A Pakistani court here on Monday rejected former prime minister Imran Khan’s plea seeking the suspension of the non-bailable warrant issued against him in the Toshakhana case. Additional Session judge Zafar Iqbal, who had earlier in the day reserved the verdict, announced it later in the day after a brief hearing of the case. During today’s hearing, Khan’s lawyers Ali Bukhari, Qaiser Imam, and Gohar Ali Khan appeared before the Islamabad district and sessions court, where Bukhari contended that his client had always followed court orders.
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Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has denied reports that he held a meeting with the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress (APC), at the Imo State Government House, Owerri, on how to stop the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi from pursuing the process to reclaim his mandate through a court process. Tinubu was declared the winner of the Feb. 25 Presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The former Lagos State governor polled 8,794,726 votes to beat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who got 6.96 million votes and Obi,…
The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has been urged to keep his agreement with Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State before the 2023 presidential election. Obi is believed to have reached an agreement with Ikpeazu that the latter would support him during the presidential election. The agreement is believed to have led to Ikpeazu’s government granting Obi’s followers the necessary support during the presidential election. However, Chetachi Ikpe, the Coordinator of Peter Obi Grassroots Movement, asked Obi to honour the agreement because Ikpeazu sacrificed his senatorial ambition for Obi. A statement by Ikpe reads: “While assuring our principal…
Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said his party protested at the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Abuja because all the provisions of the current Electoral law were completely contravened. InfoStride News had earlier reported that Atiku led a protest at the national headquarters of the INEC in Abuja. The Chairman of the PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, other party leaders and supporters were also present during the protest at INEC headquarters. Speaking to newsmen outside of the gate of INEC headquarter in Abuja, Atiku also vowed that the protest would…
There are indications that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will approach the Court of Appeal seeking to set aside its earlier ruling concerning the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS. A senior official of the commission, who did not want his name mentioned, informed Daily Trust about the development over the weekend in Abuja. Recall that the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, had sought and obtained an order from the Court of Appeal to inspect election materials used by the INEC. However, with the gubernatorial election slated…
All serving National Assembly members in Anambra State lost their re-election bids. Except Senator Ifeanyi Ubah of the YPP, others were swept away by the Peter Obi’s Labour Party tsunami. Two senators and all the 11 House of Representatives members in the state, failed to return. This was blamed on the popularity of Mr Peter Obi, which affected most of the candidates of other political parties. A clear analysis showed that: Senators Uche Ekwunife and Stella Oduah, both of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who are representing Anambra Central and North respectively, lost their seats to the candidates of Labour…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Lagos State Chapter on Monday says it is not officially talking with the Labour Party (LP) for any potential alliance ahead of the March 11 governorship and House of Assembly elections. Mr Hakeem Amode, the Lagos PDP’s Publicity Secretary, stated this in a statement in Lagos. Amode, who is also the Chairman, Media and Publicity, JandorFunke 2023 Campaign Council, was reacting to speculations from different quarters that opposition parties in Lagos were planning to form an alliance ahead of Saturday’s polls. He said that it was authoritative to debunk claims by the LP Candidate, Gbadebo…
A Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed May 31 for judgment in a suit filed by Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers praying for an order to restrain the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from expelling him from the party. Justice James Omotosho fixed the date on Monday after counsel to the governor, Dr Joshua Musa, SAN, and lawyer to the PDP, Johnson Usman, SAN, adopted their processes and presented their arguments for and against the suit. NAN reports that Wike had sued the PDP, its National Working Committee (NWC) and National Executive Committee (NEC) as 1st to 3rd respondents respectively. The…
The Oyo State chapter of Labour Party has been engulfed in another crisis over the alleged endorsement of Governor Seyi Makinde. Makinde is seeking a second term on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). InfoStride News learnt that Sodiq Atayese, chairman of the Labour Party, and some chieftains in the state had allegedly endorsed the governor. The chairman of the party and his colleagues made the announcement at the weekend in Ibadan. He enjoined members of the party to vote for Makinde during the 11th March election, despite his party having its own gubernatorial candidate. But, the gubernatorial…
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has denied ordering chairmen of the 18 local government councils to lock up shops belonging to non-indigenes for voting massively for Labour Party in last weekend’s Presidential and National Assembly elections. An unsigned statement was circulated on Saturday in parts of major towns in the state, announcing that the APC leadership in the state has ordered council chairmen to lock up shops of non-indigenous traders in Cross River State. Most of the shops ordered to be locked up include those in popular Watt Market, Marian Market, Ikom Market, as well as those in…
