Should APC do every thing possible to stop Hope Uzodinma. Will he replicate another Saraki behavior? Imo APC primaries: Court affirms Uzodimma as Imo guber candidate. AN Abuja High Court on Wednesday recognized Senator Hope Uzodinma as the candidate of the party for the 2019 Imo governorship election. The court, which was presided over by Justice O.A Musa said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must also recognize only Uzodinma as the governorship candidate in the 2019 election. Justice O. A. Musa who gave the restraining order on Tuesday, also restrained INEC (2nd Respondent) in the case from processing…
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NNPC faces pressure as petrol landing cost hits N205 ’Femi Asu The landing cost of the Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) being imported into the country has risen to at least N205 per litre on the back of the recent increase in global oil prices, putting more pressure on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. The NNPC has been the sole importer of petrol into the country for more than a year as private oil marketers have stopped importation due to shortage of foreign exchange and increase in crude prices, which have reportedly made it unprofitable for them to import the product…
Premium Times Friday, October 12, 2018 Reps move to arm Sergeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly The House of Representatives on Thursday proposed the procurement of fire arms for the Sergeant-At-Arms at the National Assembly. The move which came under a motion of urgent national importance sponsored by Ossai Ossai (PDP- Delta), is to act as a check against future invasion of the chambers of the National Assembly. Mr Ossai, while raising the motion for the need to allow the Sergeant-At-Arms to procure arms, said it was a universal standard practice. He stressed that it had become necessary because of the…
From the day he left Sokoto on his PDP presidential aspiration campaign, Gov @AWTambuwal has not returned to Sokoto!! SOKOTO STATE TODAY 1) Gov: Absent for weeks 2) Dep Gov: In opposition party 3) All Commissioners: Sacked for months 4) All SAs: Sacked 5) All LG Chairmen: Sacked for months 6) All Councilors: Sacked for months 7) All State Ministries: No overhead for months. Even @atiku who won the election has returned to Adamawa. Anyone who knows his whereabout should please inform the nearest authority.
Ambode: A postscript Published October 12, 2018 Ayo Olukotun THE PUNCH “Just when many thought Ambode had grasped the handle to the APC second term ticket came the great turbulence, eventually tipping the fragile mug and content in a ghastly crash” —Louis Odion, The Nation, October 10, 2018. Dripping with drama, pathos and human interest, the failure of the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, to secure a second term ticket continues to excite animated discussion and takeaways about the volatility of power in a turbulent democracy. As a columnist of The Nation Newspaper, Louis Odion, quoted in the opening…
2019: 31 of 40-member Lagos Assembly secures APC return tickets Barring last-minute substitution of candidates, 31 of the 40 APC members in the Lagos State House of Assembly have secured the party’s tickets to contest the 2019 polls. Only nine lawmakers failed to secure the return tickets to the House either because they lost out in the party’s primary or aspired for higher political offices in the National Assembly. Thirty out of the 39 APC lawmakers in the Assembly got return tickets, while the lone PDP lawmaker in the House, Mr Dipo Olorunrinu (Amuwo-Odofin I) also secured return ticket on…
2019 Election: Ribadu steps down for Gov. Dankwambo Alhaji Muhammad Ribadu, Senatorial candidate, Gombe North Senatorial District under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has relinquished his candidature to Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe state. Ribadu stated this in Gombe on Thursday during a welcome reception organized by the party in honour of Dankwambo, who was one of the PDP presidential aspirants that lost to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in the party primaries He said that he decided to forfeit his candidature to Dankwambo to compensate him for the loss in the presidential primaries
Gov Amosun threatens to dump APC over primaries Ambode, Okorocha, 3 other govs seek Buhari’s intervention. Amosun issued this threat during a meeting with party leaders and loyalists across the 20 local government areas of the state Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja and Laide Rahman, Abeokuta Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, last night threatened to pull out of the All Progressives Congress (APC) if the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party fails to uphold the candidacy of his anointed governorship candidate, Abdul-Kabir Adekunle Akinlade. This is coming a few hours after Governors Akinwunmi Ambode (Lagos), Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Umar Ganduje…
Keep these pictures, you will need them again after elections… I won’t waste time on this. There’s something about PMB that unravels many people, across faith and ethnic persuasion. May Nigeria Succeed
