Tag: APGA
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Anambra poll: APGA reconciles with Ojukwu’s widow Bianca
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Peace, Reconciliation and Outreach Committee on Saturday in Enugu held a closed door meeting with Mrs Bianca Ojukwu. Mrs Ojukwu is the wife of late national leader of the party, Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu and former Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain. The delegation which included the Speaker, Anambra State House of…
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Anambra Guber: APGA, PDP, APC not qualified to contest – ADC National Chairman
The African Democratic Congress (ADC), says that the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), should not contest in the Anambra governorship election. Mr Ralph Nwosu, National Chairman of the party, made the assertion at a news conference on Tuesday, in Awka. Nwosu said that the…
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Anambra 2021: New twist as two High Courts order INEC to recognise Soludo, Uba as APGA, PDP candidates
Two High Courts in Anambra have directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to publish the names of two governorship candidates for the November 6 election without further delay. They are: Senator Ugochukwu Uba of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Prof Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). In their separate judgments…
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Anambra guber: Ex-President Jonathan’s envoy dumps APGA, wins ADC ticket
By Chuks Collins, Awka The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has Wednesday elected the special envoy to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Nze Akachukwu Nwankpo as its governorship candidate for the forthcoming November 6, 2021 election in Anambra state. Nwankpo who recently dumped his former All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Party along with his teeming supporters for the…
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Anambra guber: Confusion in APGA as another candidate, Edozie Njoku emerges flagbearer after Soludo
from Chuks Collins, Awka A factional National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Edozie Njoku has been elected governorship flagbearer of the party in the forthcoming Nov 6,2021 election in Anambra state. Chief Njoku who commended the very peaceful disposition of the party delegates all through the process thanked them for believing…
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Former APGA National Secretary joins APC with Matawalle
The Former National Secretary of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Dr Sani Shinkafi, says he has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) to support Gov. Bello Matawalle to rebuild Zamfara. Shinkafi who was the APGA governorship candidate at the 2019 general elections in Zamfara, disclosed this at a news conference in Gusau on…
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Soludo wins Anambra APGA governorship primary election
Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday emerged the governorship candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Nov. 6 governorship election in Anambra. Soludo scored a total of 740 votes out of 792 valid votes cast by delegates. Declaring the results of the exercise, Samson Olalere, the…
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Anambra guber: Crisis in APGA, PDP will give us victory – APC
A leading pressure group, APC Patriots, Anambra has charged aspirants of the All Progressives Congress to close ranks in order for the party to win the November 6, 2021 gubernatorial election. Speaking against the backdrop of intense crisis currently rocking the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA and the People’s Democratic Party, PDD, the APC…
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Anambra 2021 APGA Disqualification: Nwankpo, Okafor go on appeal
Two of the frontline governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra State, Nze Akachukwu Sullivan Nwankpo, and Nonso Smart Okafor who were recently disqualified alongside three others by the party’s adhoc Governorship screening panel have individually appealed against the verdict. Nwankpo’s appeal documents, according to his media spokesman Chuma Harris was…
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APGA NEC sacks two factional chairmen, six others
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has sacked the two factional chairmen of the party and appointed a new acting national chairman, Chief Jude Okeke. Briefing journalists after rising from its 114th NEC meeting in the Abuja on Tuesday, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kabiru Yusuf, said…