Tag: Presidential race
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders quits U.S. presidential race
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont dropped out of the Democratic presidential race on Wednesday, concluding a quest for the White House that began five years ago in relative obscurity but ultimately elevated him as a champion of the working class, a standard-bearer of American liberalism and the leader of a self-styled political revolution. Mr. Sanders’s…
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SDP withdraws from Presidential Race, adopts Buhari
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has announced its withdrawal from the Feb. 16, presidential election and adopts the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari, for the poll. This was part of the resolutions of the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party in Abuja on Thursday. According to the NEC, “we cannot…
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Ezekwesili, party chair trade words over withdrawal from presidential race
Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, the Presidential Candidate of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN). has described allegation by the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Abdul-Ganiyu Galadima that she was never really serious about her presidential ambition as baseless. In an interview with News Agency of Nigeria, her media aide, Mr Uzoma Ubabukoh, in Lagos, on…
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2019: INEC rejects Ezekwesili’s last minute withdrawal from presidential race
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday said it is too late for any candidate to withdraw from contesting any position in the upcoming elections slated to commence from February 16, 2019. INEC said this in reaction to Oby Ezekwesili stepping down as presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN). Ezekwesili…
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2019: Fela Durotoye denies withdrawing from presidential race
…Expresses readiness to form coalition The presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), Fela Durotoye on Thursday denied withdrawing from the 2019 presidential election race but expressed his readiness for a genuine coalition with other new generation presidential candidates. TNG reports that since Dr Oby Ezekesili of the Allied Congress Progressives Party…
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2019: Ezekwesili joins presidential race, unveils party today
A former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili on Saturday made public her intention to run for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2019. Ezekwesili was also a former Vice President of the World Bank for Africa made the declaration in a statement released to the media on Saturday. She…
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Former Plateau governor, Jonah Jang joins 2019 presidential race
Former governor of Plateau State, Senator Jonah Jang, will on Tuesday declare his interest in running for the presidency in Jos. Jang, representing Plateau North in the National Assembly, will lead his supporters to the secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party to formally intimate them of his interest to join the 2019 presidential race. No…
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2019: I’m still in the presidential race – Fayose
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has insisted that he was still in the contest for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2019 elections. He said activities of his campaign had slowed down because of his preparations to ensure victory for his party in the coming Ekiti governorship election.…