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Posts tagged with "President Goodluck Jonathan"

Garba Shehu says it is not compulsory next inspector general of police must be Igbo Headline

Garba Shehu says it is not compulsory next inspector general of police must be Igbo

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's official spokesman Mallam Garba Shehu has dismissed suggestions that the next inspector-general of police must come from the southeast geo-political zone as a matter of course in line with Nigeria's zoning principle.   Last month, President Buhari replaced all his service chiefs, appointing new...
Kwankwaso says Ganduje removed Emir Sanusi because he has an inferiority complex African News

Kwankwaso says Ganduje removed Emir Sanusi because he has an inferiority complex

FORMER Kano State governor Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso has accused his successor Abdullahi Ganduje of removing the Emir of Kano Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi from office because he felt threatened by his intellectual clout.   On March 9, Governor Ganduje removed the emir from office and replaced him with his cousin Alhaji Aminu Ado...
Femi Adesina backs Umahi's presidential candidacy indicating that Buhari is behind him African News

Femi Adesina backs Umahi's presidential candidacy indicating that Buhari is behind him

INDICATIONS have grown that Ebonyi State's Governor Dave Umahi will seek the presidential ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) come 2023 after President Muhammadu Buhari's spokesman Femi Adesina appeared to endorse him.   Currently the chairman of the South East Governors’ Forum, Governor Umahi, 57, defected...
PDP dismisses suggestions Goodluck will defect to APC and stand as its candidate in 2023 News

PDP dismisses suggestions Goodluck will defect to APC and stand as its candidate in 2023

NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed suggestions that the recent visit by leading members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to President Goodluck Jonathan will result in him defecting as standing as their candidate.   Last month, some APC governors and party leaders visited Dr...
Fayemi says he is not an advocate of zoning the presidency to any particular part of the country News

Fayemi says he is not an advocate of zoning the presidency to any particular part of the country

GOVERNOR Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has distanced himself from those advocating for the zoning of the presidency to the southern half of the country in 2023 saying Nigerians should elect the best person for the job irrespective of where they are from.   With 2023 fast approaching, jostling for the presidency has already...
Foreign mercenaries vow never to return to Nigeria after the way Buhari humiliated them African News

Foreign mercenaries vow never to return to Nigeria after the way Buhari humiliated them

FOREIGN military mercenary armies who helped contain the Boko Haram insurgency in the dying months of Jonathan era have vowed never to return to Nigeria again even if asked to by the government after the shabby way they were treated.   Last weekend, Boko Haram beheaded 43 farmers in Borno State, prompting calls for the...
Fashola urges APC leaders to respect the zoning formula they agreed to when they founded the party News

Fashola urges APC leaders to respect the zoning formula they agreed to when they founded the party

WORKS and housing minister Babatunde Fashola has urged his party the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to honour its zoning formula when picking its presidential candidate for the 2023 elections.   Although not constitutional, Nigeria's component parts have a gentleman's agreement that the presidency will rotate between...
Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace and Development asks APC and PDP to pick Igbo presidential candidates in 2023 News

Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace and Development asks APC and PDP to pick Igbo presidential candidates in 2023

MEMBERS of the Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace and Development (NEPD) have asked Nigeria's two leading political parties the All Progressives Congress (APC)  and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to both zone the 2023 presidential ticket to the southeast.   Although not constitutional, Nigeria's component parts have a...
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council says three southeast governors are set to defect to the APC News

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council says three southeast governors are set to defect to the APC

PAN-Igbo socio-political organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) has warned that as many as three governors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the southeast geo-political zone will defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) soon.   According to OYC, they are likely to do this because the PDP is nor...
Presidency says Umahi is welcome in APC as stage looks set for all-Igbo 2023 race News

Presidency says Umahi is welcome in APC as stage looks set for all-Igbo 2023 race

NIGERIA's presidency has welcomed the planned defection of the Ebonyi State governor Dave Umahi to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in what is seen as the first step in his bid to run for president in 2023.   Currently the chairman of the South East Governors’ Forum, Governor Umahi, 57, was first elected in 2015 on...
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