Ahead of the forthcoming inauguration of the nation’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, on May 29th, 2023, the All Progressive Congress (APC) leaders under the aegis of the North Central APC Forum have initiated prayer sessions for the success of the inauguration. The Forum also said the prayer sessions have become necessary following the imagined and unforeseen threats against the success of the ceremony. Chairman of the Forum, Saleh Mandung Zazzaga disclosed this to journalists in Jos the Plateau State Capital after their post-Easter and Sallah meeting as well as their strategic action plan towards the inauguration ceremony. He said the Forum’s…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
The South-East Zonal Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Innocent Okeke has dispelled insinuations that Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State influenced the outcome of the party’s primary election in the State. Senator Athan Achonu emerged winner of the party’s primary election conducted by the Abia State Governor-elect, Alex Otti. There are claims that Achonu is being sponsored by Governor Uzodinma. But in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Monday, Okeke said there was no basis for anyone to hold such opinion. He stated that the party conducted the freest, fairest and most credible primary election for…
Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Sunday the House would vote on his spending and debt bill this week, and invited President Joe Biden to discuss the debt ceiling with him. McCarthy floated a plan last week that would pair $4.5 trillion in spending cuts with a $1.5 trillion increase in the $31.4 trillion U.S. debt limit. Biden and the Democratic-controlled Senate are likely to reject the proposal, but McCarthy has called it a basis for negotiations between the two parties in the coming weeks. Failure to raise the debt ceiling would lead to a US…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has dissolved its Presidential Campaign Council. The campaign council was constituted to ensure the victory of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu in the last election. The dissolution was disclosed in a statement signed by the council’s Director General, Governor Simon Lalong and the Secretary, James Faleke. Lalong commended President Muhammadu Buhari for supporting the council during the election period. According to Lalong, the council won’t have achieved its result without Buhari’s support. He said, “However, we have concluded that it is in the best interest of the campaign and its stakeholders for us to dissolve our…
The camp of the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has challenged the Presidency to provide proof of the Sallah phone conversation between President Muhammadu Buhari and his successor, Bola Tinubu. Tinubu’s whereabouts has been a subject of controversy lately because he has not been seen at any function. But, his media team had said the President-elect had travelled abroad to rest following his rigorous campaign. Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, on Friday, said Buhari and Tinubu exchanged a phone conversation to celebrate Eid el-Fitr. However, one of Atiku’s spokesman, Daniel Bwala, demanded a proof. Tweeting, Bwala wrote:…
A founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Osita Okechukwu has described former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s attack on President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s transition committee as a demonstration of crocodile tears, medicine after death and political hypocrisy. Atiku, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the recent election had decried the absence of any Igbo person on the membership list of Tinubu’s transition committee. But, reacting to the observation, Okechukwu said Atiku’s attempt to play the advocate for Igbo interest amounted to shedding of Crocodile tears, recalling how the former Vice President brazenly breached the zoning…
Governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has said he supported the relocation of the Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal from Port Harcourt to Abuja, because it was in the best interest of the people of the state. This is as Abe alleged that members of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers were forced to adopt the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Siminalaye Fubara, as the candidate of the state. Abe, who spoke on a live television programme monitored in Port Harcourt, said it would have been difficult…
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Kano Chapter, on Wednesday recommended Sen. Barau Jibril (APC-Kano North) as the President of the upcoming 10th senate. APC Chairman in Kano State, Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas, made the call while speaking with news men in Kano. Abbas said that APC performed well in Kano State in the presidential poll. He implored the party leadership to reward hard working Jibril with the Senate president, pointing out that he was the most qualified person to lead the senate in the 10th National Assembly. Kano State, according to Abbas, has done marvelously well in making APC to win…
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party was accused of committing treason because he failed to correct a statement attributed to his running mate, Datti Baba Ahmed. Mohammed said nobody has the right to call for insurrection or threaten the presidency because he or she loses an election. The minister while answering questions from journalists on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, insisted that Datti’s remark on national television amounted to treason. What did Datti say? On Wednesday, March 22, 2023, the Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party maintained that…
The G36 Supporting Groups, a body of support groups for Sen. Bola Tinubu’s presidential ambition, has urged the President-elect not to give room for cabals in his administration. The Chairman of the group, Dr Samson Bilesanmi, who spoke at a news conference on Thursday in Lagos, also urged Tinubu to reward all the support groups who laboured to bring his ambition to fruition. “It is not possible that a president fulfills all promises but we enjoin our President -elect, Tinubu, to ensure that 75 per cent of promises to Nigerians are delivered. “We want to counsel our President -elect not…
