The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential rally will hold on Saturday, in Benin, Edo State capital. Recall that PDP presidential candidate, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and party bigwigs have held a similar campaign in Kaduna State, after its flag-off in Akwa Ibom State. Though Atiku is currently in Europe on business, he is expected to return tomorrow, Friday according to party sources. Chairman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization, Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal in a statement Thursday, charged all party leaders and supporters to converge on Benin, Edo State this Saturday. The statement read in part “This…
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Britain’s third female Prime Minister, Liz Truss, is out of office on Thursday after one of the shortest tenures at 10 Downing Street in London and without a cherished India-UK free trade agreement (FTA) under her belt as a Brexit prize. Truss, who until Wednesday insisted in Parliament that she was a “fighter and not a quitter”, resigned after just six weeks after her position became untenable after a series of policy U-turns, Cabinet upheavals and an open revolt against her ability to lead a deeply divided Conservative Party. Truss, who in her innings as foreign and trade minister batted…
A former Aviation Minister and member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Committee, Femi Fani-Kayode, appears to have drawn a battle line with Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2023 elections. Fani-Kayode, in a post on Thursday, said the electioneering campaign activities will be fire for fire between him and Atiku. Sharing a picture of Atiku, Fani-Kayode asked the PDP presidential candidate to take care of his health. He said: “Tell your ‘fine boys’ who are with you over there to take care of you better. You look terrible. “We want you to…
The controversy surrounding the Taraba State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has again taken a different dimension. This was noticed on Wednesday as the Presidential candidate of the party, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, shunned the embattled governorship candidate of the party, Emmanuel Bwacha to appoint the Minister of Transportation, Muazu Jaji Sambo as the State coordinator of his presidential campaign. InfoStride News reports that this is in sharp contrast with what happens in other States where the gubernatorial candidates head the presidential campaign council of their various States in the absence of a governor. The decision, according to a…
The embattled Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Kogi State, Mr. Kingsley Oggah says he remains the substantive Chairman of the Party. He admonished members of the party and the general public to disregard a purported letter suspending him which is currently trending in some online media. Oggah, who disclosed this to DAILY POST on Thursday, described the letter suspending him as fake, particularly that it was dated on the 6th of September when the person who signed it has since been removed. He urged the public to discountenance the purported letter, adding that it was intended to…
Amid the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governor Nyesom Wike has vowed to always fight for his beliefs. Wike said he’s not a born-again Christian, hence would always fight back his aggressors. He spoke during the birthday celebration of his Abia State counterpart, Okezie Ikpeazu. Wike describing Ikpeazu as a quiet man who observes the Bible verse that when “they slap you, turn the other cheek”, the governor said he would retaliate rather than turn the other cheek if anybody slapped him. According to Wike, he would blow off the head of anybody who slaps him. He said:…
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi rejected certain “unsubstantiated claims” about Tehran’s stance toward the conflict in Ukraine, saying Iran is ready to play a role in ending the crisis. Making the remarks in a phone call with his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda, Raisi noted that Tehran is ready to use “all its capacities and potential” to help end the conflict in Ukraine, according to the Iranian presidency’s website, Xinhua news agency reported. He stressed that ever since the eruption of the conflict, Iran’s stance has been opposition to it. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry recently decided to downgrade ties with Iran and…
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has said that he would have worked for the success of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, if he were not a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Governor Ortom disclosed this on Wednesday when he hosted Obi at his private residence in Abuja. Recall that the Benue governor and other top members of the PDP, along Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and three other governors have been calling for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu. They are demanding that Ayu steps down for…
As the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, deepens, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said those backing the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, have not seen anything. Wike said Ayu’s followers have witnessed nothing compared to what’s next to come from him. Speaking at the birthday celebration of his Abia State counterpart, Okezie Ikpeazu, Wike said: “You go and march soldier ant, anything you see, you take. “All these things they are talking, we are just peaceful, they came to march us, then the soldier ant has entered everywhere, and now they are crying, they have not…
The former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, has issued a warning to the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, ahead of the 2023 elections. Ologbondiyan warned that the 2023 presidential election was a referendum against APC’s failures. In a statement he signed, the former PDP’s spokesman stressed that Tinubu could not be trusted with power as the President of Nigeria. According to Ologbondiyan: “Nigerians must therefore resist such tendencies as any government built on what the APC Presidential Candidate ostensibly represents will amount to creating a fiefdom for a self-conceited ruler over…
