Mr. Kenneth Okonkwo of the Labour Party, LP, has criticized INEC for delaying their defense of the presidential election petition tribunal until Tuesday. Okonkwo suggested a “technical glitch” on the part of the election commission was to blame for the disappearance of its witnesses in a tweet. According to the Infostride News, INEC’s defense of the presidential election on February 25 got off to a rough start on Monday due to the absence of INEC witnesses. Abubakar Balarabe Mahmood, SAN, the commission’s lead counsel, told the court he would be calling three witnesses to refute the charges made by LP…
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Imo State’s opposition political parties are complaining that the All Progressives Congress, APC-led administration of Governor Hope Uzodinma is charging them N54 million each just to campaign for the upcoming governorship election on November 11. Owerri’s Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC-G12) Chairman Chief Uchendu Ahaneku blasted the policy as offensive and illegal in a speech delivered on behalf of Nigeria’s opposition parties. They saw it as the state government’s attempt to stifle any potential growth of parties other than the APC. The IPAC-G12 has representatives from all 12 of the state’s political parties. A document presented to journalists purportedly from the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State has cautioned Teslim Folarin, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for governor in the last general elections, not to blame Governor Engineer Seyi Makinde for his defeat in the governorship race. On Monday, the group revealed this information in response to a recent claim attributed to Folarin. According to our correspondent, Folarin said earlier on Saturday that he was cheated out of the presidency by the APC’s plans. Akeem Olatunji, the PDP’s state publicity secretary, called him a “sore serial loser” in a statement released to the media. In a statement released…
Frank Shaibu, Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, agrees with the EU Election Monitoring Group’s findings that the 2023 presidential election was rigged in favor of President Bola Tinubu. According to him, the most recent Nigerian general election was plagued by irregularities and did not pass the bar for credibility. According to a signed declaration by Shaibu, “even the dead knew that the last election lacked credibility,” and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had been unable to explain why, nearly five months after the election, it had refused to put the full result on its result viewing portal.…
Vice President Joe Biden of the United States will visit the United Kingdom, Lithuania, and Finland as part of an effort to strengthen the NATO alliance. The White House announced that from July 9-13, Vice President Biden will visit the United Kingdom, starting with a stop in London for meetings with King Charles III and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The 11th and 12th of July find him in Vilnius, Lithuania for the 74th annual NATO summit. The next stop is a summit between American and Nordic heads of state in Helsinki, Finland. As the crisis in Ukraine enters its second…
Ondo State’s Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu is currently on medical leave in the United Kingdom and has been urged not to rush back to the country. Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, who represents the Ondo South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, issued the advice to the governor over the weekend, urging him to postpone his return trip and give himself more time to rest before returning to work. During a phone call, the senator offered the governor his recommendation. In a letter to the Ondo State House of Assembly, Akeredolu announced that he would be taking a 21-day medical leave of absence…
Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Public Communication Phrank Shaibu has claimed that President Bola Tinubu intends to reward the former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, with a ministerial post. Shaibu claimed that the promotion of Wike to minister was an expression of gratitude for his role in helping Tinubu win the presidential election in Rivers State. He claimed that the outcomes in Rivers and other states proved that the last presidential election couldn’t be taken seriously. Shaibu, in a signed statement, expressed his sadness at Tinubu’s plans to give Wike a ministerial portfolio, despite the fact that a petition…
Alex Otti, governor of Abia State, has threatened to reclaim any public funds or property currently in the possession of alleged corrupt individuals. Despite his promises to cut off the ‘feeding bottle’ of the State from the lips of additional looters, his administration has done just that. Otti made the pledge at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Umuahia in honour of Hon. Austin Okezie Meregini, the Deputy Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly. He said that his reforms to the state’s civil service and the dissolution of several boards were part of a larger plan to rebuild Abia,…
Senator Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, has urged his colleagues in Congress to work with the executive branch to promote national unity and prosperity. Adamu made these remarks over the weekend while hosting a group of senators, led by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, for Sallah observance at his home in Keffi, Nasarawa State. He emphasised the importance of maintaining a cooperative relationship between the legislative and executive branches of government in delivering on the promises of democracy to the people of Nigeria. The chairman congratulated Akpabio and his deputy, Senator Jibrin Barau, on their…
President Bola Tinubu has been given a 14-day deadline to reverse his decision to end the country’s fuel subsidy by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). Within the next four weeks, SERAP recommended, Tinubu make public the expenditure details of the fuel subsidy. The group threatened legal action against Tinubu if he did not release the information within four weeks. SERAP tweeted on Sunday, “BREAKING: Subsidy removal: we’ve urged President Tinubu to widely publish spending details of the N400 billion saved in four weeks from the removal of subsidy on petrol, or face legal action.” In his inaugural address…
