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Wednesday, 16 February 2022 06:17

Who’s Buhari’s Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola referring to here? “…because we placed him higher than where he ordinarily should be, he started to think he is our god.”

Interior Minister and former Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, was in Osun State on Monday to meet his supporters in respect of the governorship election.Below is the excerpt of his speech: “I’m happy that we sent for you all and you honoured our invitation. Those we specifically asked to be invited here are party leaders from the ward level to the state. They are the critical stakeholders and I’m certain they are the ones here. “Although some, who are not with us would be here also – the informants to the other camps. But we’re no longer afraid of no…

Thursday, 10 February 2022 06:29

Northern elders to Akeredolu: Threatening the North won’t give presidency to the South in 2023

Northern Elders Forum (NEF), yesterday, knocked Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, for saying any political party that fielded its presidential candidate from the North would lose the election. The group stressed that every northerner has the right to compete and contest for the presidential seat in 2023, adding that the North could equally take a similar position by canvassing support for a northern candidate against the South. Speaking with our correspondent, NEF Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, however, stressed that such utterances would only make the country suffer because Nigerians will end up selecting leaders, not on…

Sunday, 06 February 2022 06:18

Top Emirs are reportedly lobbying Goodluck Jonathan to defect to APC and run for president again. This is their calculation

Some northern traditional rulers have reportedly begun lobbying former President Goodluck Jonathan to defect to the All Progressives Congress and run for President in view of the raging debate of zoning between northern and southern elements, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. “Jonathan has spoken with Buhari on the matter and he is considering joining the APC,” an associate of the former President authoritatively confirmed this to Sunday PUNCH on Saturday. It was learnt that two top traditional rulers in the Northwest and one in the Northeast had encouraged the former President to give the Presidency another shot. “The deal is for…

Thursday, 03 February 2022 06:12

APC state congresses produced factions controlled by govs, Ministers, senators in many states. Here are the winners and losers as APC inaugurates state chairmen

Factions of the All Progressives Congress in several states loyal to some ministers and senators are set to lose out as APC has perfected plans to inaugurate state chairmen loyal to the governors at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday (today). Some of the losers include Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola; Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo; and Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. Others who lost out include former Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, Kabiru Marafa and a former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’Aziz Yari’. Several state chapters had been divided into…

Thursday, 03 February 2022 06:11

Senate confirms ‘APC card-carrying member’ as INEC commissioner

Senate has confirmed Rhoda Gumus as a national commissioner (Southsouth) of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Gumus, a nominee from Bayelsa state, is said to be a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), a civil society organisation (CSO), had petitioned Senate President Ahmad Lawan against her nomination. In the petition dated January 26 and acknowledged by the office of the senate president, Emmanuel Onwubiko, HURIWA national coordinator, said the CSO found documents proving that Gumus is a card-carrying member of the ruling party. The documents were said to have been attached to…

Tuesday, 01 February 2022 06:12

Buhari receives amended Electoral Bill for assent

President Muhammedu Buhari has received the authenticated copies of the Electoral Bill 2022. A statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Affairs (Senate), Babajide Omoworare, said Clerk to the National Assembly, Olatunde Amos Ojo, transmitted the authenticated copies, yesterday. According to Omoworare, “this was done in accordance with the provisions of Section 58 (3) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the Acts Authentication Act Cap. A2 LFN 2004. “Mr President had withheld assent to the Electoral Bill 2021 transmitted to him on November 19, 2021. The Electoral Bill was thereafter reworked by the National Assembly…

Monday, 31 January 2022 06:27

2023: Akwa Ibom gov ‘anoints’ pastor to succeed him

Governor Udom Emmanuel has disclosed the person he wants to succeed him as Akwa Ibom governor in 2023. He is Umo Eno, a cleric and the current Commissioner for Lands and Water Resources in the state. Emmanuel was said to have presented Eno to a select group of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains, Sunday evening, at the Government House, Uyo. Among those who were present in the meeting was a House of Representatives member who has over the years indicated his interest to run for the 2023 governorship election in the state. Governor Emmanuel did not allow the lawmaker to…

Sunday, 30 January 2022 06:07

Apologize to Fulani, repeal anti-grazing laws, restore grazing routes: Miyetti Allah gives conditions for support of southern candidates for 2023

