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There was jubilation among supporters of the All Progressive Congress (APC), in Anambra State on Friday as the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige; the former governorship candidate of the party in the 2017 guber polls, Dr. Tony Nwoye; Engr. Johnbosco Onunkwo, Senator Andy Uba and other leaders reunite ahead of the November 2021 gubernatorial election in the state.
Tribune Online gathered that the jubilation was an outcome of a stakeholders meeting held in Awka, where party leaders in the state have agreed to work unanimously to take over power from the ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA, led by governor Willie Obiano in the forthcoming gubernatorial election.
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President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in his New Year broadcast decried the level of violence in the country, saying insecurity is setting Nigeria back at “critical points” through the destruction of public and private investments.
According to him, the raging insecurity is having an adverse effect on the economic growth of Nigeria, but the nation is on a difficult journey to nationhood and greatness.
On the same day, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, said aside the effect of the COVID-19 last year, Nigeria suffered greatly in 2020 because of “lazy and uninspiring leadership, especially from the government at the centre.”
Bola Ahmed TinubuAsiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, popularly called BAT, is a master strategist, generalissimo, who has dominated the politics of Nigeria’s commercial capital for over two decades, Tinubu, has long been overdue and expected to make a run for the country’s top job.
His formidable political network, propensity for deal-making, and substantial personal wealth give him a head start over many other contenders. x
In the 2023 presidential elections, Tinubu has been coquettish. After the latest rumpuses in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in which Tinubu and his allies seemed to lose out, he mocked those pundits who purported to know his political intentions.
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Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, says it declared support for the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 and 2019 presidential elections due to promises by its candidates that they would restructure the country.
The National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Yoruba group, Yinka Odumakin, made this known on a
PUNCH Online interview programme, The Roundtable, on Wednesday.
He said this when asked if Afenifere had turned to an arm of the PDP.
Barely two years to the 2015 presidential election, four opposition parties merged to form APC in a bid to boost their candidate’s chances of defeating the incumbent President Jonathan.