The Labour Party, LP, has reacted to the purported suspension of its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) Director-General, Doyin Okupe, saying it is null and void. This was disclosed in Abuja on Friday by the National Secretary of the party, Mr Umar-Farouk Ibrahim. Ibrahim said that the leadership of the party was shocked at the suspension by the Ogun chapter, as it was without due process. “The Ogun State Chapter has acted outside its constitutional jurisdiction; the party has an internal conflict resolution mechanism of handling cases against members as enshrined in the party’s constitution,” he said. He further added that…
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A former Minister of Mines and Steel, Elder Wole Oyelese, and prominent leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State have pledged to work against any member who refuses to support the presidential candidate of the party in 2023, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku. The PDP leaders made this disclosure during the meeting and inauguration of over 400 support groups for Atiku on Thursday. Oyelese, Engineer Femi Babalola and other prominent PDP leaders from the 33 local government areas of the state were in attendance. Oyelese while speaking after he was appointed and inaugurated as grand patron of all Atiku…
The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization has said the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, should focus on the whereabouts of “his imported wife.” The Atiku/Okowa campaign Organization urged Nigerians not to take Oshiomhole seriously because he was unstable. It was reacting to Oshiomhole’s comment where he described the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar as a ‘serial betrayer’ and a ‘divorcee,’ who can’t unite the country. Oshiomhole also labeled Atiku as the weakest among the top presidential candidates vying for the 2023 election. However, the Atiku/Okowa campaign Organization said the APC Presidential Campaign…
Ahead of the 2023 elections, the presidential flagbearer of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso has arrived in the United State of America to interact with some officials of the government. The former Kano State Governor made this known in a tweet on his verified Twitter handle on Thursday night. Sharing photos of his arrival, the NNPP candidate wrote, “I’ve just arrived for my interaction with some senior officials of the United States Government, in Washington DC”. Other presidential candidates, including Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party were recently…
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has again lambasted the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, noting that the former Vice President is merely wasting his time. This was contained in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Friday by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Secretary-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. The Ohanaeze scribe said Atiku was a victim of nemesis, stressing that he was reaping the fruit of what he did to former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. “Nemesis has caught up with Atiku Abubakar after he treacherously rounded hijacked some governors in 2015 to provide the…
Former President Barack Obama and Sen. Raphael Warnock on Thursday urged Democratic voters to keep pushing an apparent head start in early voting in the Georgia Senate runoff against Republican Herschel Walker, ahead of Friday’s last day of early in-person voting and Tuesday’s election day. If they didn’t get tired, you can’t get tired, Obama told a crowd gathered in a cavernous former railroad repair shop east of downtown Atlanta. Voters have already cast more than 1.4 million ballots amid an all-hands-on-deck push by Democrats to bank as many votes as possible while Republicans, especially Walker, have taken a less…
The Treasury Department said on Wednesday it has complied with a court order to make former President Donald Trump’s tax returns available to a congressional committee. The Supreme Court last week rejected Trump’s request for an order that would have prevented the Treasury Department from giving six years of tax returns for Trump and some of his businesses to the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee. The court, without dissent, cleared the legal obstacle to disclosure of Trump’s tax returns. A department spokesperson said Treasury has complied with last week’s court decision but declined to say whether the committee had…
Reno Omokri, a socio-political activist has said the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi will lose the 2023 election. Omokri said Obi knows he would lose the presidential election and fade away in history’s dustbin. In a series of tweets, the social critic insisted that Obi was ill-prepared for the presidency. He noted that barely two months to the presidential election, the former Anambra State governor has not presented his manifesto. Omokri accused the LP presidential candidate of churning out fake economic statistics. He wrote: “Peter Obi will definitely lose the 2023 election and fade away into history’s dustbin.…
A former House of Representatives member, Ned Nwoko, has called on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to expel Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State from the party, following his grievance with the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Nwoko accused Wike of trying to destroy the PDP because he out-spent Atiku and other aspirants during the party’s presidential primaries. The constitutional lawyer wondered if Wike would have campaigned against Atiku if he had been picked as the party’s presidential running mate. Wike has been at loggerheads with the PDP leadership after he lost at the party’s presidential primaries. While accepting Atiku…
The crisis within the Niger state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, might have been resolved, following resolutions taken at a series of meetings held in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, recently to ensure successful outing in the 2023 governorship election. The meetings were allegedly held at the residence of the party’s gubernatorial standard bearer, Alh Isah Liman Kantig,i between the elders and executive members of the party It was gathered that the faction of former Governor Aliyu led by Hon. Sani Kutigi was in attendance. InfoStride News learnt some of the resolutions reached were that Hon. Sani Kutigi should not…
