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Donald Duke wins PRP presidential ticket for 2027 election
Former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has emerged as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, for the 2027 general election.
Duke secured the party’s ticket after polling the highest number of votes at the PRP presidential primary held on Tuesday in Abuja.
The result was announced at the party’s national secretariat in the Federal Capital Territory by the National Chairman of the PRP, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed.
Three aspirants contested for the party’s presidential nomination.
According to Baba-Ahmed, Donald Duke scored a total of 6,499 votes to defeat his closest rival, Kingsley Yakubu, who ran a nationwide campaign centred on youth inclusion and economic reform and secured 2,699 votes.
He further announced that Dr Nnaoke Ufere, an academic and policy expert, came third with 784 votes.
Declaring the outcome of the exercise, Baba-Ahmed described the primary as peaceful, transparent and conducted without bias.
He, however, urged any aggrieved aspirant to channel complaints through the party’s Appeal Committee for proper review in line with party procedures.
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Popular socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has lost the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC) senatorial primary election for the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
She lost the election to a chieftain of the party, Amanda Pam.
The activist-turned-politician had said her ambition to represent the FCT in the upper legislative chamber was driven by the desire to solve problems in the nation’s capital and give residents a stronger voice in government.
Aisha Yesufu, a staunch supporter of the NDC presidential candidate, Peter Obi, is currently being ridiculed on social media.
A Facebook user, one Comrade Idris Omuya, wrote, “Aisha Yesufu lost out in the NDC FCT senatorial ticket primary to this woman. Where are her Twitter and Facebook fans?”
Another Facebook user, Evangelist Divine Vessel, wrote, “This is the old woman who defeated Aisha Yesufu in the Abuja NDC Senatorial primaries. She has no social media account, she doesn’t go on TV stations to rant like a pregnant raccoon.
“She defeated the social media rabble-rouser and protest ambassador, Aisha Yesufu, at the NDC senatorial primary election.
“Politics is local, not social media and TV ranting.
“She has the structure and Aisha has the Twitter likes and Instagram comments, and elections are not won on social media.”
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The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has cleared the air on the rigging allegation of one of its presidential candidates, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen.
Speaking during an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, said they do not have any evidence to support or deny the allegation.
DAILY POST reports that Hayatu-Deen had announced that he would not attend the party’s presidential election results announcement, citing concerns over alleged widespread irregularities in the exercise.
Reacting, the party’s spokesman said, “We don’t have any evidence to be able to support his position or to deny his position because we’ve not collated the results.
“We’ve not noticed any pattern in the result, and we’ve not seen enough to be able to establish a pattern.
“Eleven states’ results have been received so far. We are still awaiting other results. Any moment from now we are going to start the collation.”
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By Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA — Former Minister of Transportation and presidential aspirant on the platform of the African Democratic Congress, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, on Tuesday rejected the outcome of the party’s presidential primary, accusing the leadership of disenfranchising members and manipulating the process.
The rejection opens a fresh crisis within the ADC at a critical moment for the opposition party, which has been presenting itself as a credible alternative to the ruling All Progressives Congress ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
In a statement posted on X, Amaechi said he was rejecting what he described as ‘concocted results’ following reports of widespread voter disenfranchisement during the primary across the country.
Amaechi said, “I had initially stated that I will only accept the outcome of the Primaries if the process was free, fair, and transparent, and I stand by my word.
“I will not accept results from a process that does not reflect the values that the ADC had pledged to uphold, to rescue Nigerians from the impunity and gross mismanagement that our country is currently facing in the hands of the ruling party.”
The former Rivers State governor alleged that nearly 80 per cent of party members were denied the opportunity to vote during the exercise.
“There’s no way that about eighty percent of members of the party were not allowed to vote, and you expect me to accept such results. Then what makes us different from the others?” he asked.
Amaechi said the ADC was created to give ordinary Nigerians a voice and offer a genuine alternative to the kind of politics it once condemned.
Criticising the party leadership, Amaechi said: “A party that criticizes the ruling APC and INEC for vote buying, rigging and writing of results, cannot be engaged in vote buying, writing of results, and other electoral malpractices that leads to the disenfranchisement of voters who are party members. This is not acceptable!”
The remarks are expected to deepen tensions within the ADC and intensify scrutiny of the party’s presidential primary process as opposition parties prepare for the 2027 general election.
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