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A former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Aondoakaa SAN, has maintained that before a candidate can be declared winner in a presidential election, that candidate must score 25 per cent of the votes cast in the election in 2/3 of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, has floored the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State. This was based on the collation of results at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Lagos State collation centre in Yaba. Obi polled 582,454 votes to trounce the former Lagos State […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Saturday, defeated the presidential candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and that of the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, at the Presidential Villa, Asokoro, Abuja. Obi won the highest total number of votes cast for the presidential candidates at all […]
Continue ReadingPeter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) beat has beaten Tinubu at the polling unit of the Speaker of Nigerian House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. At the polling unit which is located at Elizabeth Fowler Primary School, Unit 14, Ward G2, Masha-Surulere, Obi polled a total of 89 votes to defeat Tinubu who had 59 […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, the moment of truth is nigh. We are at a critical moment – another opportunity to seize back the country from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its merchants of anarchy and grotesque self-entitlement. Failure to get it right for the third time in a row will cause the entrenchment of wuruwuru anda stinking culture of impunity in […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement, a member of the Integrity Group and former Governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, has berated the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC) (PCC), Governor Simon Lalong, over his claim that the G-5 governors led by Nyesom Wike were supporting his party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Responding to […]
Continue ReadingFormer Governor of Sokoto State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Attahiru Bafarawa, has reacted to the comment by the Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai that there are no elders left in northern Nigeria. He said the comment made by El-Rufai was an affront to the North and unpleasant for El-Rufai to categorise […]
Continue ReadingIn a piece I wrote entitled “A o M’erin J’oba At Tinubu’s Colloquium” (1 April, 2018) I warned that the man who has now become the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was making a strategic mistake in assuming that Buhari loved him. Or that he would probably want to […]
Continue ReadingIt was always obvious to keen, disinterested observers that Bola Tinubu’s gamble in helping Buhari to ascend to power won’t pay off in the end; that his opportunistic political love affair with Buhari won’t be requited; and that the brittle, delicately thin thread that held their relational dynamic would snap sooner or later. I wrote […]
Continue ReadingStreet wisdom dictates that those in glass houses don’t walk naked. This seems lost on Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate and the flagbearer of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have allowed their media managers to trade damaging allegations that question their own character and […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said he would be elected Nigeria’s next president despite attempts by some persons to sabotage his chances in the February 25 poll. Tinubu made the assertion during a rally at the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, Nigeria on […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Senator from Kogi State and the presidential spokesperson for the PDP’s Atiku Abubakar/Ifeanyi Okowa campaign council, Mr. Dino Melaye, has mocked the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu by repeatedly falling to the ground. The incident happened on Tuesday during the party’s presidential campaign event at the Stephen Keshi […]
Continue ReadingIn one of those moments of comic relief only Nigeria can throw up, the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign demanded that anti-corruption agencies arrest their opponent, the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over allegations of corruption by his former aide. In an electoral season, it is not unusual for party spokespersons to feign […]
Continue ReadingSome notable leaders of the All Progressives Congress in Enugu State yesterday boycotted the party’s presidential rally. The crisis rocking the party in the state forced members like the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; a former President of the Senate, Ken Nnamani; a former governor of the state, Sullivan Chime; a former Speaker of […]
Continue ReadingCEO of Ovation international magazine, politician and member of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential campaign council, has, in a statement, shared his view why President Muhammadu Buhari and many senior APC chieftains are not openly campaigning for their presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. “It is obvious that President Muhammadu Buhari and many senior APC chieftains […]
Continue ReadingIn an open letter released on Sunday, the former Nigerian president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has formally endorsed Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), as his preferred choice for president in next month’s general election. In the open letter to young Nigerians, Chief Obasanjo gave his formal endorsement of Mr. Peter […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said that reports linking him with a meeting with the five governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) popularly known as G-5 were unsubstantiated and ‘evil intentioned.’ There had been media reports of Tinubu’s purported marathon meeting with the PDP governors in London, […]
Continue ReadingIf the general election holds in February next year, one of three people will be declared president: APC’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu, PDP’s Atiku Abubakar, or Labor Party’s Peter Obi. Only a natural disaster, such as death, can change that reality. There is no foretoken of indications at the moment that can reveal with certainty which […]
Continue ReadingMuhammadu Buhari started his presidency with “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.” Will he end as a nobody’s man? Sometimes, and for some, it is gracious to maintain one’s lane, listen to your own vision, single, unattached. French statesman, Charles de Gaulle, who holds the copyright of “I am a man who belongs to […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement, the Director, Media and Publicity, All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC) (PCC), Bayo Onanuga, has said presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was not rushed off the stage due to health concerns at his rally in Minna, the Niger State capital. Onanuga, in the statement, said the crowd that turned up to […]
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