Sentences with phrase «primary elections of»

The Ousted chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Hon. Isaac Kekemeke, has said Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu is still angry with him over his role prior to the September 3, 2016 governorship primary elections of the party.

So, it has been a statement by the National legal adviser saying that he wrote a letter to the state leadership that the primary elections of the party ought to be done in accordance with the constitution, and they refused.

Attempts by the NPP leaders to manipulate the primary election of a candidate for Election 2016 have provoked enmity, rancour, and bitterness among the NPP followers.

Last year, while attending a conference, we heard a speaker arguing that Giuseppe Civati won the primary election of the Italian Democratic Party, at least on Twitter.

All is set for today's primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State for the February 2012 governorship poll, which is holding in...

«To us as a party, the most egregious of the faux pas committed by INEC is asking the APC to lawfully nominate a candidate for the supplementary governorship election without a valid and legally cognizable primary election of the party conducted within the mandatory timeliness specified by the electoral act.

They are to be tried for the misappropriation N10billion allegedly distributed to delegates to the Presidential Primary Election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The statement reads, «Concerned by the developments within the Ekiti State Chapter of our party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), with respect to the huge number of Governorship Aspirants and the botched primary election of Saturday, 5th May, 2018, the leadership of the party from the South West geo - political zone on Tuesday, 8th May, 2018 met in Abuja with the 33 Governorship Aspirants who participated in the primary election to review the circumstances that led to the disruption of the election.

Mr. Oseloka Obaze has been announced as the winner of the governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State.

The National Committee Chairman for the Primary Election of the Action Democratic Party, (ADP) in Ekiti, Mr Umaru Yakubu has declared Mr Segun Adewale as the governorship candidate of the party for the July 14 election in the state.

This paperwork must include signatures of voters who have not participated in the primary election or the runoff primary election of a party that has nominated, at either election, a candidate for the office the petitioning candidate seeks.

Founding Members shall be defined as all candidates for District Leader and County Committee put forth for office by Grand Street Democrats volunteers for the primary election of September 12, 2017.

The National Committee Chairman for the Primary Election of the Action Democratic Party, (ADP) in Ekiti, Mr Umaru Yakubu has declared Mr Segun Adewale as the governorship candidate...

Former Vice President and aspirant at the ongoing Presidential primaries election of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Atiku Abubakar has expressed sadness over the bomb explosions in Kano on Wednesday.

Neighborhoods across the five boroughs saw key state legislative races decided Tuesday night in the city's third primary election of the year.

GOVERNOR Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State, on Wednesday, approached a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, seeking to stop the governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.

GOVERNOR Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State, on Wednesday, approached a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, seeking to stop the governorship primary election of the Peoples...

El - Rufai also revealed that the Minister was not in Buhari's camp during the presidential primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and has never supported the president's ideology.

The Bayelsa State governor wanted an order of interim injunction restraining the first defendant, whether by itself, servant, agents, privies or howsoever called from accepting from the second and third defendants any fresh submission of names of governorship aspirant from Bayelsa State, to change / substitute the name of the plaintiff which had already been submitted to the first defendant after the primary election of January 2011, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

Not exact matches

If McConnell can fend off his conservative challenger on May 20, guide four of his fellow incumbents through a thicket of Tea Party primary challenges, and survive the November election — a difficult hat trick — he is likely to emerge as the one Washington Republican who can return the Grand Old Party to the grand old political center and put an end to Tea Party extremism.

In a congratulatory phone call the night of Paul's primary victory, McConnell pledged his support to the newcomer for the general election campaign.

The 2008 election showed just how powerful social media could be in driving votes, and President Barak Obama's 2008 campaign was, and is, widely viewed as the first general - election campaign to focus on social media as its primary mode of marketing (Howard Dean's bid for the 2004 Democratic nomination also used social media heavily.)

Over the course of the primaries and general election campaign, my role continued to evolve.

