The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is on the verge of losing control of the 10th House of Representatives amidst the ongoing battle for the Speakership of the House. InfoStride News reports that the leadership of the APC is still mum on the zoning of the speaker and the deputy speaker, while the president-elect, Bola Tinubu remains in Europe. Amid lack of clear direction, about 10 members of the APC have declared interest to contest the speakership and have started to campaign across the country. They include: Sada Soli from Katsina, Deputy Speaker Idris Wase and Yusuf Gagdi from Plateau…
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The National Youth Leader of the Labour Party, Kennedy Ahanotu has said embattled Julius Abure remains the National Chairman of the party, despite the current leadership crisis. The youth leader who spoke with Channels Television on Friday distanced himself from the National Working Committee’s emergency meeting that produced Lamidi Apapa as acting chairman. He described the process of removing Abure as unlawful, stressing that illegality cannot be used to correct another illegality. The NWC emergency meeting was done secretly with the intention to hijack the collective interest of Nigerians, Ahanotu claimed. “You can’t use illegality to correct another illegality. If…
Chijioke Edoga of the Labour Party, LP, has finally submitted his petition at the Enugu State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal to challenge the declaration of Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the winner of March 18 Guber election in the State. Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared Mbah winner of the election, stating he polled 160, 895 votes against Edoga who scored 157, 552 votes. The announcement of the result came 48 after the election, following a review of the controversial results from Nkanu East Local Government Area of the State by the INEC.…
China announced it will conduct military drills “around” Taiwan island for three days from Saturday, after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen returned from visits to the US. The People’s Liberation Army will hold drills and patrols in airspace and waters on the north, south and east sides of Taiwan from April 8 to 10, Eastern Theater Command spokesman Senior Colonel Shi Yi said in a statement on Saturday. The exercises will be conducted “according to plan,” Shi said, adding that they are a “stern warning against Taiwan separatist forces’ collusion with foreign elements.” He didn’t mention Tsai’s visits to New York…
The apex Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, tackled Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information, on Wednesday over his stance that the 2023 general election was credible. Afenifere, in a statement issued by its Secretary-General, Sola Ebiseni, stated that the minister was not sincere in his claims. The group maintained that Mohammed’s plan to give credibility to the elections failed, particularly, given that those he met with in the United States of America were aware of all that happened on February 25 and March 18. The Minister of Information, during a chat with some media organisations in Washington DC, described the elections…
The Labour Party, LP, has raised an alarm that immense pressure is being mounted directly on its candidate for the February 25 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, to leave the country. The Party alleged that the All Progressives Congress, APC, had hatched a “well calculated, deliberate and orchestrated campaign to discredit and delegitimize Obi in order to compel him to abandon his right to seek redress in court. The party also said Obi had, in the past few weeks, been contacted by associates, elder statesmen, family and friends over concerns for his personal safety. This is contained in a statement…
The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Adamu, has said that the party’s loss in the March 18 governorship election in Kano State was due to selfishness. Adamu made this known in an interview with BBC Hausa on Wednesday. Recall that the APC governorship candidate, Nasir Yusuf Gawuna was defeated by the the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Adamu blamed those who refused to do what they were told for the loss and said when the election noise died down, the party would take action against the erring members. He however, added that God willing, the supplementary elections…
A human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has mocked the All Progressives Congress, APC, over its victory during the presidential election. Yesufu said APC rigged election and it’s now a bone in their throat. In a tweet, the member of the Labour Party, LP, presidential campaign council, said APC won’t swallow the bone. She wrote: “They rigged election and it is now like a bone in their throat. They can’t swallow it nor bring it out! “They are running helter skelter all over the world. They robbed themselves of sleep.” Bola Tinubu of the APC had merged victorious after polling the…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko have vowed to push ahead the integration process between the two countries. The two leaders made the remarks on Thursday when jointly chairing a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus in the Kremlin. At the meeting, Putin noted that “significant achievements” had been made in the integration of 28 prioritised sectors approved during the previous Supreme State Council meeting in 2021, Xinhua news agency reported. “To date, both governments and the relevant agencies have completed 74 per cent of the activities planned under…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano and former Commissioner for Works and Infrastructural Development, Engr Muazu M Dansarauniya, has called on the party leadership to settle for a Senate President from the Northwest and Kano in particular, to create a strong base for the party in the region in the face of other opposition parties wanting to take control. He stated this in an emergency meeting with newsmen in Kano on Thursday to dismiss calls by the New Nigeria Peoples Party spokesman and Reps-elect, Abdulmumin Kofa, who condemned allotting the Senate Presidency seat to the north…
