Tag: Running Mate

RECONCILIATION : Niger APC Guber Candidate, Mohammed Bago visits State Executive Council Members ….. presents his running mate

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In a bid to be victorious in the 2023 elections, the need for unity among all members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) members has been emphasized.   Niger state Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello stated this when the Gubanatorial candidate of the Party, Umar Mohammed Bago and his entourage visited members of the state executive council at the Government house, Minna shortly after the weekly council meeting.   The Governor who was represented by his Deputy, Ahmed Mohammed Ketso said reconciling all aggrieved members of the Party after the Primary…

Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa As Running Mate: Who Betrayed The South? By Law Mefor

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One read with considerable amusement and amazement the claim by some Southern and Middle Belt leaders that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state betrayed the divide by accepting to be the running mate to Atiku Abubakar, the presidential flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Talk of the chicken that left the knife that slaughtered it to make face to the cooking pot! This claim is a misguided missile, to say the least.   Yes, the Southern and Middle Belt Forum pushed the position that the presidential power must return…

Running Mate As Albatross: Tinubu’s Choice, by Azu Ishiekwene

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That the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is exactly where the party’s last presidential candidate President Muhammadu Buhari was when he got the ticket eight years ago, shows just how our politics has stagnated, if not regressed.   After Buhari won the APC ticket in December 2014, the next major hurdle was getting a running mate. In what appeared to be a breach of the understanding he had with Tinubu to be his running mate before the election – and on the basis of which…

Buhari Promised to Pick Tinubu as Running Mate in 2015, Ex-Party Chairman Akande Reveals

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Former Governor of Osun state and ex-interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, Thursday narrated how Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as he then was, the presidential candidate of the party at the time, promised to pick Bola Tinubu as his running mate in the 2015 election. Chronicling the events that led to the eventual selection of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Akande, in his autobiography, “My Participations”, published by Gaskia Media Limited, disclosed how Buhari who was then under pressure to drop the former Lagos governor, later reneged on…