Angry members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) walked out of the Abia State House of Assembly building on Tuesday, causing a tense situation. Eleven members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) left the House in a huff after the Labour Party (LP) and the Young Progressive Party (YPP) were named as its new primary executives on Friday. Since the Speaker did not include the job of Minority Leader in his or her announcement, it remains open. Godwin Adiele, who represents the Ukwa West constituency, addressed the press on Tuesday on behalf of his colleagues and said that the abrupt…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
On Tuesday, Senator Abdulahi Adamu, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), declared that the APC’s National Working Committee (NWC) had no say in the selection of parliamentary leaders. According to Infostride News, after the conclusion of the party’s meeting on May 8, 2023, National Publicity Secretary Felix Morka declared that the zoning formula offered by President Bola Tinubu had been ratified. Adamu, who led the meeting, abruptly reversed course on Tuesday by publicly rejecting the National Assembly’s top officials. He made it clear that the APC NWC had nothing to do with the election of Senate President Godswill…
The presidential, National Assembly, gubernatorial, and state house of assembly elections of 2023 in Nigeria may have come and gone, but their reverberations are far from ended. There has been much speculation and ongoing discussions about the election process since its conclusion and the eventual declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP), as well as their respective presidential candidates Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, were among the parties that filed petitions with…
A prominent PDP legislator, Solomon Akpulonu, has asserted his party remains the dominant party in the House, by virtue of its elected members, even though the election of new principal officers in the Abia State House of Assembly may have kicked up a little of dust. To kick against the announcement of new main officers on Friday, where PDP did not receive any position despite having 11 members in the Assembly, was Obingwa East Assembly Representative Akpulonu. No members of the PDP were included on the list of new principle officials that Speaker Emmanuel Emeruwa read out in plenary last…
The Peoples Democratic Party’s gubernatorial nominee, Ladi Adebutu, showed up at the Ogun State election petition tribunal on Tuesday with more than 8,000 documents and the lawyers for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the petitioners, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the respondents, were at odds. Adebutu and the PDP’s attorney, Goddy Uche, stated at Tuesday’s resumed hearing that he had brought uncontested evidence to the tribunal’s attention. However, the plea was turned down by INEC’s lawyer Remi Peter Olatunbora, Governor Dapo Abiodun’s counsel Kehinde Ogunwumiju, and the APC’s counsel Kunle Kalejaiye. The attorneys for the respondents claim that…
The federal administration has been criticised by the Labour Party for casting doubt on a European Union report that predicted a close General Election in 2023. In its final assessment and report on the 2023 general elections, the EU has declared that there were some anomalies, as previously reported by Infostride News. Observers from the European Union (EU) said that confidence in the country’s electoral body, INEC, was shaken during the recent general vote. Dele Alake, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Special Duties, released a statement on Sunday in which he criticised the Electoral Observer Mission’s findings…
Former Minister of State for Labour and Employment Festus Keyamo has stated that the report from the European Union Observer Mission (EUOM) on the upcoming general elections in 2023 does not undermine the legitimacy of the process. On Monday, Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, made the revelation on his official Twitter account in response to the news story. It has been less than a week since the European Union Observation Mission released a report in which it noted problems with the general election and offered suggestions to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). However, conflicting responses have lagged behind…
Atiku Abubakar’s communications adviser, Daniel Bwala, has criticized INEC for failing to launch its defense against allegations that it tampered with the results of the 2023 election. After 10 days of recess, INEC still hadn’t opened its defense at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. This was because the electoral body’s witnesses didn’t show up to the tribunal. Bwala responded on Twitter, saying, “INEC failed to launch its defense after 10 days break; reason? Due to the absence of supporting evidence. “#Vuvuzela #hakunamatata” A lawyer representing Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, has said that INEC is unprepared to defend…
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…
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…