A statement from the AU on Thursday in Addis Ababa said prior to the arrival of the short-term observers, AU would deploy a team of 15 electoral experts as long-term observers
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Buhari made the pledge while addressing party faithful at Mapo Hall, Ibadan, as part of his nationwide mobilisation rally ahead of next month’s election
The President also unfolded plans by the military to liberate Madagali town soon, adding that the area was the only remaining local government area in Adamawa State yet to be liberated from the insurgents
Taiwo Alimi, the founding Chairman and now Consultant to the NEDG, disclosed this while briefing newsmen after a meeting to ascertain their level of preparedness for the debates
On the developmental efforts of administration, Sambo said the President had earmarked funds for the completion of two hydro-power dams in Adamawa State
The party said that it has observed that officials of INEC were colluding with the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State to frustrate the distribution of the PVCs in PDP strongholds as well as to non-indigenes in the state
The Director of Media and Publicity of the PDPPCO, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, said in a statement in Abuja that the APC’s penchant for propaganda and threat of violence was mind-boggling
The national fasting and prayers, the Forum explained on Thursday in Abuja, is for all Nigerians to appeal to God to bring lasting peace and development to the country
The PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement, said the APC and its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, are now frustrated that they could not present an alternative to the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan and as such have resorted to fabrication of baseless stories in an attempt to heat up the polity and divert attention from their failure
The state NSCDC Commandant, Gabriel Abafi, in his opening speech, said: “The NSCDC is mandated to carry out a general security duty position in national assignments, such as general elections
Jonathan said this in Jalingo when the presidential campaign train of the Peoples Democratic Party paid a courtesy call on the Emir of Muri, Alhaji Abbas Tafida, ahead of the February 14 election
Akin Orebiyii, the Lagos State Resident Electoral Commissioner, made the thinking known to the News Agency of Nigeria after meeting with the State Council of Obas and Chiefs in Ikeja
Ambode made the pledge while addressing supporters at the APC governorship campaign rally at the Epe Recreation Centre
He said: “I wish to say without fears of contradiction that elections will hold in Borno
According to Sambo, President Goodluck Jonathan will be in Taraba State soon to inaugurate the multipurpose dam project expected to boost agriculture, water supply and energy across the state
At a news conference in Lagos, Sonaiya said that her administration would ensure that all sections of the population would enjoy dividends of democracy
The Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, said this on Thursday in a statement in Abuja
Noibi said this on Thursday during a press briefing in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, after a joint prayer session with all Board of Scholars in the South West
A statement by APCPCO on Thursday disclosed that the campaign has it on good authority that the kernel of the plan is to use the subterfuge of the frivolous litigation by some people to get a court pronouncement, from one of the Presidency’s pliable judges, to the effect that General Muhammadu Buhari, the APC presidential candidate, lied under oath in saying that the military had his certificate, whereas, the military had denied being in possession of the certificate
Sanusi gave the advice when the gubernatorial candidate of Peoples Democratic Movement for Kano State, Alhaji Bashir Ishaq, paid him a courtesy call at his palace in Kano on Thursday