Primate Elijah Ayodele, head of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, has offered an explanation for why President Bola Tinubu cannot investigate Muhammadu Buhari. According to Primate Ayodele, investigating Buhari’s administration will “run down” his government, hence Tinubu cannot do so. Reports had indicated that Buhari had encouraged Tinubu not to investigate his former appointees, so his comment came as something of a surprise. But Garba Shehu, who used to be Buhari’s spokesman, said the previous president never made such an appeal. On the other hand, in a speech he titled “Warning to the Nations” on Saturday in Lagos, Ayodele said,…
On Sunday, former senator for Kaduna Central Shehu Sani outlined the problems with negotiating with criminal gangs that prevent state governors and the federal government from doing so. Sani said that, unlike Boko Haram and ISWAP, bandits do not kill their victims in the name of religion. He explained that criminal gangs are armed groups with a political, religious, or ethnic objective. He claimed that bandits do not follow a single leader, but instead work together in loose alliances. A social and political commentator tweeted, “Dialogue with bandits will not work for these three reasons; they are not an armed…
Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has been tasked by Azobi Innocent Itapi, South East Zonal Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to prioritise rebuilding the state of education and agriculture. Shortly after an event in the new Government House in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State, Azobi, a former Senior Special Assistants, SSA to the former governor, David Umahi, made this known to newsmen. He told the people of the state to have faith in Governor Francis Nwifuru and that he will more than fulfil the APC’s promise to them. He claims that the state government of…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has formed a committee to bring together disgruntled party members in the states of Abia and Imo. The national publicity secretary of the party, Mr. Ejimofor Opara, issued a news release in Awka announcing the committee’s formation, and it cited a “seeming crisis” in the states named there. He continued by saying that the new national and state leadership that resulted from the recently held congresses was to blame for the crisis. According to one of Opara’s press releases, “Following the conduct of congresses for the election of officers of the party at all…
According to Nikkei Asia, foreign corporations have found themselves in a precarious position since China’s new anti-espionage law went into force on Saturday. According to Nikkei Asia, the heads of China’s two main business groups for foreign businesses warned that enforcing the legislation’s vague provisions would further damage business confidence already shattered by geopolitical tensions between Beijing and Washington. In an interview with Nikkei Asia, Jens Eskelund, president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, said, “What is it that we are supposed to comply with?”When does anything become a state secret? What exactly is it that we…
An ex-candidate for the Enugu North Senatorial District, Hon. Chinedu Eya, has asked Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah to distribute political offices fairly across the state’s regions. The media got the politician’s private letter to the Governor in which he offered the advise. Eya, who praised the governor for appointing competent people to support him in moving the wheels of governance, cautioned that the allocation of power should be handled with care to avoid resentments and disaffection among followers. In a message to Governor Mbah, he said, “While I like to commend you for your recent appointments of competent and…
The National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has been accused of corruption, and in response, the Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL) has issued a challenge for him to demonstrate his innocence by walking the streets of Abuja without security. The head of INEC had been under fire from the opposition for allegedly altering the results of the 2023 presidential elections. Nonetheless, Yakubu had refuted the claims, maintaining that the election that yielded Bola Tinubu was conducted fairly. In a statement released on Saturday, COSEYL President General Goodluck Ibem challenged INEC Chairman Mahmood…
Ladi Adebutu, the PDP candidate for governor in Ogun State in the previous election, has disproven rumours that his father, Kensington Adebutu, donated millions of naira to former Governor Gbenga Daniel to help him in 2023. After receiving millions of naira from the Adebutu patriarch to work for Ladi, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State has accused Daniel of betraying the party, as reported by Infostride News. However, Adebutu said that neither his father nor any other family member had ever contributed money to the Ogun East Senator. On Friday, Adebutu published a statement in which he “thanked…
On Friday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State said that Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, the governorship candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the March 18th election, would do the most honourable thing by cooperating with law enforcement in their investigation of the allegations of electoral fraud made against him. The party also warned Adebutu against giving his supporters any false optimism, saying that the allegations against him from the last election would be investigated thoroughly and brought to a just conclusion in the appropriate court. Ogun APC’s response came after a media remark attributed to Adebutu brought…
President Joe Biden will host Sweden’s prime minister at the White House on Wednesday in a show of solidarity as the United States presses for the Nordic nation’s entry into NATO, a bid stalled by objections from two members of the Western military alliance. Biden and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson plan to review our growing security cooperation and reaffirm their view that Sweden should join NATO as soon as possible, the White House said a statement Saturday. The leaders also will discuss the war in Ukraine and China. Sweden and neighbour Finland dropped their long-standing military neutrality after Russia invaded…