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Punch Newspapers Sections Leke Baiyewu, Abuja A member of the House of Representatives from Ondo State, Peter Makinde, has defected from the African Democratic Congress to the All Progressives Congress. Makinde, in his letter of defection, read to members at the plenary on Tuesday by the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, blamed the defection on the alleged division in the ADC. “You’re welcome to the progressive party,” Gbajabiamila said after reading the letter. Several members of the Peoples D...

The lawmakers, who announced their defection during plenary, include Jemili Akingbade, who was also the former Minority Whip, Adegoke Adeyanju, and Wahab Haruna The Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo, read their separate letters of defection to the members of the assembly. In the letter, the lawmakers cited ”internal crisis” and ”the need to join the progressives to further contribute their quota to the development of the state” as some of the reasons for their action. They also said they had con...

Punch Newspapers Sections Tony Okafor, Awka THE Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has described a former National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh, as ‘an abandoned property.’ Ngige said this in Alor, in the Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State, during the revalidation of his membership of the All Progressives Congress. He said Umeh’s attack on his person was to regain political relevance after so many years in political w...

BOLA BAMIGBOLA The Minister of Interior,  Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, says killers have been admitted to the All Progressives Congress. He, however, ...

Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, has urged the federal government to be transparent its process of privatizing  Nigerian refineries.

I have not joined APC, says ex-Imo gov, Ohakim Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri A former Governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, has debunked the speculation making the rounds that he had joined the ruling All Progressives Congress. Ohakim, in a statement issued by the Director General of his Campaign Organization, Austine Otuokere, in Owerri, the state capital, stated that he would not join the APC without informing the members of his political family. Ohakim, who held sway between 2007 and 2011, acknow...

A former Governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, has debunked the speculation making the rounds that he had joined the ruling All Progressives Congress.

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Daily Post Nigeria Published The governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi and younger brother Austin Umahi, who was formerly the national vice chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, south-east zone, on Tuesday officially joined the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. Umahi and brother officially registered in APC at his country home in Uburu polling unit in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. The governor who was issued the membership card while addressing party members and s...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The National Chairman, Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has disclosed that nearly 10,000 requests have been made for the establishment of additional polling units. Yakubu said the nationwide requests were 5,700 as of October 2020 but had increased by over 4,000 as of February 15. He spoke on Tuesday at the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) office in Kaduna, during consultations on additional polling units in Nigeria. Yakubu explained that I...