Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister, has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, would defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2023. Fani-Kayode made the remark while congratulating Bola Tinubu for emerging as APC presidential candidate. He noted that under Tinubu’s leadership, ...

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, is currently in a closed-door meeting with governors elected on the party’s platform. The meeting is coming a few hours after the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate ...

Sen. Bola Tinubu, the 2023 Presidential Candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), says he bears no grudges or grievances against anyone, not even those that do not support his ambition. Tinubu, who emerged as the APC 2023 presidential candidate at its just concluded Special Convention and ...

By Biodun Busari   The Director, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Prof Ishaq Akintola has described the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as an outstanding politician who is second to none among the presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress. ...

By Henry Umoru, ABUJA THE Political quargmire in the Labour Party, LP took another dimension yesterday  as its acting national chairman,  Calistus Uju Okafor yesterday announced ambassador  Jude Ezenwafor as the Presidential candidate for the party ahead of 2023 Presidential election.  ...

Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja   Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Abdulrauf Aregbesola has congratulated the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his emergence, charging him to ride on the crest of the momentum and lead APC to victory at ...

Sodiq Oyeleke The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, says his opponents have nothing to fear after his victory at the party’s primary. Tinubu said this while giving his victory speech at Eagle Square, the venue of the APC primary. The PUNCH had reported ...

The 2023 presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed anger at those who wished the party death. Speaking during his acceptance speech on Wednesday, the former Lagos State Governor accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP of plotting to ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the emergence of Bola Tinubu as the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate. Atiku congratulated Tinubu on his emergence as APC presidential candidate. In a tweet, the ...

The National Leader and the standard-bearer for the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu has commended the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo for his support to President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking during his acceptance speech at the Eagles Square, the venue of the APC ...

The national leader and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has told the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, that he can now lick his wounds. Tinubu said this in his victory speech after he was declared winner of the party’s presidential contest of the ruling party. He said ...

Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, did not score a single vote in the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential primaries. Addressing delegates shortly before the commencement of voting on Tuesday night, Okorocha had vowed to beat all the aspirants for the APC’s sole ticket. Okorocha ...

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, shared a warm handshake with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, as he coasted to victory in the party’s presidential primary. Tinubu has taken a commanding lead in the voting, having amassed over half of the total votes. ...

Former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu has been announced the winner of the All Progressives Congress, APC, primary elections. The Asiwaju of Lagos garnered half of the total votes to beat his major opponents, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi. ...

By James Ogunnaike, ABEOKUTA Labour Party, yesterday, debunked rumour making the round that it conducted parallel Presidential primaries that produced a factional Presidential candidate, in the person of one Samson Uchenna. The party, in a statement issued by the Acting National Publicity ...

The National chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Abdulahi Adamu has come hard on the party members for always rushing to the media over party issues. Adamu was frustrated in his plan to impose Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan as the consensus candidate of ...

At least seven All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirants on Tuesday night, stepped down for the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The former Governor of Akwa Ibom state, Godswill Akpabio, was the first to throw in the towel. The former Ogun State governor Ibikunle ...

A leading All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, has denied endorsing a Muslim-Muslim ticket. Tinubu said the text message being circulated at the Eagles Square, the venue of APC Special Convention, was false. He noted that the text messages were the handiwork of ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has issued a challenge to the All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the 2023 general elections. He noted that the next general elections would be a referendum against APC’s failed policies. In a tweet, the former Vice ...

Nicholas Felix, a presidential aspirant of All Progressives Congress (APC), has stepped down for the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. He confirmed this while making his speech at the party’s special convention on Tuesday night. According to him, APC “must not produce a Muslim-Muslim” ticket. ...

Pastor Tunde Bakare of The Citadel Global Community Church has made it clear that he will not step down for any aspirant in the race to be the presidential flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Bakare stated this at the ongoing special convention of the ruling party at the Eagles ...

Delegate accreditation for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Special Convention for the presidential primary election is currently ongoing at the Abuja International Conference Centre amid tight security, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN also reports that no fewer than 2,322 ...

Former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Chief Jide Awe, has advised leading presidential aspirants from the Southwest to strike an accord among themselves for the zone to grab the party’s presidential ticket. As the party’s special National Convention which also ...

Popular musician, Olubankole Wellington, generally known as Banky W has expressed his appreciation after clinching the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, House of Representatives ticket. Banky W will be contesting the legislative seat for the Eti-Osa Federal Constituency in Lagos ...

Eniola Akinkuotu, Friday Olokor, Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Stephen Angbulu and Deborah Tolu-Kolawole An attempt by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Adamu, to select Senate President Ahmad Lawan – a northerner – as the preferred candidate of the APC, failed on ...

Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja There were strong indications in the early hours of Tuesday that critical stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC may have shortlisted five of the party’s presidential aspirants for consideration by President Muhammadu Buhari. Governors of the party had on ...

Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has warned that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, might get ‘the MKO Abiola’ treatment during the presidential primary of the party by the powerful cabal within the presidency. Fayose ...

The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai has disclosed reasons his Kogi State counterpart, Yahaya Bello, “excused himself” from a meeting of northern governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with President Muhammadu Buhari. Addressing reporters afterwards, El-Rufai explained that 13 ...

Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has described as an expensive joke, a claim that the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, has endorsed the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, as the party’s consensus presidential candidate. According to Akeredolu, ...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Monday restrained the National Assembly from imposing statutory delegates at the All Progressives Congress (APC) convention. Justice Haruna Tsammani also restrained the enforcement of a Federal judgement delivered on June 3 granting the ...

Nigerian singer, Bankole Wellington, popularly known as Banky W, has again, been declared the winner of the PDP primary rerun for the Eti-Osa constituency House of Representatives ticket in the 2023 general election. Banky W had a landslide victory, polling 24 votes out of 29 votes cast by ...

The Presidency on Monday in Abuja, said that no one could or should claim to have single-handedly engineered the emergence of Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) as President in the 2015 general elections. According to a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media ...

A businesswoman, Mrs Florence Adepegba, has won the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, rerun primary election in Kosofe Federal Constituency of Lagos State. Adwpegba was unopposed at the election. NAN reports that Adepegba won after her opponent, Mr Olakunle Koya stepped down for her. The result ...

The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, says the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to conduct a world-class presidential election. DAILY POST reports that the party is currently in the process of electing a candidate who would fly its flag in the forthcoming 2023 presidential ...

A former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, has withdrawn from the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential race. Nnamani announced his withdrawal during a meeting with journalists in Abuja on Monday. The former lawmaker said: “In the present circumstances, it does not make any sense for me to ...

All Progressives Congress National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu has announced Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan as the party’s consensus candidate. This is coming as the party begins its presidential primary election in the nation’s capital, Abuja. Adamu was said to have made the ...

About 13 Northern Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressive Congress have revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari has no preferred candidate in the party primary election that kicked off today in Abuja. The revelation came shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari met with some of ...

The presidential candidate of People Democratic Party, PDP, and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has called on Nigerians to stand with him as volunteers to reclaim the country from the challenges currently befalling it. Atiku in a statement, entitled ”Why you need to stand with me at the ...

The Ebonyi chapter of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) has declared Mr Latifu Abiola the winner of the presidential primary election conducted in the state Mr Victor Nnadiegwe, Chairman of the presidential primary poll of the party in Ebonyi made the declaration in the early hours of Monday, ...

A coalition of northern youth groups of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have disagreed with the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari and 11 northern governors’ decision to ceede power to the southern part of the country.  The youth groups, APC Progressives Youth Elements and North-East ...

After weeks of intrigues, the ruling party is set to elect its presidential candidate at the Eagle Square. While 23 aspirants are challenging to be the candidate, the race will probably turn into a three-horse race between former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, the former Minister of ...

A former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has debunked reports that he stepped down from the presidential race for Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Reports had emerged on Saturday that Akpabio had stepped down and endorsed Tinubu. It was reported that Akpabio endorsed Tinubu after Buhari ...

Sunday Onuoha, a Bishop of Methodist Church of Nigeria, has emerged as the Abia State gubernatorial candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) at the just concluded primary elections held in the state. Announcing the results of the concluded primaries, after voting and ...

A member of the House of Representatives, representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa Federal Constituency in Oyo State, Hon. Shina Peller, has said that he has no plan to leave the All Progressives Congress (APC). Peller, an indigene of Iseyin in the Oke-Ogun geo-political ...

Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Rauf Olaniyan, has dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Olaniyan also said that he has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC). He made these announcements on Sunday. Our correspondent gathered that the ...

Ahead of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primary election, the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has debunked rumour that he has stepped down for another aspirant. His campaign council made the clarification on his behalf via a statement issued by its Chairman, Richard Akinnola II. ...

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, who is the Chairman of the sub-committee on Security and Compliance for the All Progressives Congress, APC, special convention for Presidential Primary, has guaranteed that the party’s primary poll will be free of hitches. Akeredolu, along by the ...

The National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdulahi Adamu has revealed the ruling party would axe the national leader of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his recent utterances against President Muhammadu Buhari. Adamu disclosed this while addressing journalists on ...

Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State on Saturday emerged as the Bauchi State gubernatorial flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mohammed, who was the aspirant of (PDP), polled a total of 646 votes out of 650 votes cast in Bauchi on Saturday. Revealing the result, the Returning ...

National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Osun State axis has issued a 12-day ultimatum to the state to fix the campuses roads. The student body threatened to shut down the state “by hitting the street with thousands of students right proponents” if the government did not meet up with ...