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Organised labour in Osun State on Monday rejected allegations by the All Progressives Congress, APC, that the palliative paid to workers and pensioners by the state government was a strategy to influence votes ahead of the August 15 governorship election. Speaking during a protest at the front of the state…
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Former Vice President and African Democratic Congress presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has argued that the current administration’s claims of economic recovery are contradicted by worsening living conditions and the declining state of Nigeria’s manufacturing sector. In a statement issued on Monday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank…
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African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, yesterday labelled former President Olusegun Obasanjo unforgiving and vindictive as the hostility between the former allies appeared to degenerate. Atiku, vice president to Obasanjo between 1999 and 2007, said the latest tirade against him by his former boss was more of…
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Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, Atiku Abubakar, has launched a scathing attack on President Bola Tinubu, urging him to abandon what he described as political grandstanding and focus instead on addressing Nigeria’s worsening economic and security challenges. Reacting to Tinubu’s Tuesday declaration that he…
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said Nigeria’s 2027 general election should be decided by voters at the ballot box rather than through litigation, following the Court of Appeal’s decision overturning a Federal High Court judgment that sought to deregister the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and other political parties. The…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it will recognise only the candidates submitted by the Senator David Mark-led leadership of the African Democratic Congress, confirming that the faction has already nominated candidates for 471 elective positions ahead of the 2027 general election. INEC National Commissioner, Mohammed Haruna, told The…
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The presidential candidate of the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has expressed his determination to set things right and heal the land if given the opportunity to lead the country from 2027. The Waziri Adamawa stated this on Friday in his Democracy Day address at an event organised…
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has won the African Democratic Congress presidential primary in Osun State. Abubakar won the contest with 12,321 votes, defeating Hayatu Deen Muhammed, who polled 4,000 votes. Ex Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, came third with a total of 679 votes. The results declared by the…
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“I am in the presidential race for the ticket,” former Rivers State Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi insisted yesterday. According to him, suggestions that he should step down for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar are uncalled for. Amaechi, Atiku and businessman Hayatudeen Muhammed picked up nomination forms for the presidential ticket…
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Leaders and members of the African Democratic Congress joined a large demonstration in Abuja on Wednesday, protesting decisions by the Independent National Electoral Commission that they said undermined democracy and the party’s internal leadership. The protest, tagged #OccupyINEC, drew former presidential candidates and prominent politicians, including Rotimi Amaechi, Atiku Abubakar,…
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