2019 elections

President Muhammadu Buhari would not be supported by the South-West geo-political zone in his quest to secure a second term in office in 2019, unless he starts taking concrete steps on the issue of restructuring of the country now, the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), has declared. Making the...

Human rights lawyer and newly appointed Strategic Communications DG for the Muhammadu Buhari 2019 presidential campaign, Festus Keyamo has said that President Buhari did not divided Nigeria along ethnic and religious lines. Read more via Naijaloaded – https://ift.tt/2HGxRMq -- Get More...

Muhammadu Buhari’s pledge to end Boko Haram’s Islamist insurgency in northeast Nigeria played a large part in his 2015 presidential election victory. With elections approaching next year and Buhari,75, having declared his intention to seek a second, four-year term, the extent to which he has...

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to make public the location and status of polling units across the country. The party made the call in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday in Abuja...

Dave Umahi, governor of Ebonyi, has declared Friday as a public holiday for civil servants to obtain their permanent voter cards (PVC) ahead of the 2019 elections. Hygenius Nwokwu, secretary to the state government, in a statement said the governor declared Friday a work-free day as a result of...

Former Niger Delta agitators under the aegis of National Assembly of ex-Militants, NAE, have vowed to “sack” President Muhammadu Buhari with their Permanent Voters Card, PVCs, come 2019. The former agitators said Nigerians can’t afford another four years of Buhari’s “poverty ridden...

A support group for former Vice-President Abubakar Atiku, under the aegis of re-building Nigeria Initiative (RNI), with members across the country, said all arrangements have been concluded for its formal launched in Lagos with its key national officials inaugurated to kick-start the campaign...

Following the trending #lazynigerianyouths, Nigerian singer, Banky W who has waded in to give his own contribution, has told Nigerian youths to get their PVC, so they can send politicians running down the country away via Nigeria News | Laila’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2qMbACh -------------...

As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) prepares for the 2019 general election, indications have emerged that the ghost of the creation of 30,000 new polling units in the run up to the 2015 elections has resurfaced, with the move by the commission to re-introduce new polling...

The General Overseer of Bible Base Miracle Assembly, with headquarters in Onitsha, Anambra state, Rev. Jerry Nwachukwu, has called on the political class in both the South East and South South zones of the country to mount a vigorous campaign for the people to go out and register and collect...

The United States of America (USA), Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Stuart Symington has advised Nigerians to be concerned about the country being peaceful, united and prosperous rather than dominating the county’s space with issues about 2019 general elections. Symington made this know...

Nigeria’s former military ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd.) has said if not for his old age, he would have joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a political party being led nearly mostly by those who worked with him as a military president. Read more via Sahara Reporters –...

Spokesperson of the All Progressive Congress APC, Abdullahi Bolaji, says it is only President Buhari who can determine if he wants to run with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as his running mate in 2019. This is after President Buhari must have emerged the party's presidential flagbearer after a...

Exactly 19 years after contesting against each other in Nigeria’s first Presidential election of the 4th Republic, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, will on Tuesday meet at Obasanjo’s Abeokuta residence with one...

A desperate search by members of the House of Representatives for a return ticket in 2019 has begun, The PUNCH learnt on Sunday. The elections are about 10 months away, but many members are said to be unsure of the road ahead, with the primaries of the political parties not too far off...

OMOYELE Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters and a presidential hopeful has disclosed what he will do to Igbos of the South-East should he become the leader of the country in the forth coming general election. The publisher who is currently holding town hall meetings and consultations across...

Following the recent declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari to seek re-election in the 2019 elections, some bigwigs in the ruling All Progressives Congress, whose presidential ambitions have been threatened by the President’s move, have been talking to other parties to get their presidential...

Saraki, who had been in alliance with PDP since the beginning of 8th National Assembly, is said to be planning to use the crisis that will likely emanate from the upcoming APC National Convention to detect to the PDP baring any last minute change of mind, The Eagle Online informed Facts have...

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See Full statement below: PRESIDENT BUHARI TO SEEK RE-ELECTION IN 2019 President Muhammadu Monday in Abuja declared his intention to seek re-election in 2019. President Buhari made the declaration at a closed-door meeting of the National Executive Council of the All Progressives Congress...