The National Vice Chairman South South of the Labour Party, Favour Reuben, says the National Working Committee of the party has mandated Dienye Pepple to pilot the affairs of the party in Rivers State. Recall that Pepple was suspended by the former National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure, and the state exco of the party following their endorsement of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State, Siminialayi Fubara. However, Reuben said the national leadership of the party had given him a letter mandating Pepple to take over the affairs of the party in the state.…
Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has opened up on the President-elect, Bola Tinubu appointing non-members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, into his cabinet. Keyamo said he can’t confirm or deny if Tinubu would appoint non-APC members into his cabinet. The spokesman of Tinubu-Shettima campaign council said ministerial appointments were at the disposal of the President-elect. “I cannot confirm or deny it. When the President-elect said he would go for competence, expectedly he would search far and wide for competent people. “But I cannot specifically or definitely confirm or deny that. It is the complete prerogative…
Japan’s defense chief on Saturday ordered troops to activate missile interceptors and get ready to shoot down fragments from a North Korean satellite that may fall on the Japanese territory. North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un said earlier this week that its first military spy satellite that will be launched at an unspecified date. North Korea has test-fired about 100 missiles since early last year, saying it was responding to joint U.S.-South Korean military drills that it calls an invasion rehearsal. Several of the missiles flew over Japan or landed off the northern Japanese coast. Last week, North Korea test-launched…
The senatorial candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the 2023 general election, Comrade Chika Idoko, has taken his case, seeking to disqualify all the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the Supreme Court. This follows judgments from both the Federal High Court, Enugu, and the Court of Appeal, also sitting in Enugu, which had, in their judgments, ruled that Comrade Idoko has no locus standi to initiate the cases against the PDP candidates. Idoko’s case against PDP began in the middle of the year 2022 when he went to court to seek the disqualification of all…
A member of the House of Representatives, Lawrence Ayeni said 14 of his supporters were murdered days before the general election. The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain made the revelation on Thursday during his annual Ramadan lecture in Ilesa. The lawmaker represents Atakumosa East/Atakumosa West/Ilesa East/Ilesa West Federal Constituency. Sanya Ominrin of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 41,437 votes to defeat Ayeni at the February 25 National Assembly poll. Ayeni disclosed that he lost due to threats and thuggery but called on the people to embrace peace for the progress and unity of Nigeria. “I cannot blame my supporters…
Since the February 25 presidential election, Nigerians have been waking up to one news or another concerning some of the most popular candidates. One of such candidates is Mr. Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP. It is no longer news that some of the presidential candidates have been accused of embezzling public funds, trading in narcotics and money laundering. But Peter Obi who is dubbed “Mr Clean ”, is now facing myriads of controversies, especially from members of the opposition camps. In 2021, a Pandora Paper investigation had alleged that Obi operated foreign bank accounts and…
AbdulMajid Dan Bilki Kwamanda, an ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, has warned President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to refuse alleged moves by Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s secret moves to dump the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, for the All Progressives Congress, APC. Kwamanda cautioned Tinubu that bringing Kwankwaso into the APC would cause serious fracas among party loyalists. While reacting to news of alleged secret meetings between Kwankwaso and the President-elect aiming at bringing the former Kano Governor back to the party, he warned that “we will fight to a standstill, this move, no matter what will not happen to the…
The Benue State Government has issued a response to the clarifications made by the Presidency regarding President Muhammadu Buhari’s involvement in the security situation in the State. In social commentaries on the security situation, the supposed poor intervention by President Buhari has been blamed on Governor Samuel Ortom’s stiff opposition to intervention. However, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Nathaniel Ikyur, has issued a statement in response to the Presidency’s comments. Ortom blames the presidency for Fulani militias The statement indicates that with the latest position of the Presidency, it has become apparent that the killings in the state…
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar has congratulated Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa on his re-election. Abubakar in a statement thanked the people of Adamawa for re-electing Fintiri. The News Agenmcy of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Fintiri won the election which went into re-run after he scored a total of 430, 861 votes to defeat his closest rival, the All Progressives Congress candidate, Aisha Binani, who scored 398,788 votes. “The lesson from this exercise and others is the need for Nigerians to be vigilant and never give in to anti-democratic forces whose objective is to…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has has advised churches to be wary of politicians who only come to them during election. Wike spoke at the inauguration of Archdeacon Crowther Memorial Girls School (ACMGS) road in Elelenwo Town of Obio/Akpor LGA on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. He said churches should be able to understand and identify those who believe in their faith. He said, “The church should always identify with those who from the beginning had always worked with them. Not with those, when election comes, they come and talk to you that they are Christians. “Christianity is not only…