The general election in pakistan will be conducted after August 2023, Economic Affairs Minister Ayaz Sadiq announced, according to Geo News citing The News International. While speaking with the mediapersons, Sadiq on Sunday said, “First we will go to local government elections in April 2023 and then general elections will be held after August 15.” The announcement was made by the minister at a ceremony held in connection with Quaid-e-Azam’s birthday and Christmas on Sunday, reported Geo News. Talking about the dissolution of assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sadiq said that if Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s wanted…
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The Court of Appeal, Abuja, has reserved judgment in an appeal filed by the sacked Akwa Ibom governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Akanimo Udofia, against the judgement of a lower court. The three-member panel, headed by Justice Elfreda Williams-Dawodu, made this known after counsel to the appellant, Damian Dodo, SAN, and Sen. Ita Enang’s lawyer, Mba Ukweni, SAN, adopted their briefs and presented their arguments for and against the appeal. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a Federal High Court (FHC) sitting in Uyo had, on Nov. 14, nullified the nomination of Mr Udofia as…
A youth association in Kebbi State, popularly known as Matasan Gotar Aliero Youth Development Association, has expressed its support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the 2023 presidential election. The association’s chairman, Abubakar Bala, disclosed this during a press briefing in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, saying that it would assiduously work towards the success of the Tinubu/Shettima presidential ticket of the APC in the forthcoming general elections of 2023. According to Bala, who led 10 other executive members of the association on a solidarity visit to a member of the presidential campaign…
A former federal lawmaker and the Director of contact and mobilization for the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign council for the North West, Hon. Aminu Sani Jaji has declared that the party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, inherited insecurity. Jaji said that anybody insinuating that insurgency started under President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure was not fair to the ruling APC, noting that the party deserved reelection by Nigerians because it has tried in the area of securing the country. The Director, who was a 2019 governorship aspirant on the platform of APC, disclosed this to newsmen in Gusau, the State capital during a…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has urged Nigerians to vote for the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in 2023. Ortom said Obi is the best person that can help deliver Nigeria from its challenges, He spoke while commending Obi for visiting camps of the Internally Displaced People, IDPs, in the State on Christmas day. Speaking in Makurdi, the governor prayed that God would bless Obi’s presidential ambition. According to Ortom: “Several presidential candidates have come here, and none of them have chosen to visit those IDPs camps and look at their plight to see how they are…
South Korea says it fired warning shots after North Korean drones violated the South’s airspace. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said several unmanned North Korean drones crossed the inter-Korean border and were detected in the South’s territory on Monday. It’s the first time for North Korean drones to enter South Korean airspace since 2017. Monday’s incident came three days after South Korea said North Korea test-launched two short-range ballistic missiles in its latest weapons tests.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s place in history has been assured for integrity, transparency and transformative leadership. Tinubu stated this when he joined family, friends and associates of Buhari to celebrate his 80th birthday, on Friday night in Abuja. He said the president would be remembered like Charles de Gaulle of France, Winston Churchill of Britain and Franklin Roosevelt of America when he leaves office. Tinubu said Buhari had carefully influenced Nigeria’s history with a unique leadership style that is selfless, sacrificial, and responsive to the needs of the people. “You…
Chief Israel Nwosu, former executive chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, has led about 600 members and supporters of the party across the electoral wards in Umuahia East Constituency to Labour Party ahead of the general elections in 2023. Also defecting to the Labour Party, alongside Nwosu, is the past publicity secretary of Umuahia North chapter of the party and former Special Adviser to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu on Security Matters, Mr Ugochukwu Okezie. While adducing the rationale behind their latest movement to the Labour Party during the declaration event which…
The Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi has few months to the 2023 general election banned street campaigns by political parties. He also threatened to seal off party secretaries and offices of defaulters. Umahi also banned pasting of posters on critical infrastructure, including electric poles, concrete medians, roads, flyover bridges and other critical infrastructure of the State by all the Political Parties in the State. The governor, who made this known in a statement signed and issued to newsmen in Abakaliki by the Commissioner of Information and State Orientation, Mr Uchenna Orji, threatened to clampdown on political parties, including his…
The Ebonyi State Government has fined the All Progressives Congress, APC, the sum of five million naira for contravening the provisions of the state’s Executive Order 3 of 2022. Executive Order 3 prohibits political parties from using public places such as parks, markets and schools, among others, for political activities without obtaining due clearance from the state government. Recall that Governor David Umahi had in November signed an order prohibiting parties from using critical infrastructures for pasting posters without obtaining state clearance and using public facilities for a campaign. The state, in a statement issued on Sunday by the Commissioner…
