Raji Ahmed and Kingsley Olawale, two members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have blasted some Nigerians for criticising the voting procedure that helped Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC candidate to win the 2023 presidential election. The pair, who are associates of the former Lagos Governor and President-elect, Tinubu and made this known in a statement made available to journalists on Saturday. Their reaction is coming following the pro-Tinubu group/APC supporters solidarity March which held in Abuja on Tuesday, March 28. Tinubu, who is a former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the APC, won the 2023 presidential…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
“He will be accompanied by Secret Service Agents who are required to protect him as a former President making the surrender complicated. I don’t think they’re going to allow this to become a circus” When former US President Donald surrenders to authorities in New York on April 4 he will not be handcuffed, according to his lawyer Joe Tacopina. “The (former) resident will not be put in handcuffs,” he told ABC News on Friday. He will be accompanied by Secret Service Agents who are required to protect him as a former President making the surrender complicated. “I don’t think they’re…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been berated for allegedly issuing Certificate of Return to a wrong candidate in Ogun State. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State said INEC was wrong to have presented the Certificate of Return in Ikenne State Constituency to somebody who has withdrawn from the race before the March 18 election. According to the PDP, the people of Ikenne displayed uncommon courage in the face of destructive and disruptive tendencies of thugs by massively voting for the party and its candidate, Sulaimon Badmus Adeniye. However, the PDP expressed surprises that INEC presented Adeniye’s…
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the just-concluded election in Rivers State, Patrick Tonye-Cole has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of delaying to release documents that are needed for their case at the tribunal. Tonye-Cole, during a protest at the state head office of INEC on Friday in Port Harcourt, expressed concern that the electoral umpire has allegedly refused to release the documents used for the last elections for them to pursue their case at the tribunal. According to Tonye-Cole, the demand became necessary following the time frame stipulated for legal actions as regards the election.…
Bauchi State governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has extended olive branch to his opponents in the March 18 election. He declared that with the election over, they should join hands with him to build a new Bauchi. Mohammed, who contested the governorship election and won on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), spoke shortly after receiving his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Speaking on behalf of himself and the 31 Bauchi State House of Assembly members-elect, the governor declared that electioneering was over for now and there was the need for good governance.…
The Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, on Friday condemned calls in some quarters for the installation of an interim government in Nigeria. Sani Yabagi, the IPAC National Chairman, condemned the calls during a news press conference held after the council’s emergency general meeting in Abuja. Yabagi insisted that the statement by the Department of State Service (DSS) that it had discovered a plan by some persons to violently disrupt Nigeria’s peace and install an interim government was disturbing. The Chairman described the interim government as unacceptable, undemocratic and unconstitutional. Yabagi said, “It’s an attempt to overheat the polity, cause confusion, political…
In a video shared by the official Twitter account of NATO Spokesperson, Oana Lungescu, the NATO General Secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, is heard welcoming and congratulating Finland. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), General Secretary on Friday said that Finland’s inclusion will strengthen the intergovernmental military alliance and added that the body hopes to welcome Sweden as full member soon. In a video shared by the official Twitter account of NATO Spokesperson, Oana Lungescu, the NATO General Secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, is heard welcoming and congratulating Finland. Stoltenberg said, “I welcome the vote by the Turkish Grand National Assembly to ratify Finland’s membership…
The National Vice Chairman, North-West, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Salihu Lukman, has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must, as a matter of urgency, initiate the process of internal review of how the 2023 elections were managed. Lukman made the call in a media interaction with journalists on Friday in Abuja. The party chieftain also questioned the ethical conduct of the staff of INEC, especially the Returning Officers during the just concluded elections. He added that while there were gaps and problems witnessed during the 2023 elections, he maintained that it was an improvement in…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) executives of Ketembere Ward in Shelleng Local Government Area of Adamawa State have suspended one of their prominent members, Senator Ahmed Hassan Barata. Ahmed Barata currently holds the strategic position of director general (DG) of the campaign of APC governorship candidate, Senator Aishatu Ahmed Binani. The APC Ketembere Ward Executives said they suspended Barata over anti-party activities. Barata’s suspension was contained in a letter made available to newsmen in Yola on Friday, as addressed to Barata and copied to APC Chairman Shelleng local government Area. The letter passed to newsmen was accompanied by a list…
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has recalled warning the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, about the “Peter Obi effect.” Ikpeazu made the remark while disclosing that he predicted the Obi effect before the presidential election. Prior to the presidential election, Obi had defected from the PDP to the Labour Party, LP. Obi dumped the PDP before the party’s presidential primary. Since he joined LP, Obi has become a household name among Nigerians who believed he should be the next president. However, Ikpeazu, in a statement he signed, said: “That Peter Obi effect, I predicted it and told my party. I…
