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• Polls Postponement: PDP faults INEC, insists in reopening campaigns

  17-02-2019 23:20
  The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over its declaration on campaigns.
  Continue reading Polls Postponement: PDP faults INEC, insists in reopening campaigns at Vanguard News Nigeria.
  
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• Buhari’s achievements will fetch him N-Delta votes — Dokubo

  17-02-2019 23:01
  Despite the prevalence of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Niger Delta, the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Prof Charles Dokubo, has boasted that the achievements of the president in the region will fetch him more votes than he got in 2015.
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• Pompeo to visit Kuwait next month, says Kuwait's deputy foreign minister

  17-02-2019 22:31
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Kuwait next month to hold the third round of strategic dialogue between the two countries, Kuwait's state news agency quoted the deputy foreign minister, Khaled Al-Jarallah, as saying on Sunday.
  
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• In Akwa Ibom, PDP candidate drags Nse Ntuen to court for allegedly presenting fake certificate to INEC

  17-02-2019 22:18
  Joe Effiong, Uyo
  The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Essien Udim state constituency of Akwa Ibom State in the March 9 state House of Assembly election, Mr Nae Ntuen, has been dragged to court for allegedly presenting a fake academic qualification to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
  The claimant in the a case filed at the Federal High Court, Uyo, with suit number FHC/WY/C5/27/19, Esse Gerald Umoh, who is the PDP candidate for the same Essien Udim state constitue
  
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• Weld says six more years of Trump 'antics' would be bad for America

  17-02-2019 21:52
  Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, the first Republican to challenge President Donald Trump for their party's presidential nomination in 2020, said on Sunday that six more years of Trump's "antics" in the White House would be bad for America.
  
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• Why I kicked against my wife’s third term — TINUBU

  17-02-2019 21:30
  NATIONAL leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has revealed how some influential members in the Lagos APC Governor’s Advisory Council, GAC, upturned one of his critical decisions not to return his wife, Remi, for a third term in the Senate.
  Continue reading Why I kicked against my wife’s third term — TINUBU at Vanguard News Nigeria.
  
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• Buhari, Tinubu Others To Attend Emergency APC Caucus Meeting On Poll Postponement

  17-02-2019 21:17
  Following the postponement of the general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has scheduled an emergency caucus meeting for Monday, Vanguard can authoritatively report. APC Amon ...
  
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• Apc Briefing On Postponement Of Presidential Election

  17-02-2019 21:01
  Text Of Apc Presidential Campaign Council Press Briefing On The Postponement Of The February 16 2019 Presidential And National Assembly ElectionElections and political parties are primarily about people.In this episode, millions of Nig ...
  
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• Ekiti PDP raises concern over disparities in electoral materials,production of excess polling unit result sheets

  17-02-2019 20:27
  The People39;s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has raised concern over disparities in the electoral materials brought to the State by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), production of excess excess Polling Units Result Sheet ...
  
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• Ex-congressman Weiner released from prison after sexting scandal

  17-02-2019 20:25
  Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former congressman who helped play a role in Hillary Clinton's defeat in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, has been released from federal prison after serving about 14 months for exchanging sexually explicit texts with a 15-year-old girl.
  
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• APC issues 6 queries to INEC, denies calling for staggered elections

  17-02-2019 20:18
  The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has issued six queries to the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC following the postponement of the general elections by the electoral umpire.
  Continue reading APC issues 6 queries to INEC, denies calling for staggered elections at Vanguard News Nigeria.
  
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• Acting Pentagon chief not decided yet on funding border wall

  17-02-2019 19:24
  Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Saturday he had not yet determined whether a border wall with Mexico was a military necessity or how much Pentagon money would be used.
  
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• Breaking: Buhari, Tinubu others to attend emergency APC Caucus Meeting

  17-02-2019 18:32
  ABUJA: Following the postponement of the general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has scheduled an emergency caucus meeting for Monday, Vanguard can authoritatively report.
  Continue reading Breaking: Buhari, Tinubu others to attend emergency APC Caucus Meeting at Vanguard News Nigeria.
  
