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…
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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…
A group, Concerned Imo Labour Party Youths, has appealed to delegates to the party’s governorship primary to elect Chief Joseph Ukaegbu as candidate for the upcoming governorship poll in the state. The group’s Leader, Mr Emmanuel Ekeji, made the appeal, while addressing newsmen on the resolution reached at its meeting in Owerri. Ekeji described Ukaegbu, popularly called Chief Ikenga, “as the only gubernatorial aspirant of the party, who had been with the party from the scratch”. He said that all other aspirants, who did not care about LP, “joined now because of the wave of the Obidient Movement”. Ekeji also…
The Oyo State House of Assembly has approved the request of the state governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, to obtain a fresh N50 billion loan on Thursday. The lawmakers approved the request during the plenary presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Muhammad Abiodun Fadeyi (Ona Ara). The Speaker of the assembly, Adebo Ogundoyin, whose mother, Mrs Justina Ogundoyin, died recently, did not attend the plenary. InfoStride News however, reports that all the lawmakers elected on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) were conspicuously absent during the plenary. All the lawmakers elected on the platform of APC in 2019 lost during…
The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned the meeting between Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California and vowed that China will take “resolute and effective measures to safeguard national sovereignty,” according to the official statement. In a statement, the Chinese Foreign Ministry called Tsai’s visit to US “transit” and said that it “gravely violated” the one-China principle. China vows ‘resolute, effective’ response to high-level US meeting with Taiwan’s Prez The Chinese foreign ministry also said that Tsai and McCarthy still hold the meeting with disregard for China’s serious representations and repeated warnings The ministry, in the…
A hefty warchest, “best national organisation that worked for him and the ground game” are the factors which Bola Tinubu emerged victorious at the February 25 presidential election, American diplomat Johnnie Carson has asserted. Mr Carson co-led National Democratic Institute (NDI) and International Republican Institute (IRI), International Election Observation Mission to Nigeria during the elections. On Thursday, Mr Carson, an Executive Officer of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) welcomed information minister Lai Mohammed to his office in Washington DC. Speaking of the elections, Mr Carson said Mr Tinubu of the APC won the election and would be sworn-in…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, Mr Osita Okechukwu has brushed aside his purported expulsion by the State chapter of the party. InfoStride News had reported that during a press briefing on Thursday, the Enugu APC through its state secretary, Mr Robert Ngwu announced the expulsion of Okechukwu, alongside former governor, Sullivan Chime, former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, foreign affairs minister, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, among others. They were accused of anti-party activities. Chairman of the party in the state, Ugochukwu Agballah, who was at the briefing, said the party would continue to purge itself of…
Social activist Shehu Sani on Thursday said the office of the Senate President should be zoned to the South East. Sani, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the 8th Senate, during an interview with the media in Abuja on Thursday said the South East has senators that are competent enough to be Senate President, if the rules of the Red Chamber, particularly the ranking norm, were to be considered. The present structure of the APC, he observed, has naturally positioned the South East to produce the 10th Senate President. Speaking further, he said the former governor of Abia State…
A group known as Progressives’ Solidarity for Asiwaju, PSA, has described the call for an interim government despite Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory at the 25th February Presidential Election as an invitation to anarchy. The chairman of PSA, Ibrahim Emokpaire urged losers to collaborate with President-elect Tinubu to make Nigeria great. His assertion is coming on the heels of the Department of State Security’s confirmation of plans by some plotters to install an interim government. In a statement disclosed to the media on Thursday by the Director of Press and Publicity, PSA, Ayodele Ariyo, Emokpaire challenged Datti Baba Ahmed in an…
The All Progressives Congress, APC in Osun State says it has been vindicated on its earlier position on the inability of the Ademola Adeleke administration to fulfil its obligation to the government workers. The Party made the claims in a statement by its Acting Chairman, Tajudeen Lawal and made available by Kola Olabisi, the Osun APC Media and Information Director to journalists in Osogbo, the Party revealed The Osun State Government in a statement signed by the Spokesperson to the state governor, Olawale Rasheed on Friday disclosed that Adeleke was ready to pay the arrears of promotions alongside March salaries,…
