Suspected political thugs have attacked supporters of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi in Lagos State. InfoStride News reports that the development is coming on the heels of Obi/Datti mega rally currently taking place at the Tafawa Belewa Square, TBS, Lagos. A video obtained by our correspondent captured some Peter Obi’s supporters lamenting how the thugs attacked them at the Jakande, Lekki area of the State. According to the victims, the suspects gave machete cuts on persons, broke their vehicle, snatched their phones and other items for allegedly wearing clothes carrying the LP logo. The spokesperson for the LP…
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Five members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State running for the Senate and House of Representatives in the forthcoming elections have kicked against their expulsion from the party. InfoStride News reports that the National Working Committee, NWC, of the main opposition party had on Friday expelled five National Assembly candidates in the State. The candidates who were earlier suspended from the party, were expelled over alleged anti-party activities. Reacting to the development, the candidates, Alhaji Lateef Ajijola (Ekiti Central Senatorial District), House of Representatives candidates, Otunba Yinka Akerele (Ekiti North 1), Joju Fayose (Ekiti Central 1), Lere…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday expelled a former Governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani from the party over allegations of anti-party activities. Nnamani, a serving senator seeking re-election to represent Enugu East Senatorial District, has been very vocal in his support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu against the candidate of his party, Atiku Abubakar. He intensified his campaign for Mr Tinubu after the PDP announced his suspension from the party as he called the bluff of the PDP national Working Committee, describing his suspension as a “nullity”. Finally, the party resolved…
President Muhammadu Buhari met with the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu on Friday. Buhari met with Tinubu at his official residence at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He disclosed this during the ‘Meet the mentor’ dinner held in his honour by the APC Progressives Sisters Network at the International Conference Centre in Abuja. Tinubu said he had an important meeting with the president at 9.45 pm. Addressing the meeting, Tinubu said: “I have a superior appointment. Late yesterday, the president called that I should be at his place by 9.45 pm this evening (Friday). “What do I do?…
All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate in the Osun State governorship election, Adegboyega Oyetola has approached the Court of Appeal to further seek the disqualification of Governor Ademola Adeleke. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had on July 17 announced Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as winner of the July 16, 2022 poll. Former Governor Oyetola and the APC challenged the victory on the grounds that there was over-voting and that Adeleke was not eligible to run at the time. The Tribunal said though Oyetola and APC proved a case of forgery against the Osun Governor, it was not…
Senator Chimaroke Nnamani (PDP-Enugu) says he is still in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in spite of his purported suspension by the National Working Committee (NWC). InfoStride News had reported that the PDP expelled Nnamani and six others. Nnamani, who represents Enugu-East at the National Assembly said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He said that the NWC had no powers to suspend or expel him from the party. Nnamani, also a former governor of Enugu State said the NWC did not follow due process in suspending him from the party as it was not in compliance with…
All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Oyo South Senatorial District in the February 25 election, Barrister Sharafadeen Abiodun Alli has declared that local government only exists on paper under the present administration in the state. Alli, a former Secretary to Oyo state government, made this disclosure on Friday, while featuring at a guest platform organised by the Correspondents’ chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Oyo state council. Alli, who said that he is in the race to attract more federal presence to the senatorial district, promised to support local government autonomy when elected. The former Chairman of Ibadan North…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says its contract for logistics delivery for the forthcoming general elections in Lagos State is with individual drivers and not with Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, made the clarification in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. Okoye was reacting to the raised concerns and controversies on plan by INEC to engage Lagos Park Management Committee under MC Oluomo leadership for transportation of election materials and personnel in the forthcoming elections in the state. Several individual…
Famous Nigerian social activist and skit maker, Debo Adebayo, better known as Mr Macaroni, has accused the supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, of trolling and cyberbullying. Mr Macaroni lamented that APC supporters have been trolling and cyberbullying him for supporting Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP. His statement was contained in a post via his verified Twitter handle on Friday. Mr Macaroni, who wrote in pidgin English, said he would not be forced to vote for a candidate against his wishes. He wrote: “If we wan talk about bullying, na APC trolls bully pass.…
When President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva meet in Washington on Friday, the leaders will share some awareness of what it’s like to walk in one another’s shoes. Biden, a centrist Democrat, defeated incumbent Donald Trump in a fraught race, securing victory with thin margins in several battleground states. In Brazil’s tightest election since its return to democracy over three decades ago, Lula, the leftist leader of the Workers’ Party, squeaked out a win against right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, who earned the nickname Trump of the Tropics and was an outspoken admirer of the former…
