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2023: Economist Intelligence Unit predicts Tinubu’s victory …says Atiku has more cause to worry

Daily Dispatch September 23, 2022

Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 general election, is expected to succeed incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has said in a new country report. The EIU said in 2019 that Atiku Abubakar, the

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‘Anything you see, you take’: Wike dares PDP to suspend him

Daily Dispatch September 23, 2022

The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a new twist as Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State dares the party’s leadership to suspend him. Governor Wike, who was answering questions from select journalists during a chat on Friday in Rivers State, said the party’s leadership knows what he is capable of. “I […]

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FG berates Atiku Abubakar’s economic blueprint as poor photocopy

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2022

Federal Government says, the economic blueprint recently unveiled by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is a “crude attempt at copying all that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has done’’. Abubakar is the candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party for the 2023 presidential election. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, told newsmen in

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Wike summons Rivers PDP stakeholders meeting

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2022

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has summoned a meeting of leaders and stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state. The meeting is the first in the state since the party’s presidential primary and the crisis that followed its outcome. Though the agenda of the meeting could not be ascertained, a source told […]

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Atiku suffers another political setback, as PDM collapsed structure for Tinubu

Daily Dispatch September 21, 2022

In a matter of hours, the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar after losing powerful political allies from his campaign council, his foundational movement, PDM has collapsed its structure for Bola Tinubu. About three groups, including the defunct Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) members, have declared their support for the All Progressives Congress (APC)

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Let us join hands and move on with the task of nation building – Atiku appeals to aggrieved members

Daily Dispatch September 21, 2022

Early this morning, my attention was drawn to a news clip in which several very senior and influential members of our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), addressed the press and, amongst other things, declared that they are withdrawing, forthwith, from the Presidential Campaign Council set up by our party to judiciously plan and […]