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in a statement by Bolaji Abdullahi, its national publicity secretary, has announced new dates for its congresses. In the timetable earlier released, the party scheduled ward congresses for May 2; local government congresses, May 5; and state congresses, May 9, respectively. The national convention was scheduled for May 14. But […]
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has postponed its national convention earlier scheduled for Monday, May 14. Bolaji Abdullahi, spokesman of the ruling party, disclosed this to reporters in Abuja after a meeting between some governors of the party and the national working committee (NWC) led by John Oyegun. The APC spokeman said some of the […]
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The All Progressives Congress has told Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff, the former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party to join the party at his ward in Ngala, Borno State. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi said the party does not receive defectors at the secretariat in Abuja, the Federal capital and urged the former […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has decided to wade into an internal affair of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The opposition party said it is pained by President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged imposition of Adam Oshiomhole as candidate for office of national chairman of the APC. In its statement on Wednesday, the PDP said Buhari’s […]
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John Odigie-Oyegun, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described as “absolutely childish” the endorsement of Adams Oshiomhole, former Edo governor, by south-south stakeholders of the party. He made this known to journalists at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday. “It was childish, absolutely childish. Voting is done at convention and not […]
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The 24 governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) on Tuesday announced their endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari’s candidature for the 2019 presidential election. Rochas Okorocha, Imo state governor, made the position of the governors known to state house correspondents after a closed-door meeting with the president at the presidential […]
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