As the 2023 presidential election hots up, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has expressed assurance that its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu will win in the Southwest with a landslide victory. According to the ruling party through its National Vice Chairman (South West), Isaac Kekemeke, APC will conquer the entire six states within the region. While speaking within newsmen in Akure, Ondo State capital, Kekemeke stated that the disunity within the APC fold in the runup to the 2019 poll made the party to lose to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo and Osun states in the 2019. Kekemeke,…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
The National Vice President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Damian Okeke-Ogene, has said all the state governors in the Southeast may vote for the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in 2023. Okeke-Ogene made the remark while stressing that nobody can decide which presidential candidate the Southeast would vote for in 2023. He, however, noted that the Southeast is clamouring for Obi because he is a Nigerian project and not because he’s an Igbo man. In a statement, he described Obi’s national acceptance as the first of its kind in the country. He noted that elder statesmen like Chukwuemeka Ojukwu and Nnamdi Azikiwe…
Another 11,350 members of the Katsina State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Katsina. This is coming barely one week after the state governor, Aminu Bello Masari received over 1,760 PDP card-carrying members from Danja LGA into the Katsina APC. The gale of defection threatening the chances of the main opposition party in the state may not be unconnected with the unresolved leadership tussle between the Lado and Majigiri faction of the Katsina PDP. Mashi LGA is the home of the embattled PDP State Chairman, Salisu Yusuf Majigiri, a loyalist…
The Kano State Government of All Progressive Congress, APC and the opposition, New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, have engaged in a war of words over allegations that the Kwankwaso-led NPP would immediately cancel the newly created four emirates councils if the party wins the forthcoming election. The controversy began when the Kano State government said that following the consolidation of the new emirates in the state, the stage has been set for the incorporation of the traditional institution into its sectoral development programmes to accommodate the overall socio-economic needs of the people, as against the alleged NNPP plan of dissolution…
China on Tuesday advised its citizens in Afghanistan to leave the country “as soon as possible”, following a coordinated attack by Islamic State militants the previous day on a Chinese-owned hotel in the heart of Kabul. The Chinese advisory appeared to be a setback for Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers who seek foreign investments in hopes of halting the downward spiral of the Afghan economy since their takeover of the country more than a year ago. The militant Islamic State group – a key rival of the Taliban – claimed responsibility for the attack Monday afternoon on Kabul Longan Hotel, which left…
Niger State supporters of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have boosted his chances in the 2023 presidential election by giving him a massive endorsement to run for the country’s top seat in the forthcoming general elections. The crowd in their numbers trooped to the Trade Fair Complex, the venue of the flag-off rally of the APC presidential and gubernatorial campaign in Minna as early as 8 am to await the arrival of the presidential candidate. This resulted in a heavy traffic gridlock along the Minna-Suleja road, a major road to the venue.…
Senator Ben Obi and Prof Obiora Okonkwo respectively, the chairman and director general of Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council in Anambra State have revealed that a special team is working to resolve the impasse between the party’s presidential candidate and the G5 governors. They stated this on Wednesday in Awka, Anambra State, during a pre-campaign flag-off press conference to announce the visit of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Thursday. The campaign council also used the opportunity to present its itinerary for the candidate in Anambra State. Senator Ben Obi and Okonkwo who addressed journalists said efforts are ongoing to reconcile Atiku with…
Accord Party (AP) presidential flagbearer, Professor Christopher Imumolen has again urged Nigerians to endorse his candidature to demonstrate that they want a break from the ugly past of rudderless leadership. The youngest candidate believes the best way the people can point the way to a better future is for them to reject the old order and support a younger man with fresher ideas for a new era of all-round development. Speaking to reporters after a rally, he said shunning the old breed of leaders, who have had nothing to offer despite decades of being at the helm, would revamp the…
The youth wing of the Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressive Congress ( APC) in collaboration with women groups has conducted a one million solidarity walk in support of Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle. The One Million Solidarity Walk was led by the Zamfara State APC coordinator, Youth Mobilization Group for Governor Matawalle, Hon. Yazeed Danfulani who also doubled as the Zamfara State Commissioner of Commerce and Industry. InfoStride News reports that the rally started as early as 9 am on Wednesday 14th December 2022 with motorcycle riders rallying Gusau metropolis with Governor Matawalle’s posters and emblems. The rally terminated…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not hold his annual end-of-year press conference this year, which has been dominated by Moscow’s Ukraine offensive, the Kremlin said on Monday. “There will not be before the New Year,” Kremlin spokesman said. He added that Putin “regularly speaks to the press, including on foreign visits”. Peskov gave no reason for the break with tradition. Putin, who has been in power since 2000, has held a press conference in December most years of his rule. During the media gathering — a major political event in the country — Putin takes questions from the press and…
