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Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Birniwa Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Alhaji Talba Diginsa, has defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, with his supporters. Diginsa said the executive members of the PDP in the council, alongside 360 members, dumped the party over lack of focus and poor leadership in the state. He added, “We ...

Political parties in Jigawa State signed a peace accord on Tuesday ahead of the Buji/Birnin Kudu Federal Constituency rerun election. Two political parties, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressive Congress, APC, signed the peace accord organised by the Jigawa State Police Command. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has scheduled Saturday, February 3, 2024, for a rerun ...

The presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has the last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in JIgawa State. It will be recalled that Jigawa is one of states that was projected by politico.ng as a winning zone in the Thursday’s projections. Announcing the result of the presidential election, the collation officer of INEC, ...

The support base of the All Progressive Congress APC increased on Wednesday as about 546 members of different political parties have defected to ruling party, in Mallam Madori Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The council chairman, Mallam Usaini Umar BK, stated this while receiving the decampees at Malam-Madori on Wednesday. He said over 546 supporters of the opposition parties ...

As politicians are preparing for the 2023 general election, former Local Government Council Chairmen in Jigawa State have vowed to be united in producing the next governor of the State. Operating under the aegis of “Forum of ex-Council Chairmen”, with members from the twenty-two Local Government Areas in Jigawa State, they called on Alhaji Mustapha Sule Lamido to join the ...

Uproar erupted at  the Jigawa State House of Assembly on Tuesday over the refusal of the House Committee on Local Government to buy brand new Toyota Prado SUVs in the 2022 local government appropriation. Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar had in November presented the budget estimate of N73,734,339,969,00 for the 27 local government council in the state before the House of ...

Ex-Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has said the All Progressive Congress (APC) lied to  get into power in 2015, because they were too desperate. He made this remark  while speaking on Sunday Politics, a Channels Television programme. He added that Nigeria lacks leadership and the government must be accountable to the people. He said: “Government must be held accountable ...

Muhammad Adamu of the  All Progressives Congress (APC), has won the  Saturday’s Kafinhausa State Constituency by-election in Jigawa. He got 14,924 votes to beat other candidates in the election. It was gathered that the poll took place in the 120 polling units in the area. Prof. Ahmed Kutama, the Returning Officer, declared the result at the collation centre in Kafinhausa ...

Jigawa State Governor, Muhammad Badaru, has warned that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), may lose the 2023 election. Acccording to him, if the crisis and schism in the state APC are not reinned-in, APC may be defeated in 2023 poll in the state. He made this warning, while inaugurating the party’s  caretaker committee in Duste, on Friday. He said ...

jigawa House of Assembly on Thursday impeached the Speaker, Alhaji Isa Idris. Idris was impeached by 20 out of 30 members of the House. Details later….