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that former army chief (retired) Qamar Javed Bajwa had “made a deal” with Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah. Speaking to journalists in Lahore, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said that during the past year, he found out that General (retired) Bajwa “does not want accountability.” He claimed that former chief of army staff (COAS) General Bajwa probably believed that PTI’s popularity would witness a decline, however, “that did not happen.” In his remarks, Imran Khan said that the PTI-led government would have…
One of the contenders for the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship ticket in Akwa Ibom, Mr Richard Anana, has declared that he has not given up his political ambition to become governor of the state. He spoke to journalists in Calabar, the state capital, indicating that even as the party is yet to have an acceptable flagbearer, it means he still has a chance. It would be recalled that after all efforts to emerge as the party’s candidate for next year’s gubernatorial election, instead two candidates, Senator Ita Enang and Mr Akan Udofia, were alleged to have emerged controversially, with…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has told Uche Secondus, a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that he is no longer a member of the party. Wike said for this reason, the former party chair cannot speak on issues concerning the main opposition party. He also alleged that Secondus was flogged for alleged misdeeds by a former military administrator. Wike was responding to Secondus’ claim that the Governor has no powers to impose a presidential candidate on Rivers electorate. This was after the Governor had, during the week, said that by January 1, he would announce to…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Council in Kwara State and opposition parties are currently in a war of words over the outburst by the State APC campaign council that the party will win the 2023 general elections in the State by a wide margin. A statement credited to Yahaya Seriki, Director-General of the campaign council for Governor Abdulrahaman Abdulrazaq’s second term ambition, which ignited serious reaction, had insinuated that all former aggrieved members of the party who are now gubernatorial candidates of their various parties, would soon team up with the governor for his re-election in 2023. Both the…
With about two months to the presidential election, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has explained why he shut down the Peoples Democratic Party Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign office in Port Harcourt. Wike said he sealed-off the campaign office because it was sited in Port Harcourt without government approval. The Governor said he evoked Executive Orders 21 and 22 to give legal support to the sealing-off of the campaign office. He disclosed this at the inauguration of the 17.2 kilometres-long Bori-Kono Road in Baen community of Khana Local Government Area of the State. According to him, “A few days ago, Maeba…
Accord Party (AP) presidential candidate, Professor Christopher Imumolen said he will make wholesale reform in the country’s civil service his topmost priority if elected. The flagbearer said the civil service has failed to live up to its constitutional role as the engine room of the government as it wallows in indolence and corruption. Imumolen noted that reform of the structure would make it more attuned to the demands of an incoming reformist government like the one he intends to run. “Any government that wishes to fully deliver on its pre-election promises must not overlook the role the service could play…
The year 2022 has been dominated by political activities as politicians and political parties are gearing up for the 2023 general elections. All the major political parties conducted primaries for elections to fill different positions amid the challenges posed by the electoral act. In this report, InfoStride News will review the top moments and events as far as politics is concerned in the year 2022. In no particular order, these events and moments shaped the year, in terms of magnitude and outlook—in most cases, they dominated news reportage. 2022 Electoral Act This law is shaping the political landscape in Nigeria…
The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano, Abdullahi Abbas, has asked the Nigeria Police Force to arrest and prosecute the State New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, gubernatorial candidate, Abba Kabir Yusuf, for allegedly harboring political thugs in his city center house. Abbas, said Yusuf had reportedly turned his ancestral house in the city into a deadly political thugs home, with them engaging in drugs and other serious criminal activities. “Right now, many people are relocating from the area because of fear of the uncertainty as they cannot live with thugs who are carrying heavy weapons and are…
The National Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South East Zone, Mr Ali Odefa, has vowed that the party will reclaim power from the incumbent governor, David Umahi of Ebonyi State, in the 2023 general election. Odefa noted that the internal crisis rocking the party can’t prevent PDP from taking over the governance of the state come 2023. He emphasized that no matter the crisis rocking the party, Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii remain their gubernatorial candidate and will win the forthcoming guber election. According to him: “The governorship candidate of PDP, Ebonyi State Chapter for the 2023 election remains…
China blasted an annual US defence spending bill for hyping up the China threat” while Taiwan welcomed the legislation, saying it demonstrated US support for the self-governing island that China says must come under its rule. China deplores and firmly opposes this US move, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted online Saturday, calling the new law a serious political provocation that blatantly interferes in China’s internal affairs. President Joe Biden signed the USD 858 billion defense bill into law in Washington on Friday. It includes about USD 45 billion more than Biden had requested as lawmakers look to…