Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso

A Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed May 31 for judgment in a suit filed by Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers praying for an order to restrain the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from expelling him from the party. Justice James Omotosho fixed the date on Monday after counsel to the governor, Dr Joshua Musa, SAN, and lawyer to the PDP, Johnson Usman, SAN, adopted their processes and presented their arguments for and against the suit. NAN reports that Wike had sued the PDP, its National Working Committee (NWC) and National Executive Committee (NEC) as 1st to 3rd respondents respectively. The…

The Oyo State chapter of Labour Party has been engulfed in another crisis over the alleged endorsement of Governor Seyi Makinde. Makinde is seeking a second term on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). InfoStride News learnt that Sodiq Atayese, chairman of the Labour Party, and some chieftains in the state had allegedly endorsed the governor. The chairman of the party and his colleagues made the announcement at the weekend in Ibadan. He enjoined members of the party to vote for Makinde during the 11th March election, despite his party having its own gubernatorial candidate. But, the gubernatorial…

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has denied ordering chairmen of the 18 local government councils to lock up shops belonging to non-indigenes for voting massively for Labour Party in last weekend’s Presidential and National Assembly elections. An unsigned statement was circulated on Saturday in parts of major towns in the state, announcing that the APC leadership in the state has ordered council chairmen to lock up shops of non-indigenous traders in Cross River State. Most of the shops ordered to be locked up include those in popular Watt Market, Marian Market, Ikom Market, as well as those in…

Former US president Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would continue his third presidential campaign even if indicted. “Absolutely, I would not even think about leaving,” Trump told reporters ahead of a speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. Trump is under investigation by prosecutors probing his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election as well as his handling of classified documents, among other issues. Trump delivered the conference’s headlining speech on Saturday night, telling a cheering crowd of supporters that he was engaged in his “final battle” as he tries to return to the White…

Political parties and major political gladiators in Oyo State have begun alignments and consultations ahead of the March 11, 2023, gubernatorial election. InfoStride News reports that the struggle is coming few days after the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections. Six out of the eighteen registered political parties in the state have been laying claim to victory. The political parties include the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), All Progressives Congress (APC) Accord, Labour Party, New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP). Be that as it may, the results as announced by the Independent National Electoral…

With one week left until the governorship and state House of Assembly elections in the country, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed worries over the alleged proliferation of illegal arms and ammunition in the state. The party has also appealed to the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj Gen Babagana Monguno (retd) and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba to give immediate and urgent attention to the demilitarisation of the state. The appeal was made in a statement by the acting chairman of the party, Tajudeen Lawal obtained by the media on Sunday.…

Dr Alex Otti, the gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party LP, in Abia State, has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is dead and shall be buried at the polls on March 11. He was speaking at a reception organised in his honour by the CY Nwankwo Foundation which took place at Isiala Ngwa Local Government Area of Abia State at the weekend. Otti boasted that the Labour Party killed PDP, having won one of the three senatorial seats and six out of eight House of Representatives seats in Abia State in the concluded National Assembly elections conducted by…

A special adviser to Ekiti State governor, Chief Jide Awe, has described the victory of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu, at the presidential poll as the will of God that beats all political and religious permutations. Chief Awe noted that Tinubu’s presidential victory is long envisaged before now, saying he is a “man with a bold heart despite the challenges he faced on his way, and he can still go ahead to win the election.” Awe, a former two-time chairman of the APC in Ekiti State, said Tinubu is not just a politician but a distant runner that…

A report by human rights experts of the United Nations on the eve of International Language Day on February 21 unmasked the real nature of oppression on Tibetans practised by the Communist Party of China (CCP) in the form of forced assimilation of Tibetan identity into the dominant Han Chinese identity, the Tibetan Press reported. The report by UN human rights experts, released in Geneva on February 6, 2023, talks about a million Tibetan children who have been separated from their families by the Chinese authorities and placed in government-run boarding schools. “We are alarmed by what appears to be…

Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to disobey the Supreme Court judgment on Naira redesign. The party chieftain in Zamfara demands the federal government allow Nigerians to use the old notes concurrently with the redesigned notes. Shinkafi told newsmen in Gusau that everyone, “no matter how highly placed”, must recognize the rule of the law. “Since the Supreme Court has ruled, there is nobody in the country who can violate the order”, NAN quoted him. The politician urged Buhari to “respect the order and instruct the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)…

