Armed men suspected to be political thugs have attacked the Labour Party Campaign Council Woman leader in Kebbi State. Chief Spokesperson of the Labour Party, LP, presidential campaign council, Yunusa Tanko who confirmed the development in a statement on Friday, said the incident happened last week. The campaign spokesperson said the thugs attacked and burnt down a food vending business belonging to the women leader following her campaign for the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Lamenting incessant attacks on members of the party, Tanko said “it is now obvious that opponents are not ready for a free and fair election…
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Human and vehicular activities were brought to a standstill on Friday in Etim Ekpo, a densely populated community in Akwa Ibom State as the Young Peoples Party, YPP, took its ward-to-ward campaign for Senator Albert Bassey Akpan to the area. This is the first time the party would hold a campaign rally since Senator Akpan was incarcerated. The well-attended rally was led by Akpan’s running mate, Assistant Inspector General of Police, Asuquo Amba (Rtd) and other leaders of the party. Also in attendance was Pastor Mrs Imabong Bassey Albert, wife of the governorship hopeful. Interestingly, thousands of people of the…
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State says the cash withdrawal limits set by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) were meant to hurt politicians. Fintiri stressed Friday that CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele has by the policy targeted the political class. Reacting to the new CBN policy during his 2023 governorship campaign engagement in Kala’a, a community in Hong local government area, Fintiri said the policy, coming shortly after Emefiele’s unsuccessful foray into politics, could only have been retaliatory. “What is breeding poverty? Economic policies. Look at the one that is about to be implemented by the Central Bank which would…
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Friday that any country that dared attack Russia with nuclear weapons would be wiped from the face of the earth. Putin said Russia had no mandate to launch a preventative first nuclear strike, unlike the United States, but that Russia’s advanced hypersonic weapons would ensure Russia could respond forcefully if it ever came under attack. “Nothing would remain of any enemy who decides to attack russia with nuclear weapon…We regularly test our nuclear capabilities, we do not conceal anything,” he added. Putin was also quoteed saying Russia would likely have to reach agreements regarding…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, the party on Friday flagged off its campaign. This followed the verdict of the Appeal Court sitting in Ibadan, which reinstated Ladi Adebutu as the governorship candidate of the party. Members of the PDP from the 236 wards of Ogun State converged on the Ake Palace Ground in Abeokuta for the event. InfoStride News recalls that the Ogun PDP had since September 27 been enmeshed in crisis after an Abeokuta Federal High Court nullified the party’s primary. But, the Ibadan Appeal Court had last week set aside the judgment, affirming Adebutu and…
Labour Party has sacked its National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, and dissolved Ogun State chapter executives of the party for alleged anti-party practice. This is coming almost two months before the 2023 general elections. The National Working Committee of the party took the decision, following their role in the alleged expulsion of Doyin Okupe, the Director General of Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council. During the emergency meeting of the NWC in Abuja, on Friday, Umar Farouk, the National Secretary of Labour Party, announced the dissolution of its state chapter in Ogun, removal of the party spokesman and suspension of its chairman…
A popular socio-political activist, Deji Adeyanju, has mocked the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for attending the Living Faith Church’s annual programme. Adeyanju said the Living Faith church founder, David Oyedepo, failed to endorse Obi during the Shiloh programme openly. The Vice President of the church, David Abioye, had introduced the former Anambra State governor during the Shiloh programme on Thursday night. A large shout and ovation by the church members received Obi’s introduction. Reacting, Adeyanju said Nigerians should fear politicians who mix politics with pleasure. In a tweet, the popular activist wrote: “Obi brought his 2023 politics…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed on Friday to import more oil and natural gas from energy-rich Gulf Arab states while not interfering in their affairs, likely seeking to cast Beijing in a more favourable light than Washington as America’s attention in the region wanes. Xi also urged the Arab countries to conduct energy sales in the Chinese yuan, potentially divorcing the U.S. dollar from transactions in a region where the United States still stations thousands of troops across a network of local bases as a hedge against Iran. China’s hands-off approach could appeal to leaders such as Saudi Crown…
Education is universally considered to be pivotal in societal development and foundational to a brighter future. Most especially, public education such as obtained in primary and secondary schools is quite invaluable. Yet, this same vital public education sector has suffered cumulative deterioration under the APC government in Lagos State. The deplorable situation gives the Labour Party Guber Candidate Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (GRV) much cause for concern, and is one of the critical areas he wants to tackle seriously when elected Lagos State governor in 2023. A random visit to most public primary and secondary schools in Lagos reveals a deep level…
Ahead of the next year’s presidential election, Umar Farouk, the National Secretary of the Labour Party (LP), says only Nigerians can stop Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate, from winning the 2023 elections. Farouk disclosed this on Thursday while featuring on the Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. He maintained that with the momentum of the “Obidients”, the party is guaranteed victory. However, Farouk insisted that the Nigerian people must decide that they are tired of the old order. “That is the docility of Nigerians not to select good leaders. If Nigerians feel that they want to continue with the old…
The Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Musa Kwankwaso, has denied any planned merger of the party with other political parties ahead of next year’s election, saying some failed politicians are behind such rumour. He spoke with newsmen in Abeokuta, Ogun State, shortly after he addressed NNPP members at the party secretariat in the capital. Kwankwaso said, “That’s absolute nonsense. You see we believe that we are not above the three or four parties in this country, but by 2023, next year, by the grace of God NNPP will win the election at national and all…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has cautioned other politicians against pressurizing the Nigeria Army. Atiku also challenged presidential candidates and their parties to engage voters and not the Nigeria Army. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabo, Thursday disclosed that Nigeria’s army is facing constant pressure to compromise the 2023 elections. “Nigerians can be rest assured that it would remain neutral,” he said. Reacting to this, Atiku Campaign Organization in a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, Thursday, urged the military hierarchy to ensure that the rank and file operate within the confines…
Peru’s Congress removed President Pedro Castillo from office Wednesday and replaced him with the vice president, shortly after Castillo decreed the dissolution of the legislature ahead of a scheduled vote to oust him. The national ombudsman’s office, Constitutional Tribunal and Supreme Court called Castillo’s move to dissolve the Congress a coup, although at least one expert disagreed. Peru’s Congress has the ability to remove the president and the president has the ability to dissolve the Congress, so “technically, it is not a coup, said Eduardo Gamarra, a political science and international relations professor at Florida International University. The confusion is…
An Abeokuta Federal High Court has directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognize all National Assembly candidates of the Labour Party (LP) for the 2023 general elections in Ogun State. InfoStride News had earlier reported that the names of all candidates of the LP in Ogun were missing when INEC released its final list of candidates. Following the omission, the party had dragged the commission to court, arguing that the omission was an administrative error on the part of INEC as its conduct of primary elections did not go against the Electoral Act. The party insisted that it…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State on Friday inaugurated a 1500 -member campaign committee to mobilise votes for the party, ahead of the 2023 general elections. The party’s State Chairman, Charles Ugwuh, who inaugurated the committee at the PDP secretariat in Owerri, assured that the party is united and is the strongest party in Imo State. He said,” Victory is in sight for PDP. Success is in sight too. He urged Let’s march forward together. We have capable men who can deliver success. He urged everyone to file behind the campaign council to bring victory to the party…
Femi Fani-Kayode, spokesman of the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential campaign council, has said the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and his running mate would be punished if the APC candidate, Bola Tinubu emerges winner of the forthcoming election. The former Aviation Minister who stated this in a series of tweets while reacting to alleged attacks on Tinubu by the supporters of Obi known as Obidients, described them as a curse, an affliction. According to Fani-Kayode, Tinubu’s government if elected in 2023, would ‘deport’ Obi to Malaysia where he would answer some questions. The APC chieftain further…
Media practitioners have been told to guard against fake news during the 2023 general election to avoid causing confusion or heating the polity during the general election. The Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Dr. Dayo Oladebeye, gave the charge yesterday during a lecture he delivered at the NUJ Press Week, Ekiti State Council. Oladebeye said the social media has not helped the situation in this regard in view of the fact that almost every dick and harry always wants to post things regardless of the sources. Oladebeye, who spoke on the topic, “2023 Elections: Beyond Religion, Ethnicity – The Place of…
The Rivers State government has alleged a plot to blackmail the State Governor, Nyesom Wike, over the agitation by the G-5 governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The State’s Commissioner for Information and Communication, Chris Finebone, disclosed this at a press conference in Port Harcourt on Thursday. In a statement by Wike’s Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri, Finebone said a “faceless group” was behind a campaign of calumny against the governor. Finebone said the faceless group was aggrieved that Wike led the G-5 governors to demand “fairness, equity and justice” in PDP. He said: “This is the evidence…
A non-governmental body, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), has frowned at the recent decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to shrink the time for collection of permanent voters cards (PVC) to only 26 working days. InfoStride News recalls that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), had on Saturday, announced December 12, 2022, to January 22, 2023, as dates for commencement and end of collection of permanent voters cards. The electoral body made the announcement on Friday via a statement by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye.…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the recent engagement of the Presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the Chatham House in London as a good preview of what Nigerians should expect from his presidency come 2023. The spokesperson of APC North-West Presidential Campaign Council, Muhammad Molash in a statement issued on Thursday said it was indeed an opportunity for Tinubu to showcase his leadership skills to the international community, his vision for Nigeria, his enviable track records and his ability to identify talents and delegate responsibilities to them. The party insisted that the outing also showed…