Politics

The All Progressives Congress has fixed a new date for its presidential and all other primary elections. This was contained in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the party Felix Morka. The statement was titled, ‘APC adjusts schedule of activities for 2023 primary elections’. He said the …

Atiku Atiku Abubakar, former vice president and presidential hopeful, has apologised to journalists in Plateau State over the assault on them by security agents. Recall that some journalists were assaulted during Atiku’s visit to the PDP secretariat in Jos, the state capital on Monday. The former Vice President who arrived …

Buhari meeting with outgoing ministers on Friday President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, hosted outgoing ministers at the presidential villa in Abuja, to officially bid them farewell. On Wednesday, the president directed all members of his cabinet seeking elective office in the 2023 elections to resign on or before May 16. …

Umahi Original members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi State under the umbrella of Legacy Members, have accused Governor David Umahi of high-handedness in his handling of the party’s affairs in the state. The party stakeholders noted that the governor’s actions in the party, if not urgently addressed, …

VP Yemi Osinbajo addressing World Economic Forum 2022 Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s ambition to contest the presidential primary on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, got a boost on Thursday as supporters purchased his Expression of Interest and Nomination forms. The forms were fixed for N100 million. With …

Mahmood Yakubu, INEC Chairman The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reminded all political parties that they have one month to conclude all their primary elections in compliance with its 2023 general election guidelines. INEC spokesperson, Festus Okoye, said the parties must conclude their primaries within the stipulated period as …

PDP flags: File A federal high court sitting in Abuja has fixed May 10, for a hearing in a suit seeking to stop the presidential primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) billed for May 29 and 30. A presidential aspirant, Mr Cosmas Ndukwe, filed an ex-parte application for …

PDP flags: File The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s main opposition party, has disqualified two of the 17 presidential aspirants on its platform. The two disqualified aspirants are to forfeit the N40 million each of them paid for the expression of interest and nomination forms. The chairman of the presidential …

Bola Ahmed Tinubu Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State, has purchased the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s N100 million presidential nomination and expression of interest forms. PUNCH gathered that Tinubu, who is in Saudi Arabia for Hajj, was represented by some of his close associates including House of Representatives member …

Yemi Osinbajo Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s vice president, on Thursday, said that his seven years of experience in governance in his role as second in command to President Muhammadu, would help him fix the problem of Nigeria. Osinbajo stated this when he visited the Asagba of Asaba, Professor Chike Edozien, at …