Muhammad Shehu Molash, the Spokesman, North West All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, said that the zone gave the highest votes to its presidential candidate in the last Saturday’s election. This is following the declaration of the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the February 25th election. Briefing newsmen in Kaduna on Saturday, Molash disclosed that North West gave Tinubu the cumulative votes of 2,950,393 out of the 8,794,726 total votes he polled. According to him, the votes represented about 33.55 percent of the votes cast for the President-elect, calling voters to…

Former Secretary to the Delta State Government, SSG, Comrade (Chief) Ovuzuorie S. Macaulay has resigned his membership from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the State. In his resignation letter, he said the “overt exhibition of impunity, blackmail, falsehood and disregard for party rules” by the leadership forced him out of the party. According to Comrade Macaulay, “Over the years I painfully endured the arrogance and misdemeanour of party leadership and actually appealed for a change to no avail. “Thus I am left with no choice but to bow out of the party.”

The Labour Party in Rivers State has debunked the news making the rounds on social media that the party has changed its governorship candidate. The state Chairman of LP, Dienye Pepple, said the stories on social media are misleading, clarifying that Comrade Beatrice Itubo remains the party’s only guber candidate. According to him, “We are preparing ahead for the Governorship election on the 11th of March. “And to set the record straight, our candidate in Rivers State for the Labor Party remains, Mrs Beatrice Itubo and we are fully behind her”. Pepple, in a chat with newsmen in Port Harcourt,…

Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to bring decision-making of the financial system further under his control with the likely revival of a powerful committee to coordinate financial policy and the possible appointment of a key ally in a top position at the central bank. Authorities are considering reviving the long-disbanded Central Financial Work Commission to allow the ruling Communist Party to assert more control over financial policy, according to sources. Ding Xuexiang, Xi’s chief of staff, is set to become the head of the entity. He Lifeng — who is expected to replace Liu He as China’s vice premier…

Activist, Reno Omokri has lauded the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi for the possibility of an Okada rider, Donatus Mathew to be elected as the representative of the Kaura Federal constituency of Southern Kaduna. Recall that the Labour Party candidate was declared the winner of the election after garnering 10,466 votes to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC which scored 9,828 votes. Reacting to the development, Omokri, a staunch supporter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate in the just concluded election, Atiku Abubakar described the election of Mathew as true democracy. In a post on…

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said they have learnt lessons from the conduct of the 2023 presidential elections last week. INEC chairman, Yakubu Mahmood, stated this on Saturday while addressing a press conference. Mahmood admitted they faced logistics and technical issues during the Saturday, February 25 polls. “The issues of logistics, election technology, the behaviour of some election personnel at different levels, the attitude of some party agents and supporters added to the extremely challenging environment in which elections are usually held in Nigeria,” Mahmood said. He added that “a lot of lessons have been learnt.” Mahmood promised…

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, today released the breakdown of results for the National Assembly elections conducted on Saturday, February 25. Winners have been declared for 423 National Assembly seats. However, supplementary elections will be held in 46 constituencies. INEC chairman, Yakubu Mahmood, noted that 98 out of 109 Senate seats have been declared. In the House of Representatives, 325 out of 360 seats have been decided. In the Senate, the All Progressives Congress, APC, controls 57 seats. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, now has 28, and Labour Party, LP, has six. APC also dominates the House of Representatives…

Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi, the governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party in Kaduna State, has advised residents of the state to reject voting for any politician that will try to buy their conscience in the forthcoming governorship election. Speaking to newsmen in Kaduna on Saturday on what he termed, “dire political miscarriage” ahead of the March 11 governorship poll in the state, Hunkuyi advised residents to be careful not to sell their consciences for another four years of leadership that cares less about their welfare. He warned against issues that may include the pre-election matter pending in court that…

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said that he is ready to talk with Army Chief General Syed Asim Munir for the betterment of the country, ARY News reported on Friday. While talking to media persons at his Zaman Park residence, Imran Khan said that he will not surrender before anyone and he is not fighting with the establishment but he can do nothing if someone is not ready to talk. He challenged his political rivals to prove a single corruption charge against him and his wife. He asked the army chief to find any…

Famous Nigerian social critic, Aisha Yesufu, has claimed that many of the polling unit results in last Saturday’s Presidential election were changed. Yesufu, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday night, said that even Lagos State, where the Labour Party (LP) won, was rigged. She claimed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) got lower votes than was officially allocated to them by the INEC. Yesufu said, “What we are saying is that even the Lagos State [figure] was rigged, the number that APC got is much lower than what we finally have. And one of the…