Politics

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will hold its presidential primary today at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The party’s delegates, leaders as well as observers will converge on Eagle Square to elect their flagbearer. The winner will challenge candidates of some other parties such as Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party. A total of 18 parties are eligible to present candidates for the presidential poll that will be held early next year The APC presidential screening committee had screened 23 aspirants and advised 10 of them to withdraw, though they…

President Muhammadu Buhari is keenly interested in who wins the All Progressives Congress (APC) 2023 presidential ticket. A source told Daily Post on Tuesday that the Nigerian leader is favourably disposed to the emergence of Senate President, Ahmad Lawan. The insider was reacting to Monday’s announcement of Lawan as the anointed candidate of the ruling platform. The declaration by the National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu has caused an uproar in the party. Some chieftains are furious that Adamu made the pronouncement despite the decision by Northern APC governors to support a Southerner. In a conversation, our source reminded the party and…

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…