The factional chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Lamidi Apapa, has threatened to expose the party’s presidential candidate in the last elections, Peter Obi. Apapa had to deal with bitter exchanges inside the tribunal over sitting arrangements on Wednesday. He was booed by the party’s supporters as he emerged from the tribunal, while his cap was pulled off his head. Addressing the media afterwards, Apapa claimed Obi was taking sides with Julius Abure, the LP chairman removed by the court. Apapa also denied he had collected bribes from other political parties to destroy LP from within. “On the allegation of…
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The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has criticized the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar for berating the United States, US, Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, over the conversation with the Nigerian President-elect, Bola Tinubu. InfoStride News had reported that Blinken, during a call with Tinubu on Wednesday, assured the President-elect of US commitment to further strengthening the US-Nigeria relationship with the incoming administration. But, Atiku expressed disbelief, saying the call was a contradiction to the publicly stated position of the US on Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election. However, Keyamo said the call was not…
The factional National Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr Lamidi Apapa has denied receiving N500 million from any quarters in order to scuttle the case of the party at the Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC). Apapa has also asked the presidential candidate of the party in the Feb. 25 Presidential Election, Mr Peter Obi to intervene in the leadership tussle of the party objectively with a view to resolving it. Briefing newsmen after escaping being lynched by irate youths at the PEPC on Wednesday in Abuja, Apapa denied receiving any money or being influenced by anybody or group to work…
Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has constituted an 11-man committee to investigate allegations committed by some of its members who engaged in anti-party activities during the 2023 general elections in the State. The committee, which is headed by the party’s State Publicly Secretary, Mallam Yusuf Idris Gusau was inaugurated by the state chairman of the party, Hon. Tukur Umar Danfulani at the State Secretariat of the party on Wednesday, 17th May, 2023. This was disclosed in a press statement issued to newsmen in Gusau, the State capital by the State publicity secretary, Mallam Yusuf Idris Gusau.…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) on Wednesday called on all Muslims vying for the Senate Presidency to step down for a Christian counterpart from Southern Nigeria. Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Executive Director, MURIC, in a statement stated that as a major stakeholder in the affairs of Nigeria, they have followed with keen interest the imbroglio which greeted the Muslim-Muslim ticket and how it ended in Nigeria having a Muslim President-elect and a Muslim Vice President-elect. He added, “In view of this outcome and considering the multi-religious character of our dear country, Nigeria, it is our considered opinion that the post of…
President–elect, Bola Tinubu, has said the live broadcast of the Presidential Election Tribunal is an abuse of the court process. Reacting to an application filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Tinubu urged the tribunal to discountenance such a move. He prayed the court to refuse the application on the grounds that “the court is not a rostrum or a soapbox and not also a stadium or theatre. It is not an arena for ‘public’ entertainment.” In a counter-affidavit filed by his counsel, Wole Olanipekun, the President-elect argued that the application was not within the tribunal’s…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has told the presidential election petition court to throw out an application filed by the Labour Party, LP, and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, seeking to have the proceedings televised. Levy Ozoukwu, counsel to Obi and LP, told journalists after the pre-hearing session on Wednesday that INEC opposed their application for a live broadcast. Ozoukwu said: “Surprisingly, INEC is objecting. “A public institution that is being funded by the government and representing the people is saying they don’t want the people to enjoy live streaming. What are they hiding?” Obi and the LP filed…
A Sri Lankan court here on Wednesday ordered the lifting of the overseas travel ban on former president and prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Fort Magistrate’s Court imposed a ban on overseas travel on Rajapaksa, 77, and over a dozen other politicians in May last year in view of investigations against them for their alleged involvement in the deadly attack on peaceful anti-government protesters in Colombo. At least nine people were killed and over 300 others injured in the violence in May. The overseas travel ban on former president Rajapaksa, MP Rohitha Abeygunawardena, Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi, and ex-Provincial Council member…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi has revealed that he once confronted the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for not fielding the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo for the presidency. The former Anambra governor who spoke on Tuesday during the 63rd birthday get-together of journalist and publisher, Dele Momodu, also said the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, would have been a great candidate if he had contested 20 years ago. The Labour Party candidate insisted that he battled for the nation’s top job because he wants the country working. He said: “I’m interested to see Nigeria…
A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Abia State, HRH Eze Princewill Onyegbu has finally assumed duty as the traditional ruler of Ugwu Nkpa autonomous community in Bende LGA of Abia State. This is happening, about a decade after he was elected as the traditional ruler of his people which he did not fully occupy but was only addressed as ‘Eze-elect’ until last week when he eventually collected his Staff of Office from Governor Okezie Ikpeazu in Umuahia. Onyegbu who is a grassroots politician was before now, faulted by a section of his subjects of allegedly abandoning his…
