The Nasarawa State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has adopted indirect primary elections to choose its flag-bearers for the 2019 general elections.
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Prof Sonni Tyoden, the Plateau Deputy Governor, on Wednesday said that indirect primaries were cost effective compared to direct method.
Former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Monday said he regretted not doing much to help the People’s Democratic Party win in Lagos State when he had the opportunity in 2003.
The National leaders of the Social Democratic Party have called on the leaders and members of the party in Kogi to forget their differences and commence grassroots mobilisation ahead of the 2019 general elections.
This was contained in a statement by MURIC on Monday.
Centre for Social Justice, a Civil Society Organisation, has cautioned the executive and legislative arms of government against playing politics with the 2019 election budget.
The Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, has urged Muslims to use the Sallah period to offer special prayers for hitch-free elections in 2019.
The Etsu-Nupe of Warri and its environs, Alhaji Zuberu Tajudeen, has urged Nigerians to embrace peace in the forthcoming general elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission says it will partner with the business community in Enugu state to ensure a hitch-free 2019 general elections in the state.
A presidential aide, Senator Ita Enang, has expressed concern over the National Assembly’s silence on President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for consideration of security agencies’ budgets ahead of the 2019 General Elections.
The NBA president, bubakar Mahmoud (SAN), gave this warning at the N100 million endowment fund, organised by the association in support of access to justice for the North-east region.
Igini stated this in an interview with newsmen in Uyo on Thursday.
INEC, which fixed August 17 as deadline for registration of voters for the 2019 general elections, also said that its staff was currently working to make sure that prospective voters got registered in the Continuous Voter Registration before the deadline.
The parties include: Accord Party, Action Alliance, Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, Better Nigeria Progressive Party, Democratic People’s Party and the National Democratic Congress Party.
The PDP said it has taken note of all concerns raised by highly respected and committed leaders of the party, as it concerns accommodation of interests as well as new alignments, and has since taken extensive measures that would ultimately ensure that no person or group is, in anyway, short-changed.
Kalu said this at an expanded meeting of the executive members of the All Progressives Congress at the ward, local government and state levels in Igbere, Bende Local Government Area of Abia.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Kalu told newsmen at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos that there was no iota of truth in the rumour.
The Peoples Democratic Party in Niger State has been hit with an internal crisis over the zoning formula of the gubernatorial slot for the 2019 general elections.
Shagari, former minister of water resources, contested for the seat in 2015 on the platform of the PDP, but lost to the incumbent, Aminu Tambuwal of the All Peoples Congress.
They told News Agency of Nigeria in separate interviews on Monday in Abuja, that such proactive measures had become expedient following complaints the dimension vote-buying in elections had assumed.