Godwin Obaseki, Governor of Edo State, has said that the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi cannot win the 2023 general election. Obaseki said this on Monday at the inauguration of the Edo State Peoples Democratic Party’s Campaign Council in the state. He also mocked Obi’s supporters popularly known as “Obidients” saying they will soon run out of steam. He added that Nigeria will break if APC wins the 2023 presidential election. “People who say they are Obidients, of course they will be but they will run out of steam. We know how to manage elections, how many…
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Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that some “demons” who frustrated him out of the All Progressives Congress have left. Fani-Kayode made the assertion while appearing on Channels TV Politics Today on Monday. The former minister, who is a member of the APC presidential campaign council, had while in the Peoples Democratic Party, alleged that the APC was possessed by “demons”. But speaking on Monday, Fani Kayode said the “demons have now left the APC and entered into the PDP.” He noted that the change in the leadership of the APC has now addressed all the issues he and…
With Rishi Sunak on the threshold of becoming the first non-White Prime Minister of Britain, arch-rivals India and Pakistan are on the cusp of history to share a pride, though none of them played a role in it. Sunak’s grandparents originated from British India but their birthplace Gujranwala lies in modern day Pakistan’s Punjab province. Thus, in an odd way, the new British leader is both an Indian and a Pakistani. So far, the scanty details about his ancestry are available only on social media and that is where both Indian and Pakistanis are expressing their views about his rise…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has backed the call for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu. George faulted the resolution of the Acting PDP’s Board of Trustees, BoT, chairman, Adolphus Wabara-led reconciliation committee. The Wabara-led PDP BoT, in its report submitted to the party, recommended that the National Chairman, Iyorhcia Ayu, should resign after the 2023 general elections. The committee also urged Ayu to assure members that he would step down after the polls. Some PDP governors like Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, Samuel Ortom of Benue…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Katsina State has assured new members who defected from the All Progressive Congress (APC) that they will be given equal treatment in the State. The party’s gubernatorial candidate, Alhaji Yakubu Lado-Danmarke, gave the assurance on Sunday in Jibia while receiving 12,936 APC members from Kaita and Jibia local government areas. He also gave assurance to the people of the area that if elected he would restore security, peace and order in the areas within 100 days. Lado-Danmarke alleged that “wickedness, hatred and bad government policies” had hindered business activities in the areas. “By God’s…
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has directed all staff of his office who are part of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, to give their best to the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Osinbajo issued the directive during a meeting with his staff members who are part of the PCC. Disclosing this, an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Ajuri Ngelale, said Osinbajo stressed the importance of the assignment. Ngelale, who is one of the spokesperson for the Tinubu-Shettima campaign organization, said the Vice President appealed to those concerned to carry out their duties without hindrance. He also urged…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Sunday in Kano, appealed to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to eschew religious sentiment and vote for him in the 2023 presidential election, insisting that he is the best candidate to give Nigeria good leadership. Tinubu spoke during an interface with CAN leadership in Kano led by the state chairman, Rev. Samuel Adeyemo. The APC presidential candidate, who spoke at Africa House, Government House, Kano, reminded the Christian leaders that he is married to a pastor, insisting that his decision for a Muslim-Muslim ticket was…
Indian-origin former chancellor Rishi Sunak on Sunday formally declared his candidacy to contest the Conservative Party leadership election to replace Liz Truss as British Prime Minister and fix the economy. The 42-year-old is the clear frontrunner as he raced ahead with the backing of at least 128 Tory members of Parliament, even as loyalists of his former boss Boris Johnson claimed he has the necessary 100 MPs needed to make it to the shortlist. While the former Tory leader and prime minister is yet to officially declare his candidacy, the contest is shaping up as a three-way fight including third-placed…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed optimism that huge crowds that received its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in both Edo and Niger States signals victory at the 2023 general elections. NAN reports that the spokesman of the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, made the assertion on Sunday in a statement he issued in Abuja. According to Ologbondiyan, huge crowds received the former vice president in Benin; Bida, Niger; and Jibia, Katsina State; during campaign rallies. He further stated that Atiku’s campaign was gaining more traction across the country due to his tenacity in addressing the nation’s…
Funke Akindele, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) deputy governorship candidate in Lagos, said the opposition was ready to work for the people. Akindele said God called her and the governorship candidate, Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor) to change the story of the state. The famous actress spoke on Sunday at Ayo Ni O Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church, Surulere District in Badagry. Akindele noted that her emergence was divine as she was selected “despite the crowd that struggled to be chosen”. “We were called by God, if not we would have backed out”, NAN quoted her saying. Akindele assured that the team would…
