The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of engaging in violence ahead of the February general election, following an attack on its supporters on Tuesday in Port Harcourt.Reacting to the incident on Wednesday through, Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, the party alleged that the attacks, reportedly by thugs working for PDP along the Bori-Saakpenwa Road in [...]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it will win overwhelmingly in the February general election, vowing to take back states it lost to the main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).On Wednesday, Olisa Metuh, the PDP spokesman, said it stood out as the only party with genuine followership among Nigerians irrespective of their religious and ethnic affiliations, adding its [...]
Rotimi Amaechi, governor of Rivers state, declared on Tuesday that he never knew he would be governor.Amaechi, who was speaking at the inauguration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign in Port Harcourt, said his enemies tried to get him out of office, but they failed.“I thank God because I never knew I would be governor. Today, I am governor [...]
Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says he has been accused of many things, but not corruption, mediocrity and lying.In a series of tweets on his Twitter handle @ThisIsBuhari on Tuesday, Buhari averred that he “fought corruption, stabilised the naira and shutdown insurgencies” when he was a military head of state.“People accuse me of many things. [...]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as paranoid for accusing it of planning to organise a fake opinion poll for Muhammadu Buhari, its presidential candidate, ahead of the February election.Lai Mohammed, who spoke on behalf of APC, likened PDP to a punch-drunk boxer, saying it is the ruling party that has a tradition of [...]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of planning to organise a fake opinion poll for Muhammadu Buhari, its presidential candidate, ahead of the February 14 elections.The ruling PDP said that the APC was plotting to manipulate public opinion in its favour by organising the “kangaroo” poll.It urged the main opposition party to “focus on [...]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has cleared Aminu Masari, former speaker of the house of representatives, of an allegation of certificate forgery.Masari, who is the APC gubernatorial candidate in Katsina state, was accused by Festus Keyamo, a lawyer, of forging a post-graduate diploma certificate in water quality control and management from Middlesex Polytechnic in the United Kingdom.“Kindly note, that in [...]
Yemi Osinbajo, the running mate to the presidential candidate of the All progressives Congress (APC), has revealed that he accepted the offer to become Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate only after receiving the permission of his spiritual father, Enoch Adeboye, the general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).There have been talks that Osinbajo's aspirations presents a dicey clash [...]
Nigerians have a duty to use their votes to express dissatisfaction with the administration President Goodluck Jonathan in the February 14 presidential election for his failure to fight corruption and insecurity, the All Progressives Congress (APC) said on Friday."The president has finally admitted that the two main challenges facing the country are corruption and insecurity, and seems to be telling [...]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has welcomed the stated commitment of President Goodluck Jonathan, in his New Year message, to the conduct of free, fair and violence-free elections this year. But it urged the president to match the commitment with action and leave the electoral umpire to do its work.Speaking on Thursday through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, the party expressed [...]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it will not dig into the past to unearth cases of corruption against anyone because it is more concerned about the future of the country.However, it advised public office holders to desist from engaging in corrupt practices.John Oyegun, the national chairman of the party, who made this disclosure in Benin on Monday, said only [...]
The All Progressives Congress says Rotimi Amaechi, governor of Rivers state, is not funding the party, contrary to claims that he had been footing the party’s bills in return for the chance to be named running mate to Muhammadu Buhari, which eventually went to Yemi Osinbajo.Reacting to claims of Amaechi’s heavy financial involvement with the party, Davies Ikanya, chairman of APC [...]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has assured Nigerians and the international community that it will do all in its power to ensure that the 2015 general election is violence-free, saying the rising apprehension about the polls among the populace is inimical to the conduct of a successful election.Speaking on Sunday through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, the party urged the federal [...]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says opposition All Progressives COngress (APC) is bent on causing division among the people and breaking up the nation.The ruling party also described its candidate in next yer's election, President Goodluck Jonathan, as a committed national and patriotic leader for his warning to politicians to desist from sowing seeds of discord among Nigerians by their [...]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the federal government of trying to suppress the audit report on the missing $20 billion oil money, saying the deadline for the release of the report, which was set by the government itself, has passed.Speaking on Saturday through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, the party recalled that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, coordinating minister of the economy [...]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to show example by prevailing on his associates, spokespersons and supporters to refrain from making combustible comments instead of engaging in “mere rhetoric”.The party was reacting to the Christmas message of the president in which he urged politicians to refrain from making inflammable comments capable of setting the country ablaze, ahead [...]
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