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    TV surrogacy and celebration of absurdities! By Temitope Ajayi

    I think many Nigerians have been so used to abnormalities such that they now see the normal as absurd. Since yesterday afternoon, many of our so-called analysts and surrogates have been on TV and Radio stations doing post APC presidential convention review. One of the prominent faces, Dr. Sam Amadi was on Arise TV yesterday and, in his usual triumphalism,…

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    ANALYSIS: How North kept its word, pulled off a coup

    The tension that characterised the lead up to the APC presidential primary and the eventual denouement, have made it difficult to gloss over certain takeaways from the event. For starters, nothing was certain till the time the show started proper and the fluidity of events ushering in the exercise, had created apprehension across the board with everyone on tenterhooks. This…

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    Bola Tinubu: The kingmaker will now bear the crown, By John Mayaki

    Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has won the contest to stand as the 2023 candidate of the party he helped form and nurture to success, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Securing an overwhelming victory that mocked previous speculations of political vulnerability, he polled 1271 votes, with former Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi coming a distant second with 316 votes. Vice President Osinbajo…

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    Tunde Bakare reacts to zero vote at APC presidential convention

    Pastor Tunde Bakare says he is not moved by his not scoring any vote at the All Progressives Congress presidential primaries on Wednesday. Bakare said this in a statement he released. According to him, he has done his own part in obeying God and would await God fulfil his own. Bakare said he was happy he didn’t pay any delegate…

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    Doyin Okupe hails Tinubu’s victory as APC presidential candidate

    Former presidential spokesman, Doyin Okupe has congratulated Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for emerging the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress at the party’s presidential primaries on Wednesday. Okupe in a statement on his Facebook page said Tinubu emerged victorious after a dogged and courageous fight. He also hailed Northern APC governors for ensuring the party picked a Southern presidential candidate.…

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    Tinubu will improve on my achievements, legacies, says Buhari

    President Muhammadu Buhari says the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will improve on his administration’s achievements and legacies. Buhari said this in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu to congratulate the former Lagos State governor for emerging the party’s presidential flagbearer. Buhari said all the aspirants must…

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    Barkindo lauds multilateral declaration of cooperation between OPEC, non-OPEC producers

    Mr Mohammad Barkindo, the Secretary-General, Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), on Wednesday lauded the 2016 multilateral Declaration of Cooperation (DoC) between OPEC and non-OPEC producers. Barkindo said it was one of the major developments that had affected the global oil industry in the last six years. A copy of his keynote address delivered at the Atlantic Council Global…

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    Abiodun hails Tinubu’s emergence as APC presidential candidate

    By Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has congratulated the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on clinching the presidential ticket of the party. Abiodun, in a statement, issued by him in Abeokuta, said the emergence of Tinubu as the APC presidential flag-bearer for the 2023 general election is a…

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  • Akeredolu promises land for mass burial of Owo terror attack victims, says 127 persons involved, 40 dead

    Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on Wednesday promised the Catholic church that the state government would provide land in a befitting environment for the mass burial of the victims of the Owo terror attack. Akeredolu, according to his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde, gave the assurance when he received a team of Catholic Bishops from the South-West led by…

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    Tinubu’s emergence as APC presidential candidate victory for Southwest, democracy, says SDP chieftain

    By Richard Thomas, Ibadan Chairman, Social Democratic Party (SDP), Oyo State, Yinka Folahan has described the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as victory for the Yoruba race and Nigeria as a whole. Reacting to Wednesday’s victory of Tinubu at the presidential primary of the APC, Folahan described the former Lagos State governor…

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