The influential northern socio-political Arewa Consultative Forum seeks a credible competent northern candidate while for now supporting the elderly respected technocrat Bamanga Tukur a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee...
Chaired by the former Defence Minister Lieutenant General Theophilus Danjuma the Advisory Council’s members include Ben Nwanbueze as Deputy Chairman banker Fola Adeola oil expert Basil Omiyi former Inspector General of Police Muhammadu Yusufu former Commonwealth Secretary General Emeka Anyaoku businessman Kase Lawal Mohammed Hayatudden Justice Salihu Modibo Alfa Belgore businessman Bamanga Tukur and Ismaila Isa...
Vol 43 No 6 |
- WEST AFRICA
The project was conceived by Bamanga Tukur a former Nigerian minister once a Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority now president of the African Business Round Table and developed by Cameroonian businessman William Chindo...
Amid allegations of rigging Awoniyi was expelled along with party stalwarts including Bamanga Tukur from Adamawa State a founding member of the PDP and also a former state governor and minister...
Ekwueme stands a good chance of winning the PDP's presidential nomination if the ambitions of other political stalwarts such as former Industry Minister Adamu Ciroma former Kano State Governor Abubakar Rimi former Oil Minister Don Etiebet former Plateau State Governor Solomon Lar and Bamanga Tukur can be put on hold...
Attitudes ranging from indifference to outright hostility to Abacha' s political ambitions emanate from such figures as Shagari Shehu Musa Adamu Ciroma Abubakar Rimi Sule Lamido Umaru Shikafi Solomon Lar Bamanga Tukur and Mahmud Waziri...
By not registering the All Nigeria Congress the government has effectively ruled out many in the dominant clique of Northern conservatives such as Adamu Ciroma Umaru Shinkafi Bamanga Tukur Saleh Jambo and Lema Jubril...