Mitt Romney

August 18, 2017

What Trump communicated caused racists to rejoice, he should apologise – Mitt Romney

A GOP nominee for U.S. in the 2012 election, Mitt Romney urged in a Facebook post on Friday that Trump should take “remedial action in the extreme” and “[s]tate forcefully and unequivocally that racists are 100% to blame for the murder and violence in Charlottesville.” Highlights of his post: “Whether he intended to or not, what he communicated caused... Read More

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December 13, 2016

ExxonMobil CEO, Tillerson favourite to emerge as Trump’s Secretary of State

ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson has emerged US President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for the position of Secretary of State, according to sources. Tillerson, 64, has no formal foreign policy experience, but has built close relationships with many world leaders by closing massive deals across Eurasia and the Middle East on behalf of the world’s largest energy company.... Read More

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January 3, 2015

It helps to call yourself a professor if you’re running for VP in Nigeria

by Adedayo Ademuwagun This month there was some suspense about who will be Buhari’s running mate in 2015. People wanted it to be a Christian from the south since Buhari is a Muslim from the north, and at one point it was rumoured that Yemi Osinbajo was the man the APC had chosen. The... Read More

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December 2, 2012

Simon Kolawole: Beyond sacking civil servants

…we cannot be building a new Presidential Banquet Hall at over N2 billion and be complaining about “no money”. A few years back when I was in the UK, my wife wanted to do a course. She needed a waiver on council tax, as a student. We went to the council office. An officer attended... Read More

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November 21, 2012

A hot mess: Mitt Romney spotted pumping his own fuel (PHOTO)

Days after losing the election to President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney is back to pumping his own gas. A photo surfaced on Reddit showing the “tired and washed up” Republican challenger at an undisclosed gas station. It’s a particularly humbling image of a candidate who was known to have trouble connecting with average people. PHOTO:... Read More

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November 12, 2012

How the youth vote prevented Mitt Romney from becoming president

by Tyler Kingkade When candidate and party platforms are built upon restricting access to equal rights whether it be marriage, fair pay, or an even-handed criminal justice system, they will lose. Mitt Romney lost the youth vote by a huge margin, and with it, he lost the presidency. Sixty percent of young voters who cast... Read More

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November 11, 2012

Hauwa Gambo: All I want to say is, thank you, America (YNaija Frontpage)

Whether the rest of the world hates America’s guts or not, they have to admit those guys know how to run a democracy! On Wednesday, the Olympics of politics finally drew to an end as Barack Obama, candidate of the Democratic Party for the United States Presidential election retained his place as his country’s 44th... Read More

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November 10, 2012

TICKER: Mitt Romney was “shellshocked” by loss, wife and VP pick’s wife cried as Romney congratulated Obama on phone

As Republicans search for reasons why they came up short in Tuesday’s elections, anonymous Mitt Romney advisers have described what it was like to be with the former governor as he came to terms with his loss. “He was shellshocked,” one adviser told CBS News. Another unnamed senior adviser explained that as returns came in... Read More

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November 9, 2012

TICKER: Finally! Romney’s campaign say they lost Florida to Obama

Mitt Romney’s campaign said that President Barack Obama won the state of Florida in the race for the White House. The Miami Herald reports that Romney adviser Brett Doster said in a statement, “The numbers in Florida show this was winnable,” and added, “We thought based on our polling and range of organization that we... Read More

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November 9, 2012

Wait, what?! ‘President Romney’s’ official website accidentally goes live

by Isi Esene Don’t let Beyonce, who called Romney supporters “Mitches” after Barack Obama won re-election, hear this. In a major gaffe which might even have legal implications, Mitt Romney’s elections staffers mistakenly sent their transition website live, even though President Obama had won the election. There were even inauguration plans on the site. They... Read More

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November 8, 2012

Akintunde Oyebode: From Uncle Sam with love (YNaija FrontPage)

The way Dame Patience Jonathan was unleashed during the Presidential campaign suggested women were a clear target. I am convinced her stuttering grammar during the election was also a ploy to align with an influential segment of pidgin speaking Nigerians. “The murderers are among us. Let no one be in any doubt. They sit among... Read More

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November 8, 2012

TICKER: #ElectionBlues: Mother names her twins Barack Obama, Mitt Romney

A Kenyan mother has named her new-born twins after US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the BBC reports. Millicent Owuor, 20, gave birth to the twins in south-west Kenya on the day Obama was re-elected. A short distance from the hospital, at the Obama family’s ancestral village, people were celebrating his... Read More

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November 7, 2012

#AmericaDecides: 12 takeaways from Obama’s re-election

by Maggie Haberman Romney is not by nature a risk-taker, and that came through in how he ran his campaign and performed on the stump. It’s over. And the 2012 presidential race pretty much played out as predicted by public pollsters and observers. Except it was a better night for President Barack Obama in certain... Read More

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November 7, 2012

#InCaseYouMissedIt: Confident Romney revealed he wrote only 1,118-word victory speech #AmericaDecides

by Rachel Ogbu Mitt Romney was very optimistic when he revealed yesterday night that he wrote a 1,118-word acceptance speech, but no alternative incase he didn’t win. ‘I feel like we put it all on the field. We left nothing in the locker room. We fought to the very end, and I think that’s why... Read More

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November 7, 2012

#AmericaDecides: Mitt Romney’s concession speech (Full transcript)

Here’s the full transcript from Mitt Romney’s concession speech on Wednesday morning, Nov. 7, 2012. ROMNEY: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you so very much. (APPLAUSE) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have just called President Obama to congratulate him on his victory. His supporters and his campaign... Read More

