The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Barrow had on December 3 met with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where the two leaders engaged in bilateral talks. The 53-year old Gambian leader later told State House correspondents that his country still needed Nigeria’s stabilising support. “Things would have been very difficult for us without the invaluable support you gave,” Barrow said. Meanwhile, in a brief interview with State House correspondents at the end of the closed door meeting, Jonathan said he briefed Buhari about the outcome of his mission to the Gambian capital Banjul. Jonathan, who is the…
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Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South-South, has described a former Rivers South East Senator, Magnus Abe and Igo Aguma, a former member of the House of Representatives, as political clowns over the purported suspension of the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, from the party. According to Eze, this particular action exposed Abe, Aguma as desperados, shameless, unrepentant and acute opposition elements who are commissioned to destabilize the party in Rivers State. Eze, a former spokesman of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, also recommended Abe and Aguma to the Actors Guild…
Former Kano Governor, Engr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has explained why Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje dethroned Muhammad Sanusi II as Emir of Kano. He told Ganduje, “you dethroned him for your inferiority complex against him, nothing more.” Senator Kwankwaso noted in a press statement signed by his Principal Private Secretary, Muhammad Inuwa Ali on Tuesday, that “the fears of high esteem and caliber, plus influence the Emir possesses made Ganduje jittery and insisted on dethroning him.” Kwankwaso said; “We know that Ganduje always feels diminished and inferior in the presence of the Emir, and we know that Gov Ganduje harbours a…
Olusegun Bamgbose, a chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, has called on the National Assembly to amend the Constitution to provide for the recall of the President by those who voted for him. According to the frontline lawyer, considering the spate of insecurity in the country, and the lackadaisical attitude of the government to nip it in the bud, it had become necessary and imperative to amend the Constitution. In a chat with TheInfoStride on Tuesday, Bamgbose noted that if the Constitution provided for the recall of any member of the National Assembly, same should be extended to…
South-East political pressure group, the Zikist-Buharist Movement, ZBM, has reprimanded the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Uche Secondus, for asking President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over the high spate of insecurity in Nigeria. The group said it was in league with the frustration over insecurity in the country, but that Secondus and his party recall when PDP’s rule simulated the material conditions that unleashed insecurity on Nigerians. In a statement in Enugu, the group’s Chairman, Stanley Ohajuruka and Secretary, Godwin Onwusi, respectively noted that President Buhari was concerned over the insecurity in the country, which the more…
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last governorship election in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede said that governor Rotimi Akeredolu and the All Progressive Congress are jittery that they would lose at the election petition tribunal Jegede who spoke in Akure at the inauguration of the party secretariat razed during the last # EndSARS protest in the state. The new Party secretariat was singlehandedly built by one of the party governorship aspirants, Godday Erewa. Jegede expressed assurance that he would become the governor of the state. He said that “all evidence before the election petition tribunal were enough to…
The factional chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, Daniel Nwafor has insisted that his leadership remains legitimate in the state, especially with a pending court judgement from a competent jurisdiction. The dissolution as announced by the National Caretaker Committee, according to him, has no effect in Imo State. This, he said, is because the matter is currently in the Supreme Court, where it was taken by the APC National body after being defeated at the court of Appeal. He continued, “We call on the Governor Mai Mala Buni led National Caretaker Committee to lead NY example…
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State under the Chairmanship of Hon. Kehinde Odebunmi has dissociated the party from the statement credited to the former Governor Ayo Fayose’s faction, attacking Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State. The party expressed displeasure over what it described as destabilisation tendencies of the former Governor, saying it was necessary for Fayose to acknowledge the fact that the party is not his private business where he gives orders to the Party’s Exco to attack his perceived enemies. In a statement made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, the State Publicity Secretary of the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that his administration will give robust support to the Republic of Niger, which holds presidential and national assembly elections later this month. The President spoke on Tuesday at State House, Abuja, while receiving in audience former Vice President Namadi Sambo, who heads ECOWAS Election Mission to the West African country. He applauded President Mahamadou Issoufou, for not attempting to tamper with the Constitution of his country to elongate his stay in power, after serving for the maximum two terms. “I come from Daura, a few kilometres to the Republic of Niger, so I should know…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has flagged off campaigns for the forthcoming local council elections scheduled for 19 December 2020. The mega event which took place in Pantami Township Stadium was attended by APC stalwarts in the state. 11 candidates vying for the position of chairman and 114 councillorship candidates across the local government areas were presented the APC flag. Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Professor Ibrahim Abubakar Njodi, urged Gombe people to vote for the APC in the council polls. He assured his administration’s determination to continue to work for…