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APC enlists Media Virtuoso, Abdullahi O Haruna for Bayelsa Guber Elections

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Ace journalist and political communication strategist Abdullahi O Haruna fondly called haruspice has been appointed into All Progressives Congress Campaign Council for the Bayelsa State November elections. An official announcement from the All Progressives Congress National Organizing Secretary, Suleiman Muhammad Argungu, has confirmed Haruna’s inclusion as a member of the Bayelsa Gubernatorial Campaign Council. Renowned for his masterful coinage of language and communication techniques, Haruna’s addition to the council is expected to have a profound impact on shaping the public’s perception of the APC gubernatorial candidate, Mr. Timipreye Sylva. With…

BREAKING: APC rejects list of National Assembly Principal Officers announced by Akpabio, Tajudeen Abbas

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A fresh crisis is looming in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu, disowned the list of principal officers announced by the leadership of the two chambers of the National Assembly on Tuesday.     The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio announced Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, APC, Ekiti Central as the Senate Majority leader and former Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, APC, Borno South as the Senate Chief Whip.   He also announced Senator Dave Umahi, APC, Ebonyi South as the…

PDP warning of arrests of legislators-elect, mere distraction – APC

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The ruling All Progressive Party APC has reacted to the press conference addressed by the National Publicity Director of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Debo Ologunagba over the weekend.   Ologunagba said attempts are in the works to “intimidate, harass and threaten lawmakers-elect” through arrests of those of PDP members “who are considered to be strong proponents of the independence of the legislature” before the commencement of the elections of the presiding officers of both chambers on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.     Femi Odere, APC Chieftain and Convener, The…

APC and the echoes of 2015 ~ by Olusegun Adeniyi

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The Election of National Assembly presiding officers should be routine, especially since voting is only by members. But in Nigeria, nothing is ever straightforward. We now have a situation where contenders for the offices of Senate President, Deputy Senate President, House of Representatives Speaker, and Deputy are running expensive media campaigns. And the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) seems not to have learnt any lesson from what happened eight years ago. With ill-gotten money from ‘Paris Club refund’, some fat cats think they can buy the Senate gavel and the…

Buhari in eight years By Lasisi Olagunju

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Exactly one week from today, Muhammadu Buhari will stop being our president; his place another shall take. But what kind of leader has he been? The best assessment of a leader you get, not from his fanatics – boys who eat directly from the leader’s palm – but from men with cocks that crow as his. I take Babatunde Fashola as the gold witness here. Fashola has been Buhari’s Minister of Works and Housing for eight years and was Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff in Lagos for four years. He…

Heed Akeredolu, Stakeholders’ on Speakership, Group tells APC

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A youth group in the All Progressives Congress, APC, APC Youth Alliance For Progress, APC-YAP, has called on the party and the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to heed the progressive and patriotic advice of some leaders of the party to jettison the present zoning arrangement.   The APC-YAP in a statement on Sunday in Abuja stressed that ignoring the well-meaning advice of prominent stakeholders like the Governor of Ondo state, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, was recipe for a fractured National Assembly, especially the House of Reps.   Governor Akeredolu had…

Will north, the Shrew, bite the APC’s nose? By Festus Adedayo

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The ongoing fight-to-finish for principal officers’ positions in the 10th National Assembly by the All Progressives Congress (APC) has only one fitting corollary: It is the famous mythic, destructive squabble between the Shrew, Squirrel and a seemingly impartial arbiter, the Tortoise. Unless carefully resolved, what appears to be a fancy of conquest by the APC, leading to the party magisterially pronouncing who would be its legislative Man Fridays, seems to have boomeranged full throttle at its teething stage. Only last week, the party’s National Working Committee, (NWC) in a peremptory,…

Buhari, Tinubu’s Appreciation Of Supporters In Perspective By Femi Ogunshola

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When the President-elect celebrates a relatively unknown you on your birth anniversary and mourn your losses via a Presidential Press Release, then it’s something to cherish, it suggest how much your support is deeply appreciated, even though you may not have had a physical contact with the president. For me, unlike Buhari, Tinubu will not put his On and Off line supporters under the bus.   You may think it’s too early in the day to commend such gesture as being exhibited by a President yet to be sworn in,…

APC suspends SGF, Boss Mustapha for losing his polling units Presidential and governorship elections to PDP

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State has suspended the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, for losing his polling unit to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the presidential and governorship polls. The party disclosed that the SGF did not contribute to the victory of its presidential and governorship candidates. Announcing the suspension at a press conference in Yola, chairman of Gwadabawa Ward said Mustapha was not committed to APC’s victory at the presidential election. He stated that the indefinite suspension followed complaints from his…