Hundreds of people, including youths and women from various political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on Wednesday defected to APC in the Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara. APC Ekiti LG Chairman, Wale Awelewa, who received and handed the defectors over to Rep Tunji Olawuyi, said they had equal rights like others before them. Awelewa urged them to be good ambassadors of the party and work for its victory in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Welcoming the defectors into the party, Rep Olawuyi reminded them of the intervention Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq had brought to their area, including his…
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With 16 days to the commencement of the 2023 general election, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to remove the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Lagos State, Olusegun Agbaje. Atiku said Agbaje had been accused of attempting to compromise the upcoming election. He noted that the REC’s insistence on using the Lagos State Park and Garage Management Committee led by Musiliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo to carry sensitive election materials was a ploy to compromise the election. Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communication,…
Amidst growing tension with China over a suspected surveillance balloon, US President Joe Biden has said that the United States will act to protect if Beijing threatens its sovereignty. “I am committed to work with China where it can advance American interests and benefit the world. But make no mistake: as we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did,” Biden said in his State of the Union Address on Tuesday night. The US military downed the suspected Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean last week, drawing a…
The Appeal Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit by Allied Peoples Movement, APM, seeking to disqualify the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi. The presiding judge, Justice Monica Dongban Mensan in her judgement dismissed the appeal on the grounds that it lacked merit and APM lacked the legal right to initiate the suit. Also, the court, in favour of the LP and Peter Obi, who are the 2nd and 3rd respondents, awarded a sum of N200,000 against APM. Obi is in the race alongside top contenders like Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and…
Ekiti State High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of the suit filed by the former Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Gboyega Aribisogan due to resh issues raised by the claimant in his reply to the counter-affidavit of the defendants. The court subsequently adjourned the case till February 20 to allow the defendants to respond to new issues raised by the former speaker. Justice Adekunle Adeleye, at the resumed hearing of the suit on Wednesday, said the defendants should be given the opportunity to respond to new facts in the counter-affidavit and written address filed by the…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has commended the Supreme Court for saving Nigerians and democracy by restraining the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, from implementing the February 10 deadline on the phasing out of N200, N500 and N1000 old notes. Wike spoke during the Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign in the Abua/Odual Local Government Area, where he urged the people to preserve their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to vote for the candidates of the PDP at the state level. He also commended the government of the three states that filed the suit. He said the Rivers State Government…
The Ondo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC on Wednesday, ordered the immediate suspension of its campaign activities in the state over the current scarcity of fuel and the newly redesigned naira notes. Mr Ade Adetimehin, the state chairman of the party in a statement explained that the decision was in solidarity with residents of the state. “The party has, therefore, directed Chairmen, and Director-Generals at all levels, within the chapter, to suspend rallies, in sympathy with our people,” Adetimehin said. The chairman expressed regrets that the country was experiencing an unusual shortage of petrol and scarcity of…
Ahead of the 2023 general election, a former Commissioner for Agriculture in Ondo State, Pastor Olusegun Aiyerin has announced his resignation from the All Progressives Congress (APC). Aiyerin, a two-term chairman of Okitipupa Local Government, announced his resignation in a letter addressed to the chairman of APC in llutitun Ward 1 on Tuesday. He said the ruling APC in the State was encouraging indolence, while abandoning hard work. “I, Pastor Olusegun Aiyerin, hereby resign my membership of APC with immediate effect after due consultation with members of my family, my ardent followers and supporters. “It is to be recalled that…
The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Wednesday, turned down the approval by the state governor, Nyesom Wike, to use the Adokiye Amesiamaka Stadium, Igwurita-Ali, Port Harcourt, for its presidential campaign rally. Recall that Wike, who fell out with Atiku following the outcome of the party’s primary election last year, had denied giving the approval for the venue. However, while speaking at the PDP governorship campaign rally at Ogu in Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday, the governor announced the reapproval of the facility. Reacting to the latest approval, the spokesperson of the…
Chief Henry Ude (AjimBest), a chieftain of the Labour Party in Ebonyi, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. This was contained in a statement on Wednesday in Abakaliki signed by Chief Abia Onyike, the Director, Media and Publicity, PDP Governorship Campaign Council. Ude, one of the founding fathers of Ebonyi and an LP stalwart in Okposi, Ohaozara Local Government Area of the state, confirmed the development when he spoke with journalists in Abakaliki. He said his decision to return to his former party was to help in the struggle to free the state from its political quagmire. Ude,…