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• Postponed polls: PDP accuses FG, APC of sabotaging INEC

  17-02-2019 17:49
  By Dirisu Yakubu
  As the dust over the postponed general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is yet to settle, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government and the All Progressives Congress, APC of deliberately sabotaging the efforts by the commission to conduct credible elections.
  The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, yesterday, noted that fresh evidence it gathered revealed th
  
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• Breaking: APC summons emergency caucus meeting

  17-02-2019 17:32
  By Omeiza Ajayi
  Following the postponement of the general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has scheduled an emergency caucus meeting for Monday, Vanguard can authoritatively report.
  The meeting, slated for 11am would, breaking from tradition, hold at the national secretariat of the party as opposed to its usual venue, the Presidential Villa.
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• Nigerians ‘ll vote out Buhari on February 23, despite election postponement – Wike

  17-02-2019 17:09
  TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt
  Rivers State governor, Nyesom  Wike, has declared that despite the postponement of elections allegedly masterminded by the failed All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal government, Nigerians are determined to vote out President Muhammadu Buhari. 
  Speaking during a special anointing service at the Living Faith Church, Kaduna Street, D-Line Port Harcourt, Governor Wike said the postponement should re-energise Nigerians to use their votes to insist&
  
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• Licked Audio: Tinubu Admits That His Unguided Talk Almost Cost APC Osun State Gov. Election

  17-02-2019 14:58
  Former Lagos state governor Bola Tinubu has confessed saying Osun doesn rsquo;t have his kind of money in a leaked audio gone viral. ldquo;In Osun, they were grumbling that the governorship candidate in the last election was brought from Lagos; A ...
  
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• APC chieftain murdered in Benue

  17-02-2019 14:55
  Rose Ejembi, Makurdi
  Unknown gunmen on Saturday shot and killed All Progressives Congress Governorship(APC) Chairman in Ohimini Local government area of Benue State, Mr. Boniface Okloho.
  Late Okoloho was said to be on his way home from a party function when he was hit by some yet-to-be-identified assailants. Okoloho was until his gruesome murder, the leader of the party in Ohimini, a local government in the Zone C senatorial district of Benue State.
  Director of Publicity, APC, James Ornguga who
  
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• Sen. Ubah demands probe into rumours of his arrest over money laundering

  17-02-2019 14:16
  NANSen. Andy Ubah, representing Anambra South Senatorial District in the Senate, has said   that he was never arrested  over any reason.
  Ubah debunked the rumour in an interview he granted   newsmen in Awka on Sunday.
  He said that  he was surprised when his attention was drawn to news in the media that he was arrested in Lagos with a huge sum of money .
  The senator who is the coordinator of President Mohammadu Buhari’s  Presidential campaign in the South
  
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• PDP, APC disagree as uproar, praise trail polls’ postponement

  17-02-2019 10:28
  “I am deeply disappointed that despite the long notice given and our preparations both locally and internationally, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) postponed the presidential and National Assembly elections within hours of its commencement
  Continue reading PDP, APC disagree as uproar, praise trail polls’ postponement at Vanguard News Nigeria.
  
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• Trump's choice for U.N. ambassador withdraws: State Department

  17-02-2019 10:12
  U.S. President Donald Trump's choice for ambassador to the United Nations, Heather Nauert, has withdrawn from consideration for the job for family reasons, the State Department said on Saturday.
  
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• Ogboru’s bid will fail as in previous five attempts — Aribogha, Ijaw leader

  17-02-2019 06:54
  IJAW opinion leader and political analyst, Dr. Clarkson Aribogha, has said that the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate for Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru, aka People’s General, failed in his five earlier attempts to make it to the Government House Asaba because he took flawed steps.
  Continue reading Ogboru’s bid will fail as in previous five attempts— Aribogha, Ijaw leader at Vanguard News Nigeria.
  
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• Okowa will win, return power to Okpe-Urhobo in Delta central come 2023 – Hon Eyube

  17-02-2019 06:41
  Hon Kennedy Eyube, was a former House of Representatives aspirant and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State. In this interview, the businessman cum politician disclosed that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa will be re-elected to complete the second term of the Delta North senatorial district.
  Continue reading Okowa will win, return power to Okpe-Urhobo in Delta central come 2023 – Hon Eyube at Vanguard News Nigeria.
  
