Paul Ikonne, All Progressives Congress chieftain in Abia, has said that a consensus candidate will guarantee the party’s victory in the state in the 2019 general elections.
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The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, has advised corps members in Osun to remain neutral and apolitical while serving as ad hoc staff for the September 22 governorship election.
President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration will ensure judicious utilisation of recovered stolen public funds to address the nation’s socio-economic problems.
The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Adewale Martins, has urged Nigeria’s political leaders to stop heating up the country.
The list emerged after a two-day exercise, which first produced 23 out of the 26 candidates for the state House of Assembly seats on Monday
As a movement, our political journey started as far back as 2002. At that time, the country was still recovering from military rule.
He gave the advice while speaking with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, after obtaining the party’s Expression of Interest and Nomination forms to contest in the primary in the state ahead of 2019 general elections.
The president spoke after receiving the forms bought for him by the Nigeria Consolidation Ambassador Network at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Edgal made the promise on Tuesday, during his meeting with Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and Heads of Departments at the Command’s Headquarters, Ikeja.
Publisher of Ovation magazine, Dele Momodu, disclosed this in a tweet on Tuesday
The PLSIEC Chairman, Fabian Ntung, disclosed this to newsmen on Tuesday shortly after a closed door meeting with heads of political parties at the commission’s Head quarters in Jos.
Alao-Akala, erstwhile Governor of the state on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party and 2015 gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party, officially defected to the ruling APC in 2017 and had since been oiling his political machinery to contest again in 2019.
The ex-NLC boss picked and returned his nomination from on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Abayomi Shogunle, the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit, gave the warning in Osogbo on Tuesday.
Ajadi, who was in the red chamber from 1999 to 2003 on the platform of defunct ANPP, expressed his optimism while fielding questions from the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.
The aspirants led by Sani, in a letter addressed to the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, demanded direct primaries.
Shekerau last week defected to the APC.
Yekini Nabena, APC’s National Publicity Secretary, made the clarification in Abuja on Tuesday.
Okupe is a medical doctor and politician.
The description was made on Monday by an All Progressives Congress stalwart and representative of Ebonyi South Senatorial District, Senator Sonni Ogbuoji, during his public declaration of intent to join the governorship race in the State