Tag: Presidential Primary
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Okowa has words for Atiku, commends losers
Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) 2018 Special National Convention Planning Committee, has congratulated former vice president Atiku Abubakar on his emergence as the party’s presidential flagbearer. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Governor Okowa, who extended his goodwill message to the former vice president in a statement issued on Sunday by…
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2019: Atiku courts, pays personal tribute to Obasanjo
Following his emergence as the Peoples’ Democratic Partic (PDP) presidential flagbearer in the 2019 general election, former vice president Atiku Abubakar paid personal tribute to his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Atiku on Sunday in his acceptance speech shortly after winning the PDP presidential primary, praised Obasanjo for the role he played…
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PDP presidential primary: Wike formally speaks on Atiku’s candidacy
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has made a formal statement after former vice president Atiku Abubakar emerged as the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2019 general election. Reports emerged that following Atiku’s emergence as the presidential candidate of the PDP, the Rivers State Governor immediately left the Adokie Amasiemeka Stadium in…
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JUST IN: Dankwambo denies relinquishing presidential ambition
Outgoing Governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Dankwambo, has denied relinquishing his presidential ambition to allow Governor Nyesom Wike-favoured Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State have his way in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports SR had in an exclusive report claimed that the Tambuwal group is said to be pushing, and…
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Presidential primary: PDP mocks Buhari, APC for posting ‘fake’ results
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) for posting fictitious figures as votes secured by President Muhammadu Buhari at the APC Presidential primary, “just to hoodwink Nigerians and create an impression of massive support for President Buhari”. The PDP in a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan,…
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Presidential primary: Bafarawa pledges loyalty to PDP if he loses ticket
A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Attahiru Bafarawa, has said he would not leave the party if he loses in the primary election. Bafarawa, who is a former governor of Sokoto State, stated this in Minna, the Niger State capital on Monday. He spoke at a meeting with the…
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Alhassan voted Atiku against Buhari during APC presidential primary – El-Rufai
…says we warned Buhari not to appoint her minister Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State has accused the embattled Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Aisha Alhassan of voting former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar against President Muhammadu Buhari in the then All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primaries held in the build up to…