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Why Tinubu Will Support My Presidential Ambition - Bello

Why Tinubu Will Support My Presidential Ambition – Yahaya Bello

April 1, 2021 9:22 pm

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has asserted that the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu would most likely support his bid to emerge as Nigeria’s next president.

The young Kogi State Governor made this claim while speaking to BBC yesterday.

Bello has recently been hosting different groups and individuals in Abuja and Lokoja, the capital of his state in a bid to gain support for his ambition to emerge as successor to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Although Tinubu has not officially thrown his cap in the ring to run for the presidency, it is however generally believed …

Junaid Mohammed

Junaid Mohammed: The North Will Not Surrender Power 2023

February 15, 2020 5:27 am

Junaid Mohammed, a member of the Second Republic Parliament, has declared that the North has no intention to surrender power to any other region in 2023.

“What makes anybody think that those who are now holding power are going to voluntarily surrender power in 2023? I don’t know. So, zoning and rotation afford us the worst,” the elder statesman said in an interview with the Sun.

The South-South elders came up recently to state that it is their turn to run the affairs of the country when President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure expires in 2023.

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2023: Oshiomhole Plotting To Be VP, Will Disappoint Tinubu

January 20, 2020 6:56 am
Charles Idahosa, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has alleged that the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole was plotting to be the running mate of a Northern presidential candidate in 2023.

Idahosa made the allegation while warning that Oshiomhole will disappoint APC National Leader, Bola Tinubu in the build-up to the 2023 presidential election.

Speaking with Daily Independent, Idahosa said Oshiomhole will team up with a Northerner to work against Tinubu.

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He said: “I feel so sorry for Tinubu because he doesn’t know who Oshiomhole is. I

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2023: Give Us Presidency, Igbos Want Biafra –S’South Elders

January 20, 2020 6:56 am
The South-South Elders’ Forum has declared that the 2023 presidency should be ceded to the zone to avert crisis.

The Elders said giving 2023 presidency to the north will tear Nigeria apart, as the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure completes North’s two tenures.

Sara Igbe, the National Publicity Secretary of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, said South South has used just one tenure, adding that it is only fair to allow the zone to produce the next president for another four years to complete the zone’s second tenure.

Speaking to NAN, he claimed that South-East was agitating for Biafra

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2023: Analysts Give Reasons Jonathan Will Run Again

January 18, 2020 5:23 am
Political/social analysts have supported the moves by Nigerians mostly youth groups agitating for the return of former President, Goodluck Jonathan, as early permutations on the successor of President Mohammadu Buhari begins.

Mr Oribo Einstein, political/social analyst, and Comrade Wisdom Ikuli, also a political analyst, were of the opinion that the 2023 Presidential election will be about personality and not on party basis.

The duo who spoke in a telephone chat with DAILY POST argued that beyond the agitation for his return, the former President has the legitimate and constitutional right to contest.

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2023: Buhari Reveals What He Will Do Before, After Election

January 17, 2020 2:25 pm
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that as a beneficiary of a free and fair election in the country, he would bequeath the same to his successor and the nation in 2023, “quietly.”

Buhari said he was already looking forward to a peaceful hand over in 2023, stressing that he was morally bound to fulfil that wish.

He spoke at a dinner with members of the legal team for the 2019 presidential election petition on Thursday night in Abuja and was contained in a statement signed and forwarded to DAILY POST by his Media Aide, Garba Shehu.

The President recounted that

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2023: INEC Speaks On When Registration For PVC Will Begin

January 14, 2020 2:54 pm
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Oyo State, Mr Mutiu Agboke, has said the continuous voters’ registration would soon commence.

Agboke made the disclosure at a stakeholder meeting on Tuesday in Iseyin.

He said the exercise would capture new registrants and those that have issues with their PVCs such as replacement of lost or defaced cards and transfers from former locations.

The REC said that no fewer than 700,000 PVCs were still in the custody of the commission.

He implored leaders of political parties to start sensitising their members and supporters on the need

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2023: What Igbo Need To Do To Get Presidency – Doghudje

January 12, 2020 8:03 am

Chris Doghudje is the former Chairman of Advertising Practitioner’s Council of Nigeria (APCON) and a former Managing Director of Lintas Ltd. 

Doghudje, who recently turned 80 spoke about the ‘magic’ called Nigeria as a country, insecurity, Igbo presidency, and expectations from the government in the New Year, among others. Excerpts:

 

What do you think about the country Nigeria as we have just entered into a New Year?

Nigeria is a country that is a surprise and will continue to be a surprise. It is a surprise that we ever came together to form one country. When one thinks about …

2023: Maku Speaks On Atiku, Tinubu, Saraki, Wike ‘Alliance’

January 12, 2020 8:00 am
Labaran Maku, the National Secretary, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has said he didn’t meet former vice president Atiku Abubakar, All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, among others, to float a new political platform ahead of 2023.

Immediate past president of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, Governors Nyesom Wike, Aminu Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed also allegedly attended the meeting.

Maku, a former minister of information, spoke on Sunday while fielding questions from the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Wakama, Nasarawa State.

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Maku, a 2019 APGA governorship candidate

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2023: Stop Distracting Buhari – Ude Tells Enugu APC

January 10, 2020 2:52 pm
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, Comrade Adolphus Ude has urged the Ben-Nwoye-led leadership of the party in the State to stop distracting the President Muhammdu Buhari administration with the 2023 presidency contest.

NAN reports that Ude belongs to the Enugu APC leadership under Deacon Okey Ogbodo.

In a statement he made available to NAN in Abuja, Ude said it was too early for Nwoye and his team to be fanning embers of unity over the 2023 presidency.

This is following the Nwoye-led APC’s endorsement of the minister of science and technology, Chief Ogbonnaya

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2023: Buhari Mocks PDP

January 10, 2020 1:08 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has mocked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its “terminal decline and future in national politics.”

A statement on Thursday by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, said Nigerians were surprised reading a statement issued by them assuming the role of presidential image maker.

Shehu asked the PDP their business about alleged love lost between President Buhari and the APC.

“What do they know? Who sent them?”, he queried.

“Today, the PDP represents the single biggest obstacle to good governance and change that the country needs and the people are yearning for.

“Both self-respect and sound political judgement demand

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2023: Ndigbo Pushes Hard For Presidency, Restructuring

January 6, 2020 12:35 pm

Igbo leaders rose from a crucial meeting, weekend, with a resolve to pursue both restructuring and emergence of Nigerian president of Igbo extraction. 

They also asked other ethnic nationalities and zones, to as a matter of justice, equity and fairness, support the emergence of a president of Igbo extraction in 2023.

These were highlights of a nine-point communiqué at the 5th World Igbo Summit (WIS) held at the Gregory University, Uturu, Abia State, from January 2 – 4.

They noted that there were three options left for Nigeria’s survival namely: to retain the dysfunctional status quo, to balkanise the country …

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