Tag: CPC
How Far Can Opposition Parties Go?
The decision of four opposition political parties to fuse into the newly named All Peoples Congress, APC, which hopes to…
Nigeria’s opposition parties form All Progressive Congress
Nigeria’s main opposition parties on Wednesday said they planned to merge ahead of presidential elections in 2015, potentially mounting a…
10 Nigerian governors back merger of parties
Ten State Governors drawn from the different political parties and geo political zones in the country on Tuesday met at…
ACN-CPC Merger: The New Hope For Nigeria
BY JOE IGBOKWE If everything goes as planned in the great families of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and…
ACN Slams FG For Plotting Against Merger
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has alerted the nation about the desperate measures being planned by the PDP-led Federal…
Insecurity, Nigeria’s ‘Man Of The Year’ — Odumakin
The Publicity Secretary of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, has said that insecurity was practically Nigeria’s man…
Court orders fresh bye-election in Plateau state
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Nigerian Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday set aside, the 6 October, 2012…
Marwa: ‘I’m still in CPC’
The governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Adamawa state, north eastern Nigeria, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa,…
PDP wins 22 of 23 councils in Kaduna polls
BY FEMI ADI/KADUNA Peoples Democratic Party has displayed superiority over the major opposition Congress for Progressive Change in Kaduna State…
PDP wins Zaria bye election
Alhaji Shehu Malami Nuhu-Babajo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won Saturday’s by-election into Kaduna State House of Assembly for…
PDP topshot dismisses ACN, CPC merger talks
Alhaji Kawu Baraje, the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has dismissed on going merger talks between…
ACN slams PDP over Attacks on General Buhari
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has denounced the crude, vitriolic and impudent verbal attack on a former Head of…
CNPP Urges Opposition To Plan Early For 2015 Polls
Chairman of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) in Enugu, Mr Adonis Igwe, has tasked political parties in the…
CPC Wants Borno Exco Dissolved
The Borno Chairman of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Alhaji Zanna Shettima, in Maiduguri on Tuesday called for the…
Grassroots Governance Needs Change —Oladipo
A chairmanship aspirant for Lagos Mainland Local Government on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Mr. Lateef Adelani…
Elections 2011, Headlines, News, Politics
INEC, Jonathan, PDP Tackle CPC Over Voters’ Biometric Data
The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, which is challenging the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan at the April 2011 Presidential…
El-Rufai Arrested
Former Federal Capital Territory minister, Malam Nasir el-Rufai has been arrested. Reports say operatives of the State Security Service, SSS,…
CPC Reps Candidate Returns To ACN
House of Representatives candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in Lagos, Otunba Niyi Raheem, has returned to the…
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Presidential Election Petition Tribunal: Proceedings Stalled Again
Proceedings at the Presidential Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja was again stalled on Monday on account of issues relating to…
Elections 2011, News, Politics
CPC Warns Fake Progressives
National Vice Chairman, South East of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Mr. Austin Amaechi, said on Tuesday that fake…
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Presidential Election Petition Tribunal: Salami Heads Panel
The Presidential Election Tribunal on Tuesday held its inaugural sitting in Abuja with the President of the Court of Appeal,…
Labour Party Seeks Legal Opinion On Gov Poll
The Labour Party, LP, in Abia State says it is considering the next action about the governorship and state House…
Kaduna Remains Peaceful
Amid fears that there will be another post-election violence after the announcement of governorship election result, Kaduna State has remained…
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Yakowa wins Kaduna Gov. Election with 1,334,319 votes
Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa of the People’s Democratic Party,PDP has been officially declared winner of the April 28 governorship election…
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PDP Sweeps Plateau, Taraba, Delta States; Ogboru Loses Again
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has added Plateau, Taraba states and Delta States to its electoral spoils, according to new…
Elections 2011, News, Politics
Kaduna CPC Wants INEC, Police Bosses Removed
Kaduna Chapter of Congress for Progressive Change ,CPC has accused the Kaduna Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC and Police Commissioner …
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Call for Arrest: Buhari Lashes Out At CAN President
For daring to suggest that he should be arrested over the post-presidential election violence in the Northern part of the…
CPC Wants Kaduna REC, Police Boss Removed
The Kaduna chapter of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has accused the Kaduna Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC and Police…
Fire Razes Bakare’s House
The house of fiery preacher turned politician, Pastor Tunde Bakare was razed down by fire today with valuables worth millions…
6 Days To Gov. Election: Confusion Rocks CPC In Kano, Katsina
Ahead of the 26 April governorship election, a Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja this morning upturned the victory of…