Monthly Archives: April 2023

Stop lamenting, you lost gallantly- Lai tells Atiku and Obi

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has advised the opposition to stop their endless griping over the 2023 presidential election which they lost woefully. In a statement he issued on Sunday, Lai Mohammed said President Muhammadu Buhari’s analysis of the reasons for the opposition’s loss in the 2023 elections was incontrovertible. He said the opposition lost the election ...

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Senate Presidency: APC group canvasses support for Akpabio

A coalition in the ruling All Progressives Congress APC have endorsed the reported zoning of the Senate Presidency to the South South and adoption of Senator Godswill Akpabio as president, insisting that virtually all the states in the South East have at one time or the other produced Senate Presidents irrespective of the duration of their tenures. The stakeholders also ...

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Tinubu: NDLEA counters Atiku and Melaye

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has filed preliminary objection to a suit instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and a chieftain of the opposition party, Senator Dino Melaye seeking an order of mandamus to compel the anti-narcotics agency to arrest and prosecute the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over alleged forfeiture of some funds in his bank ...

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Poll favours Betara as next Speaker of House of Reps

The Chairman House Committee on Appropriations, Hon Aliyu Muktar Betara, has emerged as the preferred choice to become the next Speaker, according to an opinion poll. In the survey conducted by Parliament Inc, respondents identified Betara as their favourite to succeed Femi Gbajabiamila among other aspirants. In a statement made public on Friday, the organisation claimed hat the Borno lawmaker ...

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LP to Buhari: We won, our victory was stolen by APC

The Labour Party has faulted claims by President Muhammadu Buhari that opposition parties lost the 2023 general elections due to over confidence, complacency and bad tactics. The party described the president’s views as expressed by his Senior Special Assistant (Media), Mallam Garba Shehu, as unpresidential and disturbing. This was contained in a statement signed by the party’s Acting National Publicity ...

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Kogi Guber: APC’s candidate, Ododo receives Buhari’s blessing

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State, Usman Ododo, on Friday, received President Muhammadu Buhari’s blessings as the party’s flag-bearer in the November election. Ododo, while briefing State House Correspondents after he was presented to the President by Governor Yahaya Bello, said he was committed to building on the unparalleled developmental strides of the governor, ...

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Islamic group calls for enhanced security for Tinubu, Shettima

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has called for enhanced security for the President-Elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, due to rising security threats and treasonable utterances from the opposition camp. The Executive Director, MURIC, Prof. Ishaq Akintola stated this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. “We find it necessary to alert the nation, particularly the security agencies, concerning ominous signs on ...

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All opposition parties should team up with incoming govt- Lawan

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has urged all the opposition political parties to team up with the incoming government of the All Progressives Congress(APC) to jointly take Nigeria to the next level of development. Lawan said the elections were over and what was left is governance which is for everyone. The Senate President spoke in Abuja on Friday ...

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Presidential Poll: We will continue to support Obi- Afenifere vows

The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has insisted that it would continue to support what it called “the victory of Peter Obi” of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election and all his endeavours in its realisation. Afenifere reiterated that the emergence of a president from the South East would guarantee equity, fairness and peaceful co-existence among Nigerians. At ...

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Tinubu urges APC Governors to support Adamu-led NWC

President-elect, Asíwájú Bola Tinubu has charged governors of his ruling All Progressives Congress APC to work closely with the Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee NWC and lawmakers on the election of principal officers of the National Assembly. Tinubu gave the charge Thursday in Abuja when he met with the governors who paid him a courtesy visit. He said; “We ...

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