A human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has mocked the All Progressives Congress, APC, over its victory during the presidential election. Yesufu said APC rigged election and it’s now a bone in their throat. In a tweet, the member of the Labour Party, LP, presidential campaign council, said APC won’t swallow the bone. She wrote: “They rigged election and it is now like a bone in their throat. They can’t swallow it nor bring it out! “They are running helter skelter all over the world. They robbed themselves of sleep.” Bola Tinubu of the APC had merged victorious after polling the…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko have vowed to push ahead the integration process between the two countries. The two leaders made the remarks on Thursday when jointly chairing a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus in the Kremlin. At the meeting, Putin noted that “significant achievements” had been made in the integration of 28 prioritised sectors approved during the previous Supreme State Council meeting in 2021, Xinhua news agency reported. “To date, both governments and the relevant agencies have completed 74 per cent of the activities planned under…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano and former Commissioner for Works and Infrastructural Development, Engr Muazu M Dansarauniya, has called on the party leadership to settle for a Senate President from the Northwest and Kano in particular, to create a strong base for the party in the region in the face of other opposition parties wanting to take control. He stated this in an emergency meeting with newsmen in Kano on Thursday to dismiss calls by the New Nigeria Peoples Party spokesman and Reps-elect, Abdulmumin Kofa, who condemned allotting the Senate Presidency seat to the north…
The 2023 Labour Party candidate for the just concluded gubernatorial election in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has insisted what happened in the state was a war, not a poll. Speaking on Arise Television’s morning show on Friday, Rhodes-Vivour also said that the responsibility of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must improve amid the election’s conduction. Rhodes-Vivour said, “What happened in Lagos was a war on Lagosians no matter how they want to colour it or module the waters. “In Ikoyi, there were Yoruba people who were beaten and affected by thugs and hooligans that came into the place. “Look…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has complied with the directive of the Governorship and House of Assembly Petition Tribunal in Ogun State to allow the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) have access to all election materials used for the conduct of the recently held election in the state. NNPP had earlier approached the tribunal over the failure of INEC to include its name in the ballot papers used for the election. The tribunal granted the request a few days ago, prompting INEC to release the election materials to the NNPP counsels, Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo and Izunya Isaac Dale, for…
The All Progressives Congress, APC in Imo State has advised the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to keep his eyes off Douglas House and concentrate on the task before him to recover and rebuild the party. The ruling APC said all serious-minded Imo citizens, including those who left a dishonoured ticket for Anyanwu, are aware that there is no vacancy in Imo Government House until 2027. APC stated this in a press release made available to DAILY POST by its State Publicity Secretary, Cajetan Duke in Owerri, Imo State capital. Recall that the National Secretary of the…
President Muhammadu Buhari says the 2023 elections proved the growing strength of Nigeria’s democracy and the sophistication of the Nigerian voter when it comes to the choice of leaders. His media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, stated in Abuja on Thursday that the president made the remark when he hosted the newly-installed Emir of Dutse, Alhaji Muhammad Sunusi, who visited him. Buhari noted that failure by 10 sitting governors to get elected into the Senate showed that there was no longer a guaranteed route to power and the voter is truly the king when it comes to choices. “It is a…
The Labour Party in Lagos State has indefinitely suspended six of its chieftains, including the immediate past chairman, Mr Kayode Salako , over alleged anti-party and disparaging activities in the just-concluded elections. The LP Secretary in the state, Mr Sam Okpala disclosed this at a news conference on Thursday at the party’s secretariat in Ikeja, Lagos. Okpala listed the suspended leaders to include: Mr Moshood Salvador (LP Senatorial Candidate, Lagos West), Mr Mutiu Okunola (House of Ikeja Rep. Candidate), and Messrs Theodore Ezeununara, Mr Olumide Adesoyin and Opeyemi Taiwo. He said the suspension followed the party’s reception and ratification of…
Officers of the Nigeria Police Force have taken over the Labour Party’s national secretariat in Abuja. The crisis rocking the party deepened on Thursday, after seven members of the National Working Committee, NWC, installed the National Vice-Chairman (South), Lamidi Bashir Apapa, as the acting chairman of the party. Apapa replaced suspended chairman, Julius Abure. Speaking after an emergency meeting, Apapa said the NWC members acted on the judgement of an Abuja High Court, which barred Abure from parading himself as LP’s National Chairman. Apart from Abure, the court also restrained the National Secretary, Umar Farouk Ibrahim; the National Treasurer, Oluchi…
The camp of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Friday, pointed out what should be the President-elect, Bola Tinubu’s first assignment if sworn in on May 29. Daniel Bwala, Atiku’s spokesman, said Tinubu’s first task is to unite Nigerians who believed he rigged the election. Faulting Tinubu’s silence over the vilification of Igbos in Lagos State following Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, victory in the state, Bwala wondered if the President-elect can unite Nigerians. In a series of tweets, Bwala said: “I personally believe the Igbo man believes in the Nigerian project and lives…