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• Shift painful, but Nigerians must maintain their commitment, says Asiwaju Tinubu

  17-02-2019 06:37
  All Progressives Congress National Leader and Co-chair of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said though the postponement of yesterday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections was painful,  all those who actually came out to vote and those who intended to vote in the postponed elections must maintain their commitment. 
  Continue reading Shift painful, but Nigerians must maintain their commitment, says Asiwaju Tinubu at Vanguard News Nig
  
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• INEC rules out sabotage, says nobody forced it to postpone elections

  17-02-2019 06:32
  All these challenges mean that there have been differences in preparations from one State to another
  Continue reading INEC rules out sabotage, says nobody forced it to postpone elections at Vanguard News Nigeria.
  
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• A typical Akwa Ibom person is not stupid — Prince Abia

  17-02-2019 06:24
  Prince Effiong Abia, a constitutional lawyer and former Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Rural Development, speaks with HARRIS-OKON EMMANUEL on the chances of his party (All Progressives Congress, APC) winning the 2019 elections in the oil rich state.
  Continue reading A typical Akwa Ibom person is not stupid — Prince Abia at Vanguard News Nigeria.
  
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• Saraki’s aide mobilises for principal, PDP

  17-02-2019 05:52
  Senate President  Bukola Saraki deserves another four years at the  National Assembly, his aide , Alhaji, Oganija Abdullahi Baalaifi, has said, even as he called on the electorate to cast their votes for the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ) candidates in the rescheduled general election.
  Continue reading Saraki’s aide mobilises for principal, PDP at Vanguard News Nigeria.
  
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• Elections: Much Ado about election observers

  17-02-2019 05:05
  Omoniyi Salaudeen and Onyedika Agbedo
   The involvement of foreign observers in Nigeria’s general election did not start with the 2019 elections, but never had their presence generated as much controversy as it did this year. While the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), expressed full confidence in the mission of the observers, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), voiced their suspicion that the observers were in the country to do the bidding of the oppos
  
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• Poll shift: US, UK, Observer Missions urge Nigerians to remain calm

  17-02-2019 05:02
  Aidoghie Paulinus, AbujaHeads of Election Observation Missions for the 2019 elections, have called on Nigerians to remain calm in the face of shift in the Presidential, National, Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the country.
    In a joint statement made available to Sunday Sun in Abuja, the observation teams assured that they stand in solidarity with the people of Nigeria in their desire for credible and peaceful elections. The statement was signed by the Head of the Econ
  
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• Police arrest 400 suspected thugs in Akwa lbom

  17-02-2019 04:54
  The police in Akwa Ibom State on Friday morning arrested 400 thugs in Uyo, the state capital. The thugs were arrested in their hideout  in Ewet Housing Estate.
  Police inspector Jeremiah Dogo said the ‘arrest was made possible by the deployment of extra policemen to the state by the IGP.’
  Inspector Dogo said that the suspects confessed that they were brought in from Bayelsa and Rivers states by PDP chieftains to help rig the general elections.The hideout where the thugs were nabb
  
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• Abia 2019: APC blasts PDP over electoral fraud

  17-02-2019 04:53
  Former Deputy Chief of Staff to Abia State Government, Dr. Madukwe Ukaegbu has condemned in totality the alleged thumb printing of ballot papers by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State before the postponement of February 16 Presidential and National Assembly elections.It was widely reported on social media platforms that the PDP in Abia State had allegedly filled result sheets before the poll was rescheduled.
  According to the member of the Orji Kalu Senatorial Campaign Council
  
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• Abia guber: Otti tackles Ikpeazu, says Gov lacks capacity to lead

  17-02-2019 04:50
  The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti, has said that he does not have any personal problem with the incumbent governor of the state, Okezie Ikpeazu, order than the fact that the governor lacks the capacity to govern the state.
   Otti, who said he was propelled by love in his quest to rescue Abia State, told a large crowd of charged Abia youth who gathered in Umuahia to celebrate the Valentine’s Day with him and his wife, a
  