A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has raised concerns over the current developments in the political space. According to Jega, he has palpable fears about the outcome of the 2023 general elections. He stated this while speaking at a colloquium organised by the Electoral Hub in Abuja on Wednesday. Jega, however, expressed optimism that Nigeria will pull through the current challenges. “I have a lot of fears about the outcome of the election. But you will see people like me are what I’ll call an incurable optimist about the future of our country.…
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “failing in his brutal war of aggression” in Ukraine and is “responding with more brutality”. He made the statement on Tuesday while attending a forum in the Romanian capital of Bucharest. In his opening remarks, Stoltenberg said that in response to Russia’s full-fledged invasion of Ukraine, “we are raising the readiness of our troops”. “We have doubled the number of NATO battlegroups from four to eight, including one in Romania, led by France,” he said. The Secretary General stressed that NATO allies and the alliance are not a…
A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has accused the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi’s supporters, popularly known as Obidients, of threatening to kill, rape, and maim those supporting Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC. To this end, Fani-Kayode urged Obi to call his followers to order. He warned that Obi’s supporters would be held responsible if anything happened to Tinubu’s followers. In a series of tweets, Fani-Kayode said Obi’s supporters found wanting would be made to face the consequences of their actions. He wrote: “@Peter Obi, tell ur little e-rat bullies & thugs to stop threatening to kill,…
The Lagos State Government has announced road closure for the All Progressives Congress (APC) march on Wednesday. Commissioner for Transportation, Frederic Oladeinde, issued an advisory on Tuesday. The traffic diversion is the second in five days after Saturday’s rally for presidential candidate Bola Tinubu and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. This time, the government said the APC Presidential and Gubernatorial Campaign Team would go on a walk. The ‘Ring out the Vote’ event would take place from the Trade Fair to Iyana-Iba, along Lagos-Badagry Expressway from 7:a:m. Oladeinde told Lagos residents to plan their movement around the corridor as travel time might…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano state has called for proper investigation by the state police command currently holding in its custody, two members of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Imam Dayyabu and Nasir Sani, for allegedly leading other party members to attack people and destroy APC campaign properties on Saturday and Sunday at Galadanci Quarters in Gwale local Government Area of the state. The APC, which made the call in a statement issued by the spokesperson for the Gawuna/Garo Campaign Council and Commissioner For Information and Internal Affairs, Malam Muhammad Garba, said the thugs brandishing dangerous weapons,…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt on Tuesday set aside two Federal High Court judgments that invalidated the nominations of Action Democratic Party ADP and African Democratic Congress ADC State House of Assembly candidates in Rivers State. In a unanimous judgment by a three-man panel of appeal led by Justice Gabriel Kolawole, the court granted the prayers of the appellants-ADP and ADC. In the judgment read by Justice Kolawole, the court said the lower court ordinarily should not have entertained the suit, insisting that the candidates for the State House of Assembly election were validly nominated and could…
French President Emmanuel Macron is headed to Washington for the first state visit of Joe Biden’s presidency – a revival of diplomatic pageantry that had been put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Biden-Macron relationship had a choppy start. Macron briefly recalled France’s ambassador to the United States last year after the White House announced a deal to sell nuclear submarines to Australia, undermining a contract for France to sell diesel-powered submarines. But the relationship has turned around with Macron emerging as one of Biden’s most forward-facing European allies in the Western response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.…
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has urged the residents of the state to vote the Peoples Democratic Party candidates for most positions, except the party’s presidential candidate, in the forthcoming general elections. Wike also requested them to wait until he reveals where they would be casting their vote for the presidential election. He disclosed this on Tuesday during the commissioning of the Rukpoku-Rumuapu-Izo-Ogbodo-Ogwuruta in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the State. Recall that Wike and the other four governors of the PDP had fallen out with the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over the retention of Iyorchia Ayu…
The Labour Party Women Leader in Kaura, Kaduna State, Victoria Chintex, was on Monday shot dead by suspected assassins. The gunmen reportedly stormed her residence on Monday night and shot her dead while her husband sustained gunshot injuries on his leg. Confirming the incident on Tuesday, Edward Simon Buju, the Publicity Secretary of Labour Party, Zone 3, Kaduna State, described the late women leader as a dynamic, hardworking and dedicated woman who died at a time the party and the country needed her most. While encouraging the people of Kaura Local Government and the party faithful to be law-abiding, Buju…
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has described as false, a statement making the rounds on social media that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate, harbours plans to relocate the Federal Capital from Abuja to Lagos on succeeding President Muhammad Buhari. It said Tinubu never contemplated such plans and would never do so as it goes contrary to the country’s constitution. This was disclosed on Tuesday in a statement issued and signed by Bayo Onanuga, the Director, Media and Publicity APC Presidential Campaign Council. The statement pointed fingers at the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour…