The All Progressives Congress, APC in Osun State says it has been vindicated on its earlier position on the inability of the Ademola Adeleke administration to fulfil its obligation to the government workers. The Party made the claims in a statement by its Acting Chairman, Tajudeen Lawal and made available by Kola Olabisi, the Osun APC Media and Information Director to journalists in Osogbo, the Party revealed The Osun State Government in a statement signed by the Spokesperson to the state governor, Olawale Rasheed on Friday disclosed that Adeleke was ready to pay the arrears of promotions alongside March salaries,…
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The State Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State has passed a vote of confidence on the State Chairman of the party, Chief Emeka Beke. The SWC of the APC, in an emergency meeting on Wednesday, urged Beke to continue to lead and champion the popular demand of the party members across the 319 wards in the state. The APC Publicity Secretary, Darlington Nwauju, in a statement, said this would help the party recover, through constitutional means at the election petition tribunal, their stolen mandate of the 25th February and 18th March 2023 general elections. Nwauju…
The Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal has received 34 petitions from different political parties that participated in the just concluded general elections in the state. InfoStride News reports that the tribunal is sitting at the Rivers State Judiciary Complex and has the names of political parties and their candidates challenging the outcome of the elections displayed on a notice board. Some of the petitions received by the tribunal are that of the governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Beatrice Itubo; the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Patrick Tonye-Cole; and one other challenging the victory of the candidate of…
The Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has again been rocked by a major crisis. The latest one is coming just two weeks after the conclusion of the 2023 general elections. In the latest crisis, the two factions of the party announced the suspension of some stalwarts. First to fire a salvo was the faction believed to be led by Dr Uche Ogah, which suspended the governorship candidate, Chief Ikechi Emenike, and the party Chairman, Dr Kingsley Ononogbu. In a long press release signed by Chief Ofor Okorie, State publicity secretary, the APC faction accused Emenike and…
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has revealed how he advised the 2023 Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, and his All Progressives Congress, APC, counterpart, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to step down for the younger generation. Soyinka spoke while featuring on the Arise Television morning show on Wednesday. Recall that Tinubu won the 2023 presidential election, beating close rivals Atiku, and Labour Party’s Peter Obi. Atiku and Obi have since headed to the courts to challenge Tinubu’s victory. “When Atiku came to my office in Ikeja, he came with Gbenga Daniel, my former governor. I said to…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Adamawa State, Mr Hudu Arim, to recuse himself from conducting the April 15 re-run gubernatorial election in the state. The PDP made the call at a news conference addressed by Debo Ologunagba, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, in Abuja. Ologunagba stated that Ari’s continued stay in office in spite of the PDP’s outcry over his alleged complicity in the plot to manipulate the outcome of the Adamawa governorship election was unacceptable. He said, “In view of grave allegations and evidence…
NATO has established 8 multinational battle groups in Poland and the Baltic nations, and more recently in Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania, to serve as a “tripwire” in case of Russian attack. By Natalia Drozdiak and Courtney McBride With Finland officially in the alliance, NATO’s top commander can now work the country into its military plans, which sketch out how to defend the bloc’s members against an attack. But given Finland’s extensive capabilities and practice defending its own territory, it’s unlikely at least for now that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will replicate defense structures on the rest of the…
A civil society group said that the All Progressives Party, APC, in Taraba State failed in last month’s governorship election because it fielded an unpopular candidate. The Executive Director of Citizens Awareness Against Corruption and Social Vices Initiative, CAACASVI, Olumuyiwa Onlede, disclosed this on Wednesday. He said APC’s poor performance at the polls in Taraba State was caused by the national leadership headed by Senator Abdullahi Adamu. He alleged that Adamu’s action of imposing a governorship candidate in the person of Sen Emmanuel Bwacha on the state ruined APC’s chances of victory at the March 18 gubernatorial election. He added…
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has written to the Chief Clerk of the Central Criminal Court in London to temper justice with mercy over the conviction of former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. Ekweremadu and his wife, alongside Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, were recently found guilty of attempted organ harvesting of a Nigerian trafficked to Britain to provide a kidney for their ailing daughter. However, Obasanjo, in a letter dated April 3, 2023 and addressed to the Chief Clerk of the court titled “Re: Ike Ekweremadu,” said even though Ekweremadu’s action was condemnable and unacceptable, he has contributed his…
Prof Wole Soyinka, the former Nobel Laureate has said the comments of the Labour Party Vice Presidential Candidate Datti Baba-Ahmed on Channels Television are fascistic, unacceptable and alienate supporters. In an interview a week ago, Senator Babe-Ahmed said the decision of the Supreme Court must be favourable to the Labour Party. He also stated that swearing in the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu would truncate Nigeria’s democracy. His comments have continued to generate controversy, leading to a Five Million Naira fine on Channels Television by the National Broadcasting Commission. Adding his voice to the issue in an interview on Arise Television,…