The 2023 Labour Party candidate for the just concluded gubernatorial election in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has insisted what happened in the state was a war, not a poll. Speaking on Arise Television’s morning show on Friday, Rhodes-Vivour also said that the responsibility of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must improve amid the election’s conduction. Rhodes-Vivour said, “What happened in Lagos was a war on Lagosians no matter how they want to colour it or module the waters. “In Ikoyi, there were Yoruba people who were beaten and affected by thugs and hooligans that came into the place. “Look…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has complied with the directive of the Governorship and House of Assembly Petition Tribunal in Ogun State to allow the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) have access to all election materials used for the conduct of the recently held election in the state. NNPP had earlier approached the tribunal over the failure of INEC to include its name in the ballot papers used for the election. The tribunal granted the request a few days ago, prompting INEC to release the election materials to the NNPP counsels, Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo and Izunya Isaac Dale, for…
The All Progressives Congress, APC in Imo State has advised the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to keep his eyes off Douglas House and concentrate on the task before him to recover and rebuild the party. The ruling APC said all serious-minded Imo citizens, including those who left a dishonoured ticket for Anyanwu, are aware that there is no vacancy in Imo Government House until 2027. APC stated this in a press release made available to DAILY POST by its State Publicity Secretary, Cajetan Duke in Owerri, Imo State capital. Recall that the National Secretary of the…
President Muhammadu Buhari says the 2023 elections proved the growing strength of Nigeria’s democracy and the sophistication of the Nigerian voter when it comes to the choice of leaders. His media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, stated in Abuja on Thursday that the president made the remark when he hosted the newly-installed Emir of Dutse, Alhaji Muhammad Sunusi, who visited him. Buhari noted that failure by 10 sitting governors to get elected into the Senate showed that there was no longer a guaranteed route to power and the voter is truly the king when it comes to choices. “It is a…
The Labour Party in Lagos State has indefinitely suspended six of its chieftains, including the immediate past chairman, Mr Kayode Salako , over alleged anti-party and disparaging activities in the just-concluded elections. The LP Secretary in the state, Mr Sam Okpala disclosed this at a news conference on Thursday at the party’s secretariat in Ikeja, Lagos. Okpala listed the suspended leaders to include: Mr Moshood Salvador (LP Senatorial Candidate, Lagos West), Mr Mutiu Okunola (House of Ikeja Rep. Candidate), and Messrs Theodore Ezeununara, Mr Olumide Adesoyin and Opeyemi Taiwo. He said the suspension followed the party’s reception and ratification of…
Officers of the Nigeria Police Force have taken over the Labour Party’s national secretariat in Abuja. The crisis rocking the party deepened on Thursday, after seven members of the National Working Committee, NWC, installed the National Vice-Chairman (South), Lamidi Bashir Apapa, as the acting chairman of the party. Apapa replaced suspended chairman, Julius Abure. Speaking after an emergency meeting, Apapa said the NWC members acted on the judgement of an Abuja High Court, which barred Abure from parading himself as LP’s National Chairman. Apart from Abure, the court also restrained the National Secretary, Umar Farouk Ibrahim; the National Treasurer, Oluchi…
The camp of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Friday, pointed out what should be the President-elect, Bola Tinubu’s first assignment if sworn in on May 29. Daniel Bwala, Atiku’s spokesman, said Tinubu’s first task is to unite Nigerians who believed he rigged the election. Faulting Tinubu’s silence over the vilification of Igbos in Lagos State following Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, victory in the state, Bwala wondered if the President-elect can unite Nigerians. In a series of tweets, Bwala said: “I personally believe the Igbo man believes in the Nigerian project and lives…
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has responded to criticism directed at him by Obidients, supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, after expressing displeasure at a statement made by the vice-presidential candidate of the party, Datti Baba-Ahmed. In a statement titled “Fascism On Course”, Soyinka said the “seeds of seeds of incipient fascism in the political arena have evidently matured”. Baba-Ahmed, whose ticket with his principal, Peter Obi, emerged third in the February 25 presidential election, had spoken about the Supreme Court in a manner described by Soyinka as “fascistic language”. According to the literary icon,…
Dr Tanko Yususa, the Labour Party Presidential Council spokesperson, said the crisis rocking the party’s leadership is not about the embattled National Chairman, Julius Abure, but targeted at Peter Obi. The post-election crisis in the Labour Party took another dimension on Thursday after the Nigeria Police Force sealed its secretariat over a power tussle among its leadership. Yunusa spoke on Wednesday during an Interview on Channels Television, monitored by the media; he said the confusion in LP is orchestrated to frustrate the party’s presidential candidate Peter Obi, who is in court to challenge Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory at the 25th…
The Director of New Media of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has told the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, that he is free to proceed on an exile outside Nigeria. Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister, said this in reaction to Obi’s outcry that was under pressure to leave the country following his decision to challenge the outcome of the presidential election. The former Anambra State governor also accused the ruling party and some government agencies of trying to divert the country’s attention from the alleged infractions that characterised the just concluded polls. His statement…