The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it defeated the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the last Osun State governorship election, adding that they will finish him in Lagos. PDP National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu stated this on Wednesday when he received reports of the Lagos-Osun Reconciliatory Committee headed by Eyitayo Jegede (SAN). Ayu who commended the committee said their recommendations will help the party to resolve all issues. The PDP National Chairman said: “Since you were inaugurated to help us handle the issue of reconciliation in Lagos and Osun and lately in…
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State has lost another influential member, Chief Juliana Awodogan, popularly known as Iya Oniyan. She led a large women’s group which mobilized the grassroots across the state for party functions. The deceased, in her 70s, died on Tuesday at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). Mrs. Awodogan had been on admission for treatment for an illness. Iya Oniyan was a pounded yam merchant who supplied the State House and offices during the Bola Tinubu administration. Her son, Niyi Awodogan announced the death of the respected political icon in Mushin. Niyi is the Supervisory…
Former US President, Donald Trump, has announced he will run for the 2024 Republican nomination for president. Trump is seeking to return to the White House after he had lost his bid for re-election to Joe Biden in 2020. He disclosed this on Tuesday during a speech at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida home. “In order to make America great and glorious again. I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump said. Recall that Trump won the US presidency for the first time in 2016 when he contested against Hillary Clinton. Trump would become the second President…
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, released the details of the judgement which ordered the sack of a former Pro-Chancellor and the Chairman of the University of Nigeria Nsukka in Enugu State, Mr Ikechi Emenike. The court had on Friday, November 11, 2022, ordered Emenike’s sack and affirmed the immediate past Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr Uche Ogah as the authentic All Progressives Congress gubernatorial candidate in Abia State for the 2023 general elections. DAILY POST recalls that the All Progressives Congress had in May 26, 2022, conducted parallel primary elections in Abia State…
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has said Nigeria is better than some developed countries under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Bello said Buhari had done well in the area of infrastructural development. He spoke at the flag-off of the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign in Jos, Plateau State, on Tuesday. Bello recalled that Buhari inherited an economy when the world was in recession but turned it around. The Governor expressed hope that Buhari would hand over power to the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu to continue the good works. Bello said Tinubu would replicate his works as Lagos State governor…
Former governorship aspirant in Rivers State, Prince Tonye Princewill has projected the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi as the best candidates that should be allowed to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. Speaking exclusively to the media on Tuesday, the popular film producer said a vote for the All Progressives Congress, APC is a waste. According to him, his decision to vote for either Obi or Atiku would be sequel to their presentations on what they have to offer the country if elected president in 2023. He said, “When…
Tempers are rising in the Southeastern part of the country following revelations that some political leaders and elites from the zone are hell-bent on working against the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi. The political atmosphere became even more apprehensive within the week following the outburst by Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State against Obi. InfoStride News recalls Governor Soludo, within the week, tackled Obi, saying he couldn’t win the forthcoming presidential election. In a lengthy statement, Governor Soludo alleged that Obi was only playing a game. While also throwing shade at Obi’s claim of making huge…
King Charles III has personally asked the UK Parliament to add his siblings, Princess Anne the Princess Royal, and Prince Edward the Earl of Wessex, to the list of people who can act as his deputies for official royal duties. Charles issued a statement on Monday, as he celebrated his 74th birthday, which was read to the House of Lords to state he would be “most content” if his sister and brother could become Counsellors of State effectively the monarch’s stand-ins at events. This will mean amending the UK’s Regency Act, which at present stipulates that Counsellors are the spouse…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has denied rumours of a crisis of any form or shape in the state arising from the composition of the Presidential Campaign Council. The opposition party also clarified that all the guidelines, processes and procedures laid down for the composition of the 2023 Presidential Campaign Council and Campaign Management Committee were strictly adhered to in the state. PDP made the clarification in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Collins Opurozo made available to DAILY POST in Owerri, Imo State. Recall that the All Progressive Congress, APC had alleged that the leaders…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday refused to attend the flag-off of the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign rally. The rally, according to the APC Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, was to present the party’s flag to its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, who said he gave out his slot to be Buhari’s running mate to Osinbajo. While President Muhammadu Buhari is present at the rally, InfoStride News reports that Vice President Osinbajo is nowhere to be found. It is not immediately clear why the Vice President is not at the campaign rally held in Jos, the Plateau State capital. Many had a…
