The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has vowed to put an end to Nigeria’s security challenges as he campaigns in the president’s home state of Katsina against the background of a tragic bandits attack. In front of thousands who gathered at the Muhammadu Dikko stadium to cheer the candidate and President Buhari who attended the event alongside other party leaders, Tinubu expressed his readiness to tackle the twin challenge of banditry and insurgency by strengthening the country’s armed forces and auguring socio-economic growth, particularly jobs provision, to starve the violent anti-state actors of…
Author: Albus Dauda
Nigerians have maintained their support for Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the APC, amid growing anger and protests over the twin challenge of naira scarcity occasioned by the botched implementation of the CBN redesign of the currency, and a stage-managed fuel scarcity causing long queues in petrol stations across the country. Reacting at the Ekiti rally of the APC presidential candidate on Friday, they blamed the national crises on the desperate ambition of his main opponent, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, whom they accused of an insidious plan “to inflict pain and hardship and exploit the ensuing anger to…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has been fingered as being a powerful backer of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s governor, Godwin Emefiele, over the naira redesign policy regardless of the hardships that Nigerians are facing as a result of scarcity of the new naira notes. This is according to a source close to him who pleaded anonymity adding that Nigerians do not know the extent that the vice president can go in his vindictiveness against his former mentor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. According to the source, the vice president is “not as loyal to the party or as altruistic as he portrays…
Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has been identified as conniving with petroleum marketers to worsen fuel scarcity in the country and boost his popularity ahead of the February presidential elections. This is as two sources in his campaign council also revealed that the scarcity was also affecting their family members. According to the first source, “Atiku has promised the oil marketers oil blocks and other rewards if they can simply hoard the fuel or smuggle it to neighbouring countries to sell at unregulated prices. The problem is that it is affecting even me and my…
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has received the backing of First Lady, Aisha Buhari, over his claim that some elements in the presidency are plotting to sabotage the victory of the APC in the presidential election slated for Feb 25 through unpopular policies and actions, the result of which include a cripplling fuel and currency scarcity. El-Rufai made the revelation in a media interview where he alleged that some figures in the presidency are in cahoots with the opposition to overturn the frontline position of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the APC. The unnamed figures remained aggrieved…
Supporters of PDP’s Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party’s Peter Obi took to social media to express their sadness and disappointment over Wike’s decision to back the presidential ambition of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling party, APC. Nyesom Wike, the Rivers State Governor leading the G-5 rebellion within the PDP, provided the clearest indication yet of his political stance in the 2023 presidential election by directing his closest aides and allies, including on social media, to commence public support of the APC’s Tinubu. The move was a culmination of meetings and intrigues spanning different states of the country and…
The Minister of State for Labour and Productivity and the APC-PCC spokesman, Festus Keyamo (SAN), has told Atiku Abubakar of the PDP to forget inheriting Buhari’s 12-million bloc votes from the northern region as he lacks the president’s integrity and forthrightness. Keyamo delivered the jab in a tweet where he criticised Atiku’s lazy reliance on a harvest of votes from his region. The spokesman clarified that Buhari’s reliable wall of 12-million votes in the region didn’t form out of mere ethnic connection but due to his consistent show of forthright and integrous actions. He said, “The problem with Atiku is…
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has been criticised by Nigerians over his embarrassing U-turn on the subject of age appropriateness for elective positions, following the emergence of a 2019 video where he argued stridently that age had nothing to do with governance. The divisive former Anambra State Governor who now hinges his candidature on the fact that he is younger than the other candidates of the two popular parties, was seen undermining the idea that a candidate had to be young to serve effectively in governance in an ARISE TV interview. He cited the example of the…
When 7 out of 10 Nigerians do not have enough to eat, transformational change is needed. The country has never been short of government plans to revitalise Agriculture, but none have delivered on their promise to underwrite food security, or offered the root and branch reform our agricultural sector so desperately needs. That is why Bola Tinubu’s proposal for farmers like me is a breath of fresh air. His plan once again positions Agriculture as the backbone of Nigeria’s economy – as it was before oil led to neglect of the sector. And the backbone of Nigeria’s Agriculture is its…
Nigerians now have until Feb 10 to swap old naira notes with the redesigned currency following the extension of the deadline previously set for Jan 31 by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The extension, which comes after a defiant interview by the CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele yesterday, was announced on Sunday morning. Many credit it to the criticism of APC’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who voiced the concerns of ordinary Nigerians who frown at the rushed and chaotic nature of the process. At a rally in Ogun State, Tinubu called on the CBN to review its timeline, particularly…