Emeka Ihedioha, former Governor of Imo State, has announced his withdrawal from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governorship Primaries. The development was contained in a letter addressed to the National Chairman of the party. Ihedioha, who served as governor of the state for seven months before the Supreme Court announced Hope Uzodimma as winner of the 2019 governorship election, cited interest of the party as his reason for the shocking withdrawal. According to him, “In the interest of harmony and unity of the Party, I have decided to make the personal sacrifice of withdrawing from further participation in the processes…
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Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has finally accepted the outcome of the Benue North West Senatorial election which took place on February 25. InfoStride News recalls that Ortom of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who is expected to complete his second term in office on May 29, contested for the senatorial position but lost to the All Progressives Congress, APC. While Ortom polled 106,882 votes, Titus Zam of the APC scored 143,151 votes, while Mark Gbillah, the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, garnered 51,950 votes. The governor had since rejected the results, alleging irregularities by the officials of the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC), National Vice Chairman for North-west, Comrade Salihu Lukman has called on the leadership of the party to zone the position of Senate president to the South-south. Lukman in a statement issued Tuesday said the Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee (NWC) needs to become more aggressive in driving the process of negotiating leadership of the 10th National Assembly He warned that an unregulated contest for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly could produce another Muslim as Senate President. The party Chieftain noted that the laid-back attitude of the NWC has produced embarrassing situations of…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has relieved the embattled National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, of his position. The leadership of the PDP replaced Ayu with one of his deputies, Amb Umar Damagum. This is contained in a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, on Tuesday. Ologunagba said the party, after careful consideration of the Court Order and in line with Section 45 (2) of the Constitution of the PDP (as amended in 2017), the NWC resolved that the Deputy National Chairman (North) His Excellency, Amb. Umar Ililya Damagum assumes the National Chairmanship…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State has called on its members and supporters to remain calm and be law-abiding no matter the outcome of their request for the review of the March 18 gubernatorial elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The State Commissioner for Information and internal affairs, Malam Muhammad Garba, made the plea in a statement issued to newsmen, adding that as a responsible Party, they were known for following due process. He said the Party would do everything possible within the provisions of the law and other laid down procedures to ensure that justice…
The post-election conflict in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has taken renewed steam as the party’s aggrieved governors, G5 Governors, and the camp of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, fight for the soul of the opposition party. Barely 24 hours after the suspension of the National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, at the ward level in Benue State, a high court order surfaced asking Ayu to stop parading himself as PDP’s chairman. However, a statement on Monday by Ayu’s Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Simon Imobo-Tswam, described the suspension and court order as a mere exercise in futility. Ayu…
Ahead of the Imo State governorship election scheduled for November 11, the Labour Party, LP, is under fire for fixing the price of its expression of interest and nomination forms at N25 million. InfoStride News reports that 12 aspirants, excluding the late Humprey Anumudu, have picked Labour Party’s forms to contest the Imo State off-cycle governorship election. Nigerians, including the Labour Party, had frowned at the All Progressives Party, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the sale of their nomination forms for N40 million and N20 million respectively. In March, Labour Party’s publicity secretary, Abayomi Ararambi, condemned APC…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has said the party is currently uncovering the electoral frauds allegedly perpetrated by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) during the governorship and House of Assembly elections in the State. The PDP said it has got the permission of the election petition tribunal in the State to inspect all electoral materials used during the March 18 polls. In a statement by the PDP Publicity Secretary in Ogun, Akinloye Bankole, the party accused the ruling APC of plots “to cover its track after its failed attempt to subvert the popular wish of the…
The Labour Party senatorial candidate for Ebonyi South senatorial zone, Linus Okorie on Monday said that the outgoing Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi was not qualified and competent to occupy the office of the President of the Senate. Okorie, who represented Ohaozara, Onicha and Ivo federal constituency in the House of Representatives, described Umahi’s aspiration for Senate President as deceptive and dead-on-arrival. The former National Assembly member who contested for the Ebonyi South senatorial seat with Umahi, came second in the result that was declared by the Independent National electoral commission, INEC. He made this known through a statement signed…
The Lagos State House of Assembly has congratulated President-elect Bola Tinubu and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu after victories at the presidential and governorship elections. The members also felicitated with their running mates Senator Kashim Shettima and Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat, as well as the Lagos Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, who they described as a record breaker after he was re-elected on March 18 for the sixth time to represent Agege Constituency 1. In his remarks at plenary on Monday, Obasa told his colleagues that the election produced some lessons and urged political scientists “to x-ray the situation”. “Some sitting governors lost to…
The Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Cross River State is set to challenge INEC’s declaration of Prince Bassey Edet Otu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as governor-elect at Election Petition Tribunal (EPT). As they prepare for the Tribunal, they have also alleged that Prof Ben Ayade, the state governor, and the INEC have as a result, rushed to tamper with the election result papers. PDP has claimed that Ayade and the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Professor Gabriel Yomere, and other INEC collation officers have tampered with original results sheets and manipulated BVAS machines used for the Governorship and state…
A Benue State High Court sitting in Makurdi, state capital, Monday restrained the embattled Senator Iyorchia Ayu from parading himself as the National chairman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. InfoStride News gathered the court order was premised on the ex-parte application brought against Ayu by Engr. Conrad Terhide Utaan as plaintiff. Particulars of the ex-parte application brought before the presiding Justice W.I. Kpochi read, suit no. MHC/85/2023 with motion no. MHC/633m/2023. However, M. T. Assoh Esq, plaintiff counsel moved the motion before the court. In his ruling,. Justice Kpochi stated, “Upon hearing Mr. M. T. Assoh of…
Dino Melaye, a former Kogi West Senator on Monday, reacted to claims that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is retiring from politics. Melaye said the claim that Atiku was retiring from politics and joining hands with the President-elect, Bola Tinubu was false. He described the claims as a lie from the pit of hell that should be disregarded. In a tweet, the spokesman of the Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign, assured that the PDP flag bearer would soon reclaim his mandate. He wrote: “The malicious lie and propaganda going round that Atiku is retiring from politics and joining…
The Peoples Democratic Party PDP, in the homestate of the National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu on Monday denied the letter of suspension, saying that their signatures were forged. In a letter addressed to the PDP Chairman in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State, which a copy was sent to the media in Abuja, the executive members of Igyorov Ward of Benue State explained that they never endorsed Ayu’s suspension for any reason. Describing the letter as a height of mischief, the exco said the purported suspension was not in line with due process and proper consultation was not observed in…
The elections petition tribunal sitting in Ogun State has granted the request by the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to inspect all Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines and other sensitive materials used for the 2023 elections in the state. The Ogun tribunal granted all the prayers of the NNPP in the motion ex-parte filed on Friday at the Isabo court in Abeokuta. Recall that Governor Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had been declared winner of the March 18 gubernatorial election held in Ogun. But, the NNPP went to court, adding INEC, Abiodun and the APC as…
A group, Ogun Integrity Vanguard, has tasked the leadership of security agencies in the country, particularly the Nigeria Police, to ensure comprehensive probe of the electoral infractions allegedly perpetrated by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate in Ogun State, Oladipupo Adebutu, during the March 18 governorship and state assembly elections in the state. The group made this call in a statement signed by its secretary, Duro Thomas, and made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Saturday. Making reference to the incidents that happened during the polls, the group noted that PDP agents were…
A chieftain of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro has told the National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, to restore the party’s lost glory. APGA has been faced with years of crisis, defying all interventions. Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State is the only governor on the party’s platform. Just last week, the Supreme Court restored Edozie Njoku as the National Chairman of the party. In a statement on Monday, Isiguzoro, who is the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, said Njoku has a duty to restore APGA’s lost fortunes in line with late Igbo leader, Ikemba Odumegwu…
The Senator representing the Niger-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Mohammed Musa Sani, says he could only shelve his ambition if a competent personality like him in the Senate presented himself for the office of the Senate President. Sani disclosed this on Monday when he appeared as a guest on Arise Television’s Morning Show program. The Senator said he believes in the secularity of one Nigeria, notwithstanding the volatile situation the Muslim-Muslim ticket generated in the country. ”For the exigencies of our time, looking at the volatile situation of what has generated the Muslim-Muslim ticket in this country, I…
Some Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State, have called on the national leadership of the party to disqualify the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, from contesting the governorship primaries of the party over his refusal to resign his position as minister. The aggrieved members numbering over 40 from 43 Wards in Ekeremor, Ogbia, Sagbama, Kolokuma/Opokuma and Southern Ijaw Local Government Areas of the State, in a petition to the party national leadership, pointed out that as at the time the minister was screened, he had not resigned. The petition, which was signed by…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that the supplementary governorship elections in Kebbi and Adamawa states will be held on April 15. INEC made this known in a tweet on Monday Recall that INEC had declared the governorship elections of March 18 in both states as inconclusive. The tweet reads, “Arising from its meeting held today, the Independent National Electoral Commission has decided that all outstanding Governorship, National and State Assembly supplementary elections will take place on Saturday 15th April 2023.” “A detailed official statement will follow shortly.”