2nd Blast In Kaduna Aimed At Gen. BUHARI + See Pictures From Today's Blast (SEE PHOTOS)

The second bomb blast that rocked the Kawo area of Kaduna state this afternoon was aimed at former Head of State and Chieftain of the APC, General Muhammadu Buhari.

According to a report by BBC Africa, about 90 minutes after the first bomb went off along Alkali Rd, a second explosion ripped through the crowded Kawo area, targeting the motorcade of Gen Buhari.

Wow Amaechi tweets about being barred by soldiers, says plane is still grounded at airport

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state who was earlier today held back by soldiers from entering Ekiti state for Governor Fayemi's APC rally in Ondo state tweets about his experience. He says his plane is still grounded at Akure airport. See more tweets after the cut...

APC Never Trusted Fani-Kayode – Gov

ONE of the governors in the All Progressives Congress states confided in our correspondent on Tuesday that the party never trusted a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, hence the ex-minister was kept out of the happenings in the party while he was a member.

The governor, who spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity, said the APC leaders were skeptical of dealing with Fani-Kayode with open hands because of “his antecedents.”

 He said, “We know him very well. He has been attending some of our meetings. Like the day we went to invite former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to leave the Peoples Democratic Party, he was there.

Femi Fani Kayode Finally Leaves APC And Joins PDP

Controversial and outspoken two-time former minister Femi Fani Kayode has left the APC and explains why he left the party in a statement released this evening...see below...

I declared for the APC in June last year in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti state well before the party was registered by INEC. I formally joined the party, amidst great fanfare, on 7th February 2014 in my hometown Ile-Ife and I registered my membership on that day. The registration was done outside the Ooni's palace and it was done in the prescence of the media, numerous party leaders in the state, including Hon. Rotimi Makinde, who represents Ile-Ife at the Federal House, and all the other key leaders of the APC in the state and Ife-Ife including Chief Akantioke and Alhaji Soko Adewoyin the former  Deputy Governor of Osun state. After registering we proceeded to pay a courtesy call on my traditional ruler, the Ooni of Ife, and from there I went to spend a few days with Governor Rauf Aregbesola who, together with Governor Kayode Fayemi, I am close to and I consider to be friends. 

APC Inches Towards Buhari -Tinubu Presidential Ticket

 
As the All Progressives Congress (APC) prepares for its ward, state and national congresses, it has emerged that the leadership of the party may have quietly decided to settle for a Major-General Muhammadu Buhari-Senator Bola Tinubu presidential ticket to contest the 2015 presidential election.

THISDAY gathered from reliable party sources that the decision to field Buhari and Tinubu as APC’s presidential and vice-presidential candidates respectively, was informed by the massive votes, which the pairing of both men could garner for the party during the election.

APC Challenges PDP to Prove Links With Boko Haram

                                                          PDP and APC

The war of words between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) continued unabated yesterday with the APC challenging the PDP to urgently make available to the Nigerian public any evidence of the opposition's alleged involvement in the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency “or forever shut up”.

The PDP had on Tuesday accused the APC of sponsoring the insurgency in the North-east to destabilise the Jonathan government “because the President is from a minority group.

PDP Accuses CBN Gov Of Giving APC N1bn

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, of financial recklessness and partisanship in his administration of the central bank, and is therefore calling for a detailed forensic audit of all the accounts and financial activities of the CBN from 2009 till date.

In a statement issued by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, yesterday, PDP alleged that there was sufficient evidence to show that states controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its chieftains had benefitted from the financial recklessness of the suspended governor.

APC Says Jonathan Has No Credibility On Job Creation Issue

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to unveil its “Road map to a New Nigeria” at the Party’s National Summit to be held in Abuja on Thursday, March 6th.

The Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday that the Road map will detail the party’s priorities in fixing the widespread failings of successive PDP governments since 1999, in order to bring hope and succour to the long-suffering people of Nigeria.

It said the Road map was a product of an empirical and painstaking process embarked upon by the APC, in a deviation from the old practice of packaging such documents on a whim. ”

The Full List Of 11 PDP Senators Who Decamped To APC

11 senators who were PDP members have defected to the All ProgressiveS Congress party, APC. The names of the senators sent to the Senate president who decamped are;

1. Senator Bukola Saraki-Kwara Central
2. Senator Umaru Dahiru-Sokoto South
3. Senator Magnus Ngei Abe -Rivers South-East

4. Senator Wilson Asinobi Ake-Rivers  West
5. Sen. Bindawa Muhammed Jibrilla-Adamawa North
6. Sen. Mohammed Danjuma Goje-Gombe central
7. Sen. Aisha Jummai Alhassan-Taraba North
8. Sen. Mohammed Ali Ndume-Borno South
9. Senator Mohammed Shaba Lafiaji-Kwara North
10. Sen. Abdulahi Adamu-Nasarawa West
11. Senator Ibrahim Abdullahi Gobir-Sokoto East