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  • 2023 Elections: I lost the battle not the war- VP Osinbajo

    Following his third place finish at the just concluded All Progressive Congress (APC) Special Convention Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said he lost the battle, but not the war.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu won the presidential primary with total votes of  1,271 votes to become the party’s flagbearer.

    In his reaction, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said he lost the battle, but not the war, saying that he would be committed to the dream and aspirations of a new Nigeria.

    He stated this while speaking at the campaign office of The Progressive Project (TPP) in Abuja on Friday.

    The Vice President also vowed to support Tinubu during next year’s election.

    “This movement is a movement within a party also, we are not doing something that has not been heard of before.

    “What is new is that we have a firm belief that a new Nigeria is possible and it is possible through us who are here.

    “We went to the convention, and the results showed us clearly that we lost, but it is only a battle, it is not the war. There are battles ahead, but we will win the war for a new Nigeria. I have no doubt in my mind that we will win that war for a new Nigeria.

    “That is why our movement for a new Nigeria must remain strong and firm. And we will do everything to keep our movement strong and solid,” Osinbajo said.

    “The dream of a new country remains alive and well… We will have at the back of our minds, that what you have started in the various movements, coming into one, is the seed that will birth a new nation. You and I know the time has come and we will devote everything to it.”

  • Okorocha finally speaks after polling zero votes at APC Special convention

    Aftermath of polling zero votes at the just concluded All Progressives Congress (APC)  Special Convention  at the Eagle Square in Abuja on Tuesday ,former Imo state governor Rochas Okorocha has  finally broken his silence.

    There were speculations that Okorocha could drop the party and pitch his tent with rival PDP after his experience in the hands of EFCC few days to the convention.

    The  Senator Representing Imo West Senatorial District, was arrested by operatives of EFCC over misappropriation of funds but later  released on bail few days to the presidential primary.

    However, the ex-governor in a release made available to journalists by the Special Adviser ( Media), Sam Onwuemeodo on Friday, said Okorocha wishes Asiwaju, success as he flies the Presidential flag of the APC in the 2023 election.

    Okorocha said, ” I commend all those who participated in the APC party primary for its presidential ticket.

    Okorocha said, ” I congratulate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on his victory at the Presidential Primary election of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

     

     

  • Adamu berates APC members for always rushing to address the media

    Senator Abdulahi  Adamu the National chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) has frowned at party members who always rush to the media to disclose party issues.

    Adamu became agitated  in his plan to foist the  Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan as the party’s  consensus candidate.

    He made this disclosure at the ongoing APC Special Convention at Eagle Square Abuja.

    His address read: “On the 20th of April this year, I drew the attention to the need for our party to be disciplined…that a political party such as APC, the ruling party, at the heart of our national development must be exampilary and disciplined and fidelity in its core values.

    “Washing our dirty linen in the public is not a mark of courage, it is a mark of irresponsibility, indiscipline and indiscrination to obey extant rules and regulations and play by them.

    “We have nothing to gain in portraying our party in a bad light. We have everything to lose in undermining the integrity of our great party. I found it necessary to make these observations.”

    “things are not falling apart; things are holding up and I am grateful to you all for standing by me and members of the National Working Committee in seeing that we carry out the first order of business in our party and that is the total reconciliation of all the state branches of the APC that were held hostage by avoidable grievances.”

    “It is said that in all serious socio-political contests, truth is the first casualty. It is so in this contest. We have watched with growing concern a fielding- frenzy in the mainstream media and the relevant social media, the general public is being fed with facts that are no longer envisioned about our party and even the president.

    “While speculations, half truth and blatant lies dominate political discuss because they are calculated attempts on the streets by uninformed and excites primordial sentiments,

    “We recognize the people’s right to freedom of speech and of the press. But all freedoms impose a major responsibility on those who exercise them and how they are exercised. The reckless exercise of that freedom from the high and the low impinges on the rights and responsibilities of all citizens.”

  • Atiku reacts to APC’s presidential primary election

    Former Vice president and the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), presidential candidate, Alhaji  Atiku Abubakar, has challenged  the All Progressives Congress, (APC), ahead of the forthcoming 2023  general elections.

    Atiku posited that the 2023 general elections will serve as a referendum against the ruling APC’s failed policies and administration.

    He stressed that APC cannot boast of a good scorecard  since it became the ruling party in the country.

    The former  Vice President wrote via his twitter page : “The APC can gloss over everything, but not its scorecard for the mandate Nigerians gave to the party.

    “The 2023 elections will be a referendum on the failed policies of the administration. -AA”

    As at the time of filing this report the APC is still having its presidential primary at the Eagle Square in Abuja.

     

  • APC Convention: Journalists barred from gaining access to cover event

    Nigeria and foreign journalists who had applied to cover the Special Convention and presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) are denied entry into venue of the primary elections.

    Some of the journalists who stormed the Eagle Square venue of the convention were turned back by heavily armed security operatives.

    Many  journalists, who travelled into Abuja from various parts of the country  for the exercise said they had not been issued accreditation tags as of 10:30am on Tuesday.

    The event was billed to kick start by 10am On Tuesday.

    Some journalists, who were eager to get the tags were made to shuttle, amid heavy traffic gridlock,

    between the International Conference Centre, ICC, where delegates are to be accredited; and the Old Parade Ground where the Media Committee of the Convention Planning Committee had an office, to no avail.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that APC has trimmed down the number of Aspirants to five Southern contestants.