Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has said Abba Yusuf, the state governor-elect wants to start on a wrong footing. Yusuf, popularly known as Abba Gida-Gida, of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, had reportedly been in an exchange of words with Ganduje on government’s lands and buildings. Ganduje had warned Abba Gida-Gida that he was still in charge of the state and should wait until he was sworn in as governor. While addressing newsmen after a prayer organised for the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at Government House, Kano, the incumbent governor noted that the incoming governor has shown…
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ward 5 Ekuku-Agbor in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, has suspended the former Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chiedu Ebie Esq, and two special assistants to Governor Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa over alleged anti-party activities before, during and after the Presidential and National Assembly, as well as the gubernatorial and State Houses of Assembly elections in the State. The two special assistants are Mr. Elina MacDonald and Mr. Stanley Ehikwe. The suspension is contained in a letter signed by the PDP Chairman in Ika South, Comrade Amachi Igunbor. Hon. Sunny Tababuzigwu, the…
Bauchi State Deputy Governor-elect, Mohammed Auwal Jatau, has promised to be loyal and supportive to his principal, Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed. Jatau, a House of Representatives member, said this in a statement issued to journalists in Bauchi after receiving his certificate of return, stating that it was a great honour to be selected as the running mate to Governor Mohammed in the March 18 governorship election in the state. While expressing his profound gratitude to the governor for finding him worthy to be his deputy for the next four years of the administration, Jatau promised to reciprocate the gesture by…
President Joe Biden has all but announced he’s running for reelection, but key questions about the 2024 campaign are unresolved: Who will manage it? Where will it be based? President Joe Biden has all but announced he’s running for reelection, but key questions about the 2024 campaign are unresolved: Who will manage it? Where will it be based? When will he finally make it official? Advisers have long said he planned to wait until after March, when the year’s first fundraising period wraps up. That was an effort to help manage expectations because many donors who gave generously to Democratic…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chairman in Kaduna State, Mr Felix Hassan Hyet, on Sunday, said the certificate of return issued to Governor-elect candidate, Senator Uba Sani of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is only temporary, as the rightful winner of the election, Isah Ashiru would soon retrieve his mandate through a competent court of jurisdiction InfoStride News recalls that APC governorship candidate in Kaduna, Sani was announced winner of the March 18 governorship election. He was issued a certificate of return last Monday by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Commissioner in charge of Kaduna. Hyet insisted Ashiru would…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has accused the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state of being financially illiterate and gullible. This was in reaction to the comment from the Osun APC Acting Chairman, Tajudeen Lawal over the delay in the payment of the March salary of civil servants in the state. Adekunle Akindele, the Osun PDP caretaker chairman while defending the government’s action described the state governor, Ademola Adeleke as a leader who has kept every promise he made to the people of the state. According to him, “His job approval rating is beyond 80…
Embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu appears to have now lost the battle between him and the G-5 governors led by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. InfoStride News reports that in a quick succession, two chairmen of the main opposition party have been disgraced out of office. Before Ayu was Uche Secondus who was brought into office through Wike’s support. But things soon fell apart for the two politicians, leading to Secondus’s suspension by his ward and his eventual removal from office. He was, precisely on September 2, 2021, suspended by his Ward 5…
Raji Ahmed and Kingsley Olawale, two members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have blasted some Nigerians for criticising the voting procedure that helped Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC candidate to win the 2023 presidential election. The pair, who are associates of the former Lagos Governor and President-elect, Tinubu and made this known in a statement made available to journalists on Saturday. Their reaction is coming following the pro-Tinubu group/APC supporters solidarity March which held in Abuja on Tuesday, March 28. Tinubu, who is a former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the APC, won the 2023 presidential…
“He will be accompanied by Secret Service Agents who are required to protect him as a former President making the surrender complicated. I don’t think they’re going to allow this to become a circus” When former US President Donald surrenders to authorities in New York on April 4 he will not be handcuffed, according to his lawyer Joe Tacopina. “The (former) resident will not be put in handcuffs,” he told ABC News on Friday. He will be accompanied by Secret Service Agents who are required to protect him as a former President making the surrender complicated. “I don’t think they’re…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been berated for allegedly issuing Certificate of Return to a wrong candidate in Ogun State. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State said INEC was wrong to have presented the Certificate of Return in Ikenne State Constituency to somebody who has withdrawn from the race before the March 18 election. According to the PDP, the people of Ikenne displayed uncommon courage in the face of destructive and disruptive tendencies of thugs by massively voting for the party and its candidate, Sulaimon Badmus Adeniye. However, the PDP expressed surprises that INEC presented Adeniye’s…
