Politics

Seven Presidential aspirants under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, have dismissed the names of five presidential aspirants purportedly to President Muhammadu Buhari to select a consensus candidate, stressing that they were not consulted before the Governors arrived at the decision. The aggrieved aspirants  in a terse statement issued in the early hours of Tuesday shortly after a brief meeting in Abuja described the move as shambolic and an already failed attempt to sideline other aspirants particularly those from the South-East and South South Describing the move as a joke taken too far ,  the  Presidential hopefuls disclosed that…

Governors who are members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have submitted the names of five presidential aspirants to President Muhammadu Buhari to select a consensus candidate from, Daily Trust reliably gathered this morning. A reliable source told the paper that the governors submitted the names in the early hours of Tuesday. The names, according to the source, included that of the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Governor Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti State), Rotimi Amaechi, former Minister of Transportation, and Governor Dave Umahi (Ebonyi State). The governors had after meeting with the President…

Ahead of 2023 APC presidential primary, a political think tank group known North East Stakeholders for Peace and Development (NESPEN), has resolved to support the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, to emerge as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 presidential election. The group comprising political leaders from the zone, technocrats, scholars, clerics, royal fathers in conjunction with other community associations in the zone such as North East Peace Foundation, NEPF, Arewa Summit International, ASI, Arewa Youth Peace Initiative, AYPI, said the decision to unite politically and adopt Ahmad Lawan ahead of the presidential primary election of…

Majority of Nigerians have expressed their joy following the declaration of the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan as the consensus candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress by the leadership of the party on Monday afternoon. The party through its national Chairman , Abdullahi Adamu announced the development on Monday at the meeting of the party’s national working committee (NWC), held in Abuja. The declaration is coming a day before the APC’s convention billed to elect its presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections. Although President Buhari has continued to maintain his position in favour of a consensus arrangement,…

A former President of the Senate, Ken Nnamani, on Monday, has pulled out of the race to secure the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress. The former lawmaker announced his withdrawal during a meeting with journalists in Abuja on Monday. He said, “In the present circumstances, it does not make any sense for me to continue in the race as I have not had the opportunity to market my profile and ideas to the delegates of our party in a manner that allows for deliberation and introspection. “Therefore, I discontinue my aspiration and wish the party a successful primary…

National Secretary of the now defunct Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe has resigned his membership of the party just hours to its special convention and presidential primary election. Akpanudoedehe announced his decision in a strongly worded letter dated 4th June, 2022 and addressed to the APC Chairman of his Offot Ward 6, Uyo in Akwa Ibom State. The letter titled; ‘Resignation of my membership of the All Progressives Congress’, reads; “I write to notify you of my resignation from the All Progressives Congress (APC), forthwith. “Henceforth, I cease…

A group known as Concerned All Progressives Congress (APC) Youths staged a protest on Sunday over the decision of northern APC governors to cede power to the south. Nura Bebeji, coordinator of the group, told journalists in Kano that the decision is “a deliberate plan to sideline youthful leaders from the north” from participating in the presidential race. “We are concerned about APC youths in the north. We are out to express our displeasure over what we heard in the media on the unfortunate decision by the eleven governors to cede leadership to the south,” Bebeji said. “These are governors…

PRESS RELEASE My Channels TV interview Taken Out of Context When I appeared on Channels TV last Thursday amidst the tension rippling through our political arena, it was to underline the promise Bola Tinubu’s presidential bid held for those yet to establish the certainty of the hurdle ahead of the All Progressives Congress. I never set out to denigrate the personality of any aspirant, and definitely not that of my dear friends and allies. None of them is an opponent, so their aspiration isn’t a threat to us. They appear so in the sprint to become the party’s presidential flag-bearer…

DISREGARD THE NEWS THAT GOVERNOR UMAHI HAS STEPPED DOWN FOR SENATE PRESIDENT AHMAD LAWAN. Our attention has been drawn to a news story purportedly broadcast on the stable of one of the revered Television Stations in Nigeria, the Arise Television in which the Station announced that Engineer David Nweze Umahi has stepped down his aspiration for his fellow Presidential Aspirant and Senate President, Ahmed Lawal ahead of the Presidential Primary. Without much Ado, I make the following clarifications to guide the teeming supporters of Engineer Umahi, members and stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Nigerians at large. 1.…

President General Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed a power shift to the South in 2023. According to The Punch, he made this known at a dinner with All Progressives Congress presidential aspirants in Abuja. A source privy to the meeting told The Punch that the Buhari failed to name any consensus candidate. He also said the president asked the southern aspirants to compete in the party’s primary. At a meeting with governors on Tuesday, Buhari had called for reciprocity in choosing his successor. “In keeping with the established internal policies of the party and as we approach the convention in a…