The State Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has passed a vote of confidence on the State Chairman of the party, Chief Emeka Beke. The SWC of the APC, in an emergency meeting on Wednesday, urged Beke to continue to lead and champion the popular demand of the party members across the 319 wards in the state. The APC Publicity Secretary, Darlington Nwauju, in a statement, said this would help the party recover, through constitutional means at the election petition tribunal, their stolen mandate of the 25th February and 18th March 2023 general elections. Nwauju…
The Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal has received 34 petitions from different political parties that participated in the just concluded general elections in the state. InfoStride News reports that the tribunal is sitting at the Rivers State Judiciary Complex and has the names of political parties and their candidates challenging the outcome of the elections displayed on a notice board. Some of the petitions received by the tribunal are that of the governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Beatrice Itubo; the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Patrick Tonye-Cole; and one other challenging the victory of the candidate of…
The Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has again been rocked by a major crisis. The latest one is coming just two weeks after the conclusion of the 2023 general elections. In the latest crisis, the two factions of the party announced the suspension of some stalwarts. First to fire a salvo was the faction believed to be led by Dr Uche Ogah, which suspended the governorship candidate, Chief Ikechi Emenike, and the party Chairman, Dr Kingsley Ononogbu. In a long press release signed by Chief Ofor Okorie, State publicity secretary, the APC faction accused Emenike and…
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has revealed how he advised the 2023 Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, and his All Progressives Congress, APC, counterpart, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to step down for the younger generation. Soyinka spoke while featuring on the Arise Television morning show on Wednesday. Recall that Tinubu won the 2023 presidential election, beating close rivals Atiku, and Labour Party’s Peter Obi. Atiku and Obi have since headed to the courts to challenge Tinubu’s victory. “When Atiku came to my office in Ikeja, he came with Gbenga Daniel, my former governor. I said to…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Adamawa State, Mr Hudu Arim, to recuse himself from conducting the April 15 re-run gubernatorial election in the state. The PDP made the call at a news conference addressed by Debo Ologunagba, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, in Abuja. Ologunagba stated that Ari’s continued stay in office in spite of the PDP’s outcry over his alleged complicity in the plot to manipulate the outcome of the Adamawa governorship election was unacceptable. He said, “In view of grave allegations and evidence…
NATO has established 8 multinational battle groups in Poland and the Baltic nations, and more recently in Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania, to serve as a “tripwire” in case of Russian attack. By Natalia Drozdiak and Courtney McBride With Finland officially in the alliance, NATO’s top commander can now work the country into its military plans, which sketch out how to defend the bloc’s members against an attack. But given Finland’s extensive capabilities and practice defending its own territory, it’s unlikely at least for now that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will replicate defense structures on the rest of the…
A civil society group said that the All Progressives Party, APC, in Taraba State failed in last month’s governorship election because it fielded an unpopular candidate. The Executive Director of Citizens Awareness Against Corruption and Social Vices Initiative, CAACASVI, Olumuyiwa Onlede, disclosed this on Wednesday. He said APC’s poor performance at the polls in Taraba State was caused by the national leadership headed by Senator Abdullahi Adamu. He alleged that Adamu’s action of imposing a governorship candidate in the person of Sen Emmanuel Bwacha on the state ruined APC’s chances of victory at the March 18 gubernatorial election. He added…
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has written to the Chief Clerk of the Central Criminal Court in London to temper justice with mercy over the conviction of former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. Ekweremadu and his wife, alongside Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, were recently found guilty of attempted organ harvesting of a Nigerian trafficked to Britain to provide a kidney for their ailing daughter. However, Obasanjo, in a letter dated April 3, 2023 and addressed to the Chief Clerk of the court titled “Re: Ike Ekweremadu,” said even though Ekweremadu’s action was condemnable and unacceptable, he has contributed his…