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory FCT has issued an order restraining the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr Julius Abure, National Secretary, Farouk Ibrahim and two others from parading themselves as National Officers of the party. Others stopped from parading themselves as National Officers are the National Organizi Secretary, Mr Clement Ojukwu and one other. Justice Hamza Muazu issued the restraining order on Wednesday in Abuja while ruling in an ex-parte application argued by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria SAN, James Ogwu Onoja. Onoja had in the application informed the court how the restrained national officers…
Finland formally joined the Nato military alliance on Tuesday in a historic policy shift brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, drawing a threat from Moscow of “countermeasures”. Finland’s accession roughly doubles the length of the border that Nato shares with Russia and bolsters its eastern flank as the war in Ukraine grinds on with no resolution in sight. Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto completed the accession process by handing over an official document to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at Nato headquarters in Brussels. Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, welcoming Finland to its ranks, noted that Russian President Vladimir…
Kenneth Okonkwo of the Labour Party, LP, has maintained that those who ascribe Peter Obi’s performance in the just concluded presidential election to religion or ethnicity are being “ignorant and mischievous.” Okonkwo, a veteran Nollywood actor, insisted that no politician in the country’s history under a relatively unknown political party achieved the spread and votes that Obi got. His statement, contained in a post via his Twitter handle on Tuesday, is coming against the backdrop of a leaked audio conversation between his principal and Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church. The audio conversation alleged Obi described the election…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, leaders under the aegis of the North Central APC Forum have again urged President-elect Bola Tinubu to pick the Director-General of his presidential campaign council, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). The group said appointing Governor Lalong as the SGF will also ensure “equity and fairness” in the incoming administration’s appointment. The Forum equally said Lalong had done a lot for the APC and the North as the Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, Plateau State, and the emergence of Tinubu as the president. Chairman…
The All Progressives Congress, APC on Monday denied the expulsion of the Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege from the party. InfoStride News had reported that an expulsion letter dated March 31st and signed by the Chairman, Ulebor Isaac on behalf of the State Executive Committee of the Delta APC said Omo-Agege was expelled for alleged anti-party activities and other unnamed offences. The statement reads in part, “In accordance [with the] provision of Article 21.2 (1)(II)(VII) 21.3 and 21.5(g) of the constitution 2022 (as amended), we unanimously resolved and adopted the expulsion of Senator Ovie Omo Agege as a member of…
The National and State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Abakaliki has granted an ex-parte order to candidates of the Labour Party, LP, Linus Okorie and Eze Emmanuel, to serve Governor David Umahi and Emmanuel Uguru a notice of petition and processes. Okorie is a senatorial candidate of the Labour Party for the Ebonyi South Senatorial Zone while Eze Emmanuel is a candidate of the Labour Party for Abakaliki/Izzi Federal House of Representatives. Okorie, a former House of Representatives member, is challenging the victory of Governor Umahi as the Ebonyi South Senator-elect while Eze Emmanuel is challenging the victory…
The Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, Charles-Solo Ako has accused the party’s chairman in Enugu State of working against President-elect, Bola Tinubu during the presidential polls. InfoStride News reports that Ako and Agballah have been engaging in a war of words, with both accusing each other of embezzlement. In his latest claims, Ako has now said Agballah sabotaged the Tinubu presidency project, as well as other candidates of the APC in the 2023 elections. This is contained in a statement he made available to DAILY POST on Tuesday. “Agballah never erected a single billboard…
Lawmakers from different political parties in the minority caucus on Tuesday met to pull an upset against the All Progressives Congress (APC). The lawmakers converged at Transcorp Hilton in Abuja and deliberated on ways to pull their numbers together to decide the next Speaker of the House. Elected lawmakers from the Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party, New Nigeria Peoples Party, All Progressives Grand Alliance, Social Democratic Party, Young Progressives Party and African Democratic Congress were in attendance at the event. Speaking on the collaboration, Dachung Bagos, a member of the PDP from Plateau State, said the minority parties are now…
Elder statesman, Robert Clark, has insisted that the Labour Party (LP) and its Presidential candidate for the 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi, have an uphill task before the election tribunal. Clark stated this while speaking during an interview with Arise TV on Tuesday. He said it would be hard for the LP to prove that there were election malpractices in Lagos State during the Presidential election. Recall that the All Progressives Congress, APC’s Tinubu won the 2023 presidential election, beating close rivals, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, and Labour Party’s Obi. Atiku and Obi have since headed…
A group, Audu/Faleke Political Structure has told the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the list of delegates submitted to it ahead of the April 10 governorship primary election in Kogi State was doctored. The APC Kogi stakeholders during a meeting with the NWC members on Tuesday in Abuja, alleged that the list of delegates submitted to the NWC for the 2023 Kogi governorship primary did not emanate from any Delegate Congress as none was held anywhere in the state. The group also wondered why the leadership of the party would adopt a direct primary…