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All Progressives Congress

Index All Progressives Congress

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is a political party in Nigeria, formed on 6 February 2013 in anticipation of the 2015 elections. [1]

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Abdulfatah Ahmed

Abdulfatah Ahmed (born 29 December 1963) is a Nigerian banker and public servant who was elected Governor of Kwara State in the 26 April 2011 elections, running on the All Progressives Congress (APC) platform.

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Abuja

Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria located in the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

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Action Congress of Nigeria

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), formerly known as Action Congress (AC), was a Nigerian political party formed via the merger of the Alliance for Democracy, the Justice Party, the Advance Congress of Democrats, and several other minor political parties in September 2006.

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Adamawa State

Adamawa is a state in northeastern Nigeria, with its capital at Yola.

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Adams Oshiomhole

Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole (born 4 April 1952) is a current All Progressive Congress (APC) National Chairman and former labor leader, turned politician who 2012 was elected for a second term as the Governor of Edo State in Nigeria on the platform of the Action Congress.

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Adebisi Akande

Chief Abdukareem Adebisi Bamdele Akande ("Bisi Akande"") was a governor of Osun State, Nigeria from 1999–2003, as a member of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) party, and was the first interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress.

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Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko

Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko was elected governor of Sokoto State, Nigeria in April 2007, representing the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

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All Nigeria Peoples Party

The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) was a political party in Nigeria.

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All Progressives Grand Alliance

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is a political party in Nigeria.

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Aminu Kano

Aminu Kano (1920—April 17, 1983) was a Muslim politician from Nigeria.

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Annie Okonkwo

Clement Annie Okonkwo (born 23 May 1960) was elected Senator for the Anambra Central constituency of Anambra State, Nigeria, taking office on 29 May 2007.

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Atiku Abubakar

Atiku Abubakar, GCON (born 25 November 1946) is a Nigerian politician, businessman and philanthropist, who served as the second elected vice-president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, on the platform of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), with President Olusegun Obasanjo.

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Big tent

In politics, a big tent or catch-all party is a type of political party that seeks to attract voters from different points of view and ideologies.

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Blue

Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model.

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Bola Tinubu

Chief Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (born 29 March 1952) was elected Senator for the Lagos West constituency in Lagos State, Nigeria in 1993.

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Centre-left politics

Centre-left politics or center-left politics (American English), also referred to as moderate-left politics, is an adherence to views leaning to the left-wing, but closer to the centre on the left–right political spectrum than other left-wing variants.

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Congress for Progressive Change

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) was a political party founded in Nigeria in 2009 in preparation for the April 2011 elections.

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Federalism

Federalism is the mixed or compound mode of government, combining a general government (the central or 'federal' government) with regional governments (provincial, state, cantonal, territorial or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system.

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Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957)Lawson Heyford,, The Source (Lagos), 11 December 2006.

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Green

Green is the color between blue and yellow on the visible spectrum.

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Hausa–Fulani

Hausa–Fulani are collectively the Hausa and Fulani people of Africa.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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House of Representatives (Nigeria)

The House of Representatives is the lower house of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly.

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Ibrahim Shekarau

Ibrahim Shekarau (born November 5, 1955) was a former Nigeria's minister of education and two term Governor of Kano State in Nigeria.

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Independent National Electoral Commission

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), set up in 1998, is the electoral body which was set up to oversee elections in Nigeria.

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Jigawa State

Jigawa is a state in central northern Nigeria.

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Kano State

Kano State is a state located in Northern Nigeria.

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Kwara State

Kwara (Ìpínlẹ̀ Kwárà) is a state in Western Nigeria.

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List of state governors of Nigeria

The following table presents a list of Nigeria's state governors.

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Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu

Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu is a senior civil servant who was elected governor of Niger State, Nigeria in April 2007.

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Muhammadu Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari is the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015.

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Murtala Nyako

Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako (rtd), GCON, CFR: rcds, D.Agric.

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National Assembly (Nigeria)

The National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a bicameral legislature established under section 4 of the Nigerian Constitution.

