The Presidential Campaign Council of All Progressives Party has fired back at Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate Atiku Abubakar, describing him as inconsistent and an opportunistic politician desperate to grab power. In a statement on Monday by APC PCC, the Director of Media and Publicity, Mr Bayo Onanuga, he disclosed that Nigerians should run away from Atiku. He was reacting to Atiku’s recent remarks on the naira redesign crisis. “We recognise Atiku’s desperation to be President. Like a chameleon, this dishonest and unstable politician will change positions on any issue if he thinks it will help his perennial ambition. “Nigerians…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said the electorate in the state will not vote the presidential candidate of his own party, the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. According to him, Atiku has tagged Rivers State as unsafe and does not deserve a single vote from the oil-rich state. Wike spoke at Ogbakiri junction in Emohua Local Government Area, where he kicked off the reconstruction and dualisation of Emohua Road to Abalama/Tema Junction. “You are addressing Rivers people in Abuja, is that not an insult?” He said. “You cannot come to Rivers State and talk to us. You say Rivers State…
North Korea said Sunday its latest intercontinental ballistic missile test was meant to further bolster its fatal nuclear attack capacity against its rivals, as it threatened additional powerful steps in response to the planned military training between the United States and South Korea. Saturday’s ICBM test, the North’s first missile test since Jan. 1, signals its leader Kim Jong Un is using his rivals’ drills as a chance to expand his country’s nuclear capability to enhance its leverage in future dealings with the United States. An expert says North Korea may seek to hold regular operational exercises involving its ICBMs.…
Barely a week before the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, two senatorial candidates in Ogun East have dumped their political parties and defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The defectors, Dayo Ogunjebe of the Action Alliance, AA, and Mrs Funmilayo Idris of the Action Democratic Party, ADP, said they stepped down for the former governor. The two candidates announced their defection at a mega rally held by Daniel at the premises of Ijebu-Ode Local Government Secretariat, Itoro, Ijebu-Ode, to close his campaign for the 2023 polls. Speaking on why they withdrew from the senatorial race, both…
The convener of the Asiwaju Maritime Network, Malam Usman Ka’oje at the weekend said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will win the February 25 presidential election in Nigeria with a clear majority. Speaking to journalists shortly after the group’s walk in support of Tinubu in Apapa, Kaóje said the APC presidential candidate, for the greater good of the people and the country, would harness the maritime sector. “Nigeria needs a strategic thinker, goal-oriented leader with a pragmatic vision. Nigeria needs someone who can transform and convert potential and opportunities into tangible results.…
Different organisations in Taraba State are working towards ensuring a hitch-free general election. The latest of such moves was the plans mapped out by Rev Matthew Kukah Centre and Taraba-based Independent Peace Committee. At the time of filing this report, the two organisations have concluded plans to make all the governorship candidates in the state sign a peace accord before going into the elections. A statement on Sunday made available to journalists in Jalingo, the state capital, by the secretary of the Independent Peace Committee, Justine Tyopuusu, stated that the signing of the peace accord, slated for tomorrow, would provide…
Festus Keyamo, spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, has said the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu will tackle insecurity and unemployment by addressing revenue leakages if elected as president of Nigeria. Keyamo, also the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, stated this when he appeared at the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Forum in Abuja. He said that one of the first issues that Tinubu would address was the issue of revenue leakages, saying that tackling Nigeria’s dwindling revenue was crucial for any meaningful development. According to Keyamo: “The issue of Insecurity and unemployment…
Kaduna State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Felix Hassan Hyat, has accused the governorship candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Jonathan Asake, of allegedly misappropriating funds donated by Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Southern Kaduna. Governor Nyesom Wike had last year, while in Kaduna State prior to the presidential primary election of the PDP, donated N200 million to be distributed to people that were adversely affected by killings and destruction of properties in parts of the state. Speaking on a live radio interview on Salama Radio, Kafanchan and Invicta 98.9 FM, Kaduna―and…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State is determined to reclaim political power from the All Progressives Congress, APC, by March 11, 2023, even though leaders of the party also belong to different camps of the party at the national level. But going by their determination and the seeming popularity of their candidate, and given lingering complaints from the people against Ayade’s administration, the party has consolidated its grip on the State. It is for this reason that the ruling APC and Governor Benedict Ayade, a professor, is not leaving anything to chance. Ayade deserted them (PDP) on…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has threatened to deal with the National and State Assembly candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state if they betray him and join those in Abuja, the Atiku Abubakar camp. Wike made the threat when he spoke during the state Peoples Democratic Party campaign rally in Obio/Akpor Local Government of Rivers State, the last campaign rally of the PDP in the state. He said, “All the other candidates, the Senatorial candidates, my Deputy Chairman, Doctor Ipalibo Harry-Banigo, Chief Allwell Onyeso and Barinada Mpigi, and all the House of Reps candidates and the Assembly…
Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in Lagos State, has condemned a viral video where some individuals in branded PDP uniforms were seen campaigning for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi. Adediran, in a statement by Mr Gbenga Ogunleye, the Head, Media and Communications, JANDOR4GOVERNOR Campaign Organisation, on Saturday in Lagos, said that the purported campaign for Obi was a hatchet job. “The action carried out by some unidentified individuals in the party uniforms does not in any way represent the position of Lagos PDP in the forthcoming presidential election,”…
Barely eight days to the 2023 elections, five presidential candidates have endorsed their counterpart from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar. The presidential candidates endorsed Atiku during his campaign in Yola, Adamawa State, on Saturday. Former Kogi West Senator and spokesman of the Atiku-Okowa presidential campaign, Dino Melaye, had announced the endorsement. Speaking on behalf of the presidential candidates, the National Chairman of Allied People Movement, APM, Yusuf Dantalle, said the parties decided to endorse Atiku after extensive consultation. According to Dantalle: “I’m speaking on behalf of the five political parties that have decided to throw their weight behind…
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called on world leaders on Saturday to double down on support for Ukraine, saying additional arms and security guarantees are needed to protect the country and the rest of Europe from Russian aggression now and in the future. Sunak delivered the message in a speech to the Munich Security Conference, an annual meeting of heads of state, defense ministers and other world leaders. This year’s conference is focused on threats to the accepted rules of international relations nearly a year after Russian troops invaded Ukraine. Highlighting Britain’s recent commitment to provide battle tanks, advanced air…
The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has denied report that it endorsed the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. A member of the forum, Alhaji Seidu Baba, who addressed the press in Abuja on Saturday, said the former vice president cannot be their consensus candidate. According to him, the PDP candidate has not been fair to the Northerners to deserve their endorsement. He said, although, Atiku has been scheming to be endorsed as the sole candidate of the North, NEF has not endorsed him. Baba said: “There was an attempt to cajole and even force the NEF to adopt…
The political atmosphere in Zamfara State has become so tense as the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the now opposition Peoples Democratic party, PDP, battle for the control of the State. The APC and the PDP have been trading words since the ban on campaign was lifted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, resulting in the arrest of some PDP chieftains in the State, including a former minister, Hon. Aliyu Ikira Bilbis. Judging from the State political index since 1999, the PDP faces an uphill task in its bid to form the government in the State due to…
A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain in Kagarko Local Government area of Kaduna State, Dr. Stephen Musa, has lamented the scarcity of fuel and new notes as major obstacles hindering the success of 2023 general elections. Speaking to newsmen in Kaduna, on Saturday, Musa, who said scarcity of new notes persisted in the state even as the Central Bank Governor had promised to make the notes available, noted with sadness that seven days to election, even voters could not access their money in the banks, not to talk of fuel to buy, convey them to their polling units across the…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has called on the people of Rivers State to save his political career by voting for the presidential candidate of his choice. Wike, who made the call on Saturday, during the last campaign rally of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, reiterated that he has directed leaders of the PDP in the state, to tell the people the candidate to vote for in the presidential election. Though Governor Wike did not come out plainly to name his preferred presidential candidate, he said the fight for equity, fairness and justice,…
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Adamu will hold an emergency meeting with governors of the party. APC spokesman, Felix Morka who made it public through the party’s official Instagram account said the meeting would hold on Sunday, February 19, 2023, by 2pm at the national secretariat, Abuja. Insider sources said the strategic session would review activities and programmes lined up for the forthcoming general polls and particularly resolve the hidden disaffection between some party bigwigs. The source said the adverse effects of the controversial cash swap policy on the economy and larger society and…
Former Ekiti Governor, Segun Oni has denied working for Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate. The clarification is contained in a statement at the weekend by his spokesperson, Jackson Adebayo. Oni, a Social Democratic Party, SDP candidate in the last election replied to comments by Oyetunde Ojo and South West Agenda, SWAGA. He debunked the claim of collaboration with ex-Governor Ayo Fayose to actualise Tinubu’s ambition. Calling it “a very dishonest statement and a cheap lie”, Oni declared that he could not work for the former Lagos governor. Tinubu’s footprints “were so evident in the rigged last…
The Action Alliance Party (AA), has advised Nigerians not to allow themselves be used by enemies of the country through the fuel scarcity and inability of the citizens to access the new Naira note. The National Chairman of the Party, Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje, made the appeal on a live program on Group Zero aired by Procyon Radio and TV stations in Kaduna. He said, “We must stand resolute against all forces that will make Nigeria truncate the hard-earned democracy that has come to stay in the country. “It is a time that all Nigerians will unite to overcome any challenge…