The House panel investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is considering recommending the Justice Department pursue three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, including insurrection. The panel is also considering recommending prosecutors pursue charges for obstructing an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The committee’s deliberations were continuing late Friday, and no decisions were formalized on which specific charges the committee would refer to the Justice Department. The panel is to meet publicly on Monday, where the recommendation would be made public. The…
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The Jigawa State Governor, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar said the opposition parties would clearly understand the difference between people’s choice party and despised parties during the 2023 general election. The governor stated this on Friday while addressing a mammoth crowd in Kaugama Local Government Area. He was reacting to the destruction of posters and billboards of the All Progressives Congress, APC, allegedly by opposition parties. He said the ruling APC in the state has provided a free level ground for all the opposition political parties in the state. According to him: “It is quite unfortunate, as the party in power, we…
The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Alhaji Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso suffered another setback as the deputy governorship candidate of the party in Niger State, Mr John Bahago resigned from the party. InfoStride News recalls that the Kaduna State chairman of the party on Thursday resigned from his appointment because, according to him, the party has derailed. Kure while Speaking at a news conference in Kaduna on Thursday, noted that while he still has high regard for Kwankwaso, he wasn’t interested in being a member of the party any longer because the party “is not fully on…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, has disclosed that the president refrained from removing former Governor Ayodele Fayose from office at a time he had the powers and opportunities to remove the Ekiti governor. Adesina made the disclosure in an article he wrote to commemorate Buhari’s 80th birthday anniversary, slated for December 17. In his weekly article titled: ‘Buhari at 80: No Malicious Bone In His Body,’ the presidential spokesman recounted how Fayose had criticized Buhari during the 2014 campaigns. Adesina noted that after the president won the election, he could have retaliated against Fayose by mobilizing the state House…
The Leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has sent warnings to the President of Southern Sudan, Salva Kiir ahead of the 2024 presidential election coming up in the country. In a statement signed by his Media Aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele noted that Kiir is a good candidate to take the country forward but there will be serious gang-ups against his ambition. The man of God who had prophesied the adoption of Kiir as his party’s candidate in the election revealed that there would be many troubles, crises and betrayals against his presidential ambition. Primate Ayodele…
Speaking at a conference of Orthodox Jews on Friday, Donald Trump did not address a widely criticized private meal he shared last month with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and a rapper who has spewed antisemitic conspiracies. The former president told the audience he was the best ally you’ve ever had. Over and over, Trump heaped praise on the Jewish people and highlighted his support for Israel as he addressed the annual President’s Conference of Torah Umesorah at his National Doral club in Miami. He alleged Congress was almost anti-Israel and said without evidence that some Democrats in Washington hate Israel…
Former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Kingsley Moghalu, has said illiteracy and poverty will have an influence on the outcome of the forthcoming general elections in 2023. Moghalu also said the number of people vulnerable to poverty and illiteracy is still more than those who are not. The former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, disclosed this in a post via his verified Twitter handle. He said that young people could determine the direction of the election if they turn out in overwhelming numbers and vote predominantly in any particular direction. He wrote, “Nigerian…
The deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democractic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Hon. Adekunle Akinlade, has revealed that the party returned to the ballot to contest the 2023 general elections in Ogun State as a result of the new electoral law. According to Akinlade, candidates of the PDP in Ogun, who were sacked by an Abeokuta Federal High Court on September 27 would not have been able to contest in the 2023 elections if not for the provisions of the 2022 Electoral Act. Akinlade stated that the new law would make rigging impossible for the All Progressives Congress (APC)…
The Imo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday, said it has concluded plans to host its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar who would be in Owerri, Imo State capital for his campaign on Saturday. The opposition Party’s Publicity Secretary, Collins Opurozor who disclosed this to the media in Owerri, Imo State capital, said the Presidential Campaign Rally in the State scheduled for Saturday, would hold as planned at Ndubuisi Kanu Square in Owerri. PDP explained that weeding out APC is a task Imo people are irreversibly committed to. PDP said what is to be further noted is…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has disclosed what Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State told him during his visit. Atiku disclosed that Soludo expressed the belief that he would work if elected Nigeria’s president. He spoke at the PDP campaign at Alex Ekwueme square in the State on Thursday. Atiku also promised to make Onitsha Port functional if elected president. Atiku said: ”On our arrival today, we visited Governor Soludo and he said to me that he believes that I will work when I win. “So, he urged me to reconstruct all the federal roads and…
