Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has threatened to deal with the National and State Assembly candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state if they betray him and join those in Abuja, the Atiku Abubakar camp. Wike made the threat when he spoke during the state Peoples Democratic Party campaign rally in Obio/Akpor Local Government of Rivers State, the last campaign rally of the PDP in the state. He said, “All the other candidates, the Senatorial candidates, my Deputy Chairman, Doctor Ipalibo Harry-Banigo, Chief Allwell Onyeso and Barinada Mpigi, and all the House of Reps candidates and the Assembly…
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Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in Lagos State, has condemned a viral video where some individuals in branded PDP uniforms were seen campaigning for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi. Adediran, in a statement by Mr Gbenga Ogunleye, the Head, Media and Communications, JANDOR4GOVERNOR Campaign Organisation, on Saturday in Lagos, said that the purported campaign for Obi was a hatchet job. “The action carried out by some unidentified individuals in the party uniforms does not in any way represent the position of Lagos PDP in the forthcoming presidential election,”…
Barely eight days to the 2023 elections, five presidential candidates have endorsed their counterpart from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar. The presidential candidates endorsed Atiku during his campaign in Yola, Adamawa State, on Saturday. Former Kogi West Senator and spokesman of the Atiku-Okowa presidential campaign, Dino Melaye, had announced the endorsement. Speaking on behalf of the presidential candidates, the National Chairman of Allied People Movement, APM, Yusuf Dantalle, said the parties decided to endorse Atiku after extensive consultation. According to Dantalle: “I’m speaking on behalf of the five political parties that have decided to throw their weight behind…
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called on world leaders on Saturday to double down on support for Ukraine, saying additional arms and security guarantees are needed to protect the country and the rest of Europe from Russian aggression now and in the future. Sunak delivered the message in a speech to the Munich Security Conference, an annual meeting of heads of state, defense ministers and other world leaders. This year’s conference is focused on threats to the accepted rules of international relations nearly a year after Russian troops invaded Ukraine. Highlighting Britain’s recent commitment to provide battle tanks, advanced air…
The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has denied report that it endorsed the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. A member of the forum, Alhaji Seidu Baba, who addressed the press in Abuja on Saturday, said the former vice president cannot be their consensus candidate. According to him, the PDP candidate has not been fair to the Northerners to deserve their endorsement. He said, although, Atiku has been scheming to be endorsed as the sole candidate of the North, NEF has not endorsed him. Baba said: “There was an attempt to cajole and even force the NEF to adopt…
The political atmosphere in Zamfara State has become so tense as the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the now opposition Peoples Democratic party, PDP, battle for the control of the State. The APC and the PDP have been trading words since the ban on campaign was lifted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, resulting in the arrest of some PDP chieftains in the State, including a former minister, Hon. Aliyu Ikira Bilbis. Judging from the State political index since 1999, the PDP faces an uphill task in its bid to form the government in the State due to…
A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain in Kagarko Local Government area of Kaduna State, Dr. Stephen Musa, has lamented the scarcity of fuel and new notes as major obstacles hindering the success of 2023 general elections. Speaking to newsmen in Kaduna, on Saturday, Musa, who said scarcity of new notes persisted in the state even as the Central Bank Governor had promised to make the notes available, noted with sadness that seven days to election, even voters could not access their money in the banks, not to talk of fuel to buy, convey them to their polling units across the…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has called on the people of Rivers State to save his political career by voting for the presidential candidate of his choice. Wike, who made the call on Saturday, during the last campaign rally of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, reiterated that he has directed leaders of the PDP in the state, to tell the people the candidate to vote for in the presidential election. Though Governor Wike did not come out plainly to name his preferred presidential candidate, he said the fight for equity, fairness and justice,…
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Adamu will hold an emergency meeting with governors of the party. APC spokesman, Felix Morka who made it public through the party’s official Instagram account said the meeting would hold on Sunday, February 19, 2023, by 2pm at the national secretariat, Abuja. Insider sources said the strategic session would review activities and programmes lined up for the forthcoming general polls and particularly resolve the hidden disaffection between some party bigwigs. The source said the adverse effects of the controversial cash swap policy on the economy and larger society and…
Former Ekiti Governor, Segun Oni has denied working for Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate. The clarification is contained in a statement at the weekend by his spokesperson, Jackson Adebayo. Oni, a Social Democratic Party, SDP candidate in the last election replied to comments by Oyetunde Ojo and South West Agenda, SWAGA. He debunked the claim of collaboration with ex-Governor Ayo Fayose to actualise Tinubu’s ambition. Calling it “a very dishonest statement and a cheap lie”, Oni declared that he could not work for the former Lagos governor. Tinubu’s footprints “were so evident in the rigged last…
