Tag: Campaigns
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Why there is delay in take-off of APC campaign – Keyamo
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) says it is delaying the take-off its Presidential Campaign for 2023 poll, to ensure that all necessary ingredients associated with such campaigns are captured.
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Labour Party disowns campaign rally timetable
The Labour Party (LP) on Monday disowned a campaign rally timetable being circulated in the media. Mr Arabambi Abayomi, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, said in a statement in Abuja that the timetable was neither authorised by the LP leadership nor its presidential candidate.
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2023: Wike, allies absent as PDP flags off campaigns in Uyo
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and his allies were conspicuously absent at the official flag-off of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign in Akwa-Ibom State on Monday.
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#NigeriaDecides2023: Campaign promises and the issue of trust – By Dakuku Peterside
Most societies do not trust their politicians, so it is not an anomaly peculiar to Nigeria. Whether it is an advanced democracy or a developing country does not make any difference. For instance, 63% of British people believed their politicians were mainly interested in themselves alone, according to the IPPR think tank poll conducted in…
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How I managed to secure my senatorial ticket – Akpabio
Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs and the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District, Senator Godswill Akpabio has opened up on how he managed to secure the senatorial ticket.
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My crowd is bigger than yours – By Chidi Amuta
The crowds of power wear an amorphous but identical face. It does not matter whether they are the Roman plebeians, renegade factions of the Athenian metropole or the rough racist hounds that accompanied Donald Trump to defile the US Capitol on 6th January 2021. They are all roughly the same. Political crowds troop out in…
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Office of the Citizen: Beyond ritualised incantations and political campaigns – By Samuel Orovwuje
Political campaigns kicked off a few days ago to sell political parties’ manifestoes and their candidates to the Nigerian people. Expectedly, blaring and discordant debates will be taking place across the country with intentional lies to gain resonance with the splintered electorate while a consolidated generalised atmosphere of capacity and competence to fix Nigeria will…
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2023: Peter Obi, Atiku, Tinubu’s supporters take campaign ‘fight’ to U.S.
The three leading presidential candidates in the 25th February 2023 Nigerian presidential election, Messrs Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, took their campaign ‘fight’ to Nigerians in the United States.
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With whereabouts unknown, Tinubu issues statement
With the whereabouts of Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), unknown, his supporters and supporters of the party flagged off their campaign rally at the Unity Fountain in Abuja on Wednesday.
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Campaigns: Political parties, candidates must play by the rules – INEC insists
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said that it would not condone any act of violence or hooliganism in the Presidential and National Assembly campaigns due to start on Wednesday nationwide.