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The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress has agreed to adopt direct primaries to conduct elections that will produce Presidential, Senate, House of Representatives, Governorship and State House of Assembly’s candidates ahead of the 2019 general elections, Daily Trust is reporting.
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Saturday said he is not losing sleep over threat to impeach him.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday said that the Ojude-Oba festival in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun, has the potential to transform tourism in the country.
A federal lawmaker, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has called for probe into budgetary allocations to the National Assembly.
Olu Onemola, the Special Assistant on New Media to the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has described the Buhari Media Organization’s attack on the Senate president as a clear example of “conscientious ignorance on full display.”
The National Assembly Joint Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission has again invited the Chairman of the commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to give further clarifications on the 2019 General Elections Budget.
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has said he is considering running for the presidency in 2019.
Oshiomhole, who spoke after a meeting he held with senators and members of the House of Representatives in Abuja on Tuesday, said Saraki, who now belongs to the Peoples Democratic Party, cannot lord it over the APC, which he said now has the majority in the Senate
The internationally acclaimed prophet predicted thrice about the gales of defections rocking one of the major political parties in Nigeria, All Progressives Congress
The Federal Government says it has no hand in the call for resignation or impeachment of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, because “it is purely party affairs’’.
Saraki and Dogara gave the explanation in a statement issued in the early hours of Tuesday
The Peoples Democratic Party has described the “brazen threat” by the Buhari Campaign Organization to take over the National Assembly should the All Progressives Congress and the Presidency fail in their bid to forcefully change the leadership of the Senate as
Dogara, in a statement he signed on Monday, said he was confident of their ability to provide quality representation of their constituents.
A Human Rights lawyer, Frank Tietie, has advised that the seat of the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, be declared vacant since he had defected to another party.
Akpabio made this known in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Monday.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, stated this in a statement in Abuja, and said principal officers in the chamber were elected by representatives elected by the people.
The Peoples Democratic Party has said the “factional” National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, was exhibiting thug mentality on his disposition to the desire to effect change in the leadership of the Senate.
A trade unionist, Comrade Daniel Onjeh, on Sunday urged members of All Progressives Congress to support and nominate him as the flag bearer of the Benue South Senatorial District.
The Kwara chapter of the All Progressives Congress has called on Dr Bukola Saraki to resign his appointment as the Senate President.