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November 7, 2012

Opinion: Romney couldn’t overcome contradictions #AmericaDecides

by Timothy Stanley I suspect that the Republicans nominated Romney partly because he spent so much money acquiring the nomination but also because his personality seemed suitably vague. To be assigned to report on his rallies carried all the thrill of being asked to submit a 10,000-word critical analysis of a church picnic. His... Read More

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November 7, 2012

#AmericaDecides: “We are greater than the sum of our parts…” – Pres. Obama gives rousing acceptance speech

by Isi Esene The US presidential election had been too close to call right from the start. The Republican candidate, Mitt Romney took it straight to the wires with the presidential of the United States, Barack Obama. After the Mitt Romney concession speech, the wait was for Obama to make his acceptance speech which was... Read More

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November 7, 2012

Gbemisola Abiola: America 2012: Still chasing the democratic ideal #AmericaDecides

by Gbemisola Abiola A beyond the surface scrutiny of her political system mirrors out ‘incriminating evidence’ which apparently plays against the common rhetoric, that the light of perfection cast on America’s democracy somewhat fades. In four out of every five conversations about the American elections, the greatness of America’s democracy is touted. Never mind that... Read More

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November 7, 2012

#AmericaDecides: BreakingNews: Mitt Romney concedes defeat to Obama

by Isi Esene After the long wait for Mitt Romney’s phone call to president Barack Obama conceding defeat, the Republican candidate has finally made the call. Romney, who had always maintained that he has only a victory speech was forced to make the call after realizing that it was finally over. He came out at... Read More

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November 7, 2012

#AmericaDecides: Barack Obama remains the 44th president of the United States of America

by Isi Esene The US presidential election had been too close to call right from the start. The Republican candidate, Mitt Romney took it right to the wires against the incumbent president of the United States, Barack Obama. As results from the states continued to roll in, it became obvious that president Obama will remain... Read More

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November 6, 2012

#AmericaDecides: As voters take over, Obama crosses 50 percent mark, latest poll

by Chi Ibe The final IBD/TIPP presidential tracking poll finds President Barack Obama holds a slim lead, 50.3 percent to 48.7 percent, with just 1 percent preferring other candidates. The margin of error is +/- 3.7 percent. Mitt Romney runs behind in all age groups, except for those over 65, in which he has a... Read More

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November 6, 2012

#AmericaDecides: Another nail-biting evening – but beneath the surface, not much will change

by Gil Troy With many pollsters declaring today’s presidential election “too close to call,” Americans face the third of four nail-biting Election Days since 2000. Barack Obama’s decisive 2008 win now seems to be the 21st-century anomaly. In 2000, I left CTV studios in Montreal at 2:00 in the morning, without having called the election... Read More

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November 6, 2012

#AmericaDecides: Obama, Romney get 5 votes each as first ballots are cast in US presidential election

by Isi Esene The neck-to-neck struggle for supremacy in the US presidential election continues with both Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney getting five votes each in the tiny New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch. This was the time in history that the first in the nation votes are resulting in a tie... Read More

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November 5, 2012

Opinion: Barack Obama’s coming victory and the African alliance for New Order

by Lai Labode New political leaders will emerge from Africa under a new Alliance called African Alliance For New Order been touted by a new Youth Wing of Africa Largest Political Party called the Peoples Democratic Party Youth Circuit. And it will come to pass in a time not too distant from the time you... Read More

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November 5, 2012

TICKER: Stop attacking my church – New viral video shows an angry Romney

A day before the election, a video that depicts a visibly angry Mitt Romney defending his faith has become a viral hit. The clip, which according to news reports comes from a 2007 conversation the typically reserved GOP presidential candidate had with an Iowa radio talk show host, shows Romney engaging in a theological discussion... Read More

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November 5, 2012

Piers Morgan: Why Sandy may have won the election for Obama

by Piers Morgan A few years later, Labour leader Harold Wilson came up with his own version: “A week is a long time in politics.” The point being that no politician, however brilliant, can ever plan for stuff happening that’s completely beyond his or her control. A week ago, if you’d asked me who was... Read More

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November 5, 2012

Obama’s neglect of the Niger-Delta will cost him his seat – Queen Akasoba of Kalabari has a lot to say

On Tuesday President Barak Obama will be judged above all on his record restoring growth and jobs to the people of America. Obama is running neck and neck with Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who has assailed the president for increasing the country’s debt to record levels, for restoring only an anemic level of growth, and... Read More

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November 4, 2012

Femi Fani-Kayode asks: Can Obama be trusted?

What is Obama’s relationship with the elemental forces? What is his relationship with God or some lesser deity? What is his source of power and what is his spiritual foundation? The American Presidential election will take place in a few days time and frankly some questions still need to be answered. I wish that Governor... Read More

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October 28, 2012

Shocker: President Jonathan endorses Mitt Romney for US president… in last week’s news with a pinch of salt

by Stanley Azuakola President Jonathan endorses Mitt Romney The campaign of Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger to Barack Obama, the president of the United States, in the forthcoming presidential elections received a major international boost last week as Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan endorsed him. The endorsement came as a shock to Obama who thought he... Read More

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October 26, 2012

TICKER: Another election surprise: Was Mitt Romney involved in a messy divorce case?

The internet’s abuzz with the rumor that famed attorney Gloria Allred is preparing an October surprise. For those who don’t remember, Allred revealed Herman Cain’s adultery and scuttled his campaign for the Republican nomination. She also ended Meg Whitman’s chances of becoming governor of California by revealing that Whitman had fired her maid when she... Read More

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