Reno Omokri, a former advisor to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has spoken out against President Bola Tinubu’s plans to establish a state of emergency in the southeast. Omokri insisted that declaring a state of emergency would do more harm than good, and that it would be a huge PR win for IPOB (the Indigenous People of Biafra). He suggested that Tinubu establish a Southeast Development Commission and use the funds intended for sending troops into the area to instead fund the region’s rapid infrastructural development. On Monday, the social critic issued a message via his verified Twitter account, urging people…
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According to a US official familiar with the matter, as reported by NBC News on Tuesday, a US soldier is said to have been captured by North Korea after crossing the border from South Korea. According to US officials, the incident is still “fluid,” and tensions are rising over North Korea’s nuclear programme as they gather information. Unauthorised US national who was on an orientation tour crossed the Military Demarcation Line into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), according to the American-led UN Command. They claimed in a tweet that they think the person is now being held in…
Alhaji Inuwa Bakari, the state’s ousted interim PDP chairman, must be immediately reinstated, according to an order from the Taraba State High Court in the state’s capital of Jalingo. The reinstated acting party chairman’s requests were all granted in the judgement that Justice Nuhu Adi presided over. Former state governor Arc. Darius Dickson Ishaku fired Bakari, and Alhaji Abubakar Bawa, who had served as Ishaku’s special adviser, took his position. Bakari sought the court to invalidate Bawa’s appointment since the party’s constitution’s due processes were not followed, as he did not agree with the previous governor’s choice. The judge ordered…
All Progressives Congress (APC) leader Barrister Sani Mohammed Takori bemoaned that internal disputes were to blame for the party’s Zamfara State chapter losing the governorship race. He insisted that the party was seriously fractured because things had gone wrong and the centre could no longer support it. Takori attributed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,’s victory over the party to a power struggle between previous governors Bello Mohammed Matawalle and Abdulaziz Yari. He claimed that the party’s National Secretariat made every effort to reconcile the two groups in order to help the party win all of the State’s elective seats. He…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) proceeded to call witnesses when the governorship election petition tribunal met in the state capital of Abeokuta on Monday. Several parallels and contradictions in the witnesses’ testimony have followed the proceedings. During cross-examination by the counsel for INEC, a witness from Ota named Mrs. Mulikat Yemi acknowledged similarities in her statement with that of another witness, Balogun Olanrewaju, including the same error and omission in paragraph 6 of their statements, and requested that the tribunal question her attorney for the repetition. Another witness, Thomas Abiodun, a photographer from Iyesi-Ota in Ado Odo Ota Local Government,…
According to the Labour Party (LP), if President Bola Tinubu is dismissed from office by the court, there won’t be anarchy in Nigeria. On the basis that he did not receive 25% of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Tinubu had urged the presidential election tribunal to reject the challenge filed by LP trying to overturn his victory in the general elections of 2023. In a closing written statement to the tribunal, Tinubu asserted that the FCT is the 37th state for election reasons through his attorney, Wole Olanipekun. Any other reading, in the president’s words, “would…
Upon Abdullahi Adamu’s resignation as National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), veteran lawmaker Shehu Sani criticised Buhari’s camp. According to Infostride News, former APC chairman Adamu submitted his resignation letter on Sunday evening. As a result, APC Deputy National Chairman (North) Senator Abubakar Kyari is now in charge of party operations. According to rumours, Adamu is a huge fan of the ex-president. Before and after President Bola Tinubu emerged as the party’s candidate, Adamu was said to have actively lobbied against his success. On Monday, when news of Adamu’s resignation was confirmed, Sani published a post on his…
Abdullahi Adamu, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is rumoured to have resigned. Since Sunday night, Adamu’s purported resignation has dominated conversation, although neither the party nor the Progressive Governors Forum have confirmed it. However, Daily Trust claims that Adamu submitted his letter of resignation on Sunday evening. According to a source cited in the story, the party chairman handed his letter of resignation to the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Around 4 o’clock on Sunday, the president’s chief of staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, reportedly received the resignation letter. The APC’s National Caucus and National Executive Committee meetings are…
Political activist Deji Adeyanju has demanded the resignation of the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Working Committee (NWC). Adeyanju argued that if the country were to avoid becoming a one-party state, those who were prepared to do the task of the opposition should be elected. The public affairs analyst was responding to the announcement of Abdullahi Adamu’s and Iyiola Omisore’s resignations as National Chairman and National Secretary of the APC. In a series of tweets, Adeyanju argued that, after the departure of several prominent figures from the APC’s leadership, the PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC) should also be dismissed. If the…
One of Atiku Abubakar’s media advisers, Daniel Bwala, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu and the Yoruba don’t engage in “politics of bitterness.” Abubakar is the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the upcoming 2023 election. In response to Abdullahi Adamu’s departure as national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bwala made the following statement. On Twitter, Bwala said, “Life is to be taken easily, ohh. The APC chairman who was quoted as saying, “I could write demand letters that filled his office and still not get my professional fees for what I worked for, simply…
