Tag: Itse Sagay

Consensus Candidacy: Why APC presidential aspirants may contest against Buhari’s choice – Prof. Sagay

Aminu Imam

Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay, (SAN), has said there is nothing wrong if the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), adopts the consensus method in choosing its presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections. Recall that the party, at its national convention last week produced its new set of National Working Committee (NWC) members through a consensus arrangement. However, some stakeholders in the party, especially the South-West Agenda for Asiwaju 2023 (SWAGA’23), the idea of a consensus presidential candidate for the APC is unacceptable…

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2023: ‘Yahaya Bello not qualified to be in presidential league’ – Prof. Sagay

Aminu Imam

Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), has rubbished the insistence of Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello that he will contest the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC). Speaking in an interview with newsmen, Prof. Sagay, who likened Gov. Bello to a lightweight boxer, said it will be a mismatch for the Kogi governor to want to enter a contest with political heavyweights such as Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Vice- President Yemi Osinbajo and Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of…

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“You can never become APC presidential candidate in 2023”, Buhari’s anti-corruption Chairman tells Yahaya Bello

Aminu Imam

The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), yesterday said the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC), does not need youths like Governor Yahaya Bello, of Kogi State, as its presidential candidate in 2023. Speaking with newsmen, Sagay who said the party must field a Southerner as a candidate, advised Bello to aspire to be Vice- President or wait till 2031 when it will be the turn of the North, after the South must have used its two terms of eight years. Sagay, who is…

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“You can’t defect to APC with our mandate” – PDP tells Matawalle, others

Aminu Imam

The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has cautioned the Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle, members of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, and those of the National Assembly from the State against defecting to the All Progressives Congress, (APC). This is coming on the heels of reports that the governor is set to join the APC today. According to his spokesperson, Yusuf Idris, the governor will join the ruling party with “the National and State Assembly members as well as the PDP executives from all levels of the State”. The governor, who…

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Dogara’s return to APC a big setback for party’s image, says Prof. Sagay

Ishaku Yohanna

Prof Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has said that the return of a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, to the All Progressives Congress was a big setback for the party’s image, a report by Daily Independent said. Dogara, who defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) shortly before the 2019 general elections, was led to meet President Muhmmadu Buhari at the State House  On Friday, Chairman of the APC Caretaker/National Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe, led…

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