The Osun State Governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has revealed that for him to deliver on his five point agenda to the people of the state, there is need to get a president from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the federal level. Adeleke also stated that victory of the PDP in the Osun gubernatorial election would be incomplete unless the party delivered at the federal level. He made this known in his remark during the inauguration of the Osun State Chapter of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Council in Osogbo on Tuesday. Adeleke, who doubles as the Chairman of the Campaign…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he was introducing martial law in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine that Moscow last month claimed as its own territory but is struggling to defend from Ukrainian advances. In televised remarks to members of his Security Council, Putin also instructed the government to set up a special coordinating council under Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to work with Russia’s regions to boost Moscow’s war effort. The package of moves, nearly eight months into the war, marked the latest escalation by Putin to counter a series of major defeats at the hands of Ukrainian forces…
The Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has condoled the family of one of the victims who lost his life due to an attack by alleged Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) thugs. According to a press statement signed by the publicity secretary of the party, Mallam Yusuf Idris Gusau, the state chairman, Hon. Tukur Umar Danfulani, has led a team of the State Working Committee of the party to condole with the family of victims of the attack. The statement noted that the thugs attacked some youths while carrying out sanitation activities in Government Reserved Area (GRA) in…
Arewa Joint Committee says the region has not endorsed any presidential candidate for the February 2023 general elections. Mallam Murtala Aliyu, the chairman steering committee of the Arewa group in a communique signed and made available to newsmen in Kaduna, explained that the interaction was not aimed at endorsing any presidential candidate. The six presidential candidates of the various political parties, except New Nigerian Peoples Party, (NNPP) Rabiu Kwankwaso were at Arewa House, Kaduna on Saturday and Monday for an interactive session with the joint committee comprising of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Arewa House, Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, the…
The Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, has on Wednesday dismissed a suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) against Adekunle Akinlade, Ladi Adebutu and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). InfoStride News recalls that the APC in Ogun had approached the court, seeking the disqualification of Adebutu and Akinlade as governorship and deputy governorship candidates of the PDP in the state. The APC had claimed that Akinlade did not resign his membership of the APC before he became the running mate to Adebutu of the PDP. The applicant also said that Akinlade, having contested the…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has commenced talks with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State ahead of the 2023 elections. An APC chieftain, Farouk Aliyu, said the party wants Wike’s backing during the next general elections. Wike and his camp have been at loggerheads with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership since the party’s presidential primaries. The governor had lost the PDP’s presidential ticket to Atiku Abubakar and has been calling for the removal of Iyorchia Ayu as the party’s National Chairman. However, Aliyu said the APC was ready to receive Wike as a new member ahead of the next…
On October 15th, a couple of United States Congressmen placed a proposed resolution in the House of Representatives urging US President Joe Biden to consider recognising the atrocities committed by the Armed Forces of Pakistan in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. US Congressman Steve Chabot (Republican), in association with Congressman of Indian origin Ro Khanna (Democrat), urged Biden to recognize the 1971 genocide as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. The resolution is an eight-page long and is titled – ‘Recognising the Bangladesh Genocide of 1971’ and primarily focuses on the active role played by the Pakistan army…
A High Court sitting in Abakaliki on Tuesday remanded the Ebonyi South Senatorial candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Linus Okorie, in the correctional centre. Okorie was arraigned in court on a five count-charge, bordering on fake news, murder, harbouring drug traffickers and two other charges. The police prosecutor, Chinagorom Ndubuaku, who brought the charges against the former member of the Federal House of Representatives, said the defendant has been on police wanted list for committing various crimes. In a swift reaction, the leading counsel to the defendant, Mr. Chika Nomeh, who spoke to newsmen shortly after the court said;…
Former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, said endorsement of candidates from other political parties is “consistent” with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike’s style of politics. Chidoka was speaking in reaction to the endorsement of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwolu for a second term by Wike. Gov. Wike made the endorsement during a conference of the Committee of Wives of Lagos State officials in Lagos on Monday. Speaking on Channels TV Politics Today on Tuesday, Chidoka, who is also a special adviser to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, said Wike did the same thing during the…
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said he will support his Lagos State counterpart, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, even though they don’t belong to the same political parties. Wike stated this during a conference organised by the wives of Lagos State officials on Tuesday at Eko Hotel, Lagos. The Rivers governor explained that his presence at the event is because Sanwo-Olu is “doing well” for the people of the state. Wike said: “If Sanwo-Olu is not doing well, even if he belongs to my party, I won’t come. So, for me, if you are in my party and you are…