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2023: Ex-President Jonathan holds secret meeting, plots a return

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The former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was plotting to come back in 2023, if a meeting he held secretly at Aridolf Hotels and Spars in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State was anything to go by.

In the meeting, he met with his SouthSouth zonal coordinators leadership are currently consulting and considering his plan to stage a comeback.

Jonathan is currently a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but has been very close to the ruling All Progressives Congress.

Jonathan’s meeting at the hotel in Yenagoa on 27th December, 2021 came after he earlier met with President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday at the Aso Rock presidential villa.

Jonathan’s meeting with Buhari was a close door one and the details were not released to the Villa newsmen.

Some mainstream media have reported last year that plans were afoot by some All Progressives Congress governors in the North to return the Ex-President in 2023.This the media said, was to assuage the Southern part of Nigeria, after which presidency would quickly return to the North since he has only four years to spend based on the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended.

Chief Dikivie Ikiogha, an ally of President Jonathan was the initiator of South South Presidency 2023 and was also present at the meeting with other stakeholders.

A source, said the governors of two Northwest states are championing the plot. He added that the scheme was part of the reasons a minister from the South South spoke recently against the then administration of Jonathan.

He said: “The coordinators of the group plotting for Jonathan to return to Aso Rock in 2023 met recently with Jonathan at his wife’s Aridolf Hotels and Spars.

“The chairman of the group, Chief Dikivie Ikiogha, and other South South coordinators were present at the meeting. Jonathan indicated an interest in their campaign and asked them to return to their different states to continue with their campaign.

“This plot has been kept active by two governors from the Northwest, who are plotting for a strong APC Northern governor to become Jonathan’s running mate.

“There is also a plan to reconcile Jonathan with the South South minister.”

Currently, the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar had indicated interest to contest presidency in 2023 on the PDP platform.

Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State was said to have been interested with Nyesom Wike as his proposed Vice. Wike has severally visited Sokoto State ahead of 2023.

The ruling All Progressives Congress may likely consider its presidential candidate from the South with its National leader, Ahmed Bola Tinubu strongly interested. This is not without the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo who is being pushed forward by some powerful interest groups.

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Shettima Appoints Hakeem, Elder Brother of LP Vice Presidential Candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed

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Hakeem Baba-Ahmed has been appointed to serve as the special adviser on political matters to Vice-President Kashim Shettima.

Baba-Ahmed is an elder brother of Datti Baba-Ahmed, vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 election.

Baba-Ahmed’s appointment was made known on Monday, September 17, via a social media post on X, formerly Twitter.

 

 

 

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NNPP Crisis: Court Sets Aside Kwankwaso’s Suspension From The Party

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A Kano State High Court has set aside the suspension of the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) from the party.

Justice Usman Na’aana on Tuesday granted an interim injunction restraining Boniface Aniebonam, Agbo Major, and 16 other respondents from parading themselves as national officers or leaders of the party pending the hearing and determination of the motion of notice.

The judge also set aside “the purported suspension of Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as member of the applicant (NNPP)”.

On August 29, 2023, the group led by NNPP chieftains — Aniebonam and Major — within the party suspended Kwankwaso for six months for hobnobbing with politicians outside the NNPP.

Kwankwaso, a former Kano State governor, who came fourth in this year’s presidential election.

The Aniebonam and Major group, which controls NNPP Board of Trustees said “material evidence” in public affirmed that Kwankwaso was involved in “anti-party activities in various meetings” and political discussions with President Bola Tinubu, then candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC); his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar; and Labour Party (LP)’s Peter Obi.

The group would subsequently expel Kwankwaso over “failure to appear before the Disciplinary Committee”.

The Aniebonam and Major group also accused Kwankwaso of “financial impropriety relating to the mismanagement of public funds”.

However, the Kano court stopped Aniebonam, Major and 16 other respondents from parading themselves as party officials and fixed October 5, 2023 for the case.

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Guber Poll: I’ll Hit The Ground Running As APC Chairman – Ganduje

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The new National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, says he will hit the ground running to ensure the victory of the ruling party in the November 11, 2023 governorship polls in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa.

Ganduje spoke on Thursday during his acceptance speech as the party’s chair after his emergence at the 12th APC National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held at the Congress Hall of Transcorp Hilton in Abuja.

The party’s NEC also elected former Senate spokesman, Ajibola Basiru, from Osun State as its National Secretary.

Addressing party leaders after his emergence, Ganduje thanked President Bola Tinubu and promised that internal democracy would prevail in the party during his tenure.

The ex-governor of Kano State pledged to ensure a scientific register of party members and pay utmost attention to election management and conflict resolution.

According to him, there would be level playing field for all party members during party primaries.

Ganduje promised to hit the ground running to ensure victory for the party in the three forthcoming off-season governorship elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa.

Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi are three of the eight states with off-season governorship elections due to past litigations and court judgements. Others are Anambra, Edo, Ekiti, Osun and Ondo.

In the general elections earlier this year, the APC won the presidential poll and 16 state governorship polls leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with 10, the Labour Party (LP) with one state and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) also with a state.

For the November 11, 2023 governorship poll in Kogi, the APC is fielding a former Auditor General of Local Government in the state, Usman Ododo.

In Bayelsa, the party is fielding the immediate past Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, while incumbent Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, is throwing his hat into the ring for a second term in office.

Interestingly, the new APC chairman was unable to secure a win for his party in the March 18, 2023 governorship election as NNPP’s Yusuf Kabir and ally of NNPP presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, trounced Ganduje’s man, Nasir Gawuna.

Kabir scored 1,019,602 votes to defeat his closest contender, Gawuna, of the APC who polled 890,705 votes. In the February 25 poll, the APC also lost to the NNPP.

 

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