Politics

Okorocha absent as Imo APC congress holds at secret venue

Daily Dispatch May 19, 2018

A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State has gone ahead to conduct the state congress of the party on Saturday despite an order by the Federal High Court in Owerri stopping the exercise. Earlier in the day, over 200 operatives of the state Police Command barricaded the APC

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Otedola denies Lagos governorship ambition

Daily Dispatch May 18, 2018

Nigerian billionaire and chairman of Forte Oil, Femi Otedola, has debunked claims that he is planning to contest as Lagos State governor in 2019. Mr Otedola, who recently joined social networking platform, Twitter, made this known in a tweet on his official handle, @realFemiOtedola. He was welcomed to Twitter by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, through the […]

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Fayemi has realised his mistakes, accept his apology- Bamidele tells Ekiti workers

Daily Dispatch May 18, 2018

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Hon Opeyemi Bamidele, has appealed to Ekiti workers to vote for the candidate of the party, Dr Kayode Fayemi in the July 14 governorship poll. Bamidele said the APC was coming with strong message of hope and assurances that nobody will be victimized in […]

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Heavy security at Lagos APC secretariat ahead of state congress

Daily Dispatch May 18, 2018

Security has been beefed up around the All Progressives Congress secretariat in Lagos, ahead of the chapter’s state congress on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria correspondent who was at the ACME Road, Ikeja, secretariat of the party reports that scores of armed security officials were stationed around the secretariat, where the congress would be held. Just […]

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Any attempt to rig Ekiti election, it will be a recipe for crisis – Secondus

Daily Dispatch May 18, 2018

Uche Secondus, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says Nigeria might go into extinction if the July governorship election in Ekiti state is rigged. Speaking at the flag-off of PDP’s local government election campaign in Rivers state, the opposition leader said his party would resist any attempt to thwart the will of the […]

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Kingsley Moghalu: Nine million Nigerians lost jobs under President Buhari

Daily Dispatch May 17, 2018

A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, has said that defeating President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 general elections will be easy. Moghalu, a 2019 presidential aspirant, spoke on Wednesday while inaugurating his support organisation in Awka, Anambra State. He said Buhari had squandered the goodwill Nigerians accorded him […]