Israel’s designated prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday vowed to seek full diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia once he takes office, claiming that doing so would also promote peace with the Palestinians. Netanyahu also said he would be open to restarting behind-the-scenes peace talks with the Palestinians. The comments, made in a rare interview with an Arab news outlet, the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel, appeared to be aimed at easing concerns over the far-right makeup of the government that Netanyahu is forming. He has already reached a series of coalition agreements with hard-liners who favour tougher action against Palestinian militants,…
The Coalition of Oodua Self Determination Groups (COSEG) and other Ethnic Nationality Groups on Wednesday, endorsed Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State for a second term in office. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is seeking reelection in the 2023 general elections Speaking at an event to adopt Sanwo-Olu’s re-election, Mr Dayo Ogunlana, on behalf of the coalition, said the reelection of the Lagos state governor was desirable. Ogunlana said the endorsement would set the pace for Oodua people in all strata of the society to know the reasons why Sanwo-Olu…
The campaign council said Tinubu hurriedly left the rally ground to attend to other programmes. Bayo Onanuga, the Director, Media and Publicity, All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC-PCC), has shut down rumours that presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was rushed off the stage due to health concerns at his Minna rally. InfoStride News reports that Tinubu’s campaign trail moved to the Niger State capital on Wednesday, December 14, 2022. Meanwhile, the former Lagos State Governor only made a brief appearance on stage without making any long speech. This is unusual for a rally of such magnitude and speculations were…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has urged people of Ilaje constituency 1 to shun party affiliation and vote for competence in the 2023 House of Assembly election. Mr Tola Alabere, PDP State Deputy Chairman said this in a statement on Thursday in Akure. Alabere said that Prince Kayode Ehinlanwo, who was chosen as a consensus candidate by the party in the constituency had the capacity to fight for their interests at the house of assembly, if elected. According to him, this is the right time for the people to vote a legislator whose leadership skill is imaginative,…
The Labour Party has announced the postponement of its presidential campaign rallies scheduled to hold in Ekiti and Ondo states. The party blamed unavoidable and unusual circumstances beyond its control for the postponement. The Labour Party announced this in a terse statement on Wednesday, December 1, 2022. It, however, promised to announce new dates for its rally in the states. twitter.com “Due to some unavoidable and unusual circumstances beyond control, our earlier scheduled presidential campaign rally in Ekiti and Ondo for 15th and 16th December 2023 are hereby postponed. A new date will be announced. We regret the inconvenience caused…
President of the United States, Joe Biden has advised President Muhammadu Buhari and the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against adopting a partisanship posture in next year’s general elections. Biden, however, praised Buhari over what he described as efforts in deepening democracy not only in Nigeria, but also in Africa. The US President admonished Buhari in Washington, on Wednesday, while interacting with leaders of six African countries slated to have elections in 2023 on the sidelines of the US-Africa Leaders Summit taking place in the US Capital. Biden revealed that he had followed the personality traits of…
The chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, in Kaduna State, Mr Ben Kure, on Thursday, said he has resigned from his position because the party has derailed. Speaking at a news conference in Kaduna on Thursday, Kure said though, he has high regard for the party’s presidential candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, he is no longer a member of the party. Kure while expressing his grievances to quit the party, noted that NNPP is not fully on ground in Kaduna State adding that one cannot be a gubernatorial candidate and want to run the party. According to him, several…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has pledged to give Ndigbo a new lease of life if elected president in 2023. Atiku who was in Anambra to canvass for votes said he would improve the South East geopolitical zone through security of lives and property, economic boom, and guaranteed infrastructural development. He specifically pledged to dredge the River Niger to help boost trade and economic growth of the commercial people of the Southeast, activate the Onitsha Port and embark on massive construction of roads in Anambra State and other parts of the geopolitical zone.…
The national secretariat of the Labour Party has reportedly queried the Kogi State chapter of the party over the poor outing that greeted the campaign rally of the party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates, Peter Obi and Baba Ahmed-Datti respectively on Tuesday. Sources told the media the query was sent to the state chairman, Abdul Ahmed and members of the state executives asking them to explain how they utilized the funds earmarked for the rally. It was gathered that most of the attendees, mobilized from neighbouring Enugu State to Lokoja for the rally, invaded the Ganaja Road secretariat of the…
The APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been assured of getting 40 million votes even as he is declared hale and hearty to cover more grounds daily to campaign for his election next year. APC National Women Leader Dr Betta Edu made this statement in Calabar while speaking about the national tour by Tinubu and concerns raised about his state of health and ability to finish his campaign exercises before the actual election in February next year. “Our Presidential candidate is holding rallies back to back; he is holding long hours of consultative meetings till as late as…