Year: 2018

Suspected hired political thugs on Saturday disrupted the Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC) ward congresses in Ibadan, leaving scores of party chieftains seriously injured. The hired political thugs invaded the party state Secretariat of the APC, Oke Ado, Ibadan venue of the pre-meeting between various stakeholders of the party and the state congress delegates from the national headquarters of the party threatening hell. Party leaders including members of the state executives, the Minister of Communications, Barrister Abdur Raheem Adebayo Shittu, the chairman of the Nigerian Information Technology Development Agency…

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Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has declared that no court has the power to stop the conduct of the local government election billed for May 12 in the 33 local government areas, 35 local council development areas in the state. The governor who stated this while addressing members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) at a sensitization mega rally held at the state party secretariat, Oke-Ado, Ibadan, insisted that the election would be held in all the LGAs, LCDAs and wards in and across Oyo state. He added, “the…

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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Saturday lauded members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for conducting its ward congresses across the 337 wards in the state peacefully. Ambode, who participated in the exercise at his Ward A6 in Luyepo Primary School, Papa-Epe in Epe Local Government Area, lauded the party members for displaying high level of maturity in the conduct of the party activities. He said members of the party who turned out in enmasse to exercise their civil responsibility confirmed the fact that the APC is a…

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The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has said that his party would not succumb to any form of intimidation from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Addressing party supporters at the South West Zonal rally of the party, held in Osogbo, Osun state capital on Saturday, Secondus said that his party would rescue the country from the grip of the ruling party and President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. The rally had in attendance bigwigs of the party that include, former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku…

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Former governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba on Saturday shunned the ward congress conducted by the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) held across the state. Osoba, whose followers recorded abysmal performance during the year 2015 general elections under the platform of the Social Democratic Party (S.D.P), had last Thursday held a “peace” meeting with the state governor, Ibikunle Amosun over the ward congress held in the state. At the “peace meeting”, which had in attendance, Osoba’s core loyalists which included Senators Gbenga Kaka, Gbenga Obadara, Akin Odunsi as…

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday revealed that the present administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari has so far invested a whooping sum of N1.3 trillion on infrastructural development across the country since it came on board. Osibajo said the huge investment on the infrastructure by Buhari led administration, is the highest by any government in the history of the country. Osinbajo who stated this during a special live interview on the services of the state owned television and radio in Ondo State, said all the social intervention programmes of…

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President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday in Daura, Katsina State, said the driving force for seeking public office should be to serve the people, and see their lives improved, not for frivolity or personal ambition. Speaking at the All Progressives Party’s (APC) Ward Congress held at Bayagida Model Primary School, President Buhari said the passion to serve and see real changes in the lives of Nigerians informed his choice to join partisan politics in the first place, and inspired him to contest elections in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015. The President said…

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President Muhammadu Buahari on Saturday has said he can’t toil with his opportunity to pilot the affairs of the country after all he went through to emerge as President. Addressing Sarkin Yara ‘A’ ward congress in his hometown, Daura, Katsina State, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Buhari submitted that he fought for no less than 58 months in vain after three consecutive presidential elections since 2003 until luck smiled on him in his fourth shot at the presidency in 2015. According to Buhari, he spent no less than 30…

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The Governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State was on Saturday disrupted by some party members who alleged that the process was being manipulated and compromised. The aggrieved members claimed that the delegates were been maneuvered and tactically induced to vote in favour of a particular aspirant which did not go well with them. Delegates from about four out of the sixteen local government areas of the state were yet to conclude their voting before the shadow election was disrupted. This they did after special…

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As President Muhammadu Buhari arrives Katsina for the start of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Katsina State ward congress committee led by Barr. Mohammed Tanko Zakari, has promised to ensure free, fair and hitch-free congresses. Zakari, who is also the National Deputy Treasurer of the APC, gave this indication at a press conference in Katsina, adding that the committee appointed by the National Working Committee of the party has provided equal opportunity for any member of the party so desirous of contesting for any of the ward congress offices…

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