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Abiodun Nejo, Ado Ekiti Former Ekiti State Governor, Chief Segun Oni, on Monday declared his intention to contest the 2022 gubernatorial election ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kayode Oyero Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church in Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Tuesday, said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has not met the expectations Nigerians had when they elected him into office in 2015. The cleric spoke in an Instagram Live Chat with popular journalist, Dele Momodu, monitored by The PUNCH. Bakare was the running mate to Buhari in the 2011 presidential election. The duo, which ran under the banner ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday mourned a former Minister of Information and Culture, Tony Momoh, who died earlier in the day, describing him as a longtime ally, friend and political loyalist. He was quoted as saying that Momoh stood with him through thick and thin. “His (Momoh’s) brand of loyalty is very rare in the politics of today. I will greatly miss him,” the President was quoted as saying. According ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Abiodun Nejo, Ado Ekiti Former Ekiti State Governor, Chief Segun Oni, on Monday expressed interest in becoming the governor of the state in 2022. Oni said he would work with notable leaders of the party including former Governor Ayodele Fayose, Senator Biodun Olujimi, and others to reposition the Peoples Democratic Party and make it formidable to achieve the task of wrestling power from the ruling All Progressives Congress. He spoke in Ado Ekiti on Monday while opening...

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The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kogi State caught a big fish in it’s net on Thursday. That day a former two-time member of Kogi State House of Assembly, Elder Friday Sani Makama, announced his defection to the party from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Punch Newspapers Sections Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Saturday, said imposition would no longer be allowed in the ruling All Progressives Congress. He said there would be “no more crowning from Abuja.” Buhari spoke shortly after he revalidated his membership of the the party in his hometown, Daura, Katsina State. The President, who was accompanied by the Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee, Mai Buni; members of the committee; Preside...

Recall the president on Friday arrived Daura, his hometown, at the start of a four-day official visit. According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, Friday, during his stay there, the president was expected to participate in the All Progressives congress, APC, membership registration and validation exercise, among other engagements. The statement added that the president considered the exercise vital for the nation’s democracy a...

The event was flagged off by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has often claimed that its Social Investment Program (SIP), part of which was designed to pay N5000 monthly into the accounts of supposed vulnerable Nigerians, is a fulfillment of the government’s promise of taking citizens out of poverty. According to Osinbajo, the major objective of the RRR was to use a technology-based method to identify urban poor Nigerians who will receive the stipend ev...

Punch Newspapers Sections lalekan Adetayo, Abuja The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Saturday said the nation’s balance sheet is open for the National Assembly and all Nigerians. He said his regime has nothing to hide. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President spoke during an interview with journalists in Daura, Katsina State, after the registration and revalidation exercise of the All Progressives Congres...