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Amalgamated Support Groups Urges Tinubu to Consider Northwest Zone for Senate President  The Director-General of Amalgamated All Progressives Congress (APC) support groups , Engineer Kailani Muhammad has urged the President -elect to consider the Northwest zone for the Senate Presidency. According to the DG, the massive votes APC got from northwest, no doubt  gave the President- elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima the deserved victory at the polls . The Director-General of the Amalgamated APC support groups , Engineer Kailani,who also the National Coordinator of Tinubu Shettima Network (TSN)  stated this  during a visit by the former Governor of Zamafara State , Alhaji Abdula'ziz Abubakar Yari to his office in Abuja to inform the  support groups about his interest to vie for the position of the Senate President. During the visit Kailani reiterated the call by members of the party from Zamfara State and party...

2023 polls: Group urges APC to reward Kano Central candidate  ...Roots for Senator Jibril as Senate President  A group under the aegis of Kano Progressives Forum has called on the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress(APC) to consider rewarding its Kano Central Senatorial Zone candidate, Abdussalam Abdulkarim Zaura, for what described  as his " legendary support and generosity to the party since 2019". A statement signed by the group Director of Publicity, Malam Aminu Abubakar noted that  Zaura "has donated 50 vehicles to the APC and ensured the establishment of functional Local Governments party offices in the entire Kano State" adding that " this commitment to the party's victory is almost unbeatable  in the recent history of the party". "We urge the national leadership of the APC to do all within its democratic powers to give special recognition to A. A Zaura, and we make thus call without prejudice to the possibility...

Kaduna Governors Poll: Southern Kaduna Youth Coalition Endorses Uba Sani By John Adamu, Kaduna The Southern Kaduna Youth Coalition Forum (SKYCF), has called on the people of Kaduna especially brothers and sisters from Southern Kaduna to vote for the candidacy of the APC gubernatorial candidate, Senator Uba Sani, for the unity, peace and development of our state.  Addressing newsmen in Kafanchan, the National President of the forum, Comrade Danjuma Afuwai John, explained that the gubernatorial candidate has what it takes to ensure absolute peace, unity and equity to all sections of the state if elected. He assured, "Senator Uba Sani as he is known to the people of Kaduna state has all his life being a struggling gentleman, who, has desired to ensure good governance and good neighborliness in all he does. His recent assignment as the Senator representing Kaduna Central and what he has been able to achieve by ensuring the distributions of all that comes his way in his Con...

Kaduna Guber Race: Makarfi Ambassadors Warn Religious Leaders Against Preaching Division, Acrimony in Worship Places  Ahead of the Saturday Governorship election in Kaduna , Group under aegis of Makarfi Ambassadors has called on religious leaders to shun rhetoric that promotes hate, division, and acrimony among the people. According to the group, the deep involvement of clerics as agents of political mobilisation is an unfortunate event that has created undue  tension in the state . In a press statement Jointly signed by Mr. Abdullahi Ahmed,Coordinator General-Matters, and Engr. Bolade Aina, Coordinator Planning/Strategy of  the Makarfi Ambassadors, the group warned against clerics using their places of worship as  platforms to preach politics of division and hatred.  The statement reeads: "We want them to know that in every election, there must be losers and winners. It is God who decides who should be a winner no matter what we feel or think.”...

Lagos Guber Race: Senator Shehu Sani Endorses Sanwo-olu  ...says Stopping him,is stopping wheel of progress Ahead of the Saturday Governorship elections across Nigeria,the former Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani has backed the re-election bid of the All Progressives Congress candidate and  current Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-olu. According to him, though the recent presidential election results reveal the overt threats from the Labour Party in Lagos State, it's time the voters in the State shun all forms of sentiments and  considered experience; capacity and ability to work and deliver on campaign promises. He also said in a cosmopolitan State such as Lagos,people shouldn't vote along line of sentiments, especially when Sanwo-olu is a working clock and working machine,who has consolidated on the good works of all his predecessors. Senator Shehu Sani, who stated this in an interview with some j...

Uba Sani Will Win Kaduna State With Wide Margin – Comrade Musa Mohammed The gubernatorial candidate of All Progressives Congress APC, in Kaduna state will beat all other contending parties with wide margin in the upcoming 2023 governatorial election in the state. Comrade Musa Mohammed, a Supporter of Senator Uba Sani, stated this in an interview with newsmen in Kaduna on Wednesday. He said the party, based on plans and indicators on ground will win at both the gubernatorial and state assembly level with overwhelming votes, including the Hon. Isah Ashiru Kudan of PDP in the state, “Ashiru Kudan is from Kaduna, a former member of both state and national assembly. He will get some votes but APC will defeat him in the gubernatorial race, and will defeat all other political parties by God’s grace.  “We are saying, we are going to have a wide margin in the coming election. He explained that indicators on the ground have placed the leading opposition in the state, the PDP, in ...