National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo has said that his association was not going to support any presidential candidate from the south in 2023. The leader of the Fulani socio-cultural association was reacting to the assertions by Southern and Middle Belt leaders who, after a meeting earlier in the month, declared that they would not support any presidential candidate from the North. Their reason was that power should rotate to the south in 2003. He stated that no Southern presidential aspirant would get the support of the Fulani people unless they pledge to repeal laws banning…

Friday, 28 January 2022 06:00

Fayemi’s ex-SSG wins Ekiti APC gov primary

Former Secretary to Ekiti State Government, Biodun Oyebanji, on Thursday clinched the ticket of the governing All Progressives Congress in the state for the June 18 governorship election. Chairman, APC Governorship Primary Electoral Committee for Ekiti and Jigawa State Governor, Abubakar Badaru, who declared Oyebanji winner of the primary election, said the former SSG scored 101,703 votes to defeat other aspirants. Badaru announced that former governorship aspirant, Kayode Ojo, got 767 votes; National Assembly member, Opeyemi Bamidele, scored 760 votes; former Minister of Works, Dayo Adeyeye, secured 691 votes; and House of Representatives member, Femi Bamisile scored 400 votes. Others…

Thursday, 27 January 2022 06:29

US varsity confirms Tinubu graduated as accountant

Chicago State University says All Progressives Congress stalwart and presidential hopeful, Bola Tinubu, indeed attended the university. Beverly Poindexter, who is in charge of official transcript requests, enrolment and degree verification at the Office of the Registrar, CSU, said this in a terse email response to The PUNCH on Tuesday. “Mr Tinubu did attend our university, however, if further information is needed, go to studentclearinghouse.org website to make a formal request,” Poindexter wrote. In an earlier letter dated August 20, 1999 and signed by then Registrar, Lois Davis, the university stated that Tinubu was its student between 1977 and 1979.…

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Thursday, 27 January 2022 06:28

Miyetti Allah denies endorsing Tinubu for president

Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) says its members who endorsed Bola Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for the presidency, spoke for themselves. During a meeting on Sunday, Ya’u Haruna, a former chairman of the Jigawa chapter of MACBAN, had said the welfare of members of the association will improve with Tinubu as president in 2023. Haruna had said Tinubu, when he was governor of Lagos, intervened and resolved an issue that involved the association when it had a crisis in Benue. “Tinubu came all the way, got us on a roundtable and reconciled…

Thursday, 27 January 2022 06:27

Fayose’s ex-commissioner, Bisi Kolawole, defeats ex-gov, sitting senator, 8 others to emerge Ekiti PDP gov candidate

Bisi Kolawole has emerged as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the June 18 governorship election in Ekiti state. Kolawole, former chairman of the PDP in Ekiti, edged out Segun Oni, an ex-governor, and Kolapo Olusola, a former deputy governor of the state. The primary election took place in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday. Kolawole had resigned his position as Ekiti PDP chairman to contest the governorship election. He was the preferred aspirant of Fayose, former governor of the state. Kolawole is a former lawmaker representing Efon constituency in the state house of assembly. He also served as commissioner…

Wednesday, 26 January 2022 06:05

Afenifere calls for release of Sunday Igboho, Nnamdi Kanu

PRESS RELEASE The Pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, held its first annual general meeting on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. The meeting held at the country home of the Acting Leader, Ayo Adebanjo, in Isanya Ogbo, Ogun State. The meeting deliberated extensively on various issues pertaining to the Nigeria nation especially in the way they affect the Yorubas. The meeting reviewed the various challenges that Nigeria has been facing since independence. The meeting felt that while the country had never met the dream of its founding fathers, the situation had never been this bad socially, economically and politically. The situation is…

Saturday, 22 January 2022 06:35

INEC to monitor bank accounts of candidates to stem vote buying, others

Independent National Electoral Commission on Friday said it would beam its searchlight on politicians and political parties to track the sources of funds for their campaigns in the 2023 general election. The commission, therefore, promised to set up committee to monitor election expenditure ahead of the elections. Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, represented by a National Commissioner, Kunle Ajayi, stated this in Abuja during a policy roundtable conference on political campaign finance organised by The Electoral Forum, an organ of the Initiative for Research, Innovation and Advocacy in Development with support from MacArthur Foundation. He said, “As long as we…

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