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the just-concluded election in Rivers State, Patrick Tonye-Cole has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of delaying to release documents that are needed for their case at the tribunal. Tonye-Cole, during a protest at the state head office of INEC on Friday in Port Harcourt, expressed concern that the electoral umpire has allegedly refused to release the documents used for the last elections for them to pursue their case at the tribunal. According to Tonye-Cole, the demand became necessary following the time frame stipulated for legal actions as regards the election.…
Bauchi State governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has extended olive branch to his opponents in the March 18 election. He declared that with the election over, they should join hands with him to build a new Bauchi. Mohammed, who contested the governorship election and won on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), spoke shortly after receiving his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Speaking on behalf of himself and the 31 Bauchi State House of Assembly members-elect, the governor declared that electioneering was over for now and there was the need for good governance.…
The Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, on Friday condemned calls in some quarters for the installation of an interim government in Nigeria. Sani Yabagi, the IPAC National Chairman, condemned the calls during a news press conference held after the council’s emergency general meeting in Abuja. Yabagi insisted that the statement by the Department of State Service (DSS) that it had discovered a plan by some persons to violently disrupt Nigeria’s peace and install an interim government was disturbing. The Chairman described the interim government as unacceptable, undemocratic and unconstitutional. Yabagi said, “It’s an attempt to overheat the polity, cause confusion, political…
In a video shared by the official Twitter account of NATO Spokesperson, Oana Lungescu, the NATO General Secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, is heard welcoming and congratulating Finland. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), General Secretary on Friday said that Finland’s inclusion will strengthen the intergovernmental military alliance and added that the body hopes to welcome Sweden as full member soon. In a video shared by the official Twitter account of NATO Spokesperson, Oana Lungescu, the NATO General Secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, is heard welcoming and congratulating Finland. Stoltenberg said, “I welcome the vote by the Turkish Grand National Assembly to ratify Finland’s membership…
The National Vice Chairman, North-West, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Salihu Lukman, has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must, as a matter of urgency, initiate the process of internal review of how the 2023 elections were managed. Lukman made the call in a media interaction with journalists on Friday in Abuja. The party chieftain also questioned the ethical conduct of the staff of INEC, especially the Returning Officers during the just concluded elections. He added that while there were gaps and problems witnessed during the 2023 elections, he maintained that it was an improvement in…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) executives of Ketembere Ward in Shelleng Local Government Area of Adamawa State have suspended one of their prominent members, Senator Ahmed Hassan Barata. Ahmed Barata currently holds the strategic position of director general (DG) of the campaign of APC governorship candidate, Senator Aishatu Ahmed Binani. The APC Ketembere Ward Executives said they suspended Barata over anti-party activities. Barata’s suspension was contained in a letter made available to newsmen in Yola on Friday, as addressed to Barata and copied to APC Chairman Shelleng local government Area. The letter passed to newsmen was accompanied by a list…
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has recalled warning the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, about the “Peter Obi effect.” Ikpeazu made the remark while disclosing that he predicted the Obi effect before the presidential election. Prior to the presidential election, Obi had defected from the PDP to the Labour Party, LP. Obi dumped the PDP before the party’s presidential primary. Since he joined LP, Obi has become a household name among Nigerians who believed he should be the next president. However, Ikpeazu, in a statement he signed, said: “That Peter Obi effect, I predicted it and told my party. I…
The Kwara State executive committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has rejected the recent suspension of some party members at the ward levels for the sake of peace and party cohesion. InfoStride News recalls that the state Secretary of the ruling party, Mr Mustapha Salman Ishowo, was among party members recently before the just concluded general elections suspended by the party executives at the Alanamu Ward level of the party in the Ilorin West Local Government Area of the state. State Chairman of the party, Prince Sunday Fagbemi, in a statement in Ilorin on Friday, expressed concern over…
Mr Oyakhilome Bello, APC United States National Youth Leader, says the call by some individuals to protest the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as President-elect on April 3 in the U.S has no merit. Bello, who is also the Deputy Director North America Youth Wing Campaign Council, said this in a statement on Friday. He described as baseless, the protest against Tinubu’s emergence by some opposition groups at a park in front of the White House on Thursday, saying such protest would produce no result. He said the protest had no weight because the Feb. 25, presidential election that produced…
The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) has described the ongoing agitation for an interim government as treasonable. The forum urged all Nigerians to remain vigilant and resist any undemocratic conduct that is capable of undermining the country’s democracy. The Chairman of the Forum and the Governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu, said it was, however, commendable that the Department of Security Service had exposed the plot and therefore called on the agency to arrest and prosecute anyone involved. It said: “The progressive Governors Forum notes the press statement issued by the Department of Security Service on the unfortunate, condemnable and treasonable…