The All Progressives Congress in Delta State says the race to recover its stolen mandate from political marauders is earnestly being pursued with all manner of vigour, due diligence and resolute determination. The Party said its governorship candidate in the election, Ovie Omo-Agege is equally suited for the task of rescuing Delta State from desperate and despicable political jobbers. It congratulated the House of Assembly members-elect who won on the platform of the Party as they received their certificates of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Asaba. The APC called for calm and total support from all…
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The Enugu Election Tribunal says it has received 14 petitions so far from aggrieved parties and candidates in the Feb. 25 National Assembly elections. The Tribunal Secretary, Mr Yusuf Folmi, disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Enugu. Folmi noted that the petitions were expected to be filed within the stipulated time frame given for the submission of petitions by any aggrieved candidate and parties. “The Tribunal has only received 14 petitions and it is expecting more,” he said. He said that the parties that had filed petitions so far were the Peoples…
Senator Shehu Sani has said the outcome of the presidential election would not have favoured the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, even if the party’s Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, had resigned. The social commentator stated this in a tweet while reacting to the current leadership crisis rocking the main opposition party. At least five governors elected under the PDP had, prior to the general elections, demanded Ayu’s resignation as the only condition to work for the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Ayu’s refusal to resign led to the formation of the G-5 governors who worked for candidates of other parties during the…
Senator Dino Melaye, who represented the Kogi West Senatorial District, during the 8th National Assembly, has indicated an interest in the forthcoming governorship election in Kogi State. The former lawmaker made this known in a campaign poster captioned “no more stealing and killings”, tweeted on his official Twitter handle on Wednesday. InfoStride News reports that the move came barely a month after Atiku Abubakar was defeated in the presidential election. Melaye was one of the spokespersons for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Campaign Council, PCC, during Atiku’s campaign. Atiku of the PDP was, however, defeated by the current president-elect, Bola…
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has suggested why the embattled National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, was suspended. George claimed that Ayu was suspended because they wanted to embarrass him out of office. A few days ago, the PDP Executive Committee in Igyorov Ward, Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State, suspended Ayu. Following his suspension at the ward level, Ayu stepped down, and Umar Damagum was named as his replacement. The embattled PDP Chairman had been embroiled in a bitter feud with five PDP governors called the G-5. Reacting, the…
A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Alhaji Usman Baba Musa, has urged losers in the just concluded presidential and gubernatorial elections to accept the outcome and take it in good faith. He also advised elected politicians to make the best use of the opportunities God has given to them to improve the lives of Nigerians. While speaking to newsmen in Kaduna immediately after his morning Ramadan prayers, Musa told politicians to always listen to the instructions from God before taking any step. According to him, “In any political contest, there must…
The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has nominated two persons to the Presidential Transition Council (PTC). InfoStride News reported that President Muhammadu Buhari reserved two slots for the President-elect in the transition council. On Tuesday, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, who is also the PTC Chairman, Boss Mustapha, stated that Alhaji Atiku Bagudu, Governor of Kebbi State, and a former Commissioner for Finance in Lagos State, Chief Olawale Edun, had been nominated as members of the council. Mustapha said that he and 15 members and 13 subcommittees would ensure a smooth handover to Tinubu. He disclosed that…
Emeka Ihedioha, former Governor of Imo State, has announced his withdrawal from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governorship Primaries. The development was contained in a letter addressed to the National Chairman of the party. Ihedioha, who served as governor of the state for seven months before the Supreme Court announced Hope Uzodimma as winner of the 2019 governorship election, cited interest of the party as his reason for the shocking withdrawal. According to him, “In the interest of harmony and unity of the Party, I have decided to make the personal sacrifice of withdrawing from further participation in the processes…
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has finally accepted the outcome of the Benue North West Senatorial election which took place on February 25. InfoStride News recalls that Ortom of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who is expected to complete his second term in office on May 29, contested for the senatorial position but lost to the All Progressives Congress, APC. While Ortom polled 106,882 votes, Titus Zam of the APC scored 143,151 votes, while Mark Gbillah, the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, garnered 51,950 votes. The governor had since rejected the results, alleging irregularities by the officials of the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC), National Vice Chairman for North-west, Comrade Salihu Lukman has called on the leadership of the party to zone the position of Senate president to the South-south. Lukman in a statement issued Tuesday said the Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee (NWC) needs to become more aggressive in driving the process of negotiating leadership of the 10th National Assembly He warned that an unregulated contest for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly could produce another Muslim as Senate President. The party Chieftain noted that the laid-back attitude of the NWC has produced embarrassing situations of…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has relieved the embattled National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, of his position. The leadership of the PDP replaced Ayu with one of his deputies, Amb Umar Damagum. This is contained in a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, on Tuesday. Ologunagba said the party, after careful consideration of the Court Order and in line with Section 45 (2) of the Constitution of the PDP (as amended in 2017), the NWC resolved that the Deputy National Chairman (North) His Excellency, Amb. Umar Ililya Damagum assumes the National Chairmanship…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State has called on its members and supporters to remain calm and be law-abiding no matter the outcome of their request for the review of the March 18 gubernatorial elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The State Commissioner for Information and internal affairs, Malam Muhammad Garba, made the plea in a statement issued to newsmen, adding that as a responsible Party, they were known for following due process. He said the Party would do everything possible within the provisions of the law and other laid down procedures to ensure that justice…
The post-election conflict in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has taken renewed steam as the party’s aggrieved governors, G5 Governors, and the camp of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, fight for the soul of the opposition party. Barely 24 hours after the suspension of the National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, at the ward level in Benue State, a high court order surfaced asking Ayu to stop parading himself as PDP’s chairman. However, a statement on Monday by Ayu’s Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Simon Imobo-Tswam, described the suspension and court order as a mere exercise in futility. Ayu…
Ahead of the Imo State governorship election scheduled for November 11, the Labour Party, LP, is under fire for fixing the price of its expression of interest and nomination forms at N25 million. InfoStride News reports that 12 aspirants, excluding the late Humprey Anumudu, have picked Labour Party’s forms to contest the Imo State off-cycle governorship election. Nigerians, including the Labour Party, had frowned at the All Progressives Party, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the sale of their nomination forms for N40 million and N20 million respectively. In March, Labour Party’s publicity secretary, Abayomi Ararambi, condemned APC…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has said the party is currently uncovering the electoral frauds allegedly perpetrated by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) during the governorship and House of Assembly elections in the State. The PDP said it has got the permission of the election petition tribunal in the State to inspect all electoral materials used during the March 18 polls. In a statement by the PDP Publicity Secretary in Ogun, Akinloye Bankole, the party accused the ruling APC of plots “to cover its track after its failed attempt to subvert the popular wish of the…
The Labour Party senatorial candidate for Ebonyi South senatorial zone, Linus Okorie on Monday said that the outgoing Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi was not qualified and competent to occupy the office of the President of the Senate. Okorie, who represented Ohaozara, Onicha and Ivo federal constituency in the House of Representatives, described Umahi’s aspiration for Senate President as deceptive and dead-on-arrival. The former National Assembly member who contested for the Ebonyi South senatorial seat with Umahi, came second in the result that was declared by the Independent National electoral commission, INEC. He made this known through a statement signed…
The Lagos State House of Assembly has congratulated President-elect Bola Tinubu and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu after victories at the presidential and governorship elections. The members also felicitated with their running mates Senator Kashim Shettima and Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat, as well as the Lagos Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, who they described as a record breaker after he was re-elected on March 18 for the sixth time to represent Agege Constituency 1. In his remarks at plenary on Monday, Obasa told his colleagues that the election produced some lessons and urged political scientists “to x-ray the situation”. “Some sitting governors lost to…
The Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Cross River State is set to challenge INEC’s declaration of Prince Bassey Edet Otu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as governor-elect at Election Petition Tribunal (EPT). As they prepare for the Tribunal, they have also alleged that Prof Ben Ayade, the state governor, and the INEC have as a result, rushed to tamper with the election result papers. PDP has claimed that Ayade and the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Professor Gabriel Yomere, and other INEC collation officers have tampered with original results sheets and manipulated BVAS machines used for the Governorship and state…
A Benue State High Court sitting in Makurdi, state capital, Monday restrained the embattled Senator Iyorchia Ayu from parading himself as the National chairman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. InfoStride News gathered the court order was premised on the ex-parte application brought against Ayu by Engr. Conrad Terhide Utaan as plaintiff. Particulars of the ex-parte application brought before the presiding Justice W.I. Kpochi read, suit no. MHC/85/2023 with motion no. MHC/633m/2023. However, M. T. Assoh Esq, plaintiff counsel moved the motion before the court. In his ruling,. Justice Kpochi stated, “Upon hearing Mr. M. T. Assoh of…
Dino Melaye, a former Kogi West Senator on Monday, reacted to claims that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is retiring from politics. Melaye said the claim that Atiku was retiring from politics and joining hands with the President-elect, Bola Tinubu was false. He described the claims as a lie from the pit of hell that should be disregarded. In a tweet, the spokesman of the Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign, assured that the PDP flag bearer would soon reclaim his mandate. He wrote: “The malicious lie and propaganda going round that Atiku is retiring from politics and joining…