The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, will not hold its presidential campaign in Rivers State for the first time since 1999. In a statement issued through the Rivers PDP Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Atiku canceled the rally, citing insecurity, and stated that the rally scheduled for this week would no longer take place. The statement by Sen. Lee Maeba, PDP PCC Chairman in Rivers, noted that “the expected victory of Atiku Abubakar does not worth the blood of any Rivers man or woman.” Maeba informed the team that the decision to call off the demonstration…
Author: Victor Fola
The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said with unity and determination of all, Nigeria will pull through challenges confronting it. Tinubu said this at the Meet the Mentor Dinner organized in his honour by the Progressive Sisters Network (PSN), a pro-Tinubu support group in Abeokuta. He advised that Nigerians should come together as one to solve the problems confronting the nation. He added that the fate of the nation is in our hands to develop the country. He said, “As a nation, we are facing some challenges, but we can overcome…
The Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress, APC has refuted claims made by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP that party’s presidential flagbearer, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has a stockpile of new Naira notes. It described the allegations as unfounded and a desperate attempt to divert public attention from the anti-people posturing of PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar who has adamant that the deadline should not be extended despite the sufferings of Nigerians. In a statement from Tinubu media office signed by Mahmud Jega, the campaign organization urged Nigerians to disregard the ‘devilish’ rumours being peddled by PDP and its…
With less than two weeks to the 2023 general elections, Labour Party suffered a major setback as its South West structure has collapsed into the APC. Leading the mass defection was the Southwest LP chairman, Omotoso Banji, in Akure, the capital of Ondo State. It was gathered other chieftains who defected included Omowumi Olosola, Ondo Secretary of LP, Sola Alabi amongst others. More details to follow…
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State says it has gotten about 50,000 supporters across the state to attend Bola Tinubu’s rally in Port Harcourt. This was disclosed by Rivers State’s Local Organizing Committee Chairman, Chief Tony Okocha, in Port Harcourt on Sunday after he inspected the rally’s planned location. The APC presidential is scheduled to take place at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, on February 15, 2023. Recall last week, Governor Nyesom Wike approved the venue and forwent the N5m non-refundable fee. Okocha said everything was ready for “the…
Kano gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Bashir Ishaq has abandoned the party to join the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, APC with less than two weeks to the 2023 general elections. Ishaq has since met with presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who welcomed him into the APC fold. Present at the meeting included Tinubu’s running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, LP Deputy Governorship Candidate, Peter Obi’s Kano State Campaign Coordinator. A source disclosed Ishaq defected to the APC due to “exclusion of major northern stakeholders in the decision-making process of the party’s…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has promised to revive the Argungu Fishing Festival. Tinubu made the promise while addressing a huge crowd of party faithful and supporters at the Haliru Abdu Stadium in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital. Tinubu said he will invest in agriculture in Kebbi State if he wins this month’s election and boost the tourism of the Northwest state. “We are going to invest in education and agro-allied industries to make prosperity a very simple thing. We will manage water resources to make sure that Nigeria becomes a leading agricultural…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu Tinubu has implored the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to allow the co-existence of the old Naira notes and the new Naira notes for the next 12 months. The former Lagos governor stated this on Sunday in a statement issued and made available to journalists by his campaign spokesperson, Festus Keyamo. In the statement, Tinubu stated that he and his vice-president, Kashim Shettima had nothing against the CBN policy, noting that they are only worried about the plight of Nigerians who are finding it difficult to obtain the…
The CBN has all but admitted its inability to sensibly, and painlessly, execute its own naira redesign policy. After asking Nigerians to surrender their old notes in the face of threats that they will cease to be the legal tender, this institution, which ordinarily ought to be guided by economic common sense, announced its inability to complete the swap. It cannot print enough new notes to prevent long, gruelling queues for cash that have crippled the country and damaged trust in the banking system. So much for ‘banking the unbanked’ when the banked, fearing the worst, are now resigned to…
The Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress has claimed that the statement made by National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, was a true reflection of his thoughts and not a gaffe. The Director of Media and Publicity for Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga said this on Friday. Recall Ayu on Thursday said ‘PDP has brought us shame and we will not retain them in power’ while giving a speech captured on live broadcast at the Kano rally of the PDP. Onanuga posited that Ayu’s mistake was not just a slip of tongue but…