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has responded to criticism directed at him by Obidients, supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, after expressing displeasure at a statement made by the vice-presidential candidate of the party, Datti Baba-Ahmed. In a statement titled “Fascism On Course”, Soyinka said the “seeds of seeds of incipient fascism in the political arena have evidently matured”. Baba-Ahmed, whose ticket with his principal, Peter Obi, emerged third in the February 25 presidential election, had spoken about the Supreme Court in a manner described by Soyinka as “fascistic language”. According to the literary icon,…
Dr Tanko Yususa, the Labour Party Presidential Council spokesperson, said the crisis rocking the party’s leadership is not about the embattled National Chairman, Julius Abure, but targeted at Peter Obi. The post-election crisis in the Labour Party took another dimension on Thursday after the Nigeria Police Force sealed its secretariat over a power tussle among its leadership. Yunusa spoke on Wednesday during an Interview on Channels Television, monitored by the media; he said the confusion in LP is orchestrated to frustrate the party’s presidential candidate Peter Obi, who is in court to challenge Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory at the 25th…
The Director of New Media of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has told the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, that he is free to proceed on an exile outside Nigeria. Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister, said this in reaction to Obi’s outcry that was under pressure to leave the country following his decision to challenge the outcome of the presidential election. The former Anambra State governor also accused the ruling party and some government agencies of trying to divert the country’s attention from the alleged infractions that characterised the just concluded polls. His statement…
A group, Concerned Imo Labour Party Youths, has appealed to delegates to the party’s governorship primary to elect Chief Joseph Ukaegbu as candidate for the upcoming governorship poll in the state. The group’s Leader, Mr Emmanuel Ekeji, made the appeal, while addressing newsmen on the resolution reached at its meeting in Owerri. Ekeji described Ukaegbu, popularly called Chief Ikenga, “as the only gubernatorial aspirant of the party, who had been with the party from the scratch”. He said that all other aspirants, who did not care about LP, “joined now because of the wave of the Obidient Movement”. Ekeji also…
The Oyo State House of Assembly has approved the request of the state governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, to obtain a fresh N50 billion loan on Thursday. The lawmakers approved the request during the plenary presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Muhammad Abiodun Fadeyi (Ona Ara). The Speaker of the assembly, Adebo Ogundoyin, whose mother, Mrs Justina Ogundoyin, died recently, did not attend the plenary. InfoStride News however, reports that all the lawmakers elected on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) were conspicuously absent during the plenary. All the lawmakers elected on the platform of APC in 2019 lost during…
The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned the meeting between Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California and vowed that China will take “resolute and effective measures to safeguard national sovereignty,” according to the official statement. In a statement, the Chinese Foreign Ministry called Tsai’s visit to US “transit” and said that it “gravely violated” the one-China principle. China vows ‘resolute, effective’ response to high-level US meeting with Taiwan’s Prez The Chinese foreign ministry also said that Tsai and McCarthy still hold the meeting with disregard for China’s serious representations and repeated warnings The ministry, in the…
A hefty warchest, “best national organisation that worked for him and the ground game” are the factors which Bola Tinubu emerged victorious at the February 25 presidential election, American diplomat Johnnie Carson has asserted. Mr Carson co-led National Democratic Institute (NDI) and International Republican Institute (IRI), International Election Observation Mission to Nigeria during the elections. On Thursday, Mr Carson, an Executive Officer of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) welcomed information minister Lai Mohammed to his office in Washington DC. Speaking of the elections, Mr Carson said Mr Tinubu of the APC won the election and would be sworn-in…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, Mr Osita Okechukwu has brushed aside his purported expulsion by the State chapter of the party. InfoStride News had reported that during a press briefing on Thursday, the Enugu APC through its state secretary, Mr Robert Ngwu announced the expulsion of Okechukwu, alongside former governor, Sullivan Chime, former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, foreign affairs minister, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, among others. They were accused of anti-party activities. Chairman of the party in the state, Ugochukwu Agballah, who was at the briefing, said the party would continue to purge itself of…
Social activist Shehu Sani on Thursday said the office of the Senate President should be zoned to the South East. Sani, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the 8th Senate, during an interview with the media in Abuja on Thursday said the South East has senators that are competent enough to be Senate President, if the rules of the Red Chamber, particularly the ranking norm, were to be considered. The present structure of the APC, he observed, has naturally positioned the South East to produce the 10th Senate President. Speaking further, he said the former governor of Abia State…
A group known as Progressives’ Solidarity for Asiwaju, PSA, has described the call for an interim government despite Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory at the 25th February Presidential Election as an invitation to anarchy. The chairman of PSA, Ibrahim Emokpaire urged losers to collaborate with President-elect Tinubu to make Nigeria great. His assertion is coming on the heels of the Department of State Security’s confirmation of plans by some plotters to install an interim government. In a statement disclosed to the media on Thursday by the Director of Press and Publicity, PSA, Ayodele Ariyo, Emokpaire challenged Datti Baba Ahmed in an…