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Niger State

Niger or Niger State is a state in Central Nigeria and the largest state in the country.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.

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Nigerian general election, 2015

General elections were held in Nigeria on 28 and 29 March 2015, the fifth quadrennial election to be held since the end of military rule in 1999.

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Obafemi Awolowo

Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo, GCFR (6 March 1909 – 9 May 1987), was a Nigerian nationalist and statesman who played a key role in Nigeria's independence movement, the First and Second Republics and the Civil War.

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Olusegun Oni

Olusegun Oni, also known as Segun Oni, is a Nigerian politician and a former Governor of Ekiti State of Nigeria since 29 May 2007.

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People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) is a major contemporary political party in Nigeria.

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Political philosophy

Political philosophy, or political theory, is the study of topics such as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of laws by authority: what they are, why (or even if) they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens owe to a legitimate government, if any, and when it may be legitimately overthrown, if ever.

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Premium Times

Premium Times is a Nigerian online newspaper based in Abuja.

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Progressive Governors Forum

Progressive Governors Forum is a forum comprising all state governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the mega party which was born of a merger between the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), and members from the All Peoples Grand Alliance (APGA), among others.

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Progressivism

Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.

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Rabiu Kwankwaso

Kano State in Nigeria Mohammed Rabi'u Musa popularly knows as Rabiu Kwankwaso is a Nigerian politician.

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Red

Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.

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Regulated market

A regulated market (RM) or controlled market is an idealized system where the government controls the forces of supply and demand, such as who is allowed to enter the market and/or what prices may be charged.

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Right-wing politics

Right-wing politics hold that certain social orders and hierarchies are inevitable, natural, normal or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics or tradition.

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Rivers State

Rivers State, also known simply as Rivers, is one of the 36 states of Nigeria.

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Rotimi Amaechi

Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi (born 27 May 1965) is a Nigerian politician who served as the fifth Governor of Rivers State from 2007 to 2015.

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Senate of Nigeria

The Senate is the upper house of the Nigeria's bicameral legislature, the National Assembly of Nigeria.

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Social conservatism

Social conservatism is the belief that society is built upon a fragile network of relationships which need to be upheld through duty, traditional values and established institutions.

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Social democracy

Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and capitalist economy.

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Social liberalism

Social liberalism (also known as modern liberalism or egalitarian liberalism) is a political ideology and a variety of liberalism that endorses a market economy and the expansion of civil and political rights while also believing that the legitimate role of the government includes addressing economic and social issues such as poverty, health care and education.

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Socialism

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

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Socialist International

The Socialist International (SI) is a worldwide association of political parties, which seek to establish democratic socialism.

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Sokoto State

Sokoto, usually referred to as Sokoto State to distinguish it from the city of Sokoto, is located in the extreme northwest of Nigeria, near to the confluence of the Sokoto River and the Rima River.

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Sule Lamido

Sule Lamido (born 30 August 1948) served as Foreign minister of Nigeria from 1999 to 2003.

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Supermajority

A supermajority or supra-majority or a qualified majority, is a requirement for a proposal to gain a specified level of support which is greater than the threshold of one-half used for majority.

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Tom Ikimi

Chief Tom Ikimi (born April 10, 1944) was born in Kumba-Southern, British Cameroons (modern-day Cameroon) to John Onile Ikimi and Victoria Isiemoa Ikimi, both from Igueben (Igueben Local Government Area- Edo State).

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Vanguard (Nigeria)

Vanguard is a daily newspaper published by Vanguard Media, based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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White

White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue), because it fully reflects and scatters all the visible wavelengths of light.

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Yemi Osinbajo

Oluyemi Oluleke "Yemi" Osinbajo (born 8 March 1957) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who is the current Vice President of Nigeria, in office since 29 May 2015.

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Yoruba people

The Yoruba people (name spelled also: Ioruba or Joruba;, lit. 'Yoruba lineage'; also known as Àwon omo Yorùbá, lit. 'Children of Yoruba', or simply as the Yoruba) are an ethnic group of southwestern and north-central Nigeria, as well as southern and central Benin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Progressives_Congress

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