Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has revealed what he would do if “sacked” from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Wike disclosed that he would continue to “pepper” the leadership of PDP if they sacked him from the party. The governor has been aggrieved with the PDP leadership after losing to Atiku Abubakar during the presidential primary election. Following his loss, Wike also called for the removal of PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu. Wike and the G-5 governors argued that the North should not be allowed to produce PDP’s presidential candidate and national chairman. He stressed that Ayu should give…
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As the campaigns for the forthcoming presidential election get to a crescendo, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Saturday, slammed the flagbearer of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abubakar Atiku and his running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, saying Delta State is not an ATM for migratory politicians. Also, he accused PDP of running the state aground after a wasteful 30 years of governance. Tinubu made this disclosure at the APC’s kick-off rally on Saturday in Warri Township Stadium. According to Tinubu, despite collecting huge oil revenue and incurring debt, the state has remained stagnated…
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sacked his internal affairs minister on Sunday over funding irregularities, NHK television said, in a blow to his scandal-prone Cabinet that already lost two ministers in one month. Internal Affairs Minister Minoru Terada has been under fire over several accounting and funding irregularities. In one, he acknowledged that one of his support groups submitted accounting records carrying a dead person’s signature. NHK reported that Kishida summoned Terada to his office late on Sunday and had him submit his resignation. Kishida, when asked last week about a possible dismissal, did not defend Terada and only said…
Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has said his administration has constructed more roads than his predecessors like Ibikunle Amosun, Gbenga Daniel and Segun Osoba. According to Abiodun, 80 major roads, including federal ones, have been constructed since he came on board in 2019. Abiodun said the roads, totalling 400km, were constructed, reconstructed and rehabilitated by his administration. With this feat, the governor maintained that his administration in the last three and a half years has more kilometres of road done than what his predecessors could lay claim to. “Over 80 major roads and others (Federal roads inclusive) totalling 400km…
Osun Governor Gboyega Oyetola said he would reclaim his mandate at the governorship election petition tribunal. The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain maintained that he won the July 16 poll. He spoke on Saturday during the 31st Iragbiji day in Iragbiji, Boripe Local Government Area of the state. Oyetola expressed optimism that he would grace the 32nd celebration as the governor. “By the special grace of Allah, In Sha Allah, I shall grace this occasion next year, still as the Osun Governor. “I have no doubt in my mind that I shall reclaim my mandate”, NAN quoted him saying. The…
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has dared the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, to sue him if he is innocent of the corruption accusation levelled against him. Wike stated this while speaking at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium during the flag-off of the PDP state-level campaigns on Saturday. The governor and his allies have been demanding Ayu’s resignation, claiming it violates the party’s constitution for the national chairman to come from the same region as the presidential candidate. Ayu is from Benue in the north-central, while Atiku Abubakar, the PDP standard bearer, hails from…
A member of the House of Representatives representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa federal constituency in Oyo State, Honourable Shina Abiola Peller, has declared that it is too early to predict who succeeds President Muhammadu Buhari. The lawmaker made this disclosure on Saturday, via a statement made available to the media InfoStride News reports that the 2023 presidential election has been slated to hold in February next year. It was gathered that presidential candidates of various political parties who are jostling to succeed Buhari have been going around the country to solicit votes from Nigerians. One of the lawmakers, Peller has however said that…
Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, has revealed why he did not visit Mrs Beatrice Itubo, the Party’s gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State, saying he was unaware she was sick. Recall that Obi had visited Rivers State at the invitation of Governor Nyesom Wike on Thursday to commission the Nkpolu Oroworukwo flyover in Port Harcourt. DAILY POST reported that Obi pledged to support the PDP gubernatorial candidate, while Wike would support his presidential bid. “I will talk to my people, and we will negotiate. If we leave the State (governor) for Wike, he will leave the centre (presidency) for…
Gubernatorial candidate of Accord Party in the 2023 election in Oyo State, Mr. Adebayo Adelabu has urged politicians to stop discrimination against people of other religion. Adelabu made this disclosure when he met some religious leaders in Oke Ogun geo-political zone on Friday. The meeting had in attendance Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) representative in Itesiwaju Local Government, Pastor M.O Adeagbo, Revd. S.O.A Omidara, Pastor Adeoye, Pastor G.J Akindeyi, Apostle Sunday and Pastor Oni J.O. Others were Chairman, League of Imams in Itesiwaju, Alhaji Abdul-Ganiy Salam Ayodabo, traditional worshippers, among whom were the Oluwo Otu, Ifajimi Adeniyi and Chief (Mrs)…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Chairman, Iyiochia Ayu, says the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, if elected, will not waste the first six months in office thinking of what to do. Ayu assured that Atiku would hit the ground running if elected president in 2023. Speaking in Abuja on Friday, Ayu said Atiku was already preparing for governance ahead of the February election. He said: “While the others are utterly confused about