Former US president Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would continue his third presidential campaign even if indicted. “Absolutely, I would not even think about leaving,” Trump told reporters ahead of a speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. Trump is under investigation by prosecutors probing his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election as well as his handling of classified documents, among other issues. Trump delivered the conference’s headlining speech on Saturday night, telling a cheering crowd of supporters that he was engaged in his “final battle” as he tries to return to the White…
Political parties and major political gladiators in Oyo State have begun alignments and consultations ahead of the March 11, 2023, gubernatorial election. InfoStride News reports that the struggle is coming few days after the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections. Six out of the eighteen registered political parties in the state have been laying claim to victory. The political parties include the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), All Progressives Congress (APC) Accord, Labour Party, New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP). Be that as it may, the results as announced by the Independent National Electoral…
With one week left until the governorship and state House of Assembly elections in the country, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed worries over the alleged proliferation of illegal arms and ammunition in the state. The party has also appealed to the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj Gen Babagana Monguno (retd) and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba to give immediate and urgent attention to the demilitarisation of the state. The appeal was made in a statement by the acting chairman of the party, Tajudeen Lawal obtained by the media on Sunday.…
Dr Alex Otti, the gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party LP, in Abia State, has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is dead and shall be buried at the polls on March 11. He was speaking at a reception organised in his honour by the CY Nwankwo Foundation which took place at Isiala Ngwa Local Government Area of Abia State at the weekend. Otti boasted that the Labour Party killed PDP, having won one of the three senatorial seats and six out of eight House of Representatives seats in Abia State in the concluded National Assembly elections conducted by…
A special adviser to Ekiti State governor, Chief Jide Awe, has described the victory of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu, at the presidential poll as the will of God that beats all political and religious permutations. Chief Awe noted that Tinubu’s presidential victory is long envisaged before now, saying he is a “man with a bold heart despite the challenges he faced on his way, and he can still go ahead to win the election.” Awe, a former two-time chairman of the APC in Ekiti State, said Tinubu is not just a politician but a distant runner that…
A report by human rights experts of the United Nations on the eve of International Language Day on February 21 unmasked the real nature of oppression on Tibetans practised by the Communist Party of China (CCP) in the form of forced assimilation of Tibetan identity into the dominant Han Chinese identity, the Tibetan Press reported. The report by UN human rights experts, released in Geneva on February 6, 2023, talks about a million Tibetan children who have been separated from their families by the Chinese authorities and placed in government-run boarding schools. “We are alarmed by what appears to be…
Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to disobey the Supreme Court judgment on Naira redesign. The party chieftain in Zamfara demands the federal government allow Nigerians to use the old notes concurrently with the redesigned notes. Shinkafi told newsmen in Gusau that everyone, “no matter how highly placed”, must recognize the rule of the law. “Since the Supreme Court has ruled, there is nobody in the country who can violate the order”, NAN quoted him. The politician urged Buhari to “respect the order and instruct the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)…
Muhammad Shehu Molash, the Spokesman, North West All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, said that the zone gave the highest votes to its presidential candidate in the last Saturday’s election. This is following the declaration of the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the February 25th election. Briefing newsmen in Kaduna on Saturday, Molash disclosed that North West gave Tinubu the cumulative votes of 2,950,393 out of the 8,794,726 total votes he polled. According to him, the votes represented about 33.55 percent of the votes cast for the President-elect, calling voters to…
Former Secretary to the Delta State Government, SSG, Comrade (Chief) Ovuzuorie S. Macaulay has resigned his membership from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the State. In his resignation letter, he said the “overt exhibition of impunity, blackmail, falsehood and disregard for party rules” by the leadership forced him out of the party. According to Comrade Macaulay, “Over the years I painfully endured the arrogance and misdemeanour of party leadership and actually appealed for a change to no avail. “Thus I am left with no choice but to bow out of the party.”
The Labour Party in Rivers State has debunked the news making the rounds on social media that the party has changed its governorship candidate. The state Chairman of LP, Dienye Pepple, said the stories on social media are misleading, clarifying that Comrade Beatrice Itubo remains the party’s only guber candidate. According to him, “We are preparing ahead for the Governorship election on the 11th of March. “And to set the record straight, our candidate in Rivers State for the Labor Party remains, Mrs Beatrice Itubo and we are fully behind her”. Pepple, in a chat with newsmen in Port Harcourt,…