Guber Race : Makarfi Ambassadors Enjoin Labour Party Guber Candidate, Members to Form Alliance with PDP  to Defeat APC in Kaduna  The Makarfi Ambassadors have called on the Labour Party governorship Candidate and members in the Kaduna State to join hands with the main opposition party, People's Democratic Party (PDP) to defeat the ruling party ,All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming Guber race. According the group, this is a time to mobilise electorate across the 23 local government areas of the State to kick out bad governance; unabated security challenges, heartless demolition of property, mass sacking of working and harsh government policies. In a press statement Jointly signed by Mr. Abdullahi Ahmed, Coordinator General-Matters, and Engr. Bolade Aina - Coordinator Planning/Strategy, the Makarfi Ambassadors  said the pattern of voting during the recent presidential elections show that majority of voters preferred PDP ,but to completely demolish APC, t...

Tinubu, Shettima, a Perfect Pair- Dr Suleiman Umar By Adamu Bature, Kaduna Dr. Suleiman Umar, Director Monitoring and Evaluation at the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) Adamawa State, has congratulated Nigerians on the unequivocal election of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima  as President and Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He said, "It is a victory for all where Nigerians voted out religious, sectional and tribal bigotry. Their emergence is the best thing to happen to our country at this point in view of its urgent socioeconomic development needs." He added, "They have both passed the litmus test in the private sector and the public service over the past four decades." The ex-banker and politician who doubles as the Coordinator in charge of Security and Intelligence for the PCC in the state also said the duo are capable of harnessing the potentials of the country and adding value to its immense resources. According to hi...

Kaduna gov'ship: PDP and Isa Ashiru's looming defeat  By Fatima Taurus Nigerians have never failed to amuse themselves and any person possessing a normal portion of reason and dispassionate insight into how and why things happen on the scale of political possibilities and impossibilities in political affairs. They allow all sorts of bewildering sentiments to transmute them to the realms of impossibilities where they make very funny analyses and political calculations. That is why they see clout and capacity to win elections in personalities who clearly do not possess such clout and capacity. At the end, their hopes are often pathetically dashed, rendering them laughing stocks to everyone genuinely concerned with the country's political affairs. This is the case in Kaduna State where, in spite of the very glaring facts on the ground across the three Senatorial zones, people still exist in hundreds of thousands, who see capacity and clout to win the approaching Ma...

Kaduna Guber Election: Makarfi Ambassadors Make Clarion Call to Labour Party Members , Southern Kaduna People  ... Reiterate Need to Join Forces to Defeat APC  A week ahead of the governorship and state assembly elections across Nigeria,  group under aegis of  Makarfi Ambassadors has called on good  Kaduna citizens, especially the electorate of  Southern Kaduna to vote the main opposition party People's Democratic Party across board . According to the group, to defeat the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, all hands must be accountability on deck to ensure that members of Labour Party work together with those of the PDP in southern Kaduna to  vote massively  for  Hon. Isa Ashiru Kudan and his running mate Dr. John Ayuba during the governorship election next week Saturday, March 11. While revealing that PDP has already won all the three Senatorial seats and has ten members of Federal House of Representatives out of sixteen ,t...

Sokoto governorship: Defend your votes, APC group tasks voters APC supporters in Sokoto state have been called upon  to come out in their large numbers to vote for the gubernatorial candidate of the party,  Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto in the forthcoming elections billed for March the 11th. The call was made by the Movement for the Actualization of All APC candidates in Sokoto state, in a statement signed by  release signed by its chairman Alhaji Salisu Abdullahi Makama and secretary, comrade Kasimu Ahmed. "Our Movement believes Sokoto is an APC state while the PDP is just administratively ruling on the 2019 stolen mandate and now  the party has already been conniving with electoral officials to rig the 2023 exercise as well", the group argued. The group expressed concern over what it described as the hidden agenda of the PDP government in Sokoto  "working on a script of dominating the voting by force". Abdullahi, in the statement decried what the Movement...

Kaduna Guber Race : Makarfi Ambassadors Thank Electorate for Voting  PDP massively... Enjoins them to repeat same for Isa Ashiru on March 11 Group under umbrella of Makarfi Ambassadors have commended the entire Kaduna electorate for coming enmasse to massively vote for  the main opposition party  People's Democratic Party(PDP)  during the just concluded presidential election. The group, which is a support group of the PDP said voting against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna speaks volume about how tired the people are with the Mal. Nasir El-Rufai's government in the State. In a press statement signed by Mr. Abdullahi Ahmed, the Coordinator General,Matters and Engr. Bolade Aina, Coordinator Planning/Strategy the group however urged the Electorate to repeat same feat during the forthcoming coming gubernatorial elections in Kaduna . According to the statement," Voting Hon. Isa Ashiru as the next governor of Kaduna State would not serve as...