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Residents warns Gov. Obiano ahead of Anambra election

Daily Dispatch January 5, 2020

Some residents of Anambra on Sunday warned Gov. Willie Obiano against allowing electioneering activities to slow down the pace of infrastructure development and governance in the state in 2020. The residents said they were worried that the electioneering activities might slow down the

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Governor Obaseki: How Adams Oshiomhole led me into politics

Daily Dispatch January 2, 2020

Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo, said he was led into politics after Adams Oshiomhole convinced him to join forces against godfatherism in the state. Obaseki revealed this while hosting ward leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oredo local government area of the state. Obaseki said Adams Oshiomhole, former governor of the state, called […]

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Over 1,000 PDP, APGA members defects to APC

Daily Dispatch December 29, 2019

More than 1,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and other political parties have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Wakama ward of Nasarawa State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defectors included former elected councillors as well as PDP ward chairmen and secretaries. […]

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2023: PDP to commence search for credible candidate

Daily Dispatch December 26, 2019

Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Walid Jibrin, has said the party will soon commence a high level consultation and search for credible candidate to fly its flag for the 2023 presidency. Walid, a Second Republic Senator who made this known while speaking with newsmen in Kaduna, also said every interested […]

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Oshiomhole: I am a he-goat of Edo politics

Daily Dispatch December 13, 2019

National chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has debunked reports that he was placed under house arrest and also described himself as the ‘he-goat’ of Edo politics. Oshiomhole spoke Friday afternoon, while addressing journalists at his Benin GRA residence, where Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, a new APC convert from the PDP, was […]

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Igbo presidency will save Nigeria’s threatened democracy – VON DG

Daily Dispatch December 9, 2019

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, has called on APC, and PDP to adopt Igbo Presidency for 2023. Okechukwu spoke with journalists on Sunday, said if APC and PDP produced Igbo presidential candidates in 2023, it would solve the “prevalent gun-box democracy” and return “ballot […]