Mallam Dauda Lawal was born on 2 September 1965 in Gusau, Zamfara state. He bagged a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.Hons) Political Science from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1987 and earned a Master of Science (M. SC.) in Political Science/International Relations from the same university in 1992. Until September 2017, he was Executive Director, Public Sector Group, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, a bank he joined as a manager in 2003. He spoke on his governorship bid in an interactive session with the media recently.

The All Progressives Congress, APC will be holding its governorship primaries on the 29th September, 2018. One state the ruling national party hopes to pick up in the 2019 general election is Delta State where the political environment strongly favours APC. With very low popularity of the incumbent PDP governor, Dr. IfeanyiOkowa and electorates clamouring for change, conditions are quite right for an APC victory in the state’s gubernatorial election.

Ahead of the Osun rerun governorship election, a confident Senator Iyiola Omisore said his Social Democratic Party and the ruling All Progressives Congress will form a coalition to govern the state after the election.

Senator Iyiola Omisore is not supporting the PDP candidate, Ademola Adeleke in the Osun rerun governorship election.

Ahead of Sept. 27 Osun rerun governorship election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress(APC) have started house to-house- campaign to woo voters.

A group, Kaduna State APC Aspirants and Stakeholders Forum, has alleged that the decision by All Progressives Congress, APC, to adopt indirect primaries is targeted at vote buying.

Sen. Magnus Abe, an All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Rivers has faulted the decision of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) supporting indirect governorship primaries.

The APC Campaign Council for the Osun Governorship Election has urged the party’s members in the areas where the state’s election rerun will be held on Thursday to ignore what it called ‘‘the rantings of the PDP’’ and turn out enmasse to vote for the ruling party.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger has commenced house-to-house and town hall campaigns to promote the programmes of the party in the state.

A group called ‘2019 Delta Restoration Group’, Wednesday warned All Progressives Congress, APC , not to field a candidate from the north to contest against the incumbent governor Ifeanyi Okwa, not as it equally listed the dangers the party would likely face should it insist on picking someone from the north.

High-wire political intrigues by chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to outsmart one another ahead of Thursday’s governorship re-run in selected polling units in Osun State were yesterday unfolding.

Ahead of Thursday’s re-run election to conclude the governorship election in Osun State, both leaders of the All Progressives Congress APC and the People’s Democratic Party PDP are soliciting for the support of Senator Iyiola Omisore.

The All Progressives Congress APC has for the fourth time shifted its presidential primaries to Friday September 28, 2018.

The Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Mr Pally Iriase, has been expelled from the All Progressives Congress (APC) for alleged anti-party activities.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, and all security agents must do everything to stop vote buying in Thusday’s Osun election re-run.