Former president of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Smart Adeyemi, has called it quit with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Congress, APC. Adeyemi contested the Kogi West Senatorial District election in 2015 under the PDP and lost to candidate of the APC, Dino Melaye. He had been in the Senate…
Former governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba, on Sunday made a return to the party he left almost two years ago. Osoba left the APC for the Social Democratic Party, SDP, when the state governor, Ibikunle Amosun failed to handover the party’s structure to him. The loggerheads between the two leaders of the ruling party…
By Nwaorgu Faustinus The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State said after a careful study of the facts on ground, it has come out to declare that what took place in the State on March 19 was not the expected rerun State and National Assembly elections but the mere allocation of votes to the…
Former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, has been suspended by his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. Sylva was punished by his party for alleged anti-party activity. The former governor was the flag bearer of the APC in the last governorship election in Bayelsa State, which was won by candidate of the Peoples Democratic…
Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has been described as a threat to national security by the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state. The party made this declaration on Monday in a statement issued by the APC Publicity Secretary in Ekiti State, Taiwo Olatunbosun. According to the opposition party in the state, Fayose’s recent…
Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has debunked speculations that it masterminded the arrest of the Rivers State Secretary to the State Government, Kenneth Kobani, by security operatives on Saturday. Kobani was apprehended by the military during the rerun election in the state yesterday for allegedly stalling the distribution of electoral materials…
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Benue South Senatorial re-run election held some days ago, Daniel Onjeh, has filed another petition against eventual winner of the poll, David Mark, a former Senate President. Onjeh told journalists about his decision to petition his opponent at the election shortly after filing his petition at…
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Saturday, March 12, 2016, Akwa Ibom State rerun poll, Victor Okon, has withdrawn from the race. Okon has also announced his resignation from the party barely 12 hours to the State House of Assembly rerun election. Addressing newsmen at a press conference on Friday in Uyo, Okon…
Daughter of National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, on Thursday expressed her frustration over what she called the non-inclusion of market women in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari Folasade, who is the Iyaloja General of Nigeria, led a protest of market women to the National Secretariat of…
President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with Nigerian women on the International Women’s Day, which is celebrated today, Tuesday, March 8, 2016. Buhari, in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by one of his media aides, Garba Shehu, assured women of his government’s commitment to cater for their well-being and progress. The President said in…