Calls for an open convention in Chicago have been muted so far, with potential challengers such as popular California governor Gavin Newsom backing Harris.
President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, had asserted that products refined at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals, are of superior quality.
A police inspector attached to the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for Edo Monday Okpebholo was killed in the state capital on Thursday.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he respected the US President's decision to withdraw from the race for the White House, paying tribute to a "remarkable career".
In preparation for the elections, he said the NNPP would soon be selecting candidates to run for the offices of chairmen, vice chairmen, and councillors across the 44 LGAs.
Lauding Biden's "extraordinary career of service," the Clintons said in a joint statement that they were "honored" to join him in endorsing Harris as the Democratic nominee "and will do whatever we can to support her."
US Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been a heartbeat away from the Oval Office since Biden's January 2021 swearing in, is well positioned to be the Democratic Party's standard-bearer.
The duo fell out in the wake of Governor Godwin Obaseki and Shaibu's second term win which led them to quit the APC for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Biden's decision to pull out also caps a tense and chaotic period in the US election, with Trump having survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally on July 13.
But 41 years after the legendary Ejeagha who is now in his 90s released the hit track, it only took comedian Brain Jotter's usage of the song in a dance move in one of his skits to add a viral spin to the piece of art.