Abe said: “Your Excellency, as a former Federal Commissioner for Petroleum Resources, you are aware of the impact of oil exploration and exploitation that has caused colossal degradation of our environment. And you also know that Ogoniland has been a major contributor in oil production since 1958, yet as the proverbial goose that lays the golden egg, we have been rewarded with devastated environment and our traditional occupation of fishing and farming are continuously going extinct
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Buhari said this when he paid a courtesy visit to Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State at the Government House, Owerri on Wednesday
Buhari commended Governor Rotimi Amaechi of rivers State for accepting to be the Director-General of the party’s presidential campaign team
The list released by INEC showed that Jonathan will be standing for the election with Vice President Namadi Sambo, while Buhari’s running mate is Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
Aregbesola said the time is now for those who had in the past rendered selfless services to their fatherland by confronting dictatorial governments and installing democratic rule
The group alleged that the calculation is to pave the way for Pastor Yemi Osinbanjo, who is much younger, active and belongs to the cabal, to take over power, thereby making it possible for power to return to the South again for another eight years
Indications to this effect emerged on Wednesday morning as Nigerians and the world awaited Buhari to make the formal announcement
Former Vice President and leader of the All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar, and presidential candidate of the APC for the 2015 election, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, during the latter’s visit to the residence of the former Vice President in Abuja on Sunday
The governors and the national leaders, led by a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, met in a last minute effort to save the day at the prestigious Protea Hotel in Ikeja on Wednesday evening
Supporters, who arrived the environs of the stadium early, danced and displayed colourful banners of their preferred aspirants on the Funsho Williams Avenue, to the admiration of many
Buhari had on Wednesday levelled various allegations against Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party during his campaign launch at the Eagle Square, Abuja
He said: “While we congratulate and wish him well in his ambition, we have noted some distortions and misrepresentation of facts in his speech and consequently wish to put the record straight
A prominent Lagos politician and the Chairman of Jabita Intercontinental Hotel, Chief (Hon) Rasheed Adewale Shitta-Bey will clock 80 years on September 16, 2014.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) like many well-meaning Nigerians had resolved long ago that the issue of the Boko Haram insurgency should not be politicized
According to a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, “President Jonathan believes that the position taken by General Buhari is that of a true patriot, respected former Head of State, revered elder statesman and nationalist
Adeyeye said Nigerians should be reminded that it was General Muhammadu Buhari and his military junta that truncated democracy in Nigeria and disrupted the country’s development 30 years ago
That joy saw me support you all the way up to the 2011 election. Sir, it is difficult to talk about my support for you without unwittingly engaging in self adulation, but I hope it would be tolerated
He said he was therefore not surprised by the letter by Obasanjo
Addressing the crowd at the Government House, they said they were in the state to extend their hands of fellowship to Aliyu and the citizens of the state to join the APC
He also condemned the younger generation of leaders in the country, saying they lack integrity and probity and have failed their people woefully