Comments by French President Emmanuel Macron over Europe’s priorities on Taiwan have raised questions over the EU’s relationship with both the US and China, on the eve of his planned speech on the bloc’s sovereignty in The Netherlands. Macron’s remarks were published on Sunday in an interview with French newspaper Les Echos and Politico Europe. The question we need to answer, as Europeans, is the following: is it in our interest to accelerate (a crisis) on Taiwan? No,” Macron was quoted as saying in the interview. “The worst thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on…
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The spokesperson of the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council, Dino Melaye, has singled out Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike as the reason for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s defeat at the last presidential poll. He said Wike was also responsible for the decamping of the Labour Party’s candidate, Peter Obi, from the PDP to the party weeks before the primary election. Melaye, a PDP governorship aspirant in Kogi State, stated this while speaking on Arise TV. Recall that Wike has said he won’t support PDP in the forthcoming Kogi State governorship poll if the party fields Melaye as its candidate.…
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant in the upcoming governorship primary in Kogi State, Senator Dino Melaye has revealed that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike was his biggest sponsor when he vied for the same office in 2019. Melaye said Wike supported his ambition financially to the tune of hundreds of thousands of Dollars. The former Senator disclosed this while reacting to the Rivers Governor’s recent threat that he would not support the PDP in the forthcoming Kogi State governorship poll if the party field him as its candidate. Speaking on Arise TV on Tuesday, Melaye said Wike did not…
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Wednesday, said the call for his arrest and prosecution for admonishing Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, over inciting the public to violence is unjustifiable. Mohammed stated this in London while reacting to the call by Edwin Clark, an Elder Statesman and Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), that he should be arrested and prosecuted for spreading “fake news” about Obi. The minister said he stood by his admonition of Obi, a former Anambra State governor, and his LP running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, saying that his advice…
Senator Samuel Anyanwu, National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has emerged the party’s governorship candidate for the November 11 Imo State gubernatorial poll. His emergence followed the PDP primary election held on Wednesday at the party’s secretariat along the Okigwe Road in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Anyanwu is expected to challenge the re-election of the incumbent Governor of the state, Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The State Organising Secretary of the opposition party, Lawrence Biado, said the seven-man electoral panel constituted by the National Working Committee headed by Kenneth Okon was present to monitor…
The Katsina State High Court has restrained the newly constituted caretaker committee of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from running the party’s affairs. The State Chief Judge, Justice MD Abubakar, in a ruling on Tuesday, issued an interlocutory injunction to that effect, noting that the order is pending the determination of the suit brought before the honourable court by the party’s embattled acting Chairman, Salisu Lawal Uli, and some elected party executives. Similarly, Justice MD Abubakar, in the ruling, also restrained the 2nd and 3rd defendant/respondent, PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from recognising…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal to declare the March 18 election in the state inconclusive. The party is challenging the declaration of Alhaji Abba Kabir-Yusuf of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) as the winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Recall that Kabir-Yusuf of NNPP polled 1,019,602 votes to defeat his rival, the incumbent Deputy Governor of the state, Dr Nasiru Gawuna, of APC, who scored 892,705 votes. In a five-volume petition filed on April 9, the APC alleged that Kabir-Yusuf of NNPP was not qualified to…
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, electoral committee for the gubernatorial primary in Bayelsa State, Gov. Ademola Adeleke, has called for the unity of purpose in the party after the conduct of the exercise. Adeleke led other committee members to the Dr Gabriel Okara Cultural Centre, Yenagoa, where the exercise will hold on Wednesday. He expressed optimism that the party stands undefeated in the state if united after the primary election that will produce the flag bearer, adding that the task of retaining power in the state will depend on their unity. He said, “Our task today is…
Nine candidates that contested in the just concluded House of Assembly elections on the platform of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, have challenged their arch-rival the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in court. The NNPP candidates have filed their petitions before the Kano Governorship, National and state House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting at Miller road court complex. The petitioners have also prayed the tribunal to grant their request for a motion ex parte. The applicants have asked the court for a motion ex parte allowing them to inspect the materials used by…
US President Joe Biden has once agains teased a run for a second term but stopped short of announcing it. “I plan on running,” Biden told an NBC news interview Monday, adding, “but we’re not prepared to announce it yet.” Biden has said before that he intends to seek a second term but he would announce it only after consulting his family. First Lady Jill Biden told CNN in February, “I’m all for it, of course.” Though an official announcement has not been made yet, there are every indication that the US President will run for a second term, defying…
