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  • 2023: Atiku Appoints Saraki, Shekarau, Others As Special Advisers

    2023: Atiku Appoints Saraki, Shekarau, Others As Special Advisers

    Ahead of the commencement of the 2023 election campaign on Wednesday, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has made key appointments of Special Advisers aimed at strengthening his presidential campaign team.

    The appointees are former Senate Presidents, Dr. Bukola Saraki as Special Envoy to the presidential candidate and Senator Pius Anyim, as Special Adviser.

    Also appointed as Special Advisers to the candidate are former governor of Kano State, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Senator Ehigie Uzamere.

    Former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus was also appointed as Technical Adviser to the presidential candidate.

    The appointments are to take immediate effect.

    Atiku Abubakar charged the appointees to use their vast political experiences in ensuring that the PDP presidential campaign records resounding success in the 2023 election.

    The former vice president’s campaign appointments come two days after the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council released a 422-man list of powerbrokers as members of the council tasked with the responsibility to ensure victory for the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, at the February poll in 2023.

  • Shekarau Promised To Work For The Success Of PDP In 2023.

    Shekarau Promised To Work For The Success Of PDP In 2023.

    By Jabiru Hassan, Kano.

    Former two times governor of Kano state and Senator representing Kano Central Malam Ibrahim Shekarau (Sardauna Of Kano) have promised to work selflessly towards the success of the people’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming 2023 general elections.

    Shekarau disclosed this in his speech during an official ceremony where he was received into the party  from New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), where he announces that ” I am ready to contribute inmensly in order to ensure that PDP emerged victorious in the 2023 elections so as to restore the glory of our fatherland”. He emphasized.

    The Senator said that PDP ID is the only party that is having a good manifesto for national growth and economic progress and the party’s flag bearer is somebody who knows how to makes Nigeria greater at both sector, calling on the people of this great country to vote PDP at all levels.

    Earlier in his remark, the presidential candidate of the party Atiku Abubakar the Waziri of Adamawa stressed that ” We would work for Nigeria to be greater than expectation,and from what have happened, the ruling party have failed in every sector and our government would restore the lost glory of our country in order to cope with international community if given the mandate”. 

    Atiku thanked the good people of Kano state for receiving him and his entourage warmly and paid some courtesy calls to some prominent Kano elites and condole with the family of late Uba Leader and Symphasized with Kantin Kwari Traders over lost of properties as a result of  over flooding.

  • JUST IN: Shekarau Faction Lose as Court of Appeal uphold Ganduje’s faction congresses

    JUST IN: Shekarau Faction Lose as Court of Appeal uphold Ganduje’s faction congresses

    By Becky Adi

    An Abuja division of the Court of Appeal on Thursday set aside the judgment of the FCT High Court which invalidated the Kano state ward and local government congresses.

    The Appeal Court held that the lower Court lacks jurisdiction.

    It would be recalled that the Ibrahim Shekarau faction had headed to the FCT High Court after the congresses of the APC in Kano and the court upheld the group’s held congresses as against that of the governor Ganduje’s side.

    The appellate Court also held that the case was not a pre-election matter but an internal matter of the ruling party, therefore should be decided by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Details soon…