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has reacted angrily to Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo’s diatribe against Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate. Soludo had in a lengthy letter, ruled Obi out of the presidential race, declaring that the LP candidate was merely catching a cruise. However, in a statement made available to the media on Tuesday, by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the Secretary-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, he described Soludo as a dog in the manger enrolled to discredit Obi’s legacies. The Ohanaeze scribe said based on the unjustified development, “Ndigbo have dragged Governor Soludo to the two famous…
Some Nollywood and Kannywood stars on Tuesday arrived in Jos, the Plateau capital, to support the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, and his running mate Senator Kashim Shettima. The APC flagged off its presidential campaign in Jos to solicit the support of Nigerians to vote Tinubu and Shettima as president and vice- please, respectively. Some of the Nollywood and Kannywood actors spotted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) include; Jide Kosoko, Gentle Jack, Sani Mu’azu Foluke Daramola and Ali Nuhu. Others were; Zack Orji, Said Balogun, Taiwo Hassan, Bimbo Akintola and a host…
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif tested postive for COVID-19, a day after returning from his trip to the UK, Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Tuesday. Shehbaz, 71, returned to Pakistan on Monday after taking a detour to London from the COP27 climate conference in Egypt to visit his elder brother Nawaz Sharif. In a tweet, Aurangzeb said the premier was feeling unwell for the past two days and took a COVID-19 test on Tuesday on the doctor’s advice, which returned positive. She appealed to the nation and to PML-N workers to pray for Prime Minister Shehbaz’s speedy recovery. This…
Security was beefed up at the Rwang Pam Township Stadium in Jos, Plateau State capital on Tuesday as the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima of the party flag off campaign. Officers of the Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Army, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and other security operatives were sighted at the venue. Aside Tinubu and his running mate, other party chieftains present include the Plateau state governor and the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Simon Lalong, the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu and a host of others.…
A spokesman of the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential campaign council and former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is like a man that had one of his testicles removed. He reiterated that the APC presidential candidate, Ahmed Bola Tinubu will win the forthcoming election with a huge margin. Fani-Kayode made this disclosure in a Channels TV interview monitored by the media on Monday. “I believe APC will do well in Nasarawa, Niger, Kagi, Plateau and Kwara states. “In North West states, APC we will do well. In Kaduna state, Zamfara, Kano states. With three-four states…
The main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Kaduna State, has expressed its determination towards ensuring that no stone is left unturned in its efforts to win back the state in 2023. Hon Felix Hassan Hyat, state party chairman made the assurance at the inauguration of the State Campaign Council, (SCC) and the State Campaign Management Committee, (SCMC) in Kaduna on Monday. According to him, the PDP is battle ready to win the national and State elections in the forthcoming 2023 poll, stressing, “Our position is, therefore, PDP All the Way come 2023. The campaign structure has been designed…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, says he has relocated from Lagos to Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. Tinubu disclosed this during his brief meeting with his counterpart from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abuja. Both presidential candidates met at the private wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja yesterday. The APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu and a former PDP presidential aspirant, Mohammed Hayatudeen were at the airport when Tinubu and Atiku met. While Tinubu was heading to Jos, Plateau State, to flag-off his presidential campaign, Atiku was heading to Lagos. During the meeting,…
President Joe Biden objected to China’s coercive and increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan and raised human rights concerns about Beijing’s conduct in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong during his first in-person meeting on Monday with President Xi Jinping , the White House said. In a statement on the roughly three-hour session, the White House said Biden told Xi that the U.S would continue to compete vigorously with China but that competition should not veer into conflict. The meeting came as the superpowers aimed to manage differences between them as they compete for global influence amid increasing economic and security tensions.…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Monday said the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has done the greatest damage to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Fani-Kayode said Obi has attracted votes that should have gone to the PDP to himself in the forthcoming election. Speaking on Channels TV programme, Politics Today, Fani-Kayode said Obi would mop up votes in Plateau, Delta, and the Southeast. He also likened the opposition party to a man with one testicle, adding that this was due to the division in the party. According to Fani-Kayode: “PDP is totally…
The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that it has no plan to attack facilities of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). APC made this disclosure while reacting to an allegation raised by the state governor. InfoStride News recalls that Governor Seyi Makinde of the state, through his campaign committee, had on Sunday raised an alarm that members of opposition political parties were planing to attack INEC facilities. APC, which is the major opposition political party in the state, has however said that none of its members is interested in attacking INEC facilities. The party…