The Labour Party in Taraba State is embroiled in crisis following the suspension of the state chairperson of the party, Mrs. Esther Gulum. Party leaders who suspended her from office over the alleged misappropriation of a whopping N20 million in campaign funds, also unanimously passed a vote of no confidence on her. The collective action which came on Tuesday indicted her of running the party as her family business, alongside her relatives. Briefing media practitioners in Jalingo, the Labour Party’s Organising Secretary, Peter Philip, said the party have lost confidence in her leadership, hence the suspension as well as the…
Ahead of today’s flag-off of the All Progressive Congress APC, presidential and governorship rally in Kaduna State, commercial businesses and all movements within the Kaduna metropolis have been restricted. Hawkers, commercial buses and various shops along Ahmadu Bello Way have remained closed following the traffic diversion. A InfoStride News correspondent in Kaduna observed that fierce security operatives were in strategic places, while shops were locked, and hawkers disappeared from the roadside. Earlier, the Kaduna State Traffic Law Enforcement Agency (KASTLEA) issued a traffic advisory on road closures with alternative routes for members of the public. In a statement issued and…
With few months to the 2023 elections, the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has urged Nigerians to vote for candidates with competence and capacity. NEF cautioned Nigerians against relying on sentiments while sacrificing competence and capacity. The Chairman of NEF, Prof Ango Abdullahi, urged Nigerians to jettison ethnicity in deciding candidates to vote for in 2023. He spoke at a town hall meeting yesterday in Kaduna and was represented by the spokesperson of NEF, Dr Hakeem Baba Ahmed. He stressed that the 2023 elections would show if Nigerians are determined to fight for the country. “2023 election is going to test…
Ahead of the forthcoming 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has lamented that politicians now purchase Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, to rig and mar the credibility of the exercise. This disclosure is coming as voters across the 774 local government areas across the country troop out to collect their PVCs. This process commenced on 12th December and is expected to end on 27th January 2023. The Acting Chairman of INEC and National Commissioner overseeing the FCT, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Plateau states, Mohammed Haruna, raised this alarm on Monday during the launch of #YourVoteMatters project by an election…
The UK wants India to be among the new permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, alongside Brazil, Japan, Germany and African representation, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Monday. In his first major foreign policy speech since taking charge in the Rishi Sunak-led government, Cleverly praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his categorical anti-war message to Russian President Vladimir Putin as he went on to commit himself to working with India during its G20 presidency. “The UK wants to welcome Brazil, India, Japan and Germany as permanent members of the UN Security Council, alongside permanent African representation.…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has dismissed claims of sending thugs to attack supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the state. Wike described the allegations as cheap blackmail. The PDP campaign council in the state and a former Minister of Transportation, Abiye Sekibo, had accused Wike’s government of sending thugs to attack them. However, Wike said he has never been involved in any act of political violence. Speaking in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the governor said: “Some people are saying we sent thugs to attack them. You see, when people see failure, they…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has outlined how he would resolve the Biafra agitation by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, if elected president in 2023. Atiku said he would negotiate with IPOB and other Biafra agitators in the Southeast. Speaking during a Townhall meeting, Atiku said he would use restructuring to resolve some of the IPOB and Biafra agitations. The former Vice President said the Southeast needs more autonomy. “The IPOB issue in the South-East is basically, as far as my understanding is concerned, about the realisation of Biafra. Is it possible for Biafra to be…
The Kogi State chapter of the Labour Party has lamented the denial of access to the Confluence Stadium, Lokoja, by Governor Yahaya Bello-led All Progressives Congress (APC) barely 24 hours before its presidential mega rally slated to hold on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022, in Lokoja. Addressing journalists on Monday, the Kogi State Chairman of the Labour Party, Hon. Suleiman Abdul Ahmed, who noted that the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi was expected to campaign in Lokoja on Tuesday, described the action of the Kogi State Government as wicked and anti-democratic. Ahmed emphasized that the party had written to the Kogi…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has raised eyebrows over the statement made by the Governor of the State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, in the aftermath of last night’s attack on INEC office in Owerri, describing it as irresponsible and shameful. The opposition party’s statement, signed by its Imo State Publicity Secretary, Collins Opurozor, was made available to the media in Owerri, Imo State capital on Monday. PDP said the insecurity in Imo is simply and squarely a direct consequence of the catastrophic failure of governance in the state under the unpopular regime of Senator Uzodinma. Recall that Gov.…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has once again backed India for permanent membership at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) stating that New Delhi has added value to the Council with its stance on global and regional issues. “I think that India is currently one of the leading countries in terms of economic growth, maybe even the leader. Its population will soon be bigger than that of any other country. New Delhi has vast diplomatic experience in settling various kinds of problems, as well as authority and a reputation in its region,” Lavrov said. Lavrov made these remarks while responding…