The Kwara State executive committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has rejected the recent suspension of some party members at the ward levels for the sake of peace and party cohesion. InfoStride News recalls that the state Secretary of the ruling party, Mr Mustapha Salman Ishowo, was among party members recently before the just concluded general elections suspended by the party executives at the Alanamu Ward level of the party in the Ilorin West Local Government Area of the state. State Chairman of the party, Prince Sunday Fagbemi, in a statement in Ilorin on Friday, expressed concern over…
Mr Oyakhilome Bello, APC United States National Youth Leader, says the call by some individuals to protest the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as President-elect on April 3 in the U.S has no merit. Bello, who is also the Deputy Director North America Youth Wing Campaign Council, said this in a statement on Friday. He described as baseless, the protest against Tinubu’s emergence by some opposition groups at a park in front of the White House on Thursday, saying such protest would produce no result. He said the protest had no weight because the Feb. 25, presidential election that produced…
The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) has described the ongoing agitation for an interim government as treasonable. The forum urged all Nigerians to remain vigilant and resist any undemocratic conduct that is capable of undermining the country’s democracy. The Chairman of the Forum and the Governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu, said it was, however, commendable that the Department of Security Service had exposed the plot and therefore called on the agency to arrest and prosecute anyone involved. It said: “The progressive Governors Forum notes the press statement issued by the Department of Security Service on the unfortunate, condemnable and treasonable…
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC in Jigawa State on Friday issued a certificate of return to the Governor-elect Malam Umar Namadi, his Deputy, and members of the state House of Assembly. InfoStride News reported that the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC declared Malam Umar Namadi, the winner of the 18th March, gubernatorial election in Jigawa. Malam Umar Namadi defeated three other contenders of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and the New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP. The event took place at the INEC headquarters in Dutse, the state capital and witnessed mass gatherings from the party’s stakeholders and well-wishers. INEC…
A coalition of INEC-accredited domestic election observers on Friday in Yola called on the Commission to remain resolute in conducting a free, fair, credible and transparent supplementary governorship election in Adamawa. INEC had fixed April 18 to conduct the supplementary election having declared the main one conducted on March 18 inconclusive. Final results tallied by INEC after the March 18 exercise showed that Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PP) scored the highest votes. The electoral umpire declared, however, that cancelled votes were more than the margin of victory between Mr Fintiri and the runner-up, Aisha Dahiru of…
A coalition of groups within the Peoples Democratic Party in Nasarawa State have expressed displeasure over the processes and outcome of the March 18 governorship election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state, During a protest in the state, one of the groups under the aegis of the Coalition of Aggrieved Support Groups for Mbugadu berated INEC for not reviewing the polls and the processes that led to the announcement of governor-elect, Abdullahi Sule. The protest which entered day-7 in Karu yesterday saw women and youths dressed in black attire, join the group to demand a…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ogun State on Thursday presented Certificate of Return to Governor Dapo Abiodun, winner of the March governorship election. Abiodun received the certificate at the media centre within the INEC headquarters in Abeokuta. Also, the Deputy Governor, Noimot Salako-Oyedele, and 25 House of Assembly members-elect received their Certificates of Return from INEC. The certificate presentation was supervised by Prof. Kunle Ajayi, the National Commissioner in charge of Ogun, Osun and Ondo States. Speaking, Ajayi commended Ogun people on the peaceful way they conducted themselves during the elections.
The Labour Party, LP has said it is not part of any insurrection or interim government plan. This is according to the opposition party’s spokesman, Yunusa Tanko, during an interview on Channels Television, Thursday. The party Chieftain clarified that the party is not involved in the purported plot to foist an interim government on Nigerians. Earlier, InfoStride News had reported that the Department of State Security, DSS confirmed a plot to scuttle Nigeria’s democratic process. However, in reaction to DSS’s revelation, Tanko said the LP would continue to stand by the provisions of the Nigerian constitution to protect Nigerians. “We…
The Supreme Court on Thursday in Abuja nullified the purported participation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 25 Senatorial election in Gombe South Senatorial District of Gombe State. The Apex Court kicked out APC and its purported candidate, Joshua Lidani out of the Senatorial contest on the ground that the party failed to conduct a primary election known to law for the purpose of candidate nomination. Delivering judgment in an appeal brought before it by the APC, the Supreme Court held that the party murdered internal democracy in the ways and manners its primary election for Gombe…
Enugu State Governor-elect, Barr. Peter Mbah, on Thursday, received his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Mbah was presented with the certificate alongside the Deputy Governor-elect, Barr. Ifeanyi Ossai and members-elect of the Enugu State House of Assembly. In his remarks after receiving the certificate, Mbah reechoed his hand of fellowship to other contestants in the election. He said, “a while ago, I received the Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This certificate is not just an ordinary paper. It is a legal document which contains an unwritten pact between our administration…