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  • 2023 Elections: Power outage mars APC campaign rally in Bauchi

    2023 Elections: Power outage mars APC campaign rally in Bauchi

    Power outage experienced during the All Progressives Congress, APC All Progressives Congress, (APC)  forced the organizers to end abruptly  the campaign meant to hold at the All Progressives Congress, APC owing to the fact that the microphone ceased to work.

    The Party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, who was supposed to usher President Muhammadu Buhari and the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to the podium, had barely started making his remarks when the microphone malfunctioned.

    President Buhari had merely climbed the stage and presented the party’s flag to APC governorship candidate in the state, when the microphone started to malfunction. All efforts by the engineer on ground to get it to work proved abortive.

    The President’s security immediately ferried him out of the stadium without making any speech after the presentation of the flag.

    Similarly, the presidential candidate, Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, left the venue without uttering a word to the crowd of party members and supporters after the development caused a commotion at the venue.

  • 2023: Umahi grants free use of facilities for PDP presidential rally

    2023: Umahi grants free use of facilities for PDP presidential rally

    Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has granted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) free use of the State Stadium for its Presidential Campaign rally.

    Newsmen reports that the PDP rally is slated to hold on Jan. 26 in Abakaliki.

    This is contained in a statement issued in Abakaliki on Saturday night by Mr Chooks Okoh, Governor’s media aide.

    “The PDP in a letter addressed to the Governor, titled: “Notice of Presidential Rally of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ebonyi State” dated 20th Jan. 2023, had requested the use of Pa Ngele Oruta Township stadium.

    It accepted to pay the prescribed fees in line with the operative Executive Order in the state.

    The governor, in his response, waived the fees and directed the Acting Chairman of the State Board of Internal Revenue not to collect any fee from the party.

    He also directed the Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development to grant the party unhindered access to the facility.

    Umahi, however appealed to his party, the All Progressives Congress, to move its campaign scheduled to hold in the facility same day to another venue in order to make space for PDP.

    He also notified the State Commissioner of Police of the event, directing that as the Chief Security Officer of the State, adequate security should be provided to the party.

    The governor had earlier approved the facility for the Labour Party’s Presidential Rally which is yet to be held in the state.