The Niger State Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has revealed that all arrangements are set for the conduct of supplementary elections for the State House of Assembly seats in 15 polling units of four local government areas. The supplementary elections will hold on Saturday, 15 April 2023. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Ahmed Yusha’u Garki, made this known at a stakeholder meeting at INEC Headquarters in Minna. The councils affected include Agaie, Agwara, Rafi and Rijau. He hinged the success recorded during the 2023 general polls in the state to the understanding between the various stakeholders across the political divides…
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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday nullified and set aside the Ward and Local Government congresses purportedly conducted on February 7 by the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kogi to nominate its candidate for the November governorship election. The court voided the two congresses because they were not conducted in compliance with the Electoral Act 2022 and the Constitution of the APC. Delivering judgment in a suit instituted by a group of aggrieved APC members led by Realwan Okpanachi, Justice James Omotosho barred the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from using the unlawful delegates list that emanated from…
An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Rivers, Chukwuemeka Eze, has accused some supporters of President-elect Bola Tinubu of discrediting Rotimi Amaechi. Eze said in an attempt to impress Tinubu, “schemers” had embarked on a campaign against the former governor and immediate past Minister of Transportation. In a statement on Wednesday, he noted that insinuations that the Rivers APC has been fragmented into factions “is not wholly true”. Eze accused Tony Okocha, “self-styled Coordinator, South-South, of Bola Tinubu Vanguard” of promoting falsehood on social media. “Okocha has been parading himself as leader of the Rivers APC with the careless claim…
Finland’s President Sauli Niinist on Thursday warned that the country’s new status as a NATO member doesn’t solve every problem, and said Helsinki should not let down its guard on security issues. We still bear the main responsibility for our own security. Wherever we detect any gaps or vulnerabilities, they must be fixed, Niinist said, in a speech to lawmakers as they gathered for the first time since the April 2 elections. He added that Finland, which shares a 1,340 kilometer (832 mile) border with Russia, has been focused on regional security in the past year, after the Russian invasion…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in Imo, Senator Samuel Anyanwu has advised the All Progressives Congress, APC, to pack its bags. Anyanwu, the national secretary of the PDP, said the people were ready to vote out the “inhuman” APC administration led by Governor Hope Uzodimma. A statement on Thursday by the Party’s Spokesperson, Ikenna Onuoha accused rivals of claiming he was “being sponsored” for the November 11, 2023 election. The aide said the news was baseless, misleading and “a brazen concoction garnished by individuals already afraid of the PDP and its candidate”. Recalling that Anyanwu ran for governor…
A former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamu Garba asserted that the APC-led federal government facilitated the release of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi from his detention cell in the United Kingdom recently. InfoStride News recalls that Peter Obi was last Friday, reportedly detained for hours at London’s Heathrow Airport, over alleged impersonation. The former Anambra State governor was later released after he was interrogated by UK immigration officials. Garba on Thursday claimed his release was facilitated by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission headed by Abike Dabiri. In a tweet, he wrote:…
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has restrained Emeka Beke and Iheanyichukwu Dike from parading themselves respectively as the state chairman and legal adviser of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state. Omiete Eferebo and nine others had asked the court to stop Beke and Dike from parading themselves as executive members of APC in the state. Justice D. G. Kio granted the ex-parte application by the plaintiffs. Confirming the development to newsmen, the factional spokesman of the APC State Working Committee, Eyinda Dike urged members of the public to desist from transacting with Beke and…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has told the presidential election petitions tribunal that President-elect Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress won the February 25 election and was validly returned as the winner without needing to get 25 per cent of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). INEC stated this in its reply by its lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, to the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, before the tribunal. Nigeria’s electoral umpire said the APC candidate met all the legal requirements to be so announced as the winner of…
The Anambra State Government has expressed worry over the high level of vote-buying going on in the supplementary election for the House of Representatives in Ogbaru Federal Constituency. Ifeanyi Okeoma, the state’s Commissioner for Works said the level of vote-buying was denying voters the opportunity of making their rightful choice in the election. Speaking with journalists at Okpoko, Okeoma said: “We are worried. For us (APGA), people should be able to vote their choices, without looking at any inducement. “We are hopeful that despite the high level of vote-buying, APGA will still win the election, because as you already know,…
The Ogun State chapter of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has replaced its counsel, Peter Ogah, with Isaac Dale Izunya at the state governorship tribunal. The party made these disclosures via a statement made available to the media on Thursday. The NNPP and its candidate during the last gubernatorial election in the state, Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo, had earlier filed a petition at the Ogun State Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, the state capital, over the omission of the party’s name on the ballot paper used during the election on March 18, 2023. The party and its candidate in…
