Governorship candidate

Gov’shp ticket: AEISCID warns NWC against contempt of court, manipulation in Ebonyi PDP

June 11, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

A non-profit, socio-cultural organization interested in supporting and ensuring good and credible governance in Ebonyi state on the aiges of Association of Ebonyi Indigenes Socio-Cultural in Diaspora (AEISCID), has warned the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against contempt of Court and manipulation by some ‘desperate politicians.’ The group urged the leadership of the PDP to be firm, Read More

Breaking: Northern APC governors back power shift to South

June 4, 2022 Bode Olagoke 0

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governors from the north have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to look toward the southern presidential hopefuls when considering his successor. The governors released a statement to this effect after a meeting on Saturday. They asked the northern presidential hopefuls to withdraw from the race in national interest. See full statement bellow: STATEMENT BY NORTHERN STATES Read More

Ekweremadu declares for governor, says he’s not product of zoning

March 11, 2022 Chuks Nweze, Enugu 0

Former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Friday, made official his intention to run for the governorship of Enugu state in the 2023 general elections. Making the declaration at a press conference in tagged Media Consultation, in Enugu, Ekweremadu said he was going into the governorship race to create a pathway for a new Enugu state. The governorship hopeful said Read More

ADP ‘ll rescue Anambra from APGA’s bondage -Yabagi Sani

November 1, 2021 Bode Olagoke 0

National chairman of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) Engr Yabagi Yusuf Sani, has said his party has prepared a blueprint that will rescue Anambra state from what he described as bondage of the ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and other political parties. Sani also expressed confidence that his party will emerged victorious in the forthcoming governorship election. Speaking at Read More

ADP ‘ll rescue Anambra from APGA’s bondage – Yabagi Sani

November 1, 2021 Bode Olagoke 0

National chairman of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) Engr. Yabagi Yusuf Sani, has said his party has prepared a blueprint that will rescue Anambra state from what he described as ‘bondage imposed by the ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and other political parties. Sani also expressed confidence that his party will emerged victorious in the forthcoming governorship election. Speaking Read More

Bauchi 2023: Aspirants that may battle Governor Bala

October 25, 2021 Blueprint 0

As the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, warms up for the 2023 general elections, politicians and political parties are angling for the elections that may end the eight years reign of some governors including President Muhammadu Buhari. In Bauchi state, it will be like a “dog and the baboon parable”. Governor Bala Mohammed may face a strong challenge from the Read More

How politicians wasted N6.5trn in Anambra within 22 years – ADC candidate

October 24, 2021 Okechukwu Onuegbu 0

The governorship candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) for Anambra state November 6 poll, Dr Akachukwu Nwankpo, has accused the leadership of the state for the past 22 years of wasting over N6.5 trillion. Nwankpo, an aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, in a viral video from his campaign office, attributed the ‘waste’ to ‘wickedness,’ not involving the masses in Read More

Anambra: Supreme Court judgment foretaste of victory – PDP candidate

October 22, 2021 Abdulrahman Zakariyau 0

The candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 6th Anambra governorship election, Valentine Ozigbo, has described the Supreme Court judgment affirming his nomination as foretaste of the outcome of the polls and a win for Ndi Anambra. Ozigbo who spoke with newsmen at the party headquarters in Abuja, Thursday said that the Supreme court was right in describing Read More

APC leaders reject congress in Delta

October 18, 2021 Amaechi Okwara 0

The Delta All Progressive Congress (APC) Leaders’ Council have rejected the state congress conducted last Saturday which produced Omeni Sobotie as chairman. The Council led by the Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Festus Keyamo, also reiterated its stance for the cancellation of the congresses from the ward to the state levels in the state. The council described the Read More

Adopt e-transmition of results in Anambra election, ADP urges INEC

October 14, 2021 Bode Olagoke 0

The national leadership of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to adopt electronic transmission of results in the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra state. The opposition party also expressed support for the Senate on the direct primaries decision by all the political parties. Speaking Thursday at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, during Read More

Anambra 2021: Over 5000 ADP, APM, YPP excos, members dump parties candidates​ to APC

October 9, 2021 Okechukwu Onuegbu 0

Over 5000 state executives and members of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Allied People’s Movement (APM) and Young Progressive Party (YPP), Friday, dumped their parties and Governorship candidates to join All Progressive Congress (APC) in Anambra State. The decampees, received at Marble Arch hotels Awka, the State capital by the State Chairman of APC, Chief Basil Ejidike and his executive, Read More

