Former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained his reasons for visiting former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, saying, he went to receive his blessings. Tinubu stated this after a closed-door meeting with the elder statesman in his Hilltop country home in Minna, Niger State. Responding to newsmen on the purpose of his visit to IBB, the former Governor of Lagos State said he was in Niger State to sympathize with the state over its security challenges and decided to visit the elder statesman to receive his blessings. He stated, “if you restrict my visit to…
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Some supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa, on Thursday, clashed in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital over rivalry on the choice of candidate to contest for position at the Federal House of Representatives come 2023. The clash, which threw the people of Kpansia community into panic, led to the burning of cars and matchet attacks on individuals and passersby. A car belonging to one Ada Morris, an aide to the State Governor, was also set ablaze. InfoStride News gathered that the supporters involved in the bloody clash allegedly belong to two rival camps, one for the State…
Bola Tinubu, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has met with former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB. Tinubu met with Babangida on Thursday afternoon in Minna, the Niger State capital. He arrived at IBB’s hilltop residence at about 2.30pm and both went straight into a meeting behind closed-door. The meeting is not unconnected with Tinubu’s aspiration to run for the presidency in 2023. Tinubu visits Babangida after similar moves to some influential power blocs and individuals across the country. He had last week cleared the air over doubts of him running…
A former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari has described the immediate past Secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Abdulahi Shinkafi as a ‘noise maker’ and an ‘errand boy’. Yari, a chairmanship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said he would not join issues with Shinkafi considering his antecedents in APGA. Shinkafi had while declaring his intention to contest for the chairmanship of the ruling party challenged Yari to present his membership card. He claimed Yari was no longer a member of the APC because he didn’t participate in the recent revalidation and registration exercise of the…
US President Joe Biden has said that Vice President Kamala Harris would be his running mate if he stood for office again in 2024. President Biden made this emphatic assertion on Wednesday amid US media reports alleging dysfunction among her staff and doubt on her standing within the administration. Harris, 57, is the first woman and first Black and Asian American person ever sworn in as US vice president. Harris was born at Oakland in California. Her mother Shyamala Gopalan migrated to the US from Tamil Nadu, while her father, Donald J Harris, moved to the US from Jamaica. Asked…
The Governor of Cross River, Ben Ayade has said he will run for president in 2023 if the All Progressives Congress (APC) considers him. Ayade stated this while speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels TV programme on Wednesday. While responding to a question on if he will contest for the presidency in 2023 on the platform of the APC, the Governor said the party should make the decision based on zoning. “I think the party should take a decision based on zoning principles which would be resolved as a party. “Let me say, yes and no. If the family (APC)…
The ambition to run for the Osun governorship election has torn Osun’s Adeleke family apart. The members of the family — Senator Ademola Adeleke and Dele Adeleke — have been screened and cleared as aspirants for the Osun governorship election under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Infostride News reports. The two family members were part of six governorship aspirants for the July 16 governorship election in Osun State cleared by Mohammed Adoke, the chairman of the party’s screening committee. However, there has been continuous hot disagreement within the family over the ambition of Dele, who served as Ademola’s agent at…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo has hinted that Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State is being considered for the position of Nigeria’s President in 2023. There has been a continuous clamour for an Igbo man to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023, a quest hinged on equity and power rotation. Speaking when a delegation of some Enugu residents in the 19 Northern States paid him a visit in Abuja, the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro said Governor Ugwuanyi was being considered for the position. The visit followed a meeting the Ohanaeze Secretary-General held with some Northern groups ahead of the 2023…
The Forum of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Party Chairmen in Osun Local Government Council Areas has cautioned the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, to stop henceforth the disturbance of the political peace of the State. The APC party chairmen who spoke through their chairman, Rufus Awotidoye, on Tuesday, after a meeting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, stated that the conduct of Aregbesola constituted an obvious distraction to the administration of Governor Gboyega Oyetola. Awotidoye disclosed that the Interior Minister’s affirmation in Ilesa last Friday “of being the brain behind the obnoxious, leprous and antagonistic pressure group within…
One year into a presidency defined by lofty ambitions and at-times frustrating shortfalls, President Joe Biden will try to talk anxious Americans through the challenges of delivering on his lengthy to-do list as he holds a rare news conference and asks for patience with the pace of progress. In advance of the session, set for 4 p.m. EST Wednesday, his 365th day in office, Biden gave no indication that he felt a reset was in order. But his appearance was playing out on the same day that prolonged Democratic efforts to overhaul the nation’s voter laws appeared set to go…