China’s foreign minister on Friday said the country would not sell weapons to parties involved in the conflict in Ukraine and would regulate the export of items with dual civilian and military use. Qin Gang was responding to concerns from the US and others that China was considering providing military assistance to Russia, which Beijing has backed politically and rhetorically in the conflict while formally saying it remains neutral. Qin reiterated China’s willingness to help facilitate negotiations to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict and said all parties should remain objective and calm. Speaking at a news conference with…
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been urged to take a cue from the All Progressives Congress, APC, following the conduct of its primary election in Kogi State. The National Democratic Front, NDF, made the remark while applauding the APC for adopting direct primary during its primary in Kogi State. Recall that a former Auditor General of local government in the state, Usman Ododo, clinched the APC governorship ticket during the party’s primary election on Friday. Ododo garnered 78,704 votes to defeat the six other contestants. Reacting, Suleiman said the primary election was peaceful and calm, adding that the outcome…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate in the February 25 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, has alleged that there is a “game plan of upturning the democratic wishes of the people of Adamawa State”. Atiku stated this on Sunday through a press release signed by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, on Sunday, following a declaration by Hudu Yunusa, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Adamawa of Aisha Dahiru, as the winner of the election in the State. Recall that the electoral body suspended the collation of results in the supplementary gubernatorial election held on Saturday in the State following non-adherence…
The Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri has expressed confidence he would be re-elected despite the controversy surrounding the gubernatorial election. Fintiri, who is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stated this on Sunday while addressing journalists in Yola, the state capital. The governor’s assertion is coming amid the controversial announcement of Aisha Dahiru of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as winner of the election. The Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Ari Hudu, unlawfully announced the APC candidate, who is popularly known as Binani, winner without the full results from the poling units where supplementary election held on Saturday. The…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has won the rerun election for Ezza North/Ishielu federal constituency in Ebonyi. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Sunday, declared Joseph Nwobashi the winner. The Returning Officer, Prof. Augustine Ibegbu of Alex Ekwueme University, announced Nwobashi won with 11,890 votes. He defeated Emmanuel Nwite of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who got 11,150 votes; Chinedu Oguta of Labour Party, LP, polled 8,076 votes. Nwobashi is former majority leader in Ebonyi State House of Assembly. APGA spokesperson in Ebonyi, Chibuike Nwanchor has congratulated him and urged party members remain united for more success.
Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa has blasted the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Zamfara State for claiming that the All Progressives Congress, APC, engaged in vote buying during the just concluded National Assembly rerun election in the State. Senator Marafa stated this during an interview with newsmen at his Yandoto country home, in Tsafe Local Government Area. “Though I am not surprised by PDP’s claim because the party since inception has been noted for complaining even when there is no reason for complaint,” he said. According to Marafa, the party won the governorship election in the state, but instead of jubilating…
Kelly Ogbaloi, the Edo State Labour Party chairman, has described the Saturday rerun election in the state as a sham and called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to cancel the election and fix another date for the rerun. Ogbaloi who stated this while reacting to the rerun election at a press conference in Benin alleged that the exercise was marred by irregularities and violence by thugs suspected to be loyal to the PDP in the state. He further alleged that members of the Labour Party, including a candidate of the party, Derek Uhunmwagho, were mercilessly beaten up and…
Residents of Ido-Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State are awaiting the results of the House of Assembly supplementary election conducted in three polling units in Ido Ekiti. The results of the three units were cancelled during the last House of Assembly election held on the 18th of March due to violence The three major political parties slugging for the Ido Osi Constituency I are APC, PDP and SDP. In an interview, the candidate of SDP in the election, Muyiwa Fadahunsi said that he was not satisfied with the process, alleging that some of his loyalists were intimidated and disenfranchised.…
Timipre Sylva, the immediate past Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, has clinched the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship ticket in Bayelsa State. InfoStride News recalls that the Presidency confirmed Sylva’s resignation to join the Bayelsa State governorship race. On Friday, APC in Bayelsa State commenced primary across 105 wards to choose the party’s flagbearer in the November 11 election. Declaring the results, at the state’s party Secretariat in Yenagoa, the Chairman of the APC electoral committee, for the gubernatorial primary in the state, Maj. Gen. A.T. Jubrin said Sylva polled 52,061 votes to defeat his closest rival, Joshua MacIver,…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to declare its candidate for the Isu state constituency, Modestus Osakwe, the winner of the rerun election without any further delay. PDP decried the spate of violence witnessed at the four polling units where rerun elections were supposed to hold today. In a statement signed by its state Publicity Secretary, Collins Opurozor and made available to DAILY POST in Owerri, PDP accused Imo APC of coercion, carting away of election materials and abduction of INEC officials in Isu LGA today. As a result…