The Taraba State chapter of the Labour Party, LP, has vowed to appeal the Federal High Court’s judgement which nullified the candidacy of its guber candidate, Senator Joel Ikenya. In a statement by its campaign council on Wednesday, they noted that the “state governorship candidate of our party, will be exercising his right of appeal on the judgement of the Federal High Court, Jalingo, delivered on Saturday, 4th February, 2023 in order to seek redress on the obvious miscarriage of justice.” The court last Saturday nullified the emergence of the former Minister of Labour as the party’s governorship candidate for…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, has given a reason Nigerians should sack him if elected president in the upcoming presidential election. Obi said Nigerians should sack him and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, if they take the country in the wrong direction. Speaking at the Support Group Conveners Conference in Abuja, Obi cautioned against voting for politicians who impoverished 95 million Nigerians. To this end, Obi urged Nigerians to reject the old political order that brought about poverty and debt. He urged Nigerians to take ownership of the country from the old political order.…
The Delta North senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ned Nwoko today said it’s not a do-or-die affair for him to be voted a senator. Nwoko made the assertion during an interactive session with journalists in Asaba. Nwoko who was a guest at “The Platform”, a programme organized by the Delta State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ also said he wouldn’t like to be in the opposition when he emerges as the next senator at the red chamber. He explained that he can’t function effectively well as an opposition in the house. According to Hon.…
The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu has urged Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State to join the party’s campaign train. Ayu said Ortom joining PDP would guarantee the party’s victory during the presidential election. Speaking at the PDP presidential campaign rally in Benue State, Ayu said: “I am appealing to my younger brother, Gov. Ortom to come back and join us so that we will fight to rescue Nigeria. “Gov. Ortom has nowhere to go, his only house is the PDP and anytime that he comes, we shall be more than happy to receive him…
The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, has cautioned Nigerians against voting for the All Progressives Congress, APC. Ayu said only Nigerians with mental problems would vote for the APC in the upcoming elections. Speaking at the party’s presidential campaign rally in Benue State, Ayu said: “All of you know that you have suffered in this country in the last eight years of APC, only somebody who has a mental problem will vote for APC.” Ayu also dismissed insinuations of a crisis within the party, stressing that the party is not divided. He, however, noted that…
Barely 17 days to the commencement of the 2023 general elections, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has been assured of over one million votes in Benue State. This was as Atiku was predicted to emerge winner of the February 25th presidential election. Atiku held his campaign rally in Makurdi, the state capital on Monday evening, after a series of postponements, which was not unconnected to the rift between the state governor, Samuel Ortom and the national leadership of the party. PDP’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu hails from Benue State and is not on good…
The younger brother to a former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, Isaac has alleged that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is working for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Wike has been at loggerheads with the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, after losing the party’s presidential ticket to Atiku Abubakar. The face-off with Atiku led to Wike’s call for the removal of the PDP’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu. Wike and the G-5 governors said the party can’t have the North produce the party’s national chairman and presidential candidate. They stressed that a southerner…
The Delta State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sheriff Oborevwori have solicited the cooperation of Journalists for the actualization of the Vice Presidential ambition of Dr. Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, running mate to Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the PDP. The lawmaker spoke when he appeared on the “Platform,” a programme designed by the NUJ Delta State Council in Asaba to interrogate potential leaders on their agenda. Oborevwori said, “I will serve as governor of all Deltans irrespective of your social status, religion or political affiliation ” He noted that he has a special agenda designed for a greater…
Etigwe Uwa has expressed optimism that he will soon be declared the rightful governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and would proceed to win the Abia State governorship election on March 11, 2023. Uwa, who challenged the candidature of Prof Greg Ibe who was declared guber candidate of APGA in Abia State, in an interview said the Federal High Court in Abuja has nullified all prayers against him, and that his own prayers to the court were upheld after all arguments have been taken. Uwa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, further claimed that a new date would…
A Magistrate court in Port Harcourt Court, Rivers State has remanded over 20 persons in the state correctional centre. They were arrested in connection with a meeting by members of the Atiku Support Organisation in the State. The suspects were later arraigned on counts of conspiracy, cultism and unlawful gathering before Chief Magistrate Collins Ali. However, Magistrate Ali refused to grant the bail application filed by Counsel to the suspects. He ordered that they be remanded in the correctional centre and adjourned proceedings in the matter to March 22, 2023, for bail consideration. Details later…