The Arewa Youth Assembly, AYA, has called on the All Progressives Congress, APC, to zone the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the North West. The group noted that zoning the speakership to the North West is in line with the principles of equity, fairness, and justice, stressing that such a move will not only strengthen the party’s base in the region but also foster unity and inclusiveness for a better Nigeria. AYA also urged APC to zone the position of the Senate President to the southern part of the country to enhance national cohesion and…
Isaac Fayose, brother to former Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, has suggested why the All Progressives Congress, APC, is having sleepless nights despite the loss of the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Fayose said the level of reception accorded Obi by Nigerians in the diaspora makes the APC feel Obi is still campaigning. Reacting to a video of Obi being received by Nigerians abroad, Fayose claimed that APC is wondering why a loser would be accorded such treatment. Taking to his Facebook, Fayose said: “They are wondering what kind of man is Peter Obi, how can a perceived…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that Bola Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), won the February 25 election and was validly returned as the winner. INEC disclosed this in a reply by its lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, on Tuesday, to the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, before the tribunal. NAN reports that Atiku, 1st petitioner, and PDP, 2nd petitioner, in the petition marked: CA/PEPC/05/2023, had listed INEC, Tinubu and APC as 1st to 3rd respondents, respectively. The petitioners are asking…
Comments by French President Emmanuel Macron over Europe’s priorities on Taiwan have raised questions over the EU’s relationship with both the US and China, on the eve of his planned speech on the bloc’s sovereignty in The Netherlands. Macron’s remarks were published on Sunday in an interview with French newspaper Les Echos and Politico Europe. The question we need to answer, as Europeans, is the following: is it in our interest to accelerate (a crisis) on Taiwan? No,” Macron was quoted as saying in the interview. “The worst thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on…
The spokesperson of the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council, Dino Melaye, has singled out Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike as the reason for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s defeat at the last presidential poll. He said Wike was also responsible for the decamping of the Labour Party’s candidate, Peter Obi, from the PDP to the party weeks before the primary election. Melaye, a PDP governorship aspirant in Kogi State, stated this while speaking on Arise TV. Recall that Wike has said he won’t support PDP in the forthcoming Kogi State governorship poll if the party fields Melaye as its candidate.…
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant in the upcoming governorship primary in Kogi State, Senator Dino Melaye has revealed that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike was his biggest sponsor when he vied for the same office in 2019. Melaye said Wike supported his ambition financially to the tune of hundreds of thousands of Dollars. The former Senator disclosed this while reacting to the Rivers Governor’s recent threat that he would not support the PDP in the forthcoming Kogi State governorship poll if the party field him as its candidate. Speaking on Arise TV on Tuesday, Melaye said Wike did not…
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Wednesday, said the call for his arrest and prosecution for admonishing Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, over inciting the public to violence is unjustifiable. Mohammed stated this in London while reacting to the call by Edwin Clark, an Elder Statesman and Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), that he should be arrested and prosecuted for spreading “fake news” about Obi. The minister said he stood by his admonition of Obi, a former Anambra State governor, and his LP running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, saying that his advice…
Senator Samuel Anyanwu, National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has emerged the party’s governorship candidate for the November 11 Imo State gubernatorial poll. His emergence followed the PDP primary election held on Wednesday at the party’s secretariat along the Okigwe Road in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Anyanwu is expected to challenge the re-election of the incumbent Governor of the state, Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The State Organising Secretary of the opposition party, Lawrence Biado, said the seven-man electoral panel constituted by the National Working Committee headed by Kenneth Okon was present to monitor…
The Katsina State High Court has restrained the newly constituted caretaker committee of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from running the party’s affairs. The State Chief Judge, Justice MD Abubakar, in a ruling on Tuesday, issued an interlocutory injunction to that effect, noting that the order is pending the determination of the suit brought before the honourable court by the party’s embattled acting Chairman, Salisu Lawal Uli, and some elected party executives. Similarly, Justice MD Abubakar, in the ruling, also restrained the 2nd and 3rd defendant/respondent, PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from recognising…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal to declare the March 18 election in the state inconclusive. The party is challenging the declaration of Alhaji Abba Kabir-Yusuf of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) as the winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Recall that Kabir-Yusuf of NNPP polled 1,019,602 votes to defeat his rival, the incumbent Deputy Governor of the state, Dr Nasiru Gawuna, of APC, who scored 892,705 votes. In a five-volume petition filed on April 9, the APC alleged that Kabir-Yusuf of NNPP was not qualified to…