The former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has been called out for sanctions by Dr. Pedro Obaseki, a leader in the Peoples Democratic Party and the Director of Research and Documentation for the PDP’s Presidential Campaign Council. Obaseki claims that Wike is a traitor who was one of five governors who engaged in a string of anti-PDP actions leading up to the presidential election on February 25. Obaseki made his comments in a statement on Tuesday. In it, they say, “Wike has crossed the red line and now, he should be ready. He has come out and asked for…
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On Tuesday, supporters of Governor Caleb Mutfwang and other PDP candidates in Plateau State celebrated their success in election petition courts. At Rayfield, Jos.’s Langfield Event Centre, Mutfwang prayed and gave thanks with the energised crowd. At the ceremony, he stated, “The tribunal’s dismissal of their petition on the grounds of lack of merit, validated my position.” We want the people of Plateau to know that they can put their trust in this administration without fear of being let down. The Governor also thanked President Bola Tinubu, calling him a “true democrat,” for being nonpartisan in all political matters involving…
In response to the kidnapping of several female students from Federal University, Gusau, Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has spoken out. An unknown number of students from the Federal University of Gusau were reportedly kidnapped by gunmen on Friday morning, according to a report from Infostride News Many university students were reportedly living in the Sabon-Gida community in the Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State when it was targeted by militants. Obi urged his countrymen to refuse to let thieves and bandits dictate the terms of their daily lives. If criminals try to dictate the…
On Monday, the APGA leadership denounced the rising insecurity in the southeast region and urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to free Nnamdi Kanu. Detained by the DSS for years now is Kanu, the national leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). In a statement released to the media in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State, APGA leadership blamed Kanu’s continued imprisonment for the region’s security situation. The statement was signed by APGA’s National Youth Leader, Eze Onyebuchi Chukwu. “We appeal to President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to use his good office and effect the release of Mazi Nnamdi…
Angry members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nasarawa State deserted the party after the party’s primaries, and the state’s Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ibrahim Abdullahi, has urged the new leadership of the party to bring them back. The speaker claimed this is in the best interest of the party and the growth of the country as a whole. On Monday, Abdullahi led a delegation of APC House members to Lafia to congratulate the party’s newly elected officials. Governor Abdullahi Sule and the other party leaders in the state, he said, deserve praise for choosing Aliyu Bello…
There was a fire in the Supreme Court on Monday, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared it suspicious. According to Infostride News, the fire broke out at the highest court at around 7:00 a.m. on Monday. The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has started their investigation, however the cause of the terrible tragedy is still unknown. A statement released by the PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, reacted to the news by calling it “suspicious,” citing the ongoing appeal of election proceedings before the court as evidence. “The PDP is concerned over the fire outbreak, especially given…
The impeachment process against Mr. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the Deputy Governor of Ondo State, has officially begun with the service of a letter outlining allegations of misconduct from the state’s House of Assembly. The Rt. Hon. Olamide Oladiji, Speaker of the House of Assembly, told reporters in Akure on Monday that Aiyedatiwa was served by substituted service today. According to NAN, during Wednesday’s plenary session, the Ondo State House of Assembly instructed the Clerk to write the deputy governor on charges of egregious misconduct. According to Oladiji, the House had been trying to figure out how to serve Aiyedatiwa with the…
On Monday, Justice Monica Dongben-Mensem, President of the Court of Appeal, announced that in the 2022/2023 judicial year, the Court issued 7,295 judgements and rulings on 3,665 motions. Justice Dongben-Mensen made the announcement at the Court’s headquarters to kick off the New Legal Year of 2023/2024. She recalled that 1,209 petitions were lodged against the 2023 general elections and that 98 panels were formed to hear election petitions across the country. She stated that 5 cases submitted with the Presidential Election Petition Court have been resolved, that 147 petitions filed with the Senatorial Election Tribunal have been partially delivered, and…
The election of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State was upheld by the state’s electoral petition tribunal. Justice Mikhail Abdullah upheld Sanwo-Olu’s win and rejected the challenges of Olajide Adediran of the People’s Democratic Party and Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party for the position of governor. Both the Green Party of Virginia and Adediran have petitioned to overturn the results of the recent gubernatorial election in the state. However, Justice Abdullah’s tribunal shot down the requests.
