In a series of tweets posted on her official Twitter handle (@obyezeks), former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to promptly relinquish power to her. Ezekwesili referred to Buhari as an “ineffectual Commander-in-Chief of the Nigeria Armed Forces,” expressing her concern over his failure to secure the nation and its citizens. In her tweet, Ezekwesili wrote, “Let’s ask the ineffectual Commander-in-Chief of the Nigeria Armed Forces @MBuhari to swiftly hand over power to me so I can satisfy his supporters’ cry on his ignoble failure to secure the country, citizens, and residents of Nigeria. I welcome…
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A Federal High Court denied nullifying the candidature of the Abia Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti, who contested the election on the platform of the Labour Party, LP. The court, however, said it nullified the election of the Kano LP candidates that contested the 2023 general election. InfoStride News recalls that Ibrahim Haruna-Ibrahim had filed an application asking the court to revoke and set aside the certificate of return issued to all LP candidates declared winners in Kano and the 35 states of the Federation, including the FCT, Abuja. However, following the mixed reactions that have trailed the judgement, Justice Nasir-Yunusa…
Peter Obi, Labour Party candidate in the February 2023 presidential election, has reacted to the call between US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Recall that Blinken, on Wednesday called Tinubu on phone to emphasize his continued commitment to further strengthening the US-Nigeria relationship with the incoming administration. Reacting, Obi said the US responses to Nigeria’s affairs should be based on mutual respect, shared ideals, aspirations and interests which ought to transcend the considerations of any individual. According to the former Anambra State Governor, the United States are meant to wait for the full resolution of…
Amid the leadership crisis rocking the Labour Party, the governorship candidate of the party in Ogun State, Kehinde Sogunle, the House of Assembly candidates, Local Government Party Chairmen and other stakeholders across the State have declared their support for the Julius Abure-led National Working Committee. On Thursday, members of the party held a consolidation meeting at the NLC Secretariat, Abeokuta, reaffirming their trust in Abure, Peter Obi and the governorship candidate. Recall that the Michael Ashade faction of the Labour Party in Ogun State had on Saturday claimed to be in charge of the party, months after its suspension by…
The Labour Party has reacted to the pronouncement of a Federal High Court sitting in Kano nullifying the election of the Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti. InfoStride News earlier reported that the court presided over by Justice M N Yunusa, nullified the elections of Otti and all the candidates of the Labour Party in Abia State. According to the court, the emergence of Otti and other affected candidates was not in compliance with the provisions of the 2022 Electoral Act. However, when contacted by DAILY POST, the Labour Party Chairman in Abia State, Hon. Ceekay Igara, said the court’s…
The National Working Committee, NWC, of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday, cautioned its state chapters against imposing indiscriminate suspension and expulsion on members of the party. InfoStride News reports that state chapters of the ruling party had recently suspended its members for allegedly engaging in anti-party activities during the 2023 general elections. Latest of it was the expulsion of the former governor of Gombe State, Senator Danjuma Goje, by the state chapter over his conduct in the recent elections. Reacting to the disciplinary measures being taken against members in the state, the party, in a statement issued…
Northern Groups (CNG) has cautioned that no appointee of President Muhammadu Buhari with any corruption allegation should be allowed to leave Nigeria.. The CNG also declared that the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele should not be allowed to leave the country until all allegations made against him were cleared. CNG Spokesman, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, made this known in Abuja on Thursday during a press briefing. He added that those with such motives should be taken as enemies of the state and be dealt with in accordance with the provision of the law of the land. Suleiman said, “We demand that when the…
A former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has reacted to the party’s decision to withdraw its National Legal Adviser, Henry Bello, from the matter before the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja. According to Eze, the withdrawal of the lawyer is inconsequential and has no adverse effect on the case of the governorship candidate in the state, Tonye Cole and other candidates of the party. There were news around the country two days ago that Bello had withdrawn from the case and…
The Labour Party, LP, has announced the resumption of office of its embattled national chairman, Barrister Julius Abure. Also, the party said that other national officers of the party have fully assumed their constitutional responsibilities. The announcement was contained in a statement issued on Thursday following a press conference held at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Recall that the Labour Party had been enmeshed in a leadership tussle, with Lamidi Apapa and Abure fighting over the position of the national chairman. This followed an ex parte order by the Federal Capital Territory High Court restraining Abure from acting as…
World leaders landed in Hiroshima on Thursday for a Group of Seven meeting, the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, with Russia’s war in Ukraine expected to be high on the agenda. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida kicked off his summit diplomacy by meeting with US President Joe Biden after his arrival at a nearby military base. He was due to hold talks with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak a bit later in the day, before the three-day summit opens on Friday. The Japan-US alliance is the very foundation of peace and security in the Indo- Pacific region,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC, have kicked against the request of the former Vice President, Abubakar Atiku for the live telecast of his petition challenging the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. In their separate objections on Thursday, the trio insisted that the solemn nature of the court would be put in jeopardy if granted. Tinubu, in his vehement objections raised by Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN on his behalf, said that Atiku’s request was not only surprising but dangerous as it was capable of…