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• Underrating other presidential contenders aside PDP, APC, unhealthy for our democracy – Prof Sonaiya

  17-02-2019 04:31
  By Henry Okonkwo
   
  Prof Remi Sonaiya is one of the few vocal female politicians in today’s Nigeria’s political scene.
  She is an educationist, writer and chieftain of the KOWA Party.
  Prof Sonaiya rose to national limelight in politics when she stepped out and became the only female presidential candidate to lock horns with formidable contestants like former President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the current President Mohammadu Buhari of the All Prog
  
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• Remain resolute and vote, Moghalu urges Nigerians

  17-02-2019 04:09
  Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja
  The presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu, has urged Nigerians to remain calm and resolute to vote for a new kind of leadership.
    He described the postponement of the presidential and National Assembly elections earlier scheduled for (Saturday) by one week by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the signposts of the recycling of failure under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democrat
  
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• ACF urges Nigerians to bear with INEC

  17-02-2019 04:08
  Noah Ebije, Kaduna
  Northern mouthpiece, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has expressed mixed feelings over the postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), saying that Nigerians should bear with the electoral umpire and wait for the next date.A statement issued by the ACF National Publicity Secretary, Muhammad Ibrahim Biu, said though INEC’s action was regrettable, it should ensure that it keeps to the rescheduled
  
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• INEC gives reasons for elections shift

  17-02-2019 04:05
  Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned that it will not shift the deadline for political parties campaigns despite the postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections.
  Chairman of the commission, Mahmood Yakubu, who handed the warming during  a meeting with stakeholders in Abuja, yesterday, equally blamed the postponement of the poll on flight challenges, lamenting that he slept three days at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Air
  
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• 2019 Poll: Igbo’ ll pay dearly for lack of consensus, Osuala, RBNP presidential candidate

  17-02-2019 04:03
  Olakunle Olafioye
  Dr John Kennedy Osuala, Presidential candidate of Rebuild Nigeria Party, RBNP, has shed more light on why some presidential candidates under the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, failed to honour the Memorandum of Understanding they earlier deposed to, which mandated them to drop their ambition in support of a presidential candidate picked by the coalition for the presidential election.
  He maintained that Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democrat
  
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• Imo guber: For equity, justice, Orlu should support Owerri zone –Anyakudo, ex-secretary, Orsca

  17-02-2019 04:01
  Peter Anosike
  Owelle Philips Anyakudo, former Secretary, Orlu Constituent Assembly (ORSCA), the umbrella body of people from  Orlu Senatorial District has said that though Orlu zone has not benefitted much from the almost 16 years that their two sons; namely Achike Udenwa and Owelle Rochas Okorocha have governed Imo State, equity and justice demand that governorship should rotate to Owerri  zone.
  In this interview he also said that the Atiku/Obi ticket is the surest way for a Nigerian
  
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• ••• Nwosu, Ihim hold the ace –Umahi

  17-02-2019 03:59
  Henry Umahi
   Public affairs analyst, Dr Jude Umahi, has x-rayed the content and character of the forthcoming election, saying that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the man to beat.
  He also said that Uche Nwosu and Acho Ihim of the Action Alliance (AA) would shock Imo.  
   Between Buhari and Atiku, who stands a better chance?
  Everybody is tired of this nasty and vindictive administration of President Muhammad Buhari, and wants a breath of fresh air.&nbs
  
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• Okowa condemns killing of aide as APC candidate escapes assassination

  17-02-2019 03:56
  Paul Osuyi, Asaba
  DELTA State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has condemned in strong terms the killing of Lawrence Ngozi Ijei, Special Assistant on Youth Development to Governor, by suspected assailants on Friday.
  Governor Okowa in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Charles Aniagwu on Saturday in Asaba said he was deeply saddened by the untimely death of his aide who was killed by yet to be identified gunmen in Uvwie Local Government Area of the state.“On behalf of the government
  
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