Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar A former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has dumped Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Mr. Abubakar in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES narrated his reasons for leaving the party. The former vice president who challenged President Muhammadu Buhari for the APC ticket in the build up to the 2015 elections did not indicate the new party he would join. Many members of the main opposition PDP, a party Mr. Abubakar helped form, have, however been asking him to rejoin the party. Read Mr. Abubakar’s full statement below. On the 19th of December, 2013, I received members of the All Progressives Congress at my house in Abuja. They had come to appeal to me to join their party after my party, the Peoples Democratic Party, had become factionalized as a result of the special convention of August 31, 2013. The fractionalization of the Peoples Democratic Party on August 31, 2013 had left me in a situation where I was, with several other...
Nigeria Records Highest Daily Increase Of COVID-19 Cases As Infections Exceed 14,000 Solomon Elusoji with Agency Report Updated June 11, 2020 1.4K A graphic published by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on June 11, 2020, showing the nation’s COVID-19 statistics. Nigeria on Thursday recorded its highest daily increase of COVID-19 cases with 681 new infections, bringing the country’s total to 14,554. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Lagos state reported more than half of the new cases with 345 infections. Rivers state was a distant second with 51 new cases. Other states with new infections include Ogun (48), Gombe (47), Oyo (36), Imo (31), Delta (28), Kano (23), Bauchi (18), Edo (12), Katsina (12), Kaduna (9), Anambra (7), Jigawa (5), Kebbi (4), Ondo (4), and Nasarawa (1). The health agency also noted that while 4,494 people have recovered from the disease, 387 have died as a result of the virus.
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