Not only did President Trump defeat sixteen skilled and experienced primary opponents and win the presidency; he did so spending a fraction of what his opponent spent in the general election.

In France, the socialist party is hosting the first debate for the primaries ahead of presidential elections later this year.

Fox on Monday announced the new debate, its latest in the primary season as the party chooses its candidate ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Trump also lives in a world of vision, but in my experience that vision has always been about the man himself, a phenomenon that was on vivid display during the primaries and the election.

After last week's Iowa caucuses, Tuesday's New Hampshire primary will have a hard act to follow after the excitement and controversy that came out of the first voting event of the 2016 presidential election cycle.

In Argentina, President Mauricio Macri is stumping for his party's candidates ahead of August 13 primary elections, which precede October 22 legislative elections.

While that may play well to some of the more extreme members of the Republican party in the primaries, political experts don't see such talk surviving in a general election campaign.

The issue arose in the Republican primary debates, and reportedly resentment of the abuse was a major contributor to Hillary Clinton's loss of Florida in the general election in the 2016 US presidential race.

The Republican also noted the political risks of going after entitlements during a contentious election, as is expected in 2018, while House Speaker Paul Ryan has suggested it could be a primary GOP agenda item.

«The group knows that it can do some candidate election work, but that such work can't be its primary activity — i.e., it has to spend more than half of its budget on non-candidate-election work,» Ryan told The Daily Beast when provided documentation about the organization.

«By contrast, federal tax law permits 501 (c)(4) organizations to spend money advocating the election or defeat of candidates, so long as such activity isn't the 501 (c)(4) organization's «primary» activity.

Martin Schulz, the center - left candidate for German chancellor and Merkel's primary rival ahead of the September federal elections, said that the U.S. withdrawal from Paris must be met with a refusal by the EU to re-initiate transatlantic trade talks.

Zimbabwe's ruling party saw some major upsets and raucous bickering during its primaries this week ahead of general elections due by August.

In Oregon, only 36 percent of voters went to the polls in the 2014 primary, the last non-presidential election year.

«The Honest Ads Act would extend the McCain - Feingold law «electioneering communication» provisions — i.e., TV / radio ads that name a candidate within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election but do not expressly advocate the candidate's election or defeat — to certain online ads,» Ryan said.

The 2002 law, usually called McCain - Feingold, banned the broadcast, cable or satellite transmission of «electioneering communications» paid for by corporations or labor unions from their general funds in the 30 days before a presidential primary and in the 60 days before the general elections.

Indiana Republican Senate candidates clash in final debate before May 8 primary election Dan Carden, The Times of Northwest Indiana

After more than a year of rallies, primaries, debates, controversies and scandals, we're only one day from the Presidential election — meaning investors are closer than ever to that long - awaited clarity on how the election will be felt in the markets.

Primary election votes, and whether they mobilized young voters, will be a better gauge of the movement's effects, she said.

Fox News set a record earlier in the month with 24 million people tuning in to the first Republican primary debate of the 2016 election cycle, making it the most - watched cable telecast of all time, excluding sports programming.

These teams included PhD - caliber data scientists, seasoned strategists with experience of presidential primary, congressional, gubernatorial, and international election campaigns, expert researchers, digital marketing strategists, and content creators.

Akin, who won a tough primary battle this month, has apologized for his comments but also defied pressure to get out of the election.

No, although I've voted Democratic in every election since 1976 — except for primaries in Texas where there's no point in voting Democratic — I can say that every candidate I've ever seen has made some effort to look like a man of faith.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

The Kingdom of Judah no doubt continued to acknowledge the event of the exodus, but the David - Zion event was celebrated more prominently, and sometimes exclusively, as the primary, creative event by which God indicated his purposive choice and election of his people and in which he established an indestructible covenant.

Regrettably, they fell just short of cannibalizing each other in this election's primaries.

Early voting started a couple of days ago in Texas, and it sure makes it easy to vote for a primary election dated for May 29.