Following the reported endorsement of Senator Abdullahi Adamu, a former governor of Nasarawa State, for the All Progressives Congress chairmanship position by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), Senator Tanko Al-Makura, also a former governor of Nasarawa State, has vowed not to withdraw from the party’s chairmanship race. Although other aspirants have reportedly withdrawn to favour the president’s anointed candidate, Al-Makura has continued to intensify his campaign for the position. Al-Makura, while speaking with journalists in Abuja, on Sunday, said the report that Buhari has endorsed a candidate was a speculation. “The sources of information were not authentic. They…
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Former executive chairman of Surulere local government Area of Oyo State, Hon. Ibraheem Gbodeniyi has reportedly dumped All Progressives Congress (APC) for the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP). A competent source within the ruling PDP disclosed dumped his former party to realize his ambition to represent Surulere/Ogo-Oluwa federal constituency. More Details To Follow….
Mrs Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, has revealed how the Federal Government quietly removed the subsidy on electricity tariff. She said the government had to carefully adjust the prices incrementally at some levels. Speaking on Thursday at a virtual meeting of African Finance Ministers and the International Monetary Fund, Ahmed also said the amendment of the budget was ongoing to accommodate the incremental removal of fuel subsidy. The theme of the meeting was ‘The political economy of fiscal reforms’. Ahmed said, “We are cleaning up our subsidies. We had a setback; we were to remove fuel subsidy by July…
Dele Momodu, the CEO of Ovation Magazine, has warned the Redeemed Christian Church of God that supporting Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and his suspected presidential ambitions could lead to a moral crisis. Recall that the RCCG, led by Pastor Enoch Adeboye, had established the Office of Directorate of Politics and Governance to engage members interested in politics and “mobilise support for them when needed.” The announcement sparked speculation that the Church is preparing to mobilize support for Osinbajo, one of its pastors, who is rumored to be running for President. Pastor Olaitan Olubiyi, the RCCG’s Head of Media and Public Relations,…
Ahead of his formal declaration to join the presidential race, Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, is set to meet with all state chairmen of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Abuja on Monday 14th March, 2022. The Acting Chairman of the party’s National Caretaker Committee and Governor of Niger State, Sani Bello, formally inaugurated the state chairmen last week Monday at the party secretariat in Abuja. The schedule of the meeting sent out to the state chairmen by Alhaji Bukar Dalori, Borno State APC Chairman and Chairman of the Forum, informed members that the meeting with the Vice President…
The quest by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to cover up its gaffes has suffered a setback as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it had not received communication from the party’s chairman, Mai Mala Buni handing over to the Niger State governor, Abubakar Sani Bello. Bello had on Monday taken over the party’s affairs following President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged order to sack of Buni, who had been piloting the affairs of the party since June 2020 when the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC) was sacked. On Wednesday, Bello wrote the INEC in his capacity as the…
Chairman of Southern Governors’ Forum and Ondo State governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, on Thursday, threw his weight behind the Abubakar Sani Bello-led caretaker/extraordinary convention planning committee of the party, saying the All Progressives Congress (APC) is back on its track to greatness. Akeredolu, in a press statement he personally signed, frowned on the happenings in the party in the last few months under the immediate past leadership of Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State, describing it as huge embarrassment to the party and members. He used the words of the former Director-General of Progressive Governors’ Forum, Lukman Salihu, to…
Governor Seyi Makinde’s appointee, Mr. Mukaila Lamidi Auxiliary and his gang stormed Mapo Hall, venue of the coronation of Oba Lekan Balogun as 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland. The State Affairs NG reports that Auxiliary boys allegedly killed an innocent citizen at Isale Ijebu on their way to Mapo. Details To Follow…
The crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC) has deepened following a letter by Governor Mai Mala Buni, which faulted Governor Nasir el-Rufai’s narratives on his purported removal as the chairman of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC). The letter dismissed el-Rufai’s claims that Buni was sacked as the party’s chairman. Buni’s camp claimed that the embattled APC caretaker committee legally handed over the affairs of the party to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello before travelling out. In the letter, dated February 28th, Buni directed Governor Bello to act in his absence as the chairman of CECPC because he will…
Niger State Governor, Sani Bello, has said he is the acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). There are reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Chairman of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni, and appointed Bello as the new chairman of the interim committee. In an interview with newsmen at the end of a meeting with the Caretaker Committee and another with states’ chairmen, Bello, who presided over the meeting, said, “The states’ chairmen took their oath of office today.” He added, “We discussed the progress made so far on convention and…