Two Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwarts in Sokoto State, the party’s Vice Chairman of Isa local government, Alhaji Garba Araga; and Alhaji Garba Marafa Tozai, a Special Assistant to the governor, at the weekend dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC). The ruling PDP in the state has witnessed mass defection of its members to the APC in recent times. The latest defectors, Araga and Tozai, according to a source, defected with hundreds of their teeming supporters in the area. The source explained that Alhaji Garba Araga and Marafa Tozai explained that they decided to throw up their…
The presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has said that without the due diligence of the party governors, he would not have become the candidate. “You firmly stood by me at the hours of needs during the Primary Contests of our Party and that made me the Candidate of the APC and that is a great source of pride because others are still battling their governors,” he said. Speaking during a series of meetings with Ullamas and some pastors, Tinubu insisted that the position of governors on him has given him more courage and…
President Joe Biden wants to tame inflation. He wants Congress to protect access to abortions. He wants to tackle voting rights. And he’s taking on China, promoting construction of new factories, addressing climate change, forgiving student debt, pardoning federal marijuana convictions, cutting the deficit, working to lower prescription drug prices and funneling aid to Ukraine. Biden is trying to be everything to everyone. But that’s making it hard for him to say he’s focused on any single issue above all others as he tries to counter Republican momentum going into the November 8 elections. There’s no one thing, Biden said…
Jigawa State Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar said the Northern part of the country will pay back the presidential candidate of the All Progressive congress APC Bola Ahmad Tinubu in the coming 2023 general election. Governor Badaru stated this when he received Tinubu in Kano on Sunday. InfoStride News reported that The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, visited Kano State to open his campaign offices. Tinubu was welcomed on Saturday by the Governors of Kano, Jigawa and Zamfara States at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport alongside thousands of supporters. Addressing the mammoth crowd, Governor Muhammad Badaru…
The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has said his party will win in Anambra State, in the 2023 election. Despite the dominance of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, which also has a presidential candidate, and the Labour Party, LP, whose candidate, Mr Peter Obi is from the state, Okowa said PDP will take the state. Okowa who is a running mate to Atiku Abubakar was represented in Onitsha for the 20th Ofala festival of the traditional ruler of the ancient Kingdom, Obi Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe, by the…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, said they will hold the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government accountable for their failures. Atiku in a statement to his supporters, Sunday described the 2023 general election as a referendum on the performance of the APC. He said the APC and its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, want to run away from their failure, but the PDP won’t let them. The statement read in part, “In Benin yesterday, I made my plans clear about the work that lies ahead of us to unite,…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) congratulated Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on his conferment of the Distinguished Award in Infrastructure Delivery at the Nigeria Excellence in Public Service Award. PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, Saturday commended the Rivers State Governor for executing the party’s program, projects and policies. Ologunagba said Wike’s award is in recognition of his exceptional accomplishments on infrastructure in line with the manifesto of the PDP. PDP publicity scribe also said the National Award on the outstanding PDP Governor is an admission by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government…
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday created history, becoming the first leader of the ruling Communist Party after party founder Mao Zedong to get re-elected for an unprecedented third term in power with the prospect of ruling China for life. Xi, 69, who was elected Sunday morning as General Secretary of the Communist Party for 3rd five-year tenure by the new seven-member Standing Committee packed with his supporters appeared before the local and foreign media here to herald the new era, widely termed ‘Xi era’. Xi’s election for the third term in power formally ends the over three decades rule…
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, youths in Lagos State took to the streets on Saturday in show of solidarity and support for the candidacies of Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate, and Babajide Sanwo-Olu, gubernatorial candidate, both of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Meanwhile, President Buhari, yesterday, inaugurated the Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, of the APC. The event also witnessed the unveiling of the action plan for the APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, in which Tinubu promised to tackle the challenges facing the nation. He pledged to enthrone a transformational leadership and to replicate…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential running mate, Kashim Shettima has said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar should not aspire to be president. Shettima said Atiku who can’t unite the PDP should not aspire to be president of Nigeria. He spoke during the unveiling of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu’s manifesto, on Friday, in Abuja. Shettima charged Atiku to reconcile aggrieved PDP members first before running for the presidency. He said: “Atiku Abubakar, who could not put his own political house in order, cannot aspire to lead Nigeria. “Unfortunately, the leading opposition party set out…