Anambra: Uba, APC cancel campaign flag-off ‘to honour victims of attacks’

October 2, 2021 Bode Olagoke 0

The campaign flag-off ceremony of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scheduled to hold today ahead the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra state has been postponed to honour victims of various attacks. Governorship candidate of the APC, Senator Andy Uba, has said in a statement he personally signed. Uba said his party will not play politics with people’s lives, and added Read More

Ladoja’s political wisdom produced Ajimobi, Makinde – AD Chieftain

September 30, 2021 Bayo Agboola 0

Alliance for Democracy (AD) Chieftain in Oyo state, Engr Hakeem Alao, has declared that it was the goodwill of the Osi Olubadan of Ibadanland, High Chief Rashidi Ladoja that produced late Senator Abiola Ajimobi and Engr Seyi Makinde as governor of the state in 2011 and 2019. Engineer Alao in a congratulatory message issued by his media aide, Omotayo Iyanda, Read More

Anambra 2021: Etiaba, Ozigbo, 3 other guber candidates reel out campaign promises

September 25, 2021 Okechukwu Onuegbu, Awka 0

Ahead of Anambra State November 6 poll, the governorship candidate of Action Alliance (AA), Chief Ben. Etiaba, has vowed that his administration would fix all abandoned projects in the state if elected. Etiaba, who is son of the state first female governor, Dame Virgy Etiaba, disclosed this, weekend at a governorship debate organised by Kwechiri N’oganiru Anambra, a social political Read More

Anambra 2021: Group vows to deliver APC, Uba

September 17, 2021 Okechukwu Onuegbu 0

Afa Igbo Bu Ofu (AIBO), a political interest group with over 20,000 members, Friday, adopted and vowed to deliver the governorship candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC), Senator Andy Uba, on Anambra State November 6 poll. AIBO, in a welcome party organised in Awka, the state capital, to honour Senator Uba, said they arrived at the decision after studying the Read More

Is Kano Government House for sale?

September 16, 2021 Blueprint 0

One needs to know whether the Kano State Government House is for sale. This is the controversy that needs immediate clarification. The first civilian governor of Kano state, Late Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, was the most formidable politician in the state’s history of. Rimi did not ask to contest for governor. His desire was to contest the senatorial slot which was Read More

Anambra 2021: APC not planning to introduce open-grazing – Uba

September 8, 2021 Okechukwu Onuegbu 0

The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra state, Senator Andy Uba has dismissed the rumour making the rounds that he has reached an agreement with the federal government that his administration would introduce open grazing if elected on the November 6 poll. Uba, who made this known in a statement signed by the director of his campaign Read More

2022: Prepare your handover note, PDP tells Oyetola

September 7, 2021 Lateef Ibrahim 0

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2018 election in Osun state, Senator Ademola Adeleke, Tuesday arrived Osogbo, the state capital, to prepare for the 2022 governorship election in the state. Receiving members of the party in Osogbo, Adeleke advised Governor Adegboyega Oyetola to begin writing his handover note and prepare to leave the government house Read More

Anambra 2021: Shun fake news, Senator Uba tells media practitioners, voters

August 27, 2021 Okechukwu Onuegbu 0

The governorship candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC) for Anambra State 2021 poll, Senator Andy Uba, has advised social media users and journalists in the country to refrain from disseminating fake news. Uba, who was reacting to a publication by an online newspaper (Sahara Reporters), which faulted his West African School Certificate (WASSCE), said spreading fake news tarnish people’s image Read More

Breaking: Stella Uduah dumps PDP for APC

August 26, 2021 Bode Olagoke 0

Former Minister of Aviation in the administation of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and a serving Senator, Princess Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi, known as Stella Oduah, has dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). She was received at a brief ceremony in Abuja Thursday and admitted into the party by the Chairman of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Read More

Corruption, insecurity differentiate APC from PDP, PGF boss replies Jega

August 23, 2021 Bode Olagoke 0

Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Salihu Moh Lukman, has faulted the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Attairu Jega, for saying the ruling party and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are the same. Jega had in a recent interviews claimed that both the PDP Read More

Anambra: APC appoints Uzodinma, Omo-Agege, 22 other govs to lead campaign

August 17, 2021 Bode Olagoke 0

Ahead the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra state, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed the Imo state governor Hope Uzodinma as chairman, National Campaign Committee to lead 22 other governors to campaign for the party. Other party leaders in the national campaign team include the Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege, Deputy Speaker Idris Wase, Minister of State for Petroleum Read More