The Action Alliance Party (AA), has advised Nigerians not to allow themselves be used by enemies of the country through the fuel scarcity and inability of the citizens to access the new Naira note. The National Chairman of the Party, Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje, made the appeal on a live program on Group Zero aired by Procyon Radio and TV stations in Kaduna. He said, “We must stand resolute against all forces that will make Nigeria truncate the hard-earned democracy that has come to stay in the country. “It is a time that all Nigerians will unite to overcome any challenge…
The spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, APC-PCC, Festus Keyamo said he is opposed to President Muhammadu Buhari’s position on the new naira notes. Buhari endorsed the Central Bank of Nigeria’s decision to mop up the old denominations but approved the re-circulation of only the old N200. Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, noted that the Nigerian leader might have acted on wrong counsel after the Supreme Court judgment. “The President acted honestly without intention to slight the Supreme Court. But he may have acted on wrong advice,” he said on Channels Television’s The 2023 Verdict on…
Finland’s defence minister said Saturday that his country will join NATO without waiting for Sweden if its Nordic neighbour’s accession is held up by the Turkish government. Mikko Savola told The Associated Press on Saturday that Finland would prefer that the two countries join the alliance together, but it wouldn’t hold up the process if Turkey decides to approve Finland, but not Sweden, as it has warned. No, no. Then we will join, Savola said in an interview on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich. Since they broke with decades of non-alignment in the wake of Russia’s invasion…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised an alarm that the ruling party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and running mate, Kashim Shettima are allegedly manipulating the polity of the 2023 general elections to create a national crisis. It also said the undemocratic plot was premised on the realization that the duo cannot win the February 2023 presidential poll. The Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organization said this in a statement signed by the party’s spokesman, Nebo Olugunagba made available to newsmen in Abuja. Part of the statement reads, “Nigerians must know that the APC and its Presidential candidate, Tinubu, are the real…
A member of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) in Taraba State, Abdulrazaq Gidado, on Friday, resigned from his appointment to pitch tent with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The former All Progressives Congress PCC member who said he decamped to PDP to work for the success of PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, attributed his action to the ongoing internal wrangling in the state chapter of APC and claimed that more APC members are on the verge of ditching the party for PDP. His decision to leave the APC, according to him, “was because of how the state chapter of…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State on Friday declared that President Muhammadu Buhari should understand that his pledge to give Nigerians free elections has turned out to be a mirage in Imo State. Collins Opurozor, the PDP Publicity Secretary made this disclosure in Owerri while briefing journalists on the state of the nation, the third attack on CUPP spokesperson Ikenga Ugochiyere’s country home, and the killings of innocent persons at his country home. The opposition party appealed to the Chief of Army Staff, Inspector General of Police, and Director General of the State Security Service to intervene and…
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has urged Nigerians to enthrone visionary and honest leaders to address Nigeria’s problems, including insecurity and corruption, ahead of the 2023 election. Uzodinma stated this in a lecture delivered at the National Defence College (NDC) with the theme “National Security, Strategic Leadership and Development: My Political Experience” on Friday in Abuja. He said, “The trouble with Nigeria is leadership. In less than two weeks, Nigerians will have the opportunity to make the choice of who’ll deepen the visionary strides we’ve seen in the last seven and half years as has been provided by President…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council, Enugu has reacted to the judgement of the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, which struck out a suit seeking the disqualification of all candidates of the party. The judgement was delivered on Friday by Justice Folashade Giwa-Ogunbanjo. The suit sought a nullification of the PDP primary election and disqualification of the 2023 governorship, National Assembly and State Assembly candidates of the party. But the presiding Judge, Justice Giwa-Ogunbanjo held that the plaintiff, Chike Idoko of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, lacked the locus standi to institute the suit. Reacting, the PDP Campaign…
In her biography, Haley says she is proud of being an underdog. It is not clear if the Republicans are ready to back underdogs just yet. Nimrata “Nikki” Randhawa Haley (51) is a conflicted soul if you believe her autobiography Can’t Is Not an Option. In December, before the Christmas holidays, the former US Ambassador to the United Nations announced she would use the holiday break to decide on a possible run for the White House in 2024. Earlier this week, she announced her decision to run, leading to barbs from her mentor, Donald Trump, who said: “I’m glad she’s…
President of the Senate, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan has urged the people of Yobe State to give APC at least 1.2 million votes in the 2023 elections. Lawan made the plea at a fund raising ceremony organized by Yobe State APC Campaign Council in Damaturu. He said, “Yobe is known to be a guaranteed vote basket for the APC. We want to compete with every State in this country as far as votes for the APC is concerned. “We have the people. We have the will and we have our way by the grace of God to vote for all our…