Politics

The emergence of Tinubu and Atiku from the two parties is already a sort of a Muslim/Muslim ticket kind of- NSCEA

Daily Dispatch June 11, 2022

Nigerian Supreme Council for Ecclesiastical Affairs (NSCEA) reinstates the position of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) who has earlier warned the two leading political parties in the country to avoid the thought of Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket in 2023. CAN’s National Secretary,

Politics

Aliero dismisses defection rumour from APC to PDP

Daily Dispatch June 10, 2022

Rep Umar Jega, (APC Aliero/Gwandu/Jega) has dismissed the rumour making the rounds that he had defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Rep Jega who is also Chairman, House Committee on Internally Displaced Persons, Migrants and Refugees, in a statement on Friday and made available to newsmen in Birnin-Kebbi, said: “I am still a bonafide […]

NEWS Politics

I’ll carry everyone along, Tinubu promises after meeting Umahi

Daily Dispatch June 10, 2022

Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, paid an unscheduled visit to Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi on Thursday. The meeting, which took place behind closed doors in the early hours of Thursday at the APC flag bearer’s Abuja residence Umahi, was part of the APC flag bearer’s efforts to reconcile all […]

Politics

Why I left APC – Senate Leader

Daily Dispatch June 10, 2022

The Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, said on Friday that he left the All Progressives Congress (APC) due to “injustice” in the Kebbi State chapter of the party. Abdullahi, representing Kebbi North, had on Wednesday joined the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. The lawmaker said in Abuja that “it was a case of […]

Politics

Tinubu to meet APC govs as race for running mate begins

Daily Dispatch June 9, 2022

The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday began the search for their running mates. The spokesman  for the Tinubu Campaign Organisation, Mr Bayo Onanuga, in an interview with one of  our correspondents, said the APC presidential

NEWS Politics

Northern govs had picked Tinubu before APC Presidential Primary–House Of Reps Majority Leader, Doguwa

Daily Dispatch June 9, 2022

The Majority Leader of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa has said the emergence of Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) did not come as a surprise to them. The majority leader in an interview with Channels TV on Wednesday, monitored by SaharaReporters, said Tinubu is the […]