Barely two weeks to the election, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, remains the top choice to become the nation’s next president, according to a new poll by Bloomberg. The survey results for Bloomberg News by Premise Data Corporation were published on Friday. According to the poll, two-thirds of respondents said they intend to vote for Obi in an election other frontline candidates – Bola Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress, APC, and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP – will keenly contest. The San Francisco-based Premise said it polled 2,384 Nigerians from January…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expelled former governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani and 6 others over alleged anti-party activities. Recall that Senator Nnamani was last month suspended by the party. The PDP NWC at the end of its 566th meeting disclosed this on Friday in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan. According to the statement, the party approved the expulsion owing to anti-party activities and other grave offences in violation of the Constitution of the PDP (as amended in 2017). Others expelled from the Party include: Hon. Chris…
The gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Plateau State, Caleb Mutfwang has rebutted Governor Simon Lalong’s allegations of unpaid salaries levelled against him during his tenure as chairman of Mangu Local Government Area of the state. InfoStride News recalls that Lalong had on Wednesday during a rally at Wase LGA, accused Mutfwang of leaving behind 10 months’ salary arrears during his tenure as local government chairman. Mutfwang, while addressing a mammoth crowd in Wase Local Government Area during a town hall meeting, said: “Yesterday the Governor of Plateau State was in Wase and he did not have…
Isaac, brother of a former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, said he regretted supporting Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 presidential election. In a Facebook post, Fayose said Atiku and the cabals around the seat of power are making Nigerians suffer. “With the way Atiku Abubakar and his goons in PDP in connivance with the wannabe cabals are trying to wrestle power from the present government in a foul way, making the people suffer for what is not, I make bold to say that I regretted backing him in 2019, never knew…
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has reacted to a gaffe made by the National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, during the party’s presidential campaign in Kano State. Recall that Ayu had on Thursday, during the party’s presidential campaign held in Kano State, said that PDP had brought shame and should not be allowed to retain power. He was supposed to mean the All Progressives Congress, APC. However, Wike said that Ayu’s statement that the PDP brought shame to Nigeria was not a gaffe but an authentic remark from the abundance of his heart. Wike spoke…
The only Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, member in the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Hon. Salisu Zurmi has expressed fear that the 2023 general elections in some villages within the Dansadau axis in the Maru Local Government Area of the state may not hold due to security challenges. The lawmaker disclosed this during an exclusive interview with the media in Gusau, the state capital, pointing out that many communities in the axis have been displaced by the ravaging terrorists operating in the state. “There is no point deceiving ourselves that peace has been restored in the state; it is just…
Russian athletes have no place at next year’s Paris Olympics while their country’s invasion of Ukraine continues, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told a summit of sports officials from 36 countries Friday. The International Olympic Committee argues it would be discriminatory to exclude Russia and ally Belarus from sports ahead of the 2024 Paris Games. With qualifying in many sports already underway, the IOC wants athletes from those countries to compete in a neutral capacity without national symbols. While Russia kills and terrorizes, representatives of the terrorist state have no place at sports and Olympic competitions, Zelenskyy told the summit in…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has called on the church to pray for the emergence of a President that will use public funds for the public good. Obi stated this at the 17th Biennial Conference of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) held in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital. He said Nigeria had gone through a lot, adding that it was the prayers of the Church that had kept the country together. He said: “I want to ask for your prayers for Nigeria as we gather here; I will ask for prayer points. “My prayer points…
The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, has made a gaffe on Thursday during the party’s presidential campaign held in Kano State. Ayu said that the PDP had brought shame and should not be retained in power. He intended to mean the All Progressives Congress, APC. One of the spokespersons for the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, posted the video clip on his verified Twitter handle. “In Kano today, Iyorchia Ayu, the PDP National Chairman, confessed that PDP has brought shame and we should not retain them in power. “This obvious costly slip-of-tongue will not…
President Muhammadu Buhari, has said his government has fulfilled the ‘change’ promise made to Nigerians. It could be recalled that before the 2015 Presidential election, the All Progressives Congress, APC, government made ‘change mantra’ the cardinal point of its campaign. Speaking in Enugu on Thursday, President Buhari said his government had fulfilled that promise in several areas. He spoke at Ugwuogo Nike in Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu State at the commissioning and handing over of the Federal Government Housing Estate in the State. Buhari’s speech was read by his representative, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, the Minister for Foreign…