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The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has called for a constitutional review to strengthen the position of deputy leaders in Nigeria. Ganduje made this call at the 3rd Annual Conference of the Forum of Former Deputy Governors of Nigeria, held in Abuja, with the event themed “Strategic Solutions…
20 Oct
President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Umar Ganduje have expressed their condolences to the people of Jigawa and the state government as the death toll in a tanker explosion in the state exceeded 174. Already, various leaders…
14 Oct
The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) suffered another political defeat over the weekend as more than 1,000 loyalists of the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, embraced the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP). The major political realignment into the Kwankwasiyya hegemony in Kano’s polity signals an unprecedented shift ahead of the local…
3 Oct
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje relived how one of the newly appointed Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Prof Abubakar Kana, set aside the garnishee order against the party in the sum of N1.5 billion. Kano who is the national legal advisor of the party was among…
28 Sep
The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, has gifted the sum of N20 million to the families of police officers killed recently in a ghastly accident along the Zaria-Kano expressway. The five policemen deployed from the Kano command to Edo State for the gubernatorial poll were involved in the unfortunate road…
27 Sep
Kano State Government has distanced Governor Abba Kabiru Yusuf from a ₦177 billion loan from France secured by the administration of former governor Abdullahi Ganduje. The government said the claim was a misconception and a “deliberate attempt by selfish individuals to tarnish the ingenuity of the government to promote infrastructural growth.” Director General, Kano State…
27 Sep
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, may have lost his grip on his political base following the defection of 1,331 APC members to the ruling New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP). The defectors, mainly from 11 wards of Ganduje's Dawakin-Tofa local government area of Kano State, vowed to work against…
26 Sep
President Bola Tinubu on Monday received the Edo State governor-elect, Monday Okpebholo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Okpebholo was accompanied by the Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, and some of the governors elected on the platform of the party. Among the governors sighted on the entourage was the chairman…
23 Sep
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has vowed that the party would stop at nothing to retain the Ondo state governorship seat, Mr. Lucky Aiyedatiwa in the November 11 poll. Ganduje also said the APC is already looking at the direction of adding the exalted seat of…
11 Sep
No fewer than 4,000 public servants, the majority in the directorate cadre of Kano State civil service, have been directed to proceed on compulsory retirement. The decision follows the abolition of the 5-year service elongation policy introduced by the immediate past administration into the civil service. Dr Abdullah Umar Ganduje's administration had obstructed the standard…
5 Sep
North-Central Vanguard for Social Justice (NCVSJ) has condemned moves in some quarters to frustrate the North Central from reclaiming the seat of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a statement by its chairman, Silas Ibrahim, NCVSJ said from the outset it was a grave injustice to have allowed the incumbent national…
2 Sep
The debate over the propriety of the continued tenure of the National Chairman of the APC, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, is expected to be a central issue during the party's upcoming caucus and national executive committee (NEC) meetings scheduled for the 11th and 12th of this month. The planned meetings, announced on Monday by APC…
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