Politics

Funke Akindele, an award-winning actress and deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos, has boasted that her followers on social media, numbering over 20 million, will come out en masse to vote for the party in 2023. Ms Akindele was convicted and sentenced in 2020 for violating Lagos COVID-19 protocols but was granted a pardon by Governor ...

A coalition of Christians of Northern Extraction in the All Progressive Congress (APC) has warned that the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the party for the 2023 general election will have serious and grave consequences. The organisation, which comprised Christian politicians in the 19 northern states within the APC, said they would not go against their conscience and faith, and go ...

Statement by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Presidential Flag Bearer of the All Progressives Congress on his Choice of Kashim Shettima as the vice presidential candidate. The statement was released July 10, 2022. Fellow Nigerians, we enter a moment of renewed hope. We hold the chance to move the nation and our collective cause forward as never before. Let us seize ...

Abdullahi Ganduje, Governor of Kano State on Friday said presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has agreed to pick a Muslim vice-presidential candidate.   Channels TV reports that the governor made the comment during a gathering of about 100 clerics at the Kano state government house as part of activities to mark Eid El Kabir.   ...

Rabiu Kwankwaso, former Kano State governor, has explained why he cannot be a running mate to a former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, in the forthcoming presidential election. Both men are in the race to become the next president when President Muhammadu Buhari completes his second term in office in May 2023. While Kwankwaso is the presidential candidate of ...

Newsmaxng reports that The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)  moved swiftly to avert a likely slide into the minority in the Senate.   Twenty two more senators elected on the platform of the party are believed to be heading out to join opposition political parties.   Should this happen, the APC would lose its majority status.   Already, the party ...

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has picked Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Delta State governor as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election. Atiku announced the decision on Thursday, ahead of Friday’s INEC deadline for the submission of names of party candidates and their running mates. He emphasized the need for party unity, noting that ...

Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have submitted the names of five presidential aspirants to President Muhammadu Buhari to select a consensus candidate. The governors submitted the names in the early hours of Tuesday, with those of Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos; Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers; Yemi Osibanjo, the vice president; Dave Umahi, governor of Ebonyi ...

The national working committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says it will align with the position of governors of the party on power shift to the south. Sulaiman Argungu, national organising secretary of the APC, announced the development at a media briefing on Monday, According to him, although Abdullahi Adamu, APC national chairman, had announced Senate President Ahmad ...

President Muhammadu Buhari, on, Saturday night met with all the aspirants for President on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), at State House, Abuja, urging them to hold consultations, and come up with a formidable candidate before the party holds its primary election between June 6-8, 2022.   The President, according to a statement from Femi Adesina, his spokesperson, ...