Tag: 2019
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80 Political parties seek registration ahead of 2019 – INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday said that 80 political parties submitted applications for registration ahead of the 2019 elections. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made this known on Tuesday at the Fourth Situation Room Stakeholders Forum on Elections, organised by a coalition of Civil Society Organisations in Abuja. The News Agency of…
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Buhari will get more votes in 2019 than 2015 – Okorocha
Imo governor, Rochas Okorocha has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a man of God who will save Nigeria. Okorocha said this in a statement issued on Sunday to congratulate Buhari on his 75th birthday. He said the vote the president would get in the 2019 election would be double of what he garnered in the…
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2019: NEC’s approved $1bn is for Buhari’s re-election – Fayose
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has alleged that the decision to withdraw $1bn from the Excess Crude Account to fight Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East region is a means by the All Progressives Congress-led federal government to fund President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in 2019. The governor, in a statement on Friday by his…
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2019: Be careful, politicians desperate to destroy our integrity, CJN warns judges
As the 2018 pre election year approaches, the Chief Justice of Nigeria( CJN ), Walter Onnoghen has warned judges to be careful of desperate politicians who will stop at nothing to destroy their (the judges) hard earned reputation and integrity just to get to public office. Onnoghen noted that as the nation moves closer to…
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Tinubu denies purported plans to replace Osinbajo as Buhari’s running mate in 2019
A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Ahmed Tinubu, has said there is no truth in the speculation that he may emerge as President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate for the 2019 presidential election. Tinubu described as a “classic case of utterly and irredeemably-fake news,” the report in a national daily that he was being…
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World Bank to cease financing upstream oil and gas by 2019
The World Bank said on Tuesday it would no longer finance upstream oil and gas projects after 2019, apart from certain gas projects in the poorest countries in exceptional circumstances. “As a global multilateral development institution, the World Bank Group is continuing to transform its own operations in recognition of a rapidly changing world,” the…
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2019: No Northerner alive can beat Buhari at polls in the North – Presidency
Lauretta Onochie, Special Assistant on New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, has reacted to the outcome of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Convention in Abuja. The elective convention which produced a South-South member, Uche Secondus as the National Chairman of PDP, was held on Saturday in Abuja. In a tweet on Sunday, the Presidential…
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Atiku will take us to Aso Rock in 2019 – Makarfi
The chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmed Makarfi has urged former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to help the ruling party with a winning strategy to return to Aso Rock in 2019. Makarfi who made the remarks while receiving Atiku during at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.yesterday alleged…
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Saraki to reveal 2019 ambition next year
Senate President Bukola Saraki has disclosed that he will come forward with his political plan for 2019 in two months. He said there was enough time to talk about 2019, adding that the topics for discussion now should be how to develop the country. Speaking on the Osasu Show, Saraki said: “You are like the…
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2019: I will defeat Buhari this time…he has wasted his massive goodwill – Atiku
I left APC because it has become Buhari’s property – Atiku Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is confident he will defeat President Muhammadu Buhari come 2019 presidential election in Nigeria. Atiku who made the observation in an interview he had with Dele Momodu said it would be easy for his to defeat Buhari this time…