Popularity, they say, is a critical success factor for a politician and her/his party to win elections. But that hasn't been the case with most Nigerian
The 2023 elections in Nigeria witnessed a surge of celebrities actively buying party forms and joining the country’s political fray to contest for elective positions to help change the country’s direction.
The Oyo State chapter of the African Action Congress has expelled its governorship candidate, Mojeed Kehinde Okedara from the party. The governorship candidate was expelled over gross violation of the party’s constitution.
The governorship candidates expelled by the African Action Congress plan to hold a meeting with Festus Keyamo, spokesperson for the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC-PCC) on Wednesday, SaharaReporters has learnt. SaharaReporters learnt the estranged AAC candidates plan to meet with Keyamo to sell their loyalty to the ruling All Progressives Congress and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
Four governorship candidates under the African Action Congress (AAC) have appealed to the party to reinstate their colleagues who were suspended over allegations of misconduct. The party had suspended four of its governorship candidates who are; Iboro Otu, Akwa Ibom; Ray Kene, Enugu; Ahmed Aliyu, Kwara and Dr. David Joel Charima, Taraba. The concerned state chapters of the AAC had expelled them after they refused to answer a query issued to them within the stipulated period, deemed an “insubordination” to the party’s constitution and punishable under the same law.