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PREMIUM TIMES’ Samson Adenekan and Nasir Ayitogo on his plan to contest the position of the national chairman of the ruling
PT: We learnt that you are vying for the seat of APC National Chairman; what is your mission? Considering the calibre of people that have shown interest in that same seat; we have former governors, serving senators, among others, do you think you can match them or fit for this seat?
â¢Dates for congresses at all levels ratified
Deji Elumoye and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari has granted another six months tenure extension to the Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The President gave the approval yesterday morning after a closed-door meeting with members of the Committee at the State House, Abuja.
Sources said the Buni-led committee requested for another six months tenure extension after doing 12 months, to enable them âput the party in very good shape and conduct a seamless elective National Convention.â
The Caretaker Chairman and Governor of Yobe State, Buni presented a summary of the Committeeâs progress report to the President at the meeting.
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2023: APC may be its own major opponent – DG Progressives Governors’ Forum
The official says the internal discord within the ruling APC will make the party its own opponent and not the opposition PDP.
The Director General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, has said the ruling
All Progressives Congress (APC) will remain its own major opponent in future polls if internal discord among its leaders persists.
Mr Lukman stated this in a statement on Monday.
PGF is the umbrella body of the governors elected on the platform of the APC.
Known for his political jabs against his party leadership, Mr Lukman said the contest among the APC leaders could affect its chances in the 2023 general elections.
The attack on Chukwuma Soludo, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), by gunmen dominated the headlines of Nigerian newspapers. The report of the US Department of State that there is no accurate information on the fatalities from the shooting at Lekki tollgate, Lagos state, during #EndSARS protests also made the headlines.
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The Punch says the Peoples Democratic Party and some civil society organisations reprimanded the Buhari administration over allegations of massive graft by the US government. The newspaper reports that 30 cows that died mysteriously in Ondo state will get a mass burial and that state health officials are currently monitoring markets in the state over the incident.