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State to steer clear of the party. The party gave this warning on Thursday. It noted that the need to warn the APC and Abiodun became imperative due to their alleged moves to cause confusion in the NNPP. Southwest Zonal Publicity of the party, Hon. Kilamuwaye Badmus, made these disclosures in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Thursday. He alleged that both the APC and Abiodun are trying to frustrate the ongoing petition against the APC, Dapo Abiodun and…
The factional chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Lamidi Apapa, has threatened to expose the party’s presidential candidate in the last elections, Peter Obi. Apapa had to deal with bitter exchanges inside the tribunal over sitting arrangements on Wednesday. He was booed by the party’s supporters as he emerged from the tribunal, while his cap was pulled off his head. Addressing the media afterwards, Apapa claimed Obi was taking sides with Julius Abure, the LP chairman removed by the court. Apapa also denied he had collected bribes from other political parties to destroy LP from within. “On the allegation of…
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has criticized the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar for berating the United States, US, Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, over the conversation with the Nigerian President-elect, Bola Tinubu. InfoStride News had reported that Blinken, during a call with Tinubu on Wednesday, assured the President-elect of US commitment to further strengthening the US-Nigeria relationship with the incoming administration. But, Atiku expressed disbelief, saying the call was a contradiction to the publicly stated position of the US on Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election. However, Keyamo said the call was not…
The factional National Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr Lamidi Apapa has denied receiving N500 million from any quarters in order to scuttle the case of the party at the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC). Apapa has also asked the presidential candidate of the party in the Feb. 25 Presidential Election, Mr Peter Obi to intervene in the leadership tussle of the party objectively with a view to resolving it. Briefing newsmen after escaping being lynched by irate youths at the PEPC on Wednesday in Abuja, Apapa denied receiving any money or being influenced by anybody or group to work…
Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has constituted an 11-man committee to investigate allegations committed by some of its members who engaged in anti-party activities during the 2023 general elections in the State. The committee, which is headed by the party’s State Publicly Secretary, Mallam Yusuf Idris Gusau was inaugurated by the state chairman of the party, Hon. Tukur Umar Danfulani at the State Secretariat of the party on Wednesday, 17th May, 2023. This was disclosed in a press statement issued to newsmen in Gusau, the State capital by the State publicity secretary, Mallam Yusuf Idris Gusau.…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) on Wednesday called on all Muslims vying for the Senate Presidency to step down for a Christian counterpart from Southern Nigeria. Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Executive Director, MURIC, in a statement stated that as a major stakeholder in the affairs of Nigeria, they have followed with keen interest the imbroglio which greeted the Muslim-Muslim ticket and how it ended in Nigeria having a Muslim President-elect and a Muslim Vice President-elect. He added, “In view of this outcome and considering the multi-religious character of our dear country, Nigeria, it is our considered opinion that the post of…
President–elect, Bola Tinubu, has said the live broadcast of the Presidential Election Tribunal is an abuse of the court process. Reacting to an application filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Tinubu urged the tribunal to discountenance such a move. He prayed the court to refuse the application on the grounds that “the court is not a rostrum or a soapbox and not also a stadium or theatre. It is not an arena for ‘public’ entertainment.” In a counter-affidavit filed by his counsel, Wole Olanipekun, the President-elect argued that the application was not within the tribunal’s…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has told the presidential election petition court to throw out an application filed by the Labour Party, LP, and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, seeking to have the proceedings televised. Levy Ozoukwu, counsel to Obi and LP, told journalists after the pre-hearing session on Wednesday that INEC opposed their application for a live broadcast. Ozoukwu said: “Surprisingly, INEC is objecting. “A public institution that is being funded by the government and representing the people is saying they don’t want the people to enjoy live streaming. What are they hiding?” Obi and the LP filed…
A Sri Lankan court here on Wednesday ordered the lifting of the overseas travel ban on former president and prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Fort Magistrate’s Court imposed a ban on overseas travel on Rajapaksa, 77, and over a dozen other politicians in May last year in view of investigations against them for their alleged involvement in the deadly attack on peaceful anti-government protesters in Colombo. At least nine people were killed and over 300 others injured in the violence in May. The overseas travel ban on former president Rajapaksa, MP Rohitha Abeygunawardena, Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi, and ex-Provincial Council member…