The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, prayed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, against the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as president-elect in the February 25 election. The APC, the 4th respondent, urged the PEPC to reject the petition in its notice of preliminary objection marked: CA/PEPC/03/2023 and filed at PEPC’s Secretariat on Monday night by Thomas Ojo, a member of the party’s legal team led by Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, in Abuja. The party asked the tribunal to dismiss the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State and its Governorship Candidate, Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), have submitted a petition before the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Lagos State. PDP and Jandor are calling for the disqualification of the Labour Party (LP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in the election for non-compliance with the Electoral Act, 2022. In the petition marked EPT/LAG/GOV/01/2023 and dated April 7, the petitioners challenged the outcome of the March 18 gubernatorial election on the grounds of substantial non-compliance with the Electoral Act and the guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). While INEC is the…
All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, Osita Izunaso has stated that the sentiments of Igbos regarding “marginalisation” were justified. He spoke on Monday in Abuja while making a case for the zoning of the 10th Senate Presidency to the South-East, NAN reports. Izunaso believes he is the most qualified, adding that agitation in his region will subside if an Igbo leads the next Senate. The politician said the development would ensure inclusiveness and lessen the demand for Biafra, especially among youths “misled by separatists”. The Imo West Senator-Elect noted that the South-East remains the “most disadvantaged geopolitical zone since 1960”. “The…
Cletus Obun, a member of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, said installing a Muslim leadership in the 10th National Assembly would confirm the Islamization agenda of the ruling party. He stated that the party must be sensitive to give the national leadership to a Christian from the South. Obun disclosed this on Tuesday during an Arise Television interview monitored by the media. According to him, since the President-elect and Vice President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kasim Shettima, are Muslims, it would be wise and morally justifiable for a Christian to lead the National Assembly. Members of the National…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said Dino Melaye, a spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, cannot be Governor of Kogi State. Wike warned that the PDP would fail if Melaye emerged as its governorship candidate. Addressing selected journalists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, Wike stressed that the former Kogi West Senator lacked the capacity to govern a state. According to Wike: “If you give Dino the governorship ticket, you know he will fail; there is no way he can win. Why will Kogi people say they would vote for a candidate like…
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi, on Tuesday said no power can deprive the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, of his mandate. Umahi, who made the assertion in Abakaliki, dedicated the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state and across the country to God. According to him, those seeking to upturn the victories at the tribunal are simply wasting their time and resources. “APC, as a party, merited all it got at the polls,” the governor added. He advised those thinking they would rob Tinubu of his mandate to have a re-think because he cannot be stopped. “When people say…
INEC, the 1st respondent, stated this in its reply filed on Monday night at the PEPC’s Secretariat by its lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN, in Abuja. The commission prayed the court to either “dismiss or strike out the petition for being grossly incompetent, abusive, vague, nebulous, generic, general, non-specific, ambiguous, equivocal, hypothetical and academic.” The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Obi, the 1st petitioner, and LP, the 2nd petitioner, had sued INEC, Sen. Bola Tinubu, Sen. Kashim Shettima and All Progressives Congress (APC) as 1st to 4th respondents respectively. ADVERTISEMENT The petitioners are seeking the nullification of the…
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran better known as Jandor believes he could still be declared the winner of the March 18 governorship election in Lagos. Jandor who came third in the election with a total of 62,449 votes believes the law could work in his favour having approached the Lagos governorship election petition tribunal to challenge the victory of the incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. In the election, Sanwo-Olu, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) scored a total of 762,134 votes to emerge victorious, while Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour of the Labour…
The Federal Government has challenged the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to clarify his position on a leaked audio of the conversation he allegedly had with a prominent Nigerian cleric. The audio clip as released by an online newspaper was an alleged conversation between Obi and the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo. Addressing the media on Monday in London, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said Obi should clarify what he meant by saying the leaked conversation was “a fake doctored audio call.” “I need to draw the attention of…
Abia Governor-Elect, Dr Alex Otti, has announced a list of distinguished professionals and technocrats as members of his Transition Council. The list, as contained in a statement issued to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia on Tuesday, is preparatory to his formal assumption of office on May 29, 2023. According to the statement, the Council will be chaired by Victor Onyenkpa, Partner and COO, KPMG, and co-chaired by Ifueko Okauru, former Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Arunma Oteh, former Director-General of Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission, former Treasurer and Vice President of the World…