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APC adjusts presidential primary dates to May 29-30, a day after PDP’s

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has adjusted its schedule of activities for the 2023 general elections from May 30/June 1 to May 29-30.

The presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is scheduled to hold between May 28 and 29.

While the APC will use the Eagle Square, the PDP’s primaries will hold at the MKO Abiola stadium, both in Abuja.

The APC in a statement on Wednesday by its spokesman, Felix Morka, said the special convention to pick the party’s presidential candidate would now hold from May 29 to 30.

The APC had earlier fixed the exercise to hold between May 30 and June 1.

Morka also said the party’s primaries to select candidates for governorship and House of Representatives had been fixed for May 26 — the exercise was earlier scheduled for May 20 and May 24, respectively.

The primaries for the Senate and state houses of assembly would be held on May 27 — instead of the earlier dates of May 25 and May 22.

Morka stated, “The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday, 18th of May, 2022, approved an adjusted Timetable/Schedule of Activities for the governorship, state house of assembly, House of Representatives, Senate and presidential primaries and appeals as follows: [primary election for] governorship and house of representatives – Thursday, 26th of May, 2022.

“Senate and house of assembly – Friday, 27th of May, 2022. Special convention for presidential primaries, Sunday 29 – Monday, 30th of May, 2022.”

He added that election appeals for governorship and House of Representatives would be held on May 27, while May 30 had been fixed for appeals on the Senate and house of assembly matters.

 

 

 

 

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El-Rufai set to dump APC, visits Gowon after meeting SDP leaders

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El-Rufai set to dump APC, visits Gowon after meeting SDP leaders

There are talks that a former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, may quit the All Progressives Congress (APC) and move to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the second time.

The rumour is coming after the APC chieftain had held meetings with SDP leaders.

El-Rufai also visited ex-military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, at his residence in Abuja on Tuesday.

His second visit to SDP stalwarts on Tuesday has further fueled speculations that the former governor is planning to dump the APC.

El-Rufai lost his bid to become a minister in the President Bola Tinubu as he was screened out by the Senate over a damaging petition written against him.

He was however pictured at the Abuja residence of Senator Abubakar Gada, along with SDP chairman Shehu Musa Gabam and other party leaders.

Also reported to be present at the meeting were Senator Teslim Folarin, APC governorship candidate for Oyo State in the 2023 general elections, and Senator Nazif Suleiman, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party from Bauchi State.

The meeting at Gada’s home in Abuja on Sunday night came after El-Rufai hosted a Ramadan iftar at his Abuja residence.

Those at the Ramadan iftar include the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, Kashim Ibrahim-Imam and Shehu Musa Gabam.

El-Rufai also visited Gabam at the SDP secretariat.

Last Friday, a former spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, said the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 Presidential Election, Peter Obi, was planning to leave the Labour Party and join El-Rufai in the SDP.

Bwala, in a post on his X handle, said Obi was planning to leave the Labour Party following the current crisis in the party with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) threatening to take over the party.

Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State, joined the Labour Party in May 2023 in the buildup to the 2023 general elections following his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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Happening now: Senator Idiat Adebule distributes massive palliatives to Lagos West residents (photos)

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Happening now: Senator Idiat Adebule distributes massive palliatives to Lagos West residents (photos)

Hundreds of people mostly the poor and members of the All Progressives Congress in the Lagos West Senatorial District are currently gathered at the Ikeja Police College where the senator representing the area, Idiat Adebule, is dolling out palliatives to the downtrodden, among others.

Adebule said 10,000 packs were given out to the vulnerable in the senatorial district.

She listed the items as rice, semovita, beans, pasta garri, vegetable oil and cloths.

Even as she said the package was a tip of the iceberg, stressing that people should expect bigger and better packages, not necessarily food items.

Newstrends captured the event in photos

… Detailed report later

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Abure to Ajero: Don’t use NLC resources to pursue your 2027 political ambition

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Abure to Ajero: Don’t use NLC resources to pursue your 2027 political ambition

National Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure, has accused President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, of causing friction between the party leadership and the labour group over the his (Ajero) alleged 2027 presidential ambition.

Abure was reacting to the NLC members picketing of the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday and the protesters’ demand for his dismissal.

He said Ajero was behind the protest and told him not to use the platform and resources of the NLC to pursue his ambition of either becoming the president of the country in 2027 or governor of Imo State.

Abure stated this in Asaba, Delta State, on Wednesday.

He said the “picketing” of the party’s office was politically motivated, describing it as a show of rascality and abuse of office and the laws of the land.

He said, “I must state today that the leadership of NLC under Joe Ajaero is on the path of destroying the successes we have recorded in the 2023 general election.

“I had expected that as a responsible trade union centre, a responsible labour leader, (it) should have teamed up with Labour Party to see how we can team up together to make the country better.

“Unfortunately and ironically too, the NLC is the one that is on the path of war against Labour Party.

“I must state clearly that Ajaero as NLC president has not been able to organise a successful strike action; not even a single protest or even picketing government establishment in order to bring government to accede to the numerous requests of workers.

“As we speak, there are unfair labour practices meted out to workers by several organisations in the country. I have not seen Joe Ajaero go to such organisations to picket them.”

He also said, “Over the past few years, NLC has been claiming ownership of Labour Party. l must state clearly that NLC is not the owner of Labour Party. The party is not owned by NLC.

“The law is very clear that you cannot picket an organisation where you do not have your workers. We are not the employers of NLC and they don’t have the legitimate reason to picket our office.

“We have no trade union dispute with NLC, there is no notice issued to us that we have a trade union dispute with NLC. This is clearly an abuse of office and abuse of the laws of the land.”

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