Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has delivered a message to Nigerian youths ahead of the 2023 presidential election. He urged youths not to leave the country to “those who are messing it up.” The former Nigerian leader spoke in Abeokuta, Ogun State, at an event tagged: “OBJ @85 Free Keke Programme,” where 85 tricycles (Keke) were…
Former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode has stated that if Bola Tinubu decides to run a Muslim-Muslim ticket, he will support him. Tinubu is the All Progressives Congress’ presidential candidate. The APC chieftain stated on Channels Television that the party would have to defend Tinubu’s choice of a Muslim running mate in front of Nigerians. Fani-Kayode,…
Presidential flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has promised to carry the party’s stakeholders along in choosing his running mate for the forthcoming elections. Atiku said the PDP has a lot of tested and reliable party men who can serve as his running mate. The former Vice President vowed to pick…
Nigerian journalist Simon Kolawole Chief Executive Officer, CEO of TheCable has shared his opinion on the Presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu and People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar. He wrote: Disappointment was powdered on the faces of many of the young people around me when Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo did not win…
Prof Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate, has denied paying tribute to Ahmed Bola Tinubu when he was elected the All Progressives Congress presidential flagbearer. This was said in a statement made by his spokesman, Abiola Owoaje, on Friday, captioned, “I did not pay tribute to Tinubu- Soyinka.” Shortly after he was elected as the APC’s…
David Umahi, the Governor of Ebonyi State has emerged the winner of the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) rescheduled senatorial primary election for Ebonyi South. His younger brother, Chief Austin Umahi, had emerged as the winner of the election two weeks ago. The governor contested the presidential primary of the APC but lost to Bola Tinubu…
Former Lagos state governor and Presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has said he has a right to pick his running mate. According to him, his choice to be vice president is in his pocketbook. Following Tinubu’s victory in the APC presidential primary election, there has been speculation over who…
Some of the political parties in Nigeria have conducted their presidential primary elections. June 9, 2022, was the deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for completion of primaries and submission of presidential candidates. The ruling All Progress Congress, APC, chose its candidate, in the person of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who…
INEC, the Independent National Electoral Commission, has issued a warning to political parties ahead of the presidential election in 2023. INEC has warned political parties that they cannot submit candidates without running mates, and that such nominations will be declared null and void. Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Electoral Commission, stated this on Thursday…
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Bola Tinubu for winning the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos, at the conclusion of the APC presidential primary on Wednesday, polled 1,271 votes to defeat 13 other contenders for the ticket. In a letter addressed to Tinubu on Thursday, Buhari expressed…