how, where or when to even begin their campaigns, PDP is already preparing for governance. “Our Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has already exhibited his intellectual preparedness in…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Vice Chairman, North-West zone, Dr Salihu Mohammed Lukman has assured that the party will retain the presidency, win the six North-west States and reclaim Sokoto State from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in next year’s elections. Speaking with newsmen after meeting with the APC State chairmen in the zone on Friday, he revealed that every preparation to flag-off its campaign has been put in place. According to him, North-west zone is set to give APC the highest votes and lead it to victory in all the elections in the country. The former Director-General of Progressives…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, says he has stopped using social media. Tinubu disclosed that he almost had high blood pressure whenever he used social media. He lamented that he has been subjected to intense abuse by social media users, hence he avoids it. The APC presidential candidate disclosed this in a video posted on Twitter by one of his allies, Ademola Oshodi. In the footage, the former Lagos State governor said he gets angry whenever he reads the things written about him on social media. “I don’t read social media anymore; they abuse the hell…
Rishi Sunak described as deeply humbling his first visit to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Saturday since taking charge as British Prime Minister and pledged to bolster the UK’s support in the country’s ongoing conflict with Russia. Meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Sunak confirmed that Britain will provide a major new package of air defence to help protect Ukrainian civilians and critical national infrastructure from an intense barrage of Russian strikes. The GBP 50 million package of defence aid comprises 125 anti-aircraft guns and technology to counter deadly Iranian-supplied drones, including dozens of radars and anti-drone electronic warfare capability. It follows…
The gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna State in the 2023 election, Jonathan Asake, has promised to give women their rightful place in his government if voted into power. Speaking on Friday in Kaduna when he honoured an invitation by the political committee of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) to present his plan for the State, he noted that women would play a major role in his plan to restore the lost glory of the State. In a statement issued by his media aide, James Swam and made available to DAILY POST, Asake said, “they (women) form…
In the last couple of months, it is emerging clear that Peter Obi and his supporters, the Obidents, are not going to fizzle out as predicted by several political pundits. In the South-east and South-south geopolitical zones, the spread of the popularity of the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party has redrawn the political map ahead of the general elections as campaigns thicken. Instead of fizzling as predicted by many, Mr Obi and his supporters have grown significantly since May when Obi left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In the last couple of days, several political players in the two…
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, a former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has insisted that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has only seven governors supporting him. Oshiomhole also expressed absolute confidence in the ability of the APC’s 2023 presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to have a landslide victory at the poll. According to the former Edo State governor, all the 23 APC governors are working persistently towards the success of Tinubu in the 2023 general elections. Oshiomhole stated this while addressing State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting…
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Kano, Jafar Sani Bello, has advised Mohammed Sadiq Wali to allow the court to decide his candidacy for the 2023 governorship race. Wali recently said the primary election that produced Mohammed Sani Abacha was done in nullity. The candidate is currently recognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He recently declared that the primary that produced him was legit, while the one that produced Wali “cannot stand the test of times”. Speaking to DAILY POST on Friday, Bello, one of the PDP aspirants, told Wali to wait for the outcome of the…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that she will not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, ending a historic run as the first woman with the gavel and making way for a new generation to steer the party after Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in the midterm elections. In a spirited speech on the House floor, Pelosi announced that she will step aside after leading Democrats for nearly 20 years and in the aftermath of the brutal attack on her husband, Paul, last month in their San Francisco home — and after having done…
A coalition of some groups in the South-South, supporting the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu has said the duo of Tinubu and Shettima remain the solution to the problems bedevilling the country. InfoStride News gathered that the group, with the name The Asiwaju Group (TAG), has over 20 support groups across the South-South. Speaking during a mini-rally held in Uyo, the Akwa-Ibom State capital, Yesterday, the coordinator of TAG, Chief Reuben Wilson, who is also the founder of the Pastor Reuben Wilson Initiative for Good Leadership and Accountability said, the South-South region is ready and willing to…
The Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna State says the party in the state has remained an entity without any faction, as the 2023 general elections in the country draw closer. Addressing newsmen in Kaduna, the state chairman of the party, Auwal Tafoki in the company of the gubernatorial candidate of the party, Jonathan Asake, other candidates and party stakeholders, said: “It must be categorically made very clear that the state party is indeed an entity without any friction and remain so with a recognised leadership under the chairmanship of Alhaji Awwal Tafoki. “It came to the notice of the state…