The Labour Party has claimed that the Bashiru Lamidi Apapa faction of the party, which stormed the Presidential Election Petition Court on Wednesday morning, was disgraced out of the premises. InfoStride News had reported that Apapa and the faction of the suspended National Chairman of the party, Mr Julius Abure clashed during the court proceeding. The court refused to recognize the two factions laying claims to the party’s national leadership. In a tweet on its official handle, the party claimed that the Apapa faction was in the court to truncate the court hearing. The tweet reads, “Rebel former Deputy National…
The Presidential Election Petition Court on Wednesday in Abuja refused to recognize the two factions laying claims to the national leadership of the Labour Party (LP). In the presence of the presidential candidate of the party in the last general elections, Mr Peter Gregory Obi, two factions of the party had engaged themselves for recognition and to be recorded as the official representatives of the party in the pre-hearing of Obi’s petition. The battle for recognition was ignited by Mrs Dudu Maluga, who sat by Obi’s right-hand side and introduced herself as National Women Leader of the Labour Party and…
As intrigues continue to mount ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly leadership, Hon Yusuf Gagdi has said the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is unaware of the All Progressives Congress, APC, endorsement of some lawmakers. Gagdi, the House of Representatives member representing the Pankshin/Kanam/Kanke federal constituency of Plateau State, disclosed this to journalists on Tuesday. He reacted to APC’s endorsement of Abbas Tajudeen and Benjamin Kalu as Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Green Chamber, respectively. APC had on May 8 anointed Tajudeen and Kalu as Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. However, Gagdi and…
Senator Godswill Akpabio has asked the All Progressives Congress, APC, to rein in lawmakers against the anointed candidates to lead the 10th National Assembly. Akpabio made the request on Tuesday in Abuja when he led 42 other Senators to the party chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and members of the National Working Committee (NWC). The APC zoned the Senate Presidency to Akpabio, Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin (Kano), House of Representatives Speaker Abass Tajudeen (Kaduna) and Deputy Speaker Ben Kalu (Abia). Akpabio explained that his visit to the party’s national secretariat was to show solidarity and appreciation for the endorsement. The former…
The Zamfara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has assured that all the 450 housing units allocated to civil servants and the plots of lands allocated to some people in the State must be revoked when it comes on board. This was disclosed by the State chairman of the party, Hon. Mukhtar Lugga in a chart with newsmen in Gusau, the State capital. According to the party chairman, the allocations were not justified because they were done very close to the 2023 general election. “Where was the Governor for the past four years that he could not allocate…
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has insisted that the President-elect Bola Tinubu won the just concluded February 25 presidential election. Keyamo maintained that Tinubu defeated Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, with a margin of 2,693,193 votes. The Minister, in a tweet on Tuesday, said that an allegation of electoral malpractice in just one State cannot upturn the entire result of the election if it did not affect the declared result. He added that evidence allowed in court to prove over voting may differ greatly from what was put together to make what…
The Senate President aspirant for the 10th National Assembly, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has appealed for prayers, saying there is war out there for him. Akpabio stated this during his speech when he met with the APC Non-Serving Senators Group in Abuja on Tuesday. He also promised that the 10th Senate would collaborate with the President-elect, Bola Tinubu to pay off the nation’s debts. “I am excited that God is keeping all of you alive. This is a family and I am very proud to belong to this family. “I want to also appeal that you not only endorse us but…
A Pakistan high court on Tuesday extended bails of former prime minister Imran Khan in two cases pertaining to inciting violence and sedition until June 8. A single bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) heard the pleas in cases pertaining to allegations against top officers of state institutions and the manhandling of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Mohsin Ranjha by Khan’s supporters.
A former Special Adviser to President Shehu Shagari on National Assembly Matters and an elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has linked the President-elect Bola Tinubu’s choice of Godswill Akpabio and Senator Barau Jibrin as Senate President and Deputy respectively, to his wide political experience and influence. He added that Tinubu’s insistence on Akabio was wisely done to reward to the South South and Northwest loyalties during the presidential elections, where he got huge votes that led him to victory. Speaking to newsmen in Kano on Monday, Yakasai noted that Tinubu, now the most experienced politician in Nigeria going by his…
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has again waded into the controversy over the zoning of principal positions of the National Assembly. The group’s reaction was over the protest by Abia Senator, Orji Uzor Kalu. The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, zoned the position of Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives to Rep Ben Kalu from the same Abia State. But Senator Kalu, a former governor of the State, who is angling to become the next Senate President, is insisting that the South-East deserves more than Reps Deputy Speaker. Reacting to the developments, the Ohanaeze Youths in a…