In preparation for the gubernatorial elections on November 11, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced on Monday that it would run mock elections in the states of Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi on October 14, 2023. According to a statement released by INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, a total of nine Senatorial Districts and twenty-seven polling units have been identified across the three states. Olumekun emphasized that all information on polling sites, including LGA, RA/Ward, Delimitation Code, and the total number of registered voters, is available on the Commission’s website and social media…
The two major political parties in Ogun State are currently involved in a blame game over the development, and the aftermath of last week’s cult killings in Sagamu has not yet settled. About 20 people were killed in Sagamu amid cult skirmishes, and both the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party have blamed the other. Despite Ogun’s Commissioner of Police Abiodun Alamutu’s clarification on Sunday that the cultists in Sagamu are neither students nor politicians, political parties have been exchanging barbs, particularly in response to the DSS’s detention of Hon. Damilare Bello. The PDP quickly responded…
Hyde Kalu, a rising star in the All Progressives Congress, APC, has urged Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to drop his lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu in the United States. In the lawsuit, Atiku had demanded that Tinubu’s alma mater, Chicago State University, disclose his academic transcript. In a statement released on Monday, Kalu encouraged Atiku to let Nigeria’s courts resolve any conflicts that may arise from the 2023 presidential election. He pointed out that the legal fight in the US has made Nigeria seem bad in international circles. The APC youth leader claimed…
Election officials in Mali cited “technical reasons” for delaying the country’s scheduled February presidential vote. This was declared on Monday by the interim government. The junta stated that the dispute with the running business caused issues with updating the voting roll and the census database. A new date for the election will be announced at a later time. More than two years have passed since Mali’s military took over, and previous transition schedules have been pushed back. Both the local elections scheduled for June 2023 and the constitutional referendum scheduled for February 2023 were delayed. It has been reported that…
Dino Melaye, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for governor in the November 11 election in Kogi State, filed a petition challenging the Kogi State Signage and Advertsement Agency’s (KSSA) imposition of campaign charges on political parties, but the suit was dismissed by a high court sitting in Lokoja. In preparation for the governor’s race, the Agency demanded that political parties fork out N50 million in order to put up billboards and paste up posters. For each billboard put up in the state, the political parties have been told to fork out N2 million. Melaye asked the court to rule…
Mr. Kemdi Opara, governorship candidate for the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the off-cycle election scheduled for November 11 in Imo State, has voiced his displeasure with the state’s current crop of leaders. On Sunday in Owerri, the capital of Imo State, Opara made this claim during an open discussion with media on the state’s future. Opara said he decided to run for governor in the upcoming election not to profit himself, but to create a generational revolution, when asked about his political platform and plans to change the State. While blaming the existing government’s poor leadership for the State’s…
Alhaji Wale Adedibu, a prominent member of the APC in Oyo State, passed away recently. After a brief illness, he passed away on Saturday. Adedibu’s passing follows that of the APC women’s leader in Oyo North Senatorial district, which occurred just days before. Princess Adebowale Atoyebi, leader of the APC women’s faction, passed away last week. Barrister Sharafadeen Alli, the senator for Nigeria’s Oyo South senatorial district, expressed shock at the news of Adedibu’s death. In a statement released by his media advisor Akeem Abas, Alli praised Adedibu for his loyalty and dedication to the party. The dead, he said,…
Judgment on the cases submitted by political parties in opposition to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s reelection will be handed down today, Monday, by the Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. InfoStride News reminds readers that petitions were submitted to the court by the Labour Party and its governorship candidate Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, as well as the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate Olajide Adediran, also known as Jandor. Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was declared the victor of the gubernatorial election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, due to receiving the most votes. The Governor, running for a second…
On the fringes of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar met with his Mexican colleague Alicia Barcena Ibarra on Sunday. Relations between India and Mexico have been constantly warm and amicable, marked by mutual understanding, expanding bilateral trade, and general cooperation. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims that the two nations share many similarities, including being large rising economies with similar socio-economic development aspirations and restrictions, and having democratic, secular, and pluralistic systems as well as convergent worldviews. In addition to meeting with the Cambodian prime minister and…
The government has pledged to finish the Abuja–Lagos expressway by 2027. On Saturday, in Lagos, Minister of Works Dave Umahi told reporters that the projected 470-kilometer roadway will survive for 100 years. He further said that the road will traverse through the states of Kogi, Ekiti, Oyo, Lagos, Ogun, Niger, Kwara, and the FCT, and that it would be built by a private sector partnership at no expense to the Federal Government. He said, “When I first introduced this to the public, many doubting Thomases were saying, ‘it is impossible.'” It is impossible to travel from Abuja to Lagos in…
President Bola Tinubu has ordered security forces to rescue the remaining female students from Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State, who were recently seized by terrorists. This comes amid varying reactions to the revival of terrorist operations in the country. This order follows up on distressing reports of a bandit group breaking into a federal university housing and kidnapping a number of pupils. On Sunday, Tinubu condemned the incident through his media assistant Ajuru Ngelale, calling it a “reprehensible act of abduction.” Heinous atrocities against people whose only “crime” was to try to get a good education are, in the President’s…