Ogun State’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claims the state police command is withholding information on an investigation into allegations that the All Progressives Congress (APC) engaged in vote buying during the 2014 governorship election. This was announced on Monday at a press conference held in Abeokuta by PDP Ogun Chairman Sikirulahi Ogundele. Ogundele instructed Abiodun Alamutu, the Commissioner of Police in Ogun, a 72-hour deadline to release the findings on the vote-buying allegation made against the incumbent party. Adebutu’s attorney had petitioned the Inspector General of Police in June, claiming that during the governorship election, his opponent had engaged in…
Shamina Singh, a successful Indian-American businesswoman, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to join the President’s Export Council, the highest-ranking federal advisory body on international commerce. Singh, the President and Founder of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, has expressed her gratitude for the opportunity to serve on the President’s Export Council, calling its members “eminent leaders in their fields.” On July 14, the White House released a statement saying that President Biden would be appointing Singh to the position. Singh said, “I am deeply honored to be invited to serve on the President’s Export Council alongside so many…
On Monday, Ladi Adebutu, the PDP’s candidate for governor in Ogun State, brought more witnesses to the election petition tribunal to testify against the APC’s incumbent governor, Dapo Abiodun. The petitioners had presented 56 witnesses by the end of Monday’s hearing; six of them were present today. On Monday, 67-year-old pastor Olorunwa Tunwase, clothes vendor Kushimo Olamide, businessman Asimolowo Abike, Balogun Muhammed, Mulikat Akorede, and photographer Thomas Abiodun were the six witnesses who were subjected to cross-examination. People from the Ado-Odo/Ota, Abeokuta North, and Ogun Waterside local government areas of the state filed the case. In a petition dated EPT/OG/GOV/03/2023,…
Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State are fighting against those who want Nyesom Wike, the state’s former governor, to take over the party’s leadership amid the ongoing debate over who will be appointed to the ministerial seat. Darlington Nwauju, the APC publicity secretary for Rivers State, made these remarks during an appearance on Arise Television on Sunday. He claimed that many people lost their lives during the party’s formation in the state and that it would be unfair to reward the man who led the party’s efforts in the state during a time of great difficulty.…
Both All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman Senator Abdullahi Adamu and APC National Secretary Senator Iyiola Omisore have resigned from their positions, as verified by the APC’s National Working Committee (NWC). After the NWC meeting on Monday at the party’s office in Abuja, the news was made by Senator Abubakar Kyari, the Deputy National Chairman, North. Senator Iyiola Omisore, the party’s secretary, and Senator Abdullahi Adamu, its national chairman, have resigned, he added. As the North Region’s Deputy National Chairman and the Deputy National Secretary, “it is now incumbent upon me to assume the roles.” Kyari stated that the Tuesday…
On Monday, the parties to the petition contesting the election of Senator for Kaduna North Constituency closed their case, and the Election Petition Court in Kaduna adjourned until August 7 to adopt final addresses. The deadline for submitting and signing addresses set by Justice H.H. Kereng is August 4. Prior to this hearing, D.B. Kwajafa, counsel for the second respondent, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), filed a motion to dismiss the PDP’s lawsuit. Since “we have previewed evidence by the petitioners and that of the first respondent and we are of the view that we don’t need to call any…
Earlier this month, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that his government would hand over power to a caretaker setup before the end of its tenure next month. This likely means that the National Assembly will be dissolved a few days early to speed up the general election scheduled for November. It was only a few days ago that the prime minister announced his government’s term would finish on August 13. Shehbaz’s apparent about-face appears to be the result of counsel from Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari, with whom he is politically aligned. A top PPP leader…
The 10th Senate dismissed as malicious rumours that it had bloated the supplemental budget that became law just last week. Some online news sources had reported that the sum of N70 billion had been inflated into the supplementary budget as a “gift” from the executive branch of government, and the upper legislative house was reacting to this. Senator Yemi Adaramodu, chairman of the Senate committee on media and public affairs, released a statement to reporters in Abuja on Sunday in which he questioned the source of such rumours and asserted that lawmakers did not require any sort of bribe from…
The Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has given President Bola Tinubu the responsibility of selecting candidates for the Federal Executive Council, which has not yet been formed. Party officials at the state level urged the president not to nominate individuals to key positions in the party who lacked the core beliefs and support of the electorate. To help the government carry out its many initiatives and spur growth across all of the essential sectors, the party has tasked Tinubu with selecting an Abia native who possesses the requisite skill, ability, and competence. Mr. Offor Okorie, the…
Anambra State’s All Progressives Congress, APC, is lobbying hard in Abuja, the nation’s capital and the seat of power over the appointment of ministers into President Bola Tinubu’s government, to ensure that only hardworking and card-carrying members of the party are given appointments. According to reports from Infostride News, the decision was made because of negative interactions the party has had in the past with federal government employees during President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight-year tenure. An unnamed party insider said, “The former minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige is an example of how the party has suffered in the…