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Lukman calls for renegotiation in APC, says party requires increased accountability

NewsDeskNgApr 26, 2024April 26, 20240

The immediate past National Vice Chairman, North-west of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Malam Salihu Lukman, has called increased accountability for the ruling party to function as a stronger political party. Lukman, in a piece titled “Reinventing Progressive Politics in Nigeria” Thursday in Abuja, said the emergence of APC raised...

627 PDP delegates to elect candidate ahead of guber polls

NewsDeskNgApr 25, 2024April 25, 20240

A total of 627 delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will today elect the party’s standard-bearer ahead of the forthcoming November governorship election in Ondo State. The delegates were elected during the party’s congress held across the 18 local government areas of the state. No fewer than seven aspirants...

Ex-Imo gov, Ihedioha resigns from PDP

NewsDeskNgApr 23, 2024April 23, 20240

A former governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In his resignation letter addressed to the PDP chairman in Mbutu Ward, Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of the state, Ihedioha cited a misalignment between his personal beliefs and the current trajectory...

INEC releases final list of candidates

NewsDeskNgApr 22, 2024April 22, 20240

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced the final list of candidates for the forthcoming Edo State Governorship Election. This is even as the Commission said that the political parties are permitted to start campaign in public from Wednesday 24th April 2024. The campaigns will end at midnight on...

PDP, LP members defect to APC in Ebonyi

NewsDeskNgApr 22, 2024April 22, 20240

Some members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Labour Party, LP, have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, at Ndufu Alike ward in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Receiving the defectors at Ndufu Alike junction, the member representing Ikwo/Ezza-South Federal Constituency at the National Assembly,...

Ododo wrote results, election didn’t hold – Akinterinwa

NewsDeskNgApr 22, 2024April 22, 20240

An All Progressives Congress, APC, Ondo governorship aspirant, Wale Akinterinwa, has accused Governor Usman Ododo of Kogi State and Chairman of the party’s primary election committee of writing results. He said the party did not conduct any primary election in all the 203 Wards of the state. Ododo had announced...

Ondo APC primary: Aiyedatiwa appreciates Tinubu

NewsDeskNgApr 22, 2024April 22, 20240

Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State, on Monday, appreciated President Bola Tinubu for allowing enabling environment for the peaceful conduct of the Saturday’s governorship primary in the state. Aiyedatiwa stated this in his acceptance speech after his emergency as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the Nov. 16 governorship...

Ondo APC primary: Why Ayiedatiwa ‘ll emerge victorious

NewsDeskNgApr 20, 2024April 20, 20240

As members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) go out to the polls to elect the party flag bearer in the November 2024 Ondo State governorship election, the odds seem to favour the incumbent governor, Lucky Ayiedatiwa. Independent investigation in the 203 wards of the 18 local government areas...

2027: Resign now if you are nursing political ambition-Governor Sule to appointees

NewsDeskNgApr 19, 2024April 19, 20240

Governor Abdullahi Sule has advised political appointees seeking to run for political office or supporting others to run for political office to resign their appointments. Governor Sule made the call in a letter signed by the Secretary to the Government of Nasarawa State, Barrister Mohammed Ubandoma Aliyu, dated April 16th,...

Wike’s Loyalist Nwanosike Leads Thugs To Disrupt PDP NEC Meeting

NewsDeskNgApr 18, 2024April 18, 20240

Samuel Nwanosike, the chairperson of Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, Thursday, reportedly led thugs to disrupt the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja. Nwanosike, who is the chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, is a loyalist of Nyesom Wike,...