A Moscow court on Thursday again fined Wikipedia for a Russian-language article it refused to remove about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the latest in a series of government moves to silence objective reporting or criticism of the war and restrict the Russian public’s access to information. The court fined Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs the free, publicly-edited online encyclopedia, 2 million rubles ($24,464) for not removing a Wikipedia article titled Russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia region,” a reference to one of four Ukrainian provinces that Russia annexed last September. Most countries have condemned the annexation, as well as that…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Cairo Ojuogbo, on Saturday, claimed the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege worked against the emergence of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. Ojuogbo said Omo-Agege never believed Tinubu would win the presidential election, hence did not work for his emergence. Speaking on Arise Television, the APC chieftain claimed that the deputy senate president worked for the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi during the last election. He also dismissed claims that the Omo-Agege’s faction of the party expelled him from APC in Delta State. According to Ojuogbo: “Omo-Agege did anti-party, he never believed…
A former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has alleged that forensic analysis of the presidential election results held on February 25, 2023, showed that there were over voting in more than 10,000 polling units. Omokri in a statement issued on Saturday titled, ‘An Action Call To Save Democracy in Nigeria’, said this represents almost eight per cent of all the polling units where he said over voting occurred. The social activist said that the world is watching the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) and hopes it would abide by the provision of the law as enshrined in Nigeria’s Electoral Act of…
The Governorship, National and State Assemblies election tribunal in Kwara state has so far received eleven election petitions from contestants who participated in the just concluded 2023 general elections in the state. Eight petitions were filed by contestants for the State House of Assembly elections. Three petitions were initially filed arising from the House of Representatives election but now reduced to two after the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Muhammed Ibrahim Ajia, for Ilorin West/Asa Federal constituency withdrew his petition. The only Senatorial petitioner, Kayode Ayelabegan of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, for Kwara Central, is also reported to have…
With the 2023 general elections over, attention has now shifted to Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa States for the off-season governorship elections. In Kogi State, over ten members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, lined up to succeed incumbent Governor Yayaha Bello who is completing his second tenure in office. However, on Thursday, Governor Bello endorsed the state Auditor General, Usman Ododo as his preferred candidate. InfoStride News reported that the Chairman of the election committee, Governor Mohammed Bello-Matawale confirmed that a “gentlemanly agreement” was reached. Consequently, Deputy Governor Edward Onoja, ex-Finance Commissioner David Adebanji-Jimoh, Ashiru Idris, Okala Yakubu, Abdulkareem Asuku…
Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa on Thursday accused the Nigerian government of scuttling the election of Peter Obi at the February 25 presidential poll. Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, rejected the result and is now in court to challenge the victory of President-elect Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC. In a letter to the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, seen by the media, Ekpa berated Information Minister Lai Mohammed for “lying” about the elections. He said the official has been “junketing…telling lies and calling for a ban on all fund-raising activities of the indigenous people of…
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the major opposition political party in Oyo State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) have intensified efforts to claim two more House of Representatives seats. The two federal constituencies are Ibadan North East/Ibadan South East and Oluyole. There are fourteen (14) federal constituencies in Oyo state. PDP had earlier won four (4) federal constituencies, while the APC won eight (8) federal constituencies in the last general elections. Elections in two federal constituencies were declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The returning officer for Ibadan North East/Ibadan South East, Dr. Akanni Lawanson…
Governor Douye Diri on Wednesday emerged winner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary to contest the Bayelsa State governorship election on November 11, 2023. Diri, who was the sole aspirant for the primary, scored 305 “yes” votes from the delegates to emerge as the party candidate. The primary election conducted today had the party delegates from the eight local government areas of Bayelsa casting their votes to affirm the candidature of Diri. In his remark, Diri promised to lead the PDP to victory during the election. “In a democracy, people must be allowed to vote, and the votes…
Ahead of the inauguration of the 10th House of Representatives, a coalition has said rebellion would deny the administration of Bola Tinubu the opportunity to deliver its mandate to Nigerians. The coalition vowed to respect the decision of the majority party in the House of Representatives. The coalition, known as the “Joint Task – 10th Assembly,” with 283 members-elect from all the major political parties, is made up of returning and new members-elect from all political parties. A statement by its chairman and co-chairman, Usman Bello Kumo and Kingsley Chinda said members of the coalition are in agreement with the…
Alhaji Muktar Lugga, Zamfara State Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called on Inspector General of Police (IGP) to transfer the petition before him against some party chieftains to Zamfara Command. Lugga made the appeal at a news conference in Gusau on Wednesday, saying that the current security situation on the road, especially in Zamfara, was not favourable for traveling outside the state. He said instead of inviting them to Force Headquarters Abuja, they should be redirected to Zamfara State Police Command to face the necessary interrogation. Moreover the allegations levelled against them happened in Zamfara state,…