President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the presidential aspirants of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to agree on a formidable candidate ahead of the party’s presidential primary election holding from 6th to 8th June in Abuja. The counselled the aspirants to continue consultations on the preferred candidate. A statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, …

Governors of northern states controlled by the All Progressives Congress have voted in favour of the south producing the party’s 2023 presidential candidate. The Governors and political leaders from the northern states said that “after eight years in office of President Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the APC for the 2023 elections should be one of our teeming members …

The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Special Duties, Mallam Ya’u Darazo has urged Nigerians, especially members of the All Progressives Congress, to ignore the malicious attempt by the opponents of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to misrepresent what he told party leaders and delegates in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Thursday. Darazo, in a statement he signed in his personal …

A consensus presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for next year’s election may emerge anytime from now. Returning from an extraordinary session of West African leaders in Ghana, the President has fixed a meeting with presidential aspirants of the party for this (Saturday) night starting by 8 o’clock at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting may also have …

By Senator Domingo Alaba Obende The delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will meet from 6th June to pick the party’s presidential candidate. The contest is a contest for Nigeria’s future. The country needs people with not only experience, connections, understanding and capacity but who also have an understanding of where the world is going and what Nigeria needs …

Former Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki has confirmed that he opposed the idea of a Muslim-Muslim presidency canvassed ahead of the 2015 election by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the interest of the nation. While addressing Ogun State delegates to the forthcoming APC presidential primary election on Thursday, Tinubu had …

I’m sure you know the song by Kizz Daniel and Tekno, which is now a rave of the moment: Let me see you dey buga o (go low-low-low) Let me see you (go low-low-low) buga won Spanish  And you see people huffing and puffing as they dance to it, with their shoulders raised in pride, bordering on arrogance. That sent …

The Senator Ovie Omo Agege Campaign Organisation has lamented the gross negligence of key economic and development indicators in Delta State by successive governments. The organisation flayed what it called “the deplorable state of development indices in the state following the choking economic grip from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)”. According to its Director of Communications and Media Strategy, …

By Columba Oshiobughie Ogah The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) recently conducted its presidential primary election leading to the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as its flagbearer. It was an event described by one of the 14 presidential aspirants, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, who withdrew from the race as “obscenely monetised”.  Peter Obi, another PDP presidential aspirant, earlier run away from the PDP primary and …

A frontline presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu said on Thursday at the Presidential Lodge in Abeokuta, Ogun State that without him an indigene of the state, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo would not have been Vice President in 2015. Campaigning for delegate votes, Tinubu said he contributed significantly to the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as …