The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has been criticized for saying the North does not need a Yoruba or Igbo president. Atiku said Northerners needed to vote for him rather than a Yoruba or Igbo candidate because he’s a Pan-Nigerian with a northern extraction. Condemning his comment, a former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, said Atiku would not be allowed to treat Nigerians the same way he did to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. In a series of tweets, Fani-Kayode said Atiku’s remark is unacceptable and despicable. Fani-Kayode said Northerners in the All Progressives Congress, APC, believe…
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A year after banning most teenage girls from attending school, the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan are now imposing sweeping restrictions on which courses women can enrol in at public universities. The militant group have said the correct “Islamic environment” needs to be created for older girls to be allowed back into schools, but more than a year after they returned to power this still has not happened in most provinces, with reports suggesting hardliners in the group remain opposed to it, the BBC reported. At Nangarhar University, girls are now given the right to choose from only seven of 13…
The Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the Friday court ruling, which voided its governorship candidate’s election and declared that the party could not field anybody for the 2023 governorship election. The Yola Division of the Federal High Court had on Friday annulled the APC primary election in Adamawa through which Senator Aishatu Ahmed Binani emerged as APC governorship candidate and declared that the APC had no validly elected candidate for the 2023 governorship election in the state. The APC leadership in Adamawa State, after a meeting Saturday afternoon, held a press briefing during which…
Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has fired back at his predecessor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, for saying he would not support his second-term ambition. Despite being a sitting Senator of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Amosun had, in an interview with BBC News Yoruba, said he would not work for the APC during the governorship election in Ogun, even though he would support the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Amosun said he is behind Barr. Biyi Otegbeye of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Reacting, Abiodun said Amosun would fail “in his anti party politics” aimed to scuttle his reelection bid…
The Peoples Democratic Party, Kaduna State chapter, has rescheduled the planned consultative visit of the presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, to Kafanchan. InfoStride News recalls that in a programme schedule visit by the PDP Presidential hopeful, he was billed to move to Southern Kaduna on October 16, 2022. However, in a statement on Saturday by the state party chairman, Hon. Hassan Hyat, he said the postponed planned visit was as a result of consultations with political stakeholders and religious leaders of the zone wherein the stakeholders resolved that a new…
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has come under fire following his advice to the Northerners ahead of the 2023 general election. Atiku had while speaking at an event in Kaduna declared that, “What the average Northerner needs is somebody who’s from the north and also understands that part of the country and has been able to build bridges across the country. “This is what the Northerner needs, it doesn’t need a Yoruba or Igbo candidate, I stand before you as a Pan-Nigerian of northern origin.” Reacting, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, in a statement on…
China’s ruling Communist Party will hold its key Congress from Sunday during which a new set of senior officials will be appointed except for President Xi Jinping who is set to get endorsed for a record third term, breaking over the three-decade norm for top leaders to step down after a 10-year tenure. The weeklong 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in which 2,296 “elected” delegates under the norms and guidelines set by Xi will attend a closed-door meeting, is being held amid a rare protest against Xi and his rigid zero-COVID policy of widespread restrictions…
There have been divergent reactions after the presidential campaign flag-off of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which was held on Monday, October, 10, at the Next of Champions International Stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Many analysts and residents of the State have tackled the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar over his comment on ”making Nigeria to be like Akwa Ibom State if elected the president in the 2023 elections.” The stadium, during the flag-off rally, expectedly, was filled to capacity by supporters of the PDP which is the ruling party in Akwa Ibom State and with many…
The aggrieved governor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) known as G5 has travelled to Spain for a crucial meeting amid the crisis rocking the party. The Nation gathered that the governors left the country for Madrid on Friday night hours after the Rivers Governor laid more allegations on the party Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu. Those on board with Wike are Governors Seyi Makinde (Oyo); Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Samuel Ortom (Benue) as the Enugu State governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi may join subsequently. Recall that Wike, during a media chat in Port Harcourt on Friday, heaped more allegations on Ayu maintaining that…
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar will today (Saturday) appear before the Northern leaders’ policy dialogue interactive session in Kaduna. Mr. Paul Ibe, Media Adviser to the PDP presidential candidate, in a statement said the dialogue is another opportunity for the PDP presidential candidate to relay his policy document titled: ‘My Covenant with Nigerians”. According to the statement, several groups like; the Arewa Consultative Forum, Arewa House, Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, Northern Elders Forum and Arewa Research and Development Project, among others, organized the interactive session. He said the…
Former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu has appealed to Kaduna governor Nasir El-Rufai not to leave Nigeria after the 2023 elections. The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate spoke on Saturday in Kaduna. He addressed attendees at the seventh edition of KadInvest, an annual event organised by the Kaduna State Investment Promotion Agency. Tinubu advised El-Rufai, a former FCT minister, not to “run away”, but to stay back and help to fix the country. “Nigeria needs thinkers and doer. I’m openly begging Nasir El-Rufai not to run away for (an) additional degree. “He’s going to Cairo (for) Ph.D…and everything. There are…
South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea additionally firing possibly hundreds of artillery rounds into maritime buffer zones between the rivals, further raising animosities triggered by a recent barrage of weapons tests. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the North firing around 80 rounds of artillery into waters near their eastern sea border from around 5.p.m. Friday. It said it also detected firing sounds and sighted splashes that were possibly caused by the firing of around 200 artillery rounds in waters near the western sea boundary from around 5:20 p.m. It said the shells fell inside…
The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned all its members that there is no any rerun of primaries in the state. The PDP State Chairman, Sikirulahi Ogundele, said this in a statement made available to the media on Friday evening. Ogundele recalled that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party had appealed a Federal High Court judgement that nullified all the primary elections of the PDP in Ogun, saying the NWC confirmed this in a statement issued on October 4 by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba. He stated that NWC, having appealed…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published Bashir Machina’s name on its portal as Yobe North Senatorial District candidate. This is in compliance with a letter forwarded to the electoral umpire by the APC National Headquarters, asking it to accept and publish Machina’s name as the party’s authentic candidate for the senatorial seat. Husaini Mohammed Isa, the Spokesman of the Machina Campaign Organization, confirmed this in a social media post on Friday. “INEC Publishes Machina’s Name On Its Portal As Yobe North APC Senatorial candidate. “The Independent National Electoral Commission has complied with the letter written to the Umpire…
The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has asked Governor Nyesom Wike to convert the over 60,000 polling unit advisers engaged by the state governor to pensionable jobs for the “jobless youths”. The Rivers APC also claimed that the number of polling unit advisers by the Governor of Rivers State is a “confirmation of the rate of joblessness” in the state as “documented by the National Bureau of Statistics”, a situation which they said is an indictment on the outgoing administration. The state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Darlington Nwauju, expressed concerns that the Government of the day “can wake…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu has denied collecting N1 billion from anyone as claimed by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, warning aggrieved persons to leave his family out of the controversy. Ayu debunked Wike’s claims while responding to questions about the allegations against him and also promised that the statement of the party account will be made available to party members soon. The PDP National Chairman said as the father of the party he decided to be quiet for peace to reign. Ayu also appealed to all aggrieved members of the party…
Rebels on the backbenches of the UK’s governing Conservative Party are on Friday said to be plotting to replace Liz Truss as party leader and prime minister with a so-called unity joint ticket team involving former leadership rival Rishi Sunak. It comes as a YouGov poll for the The Times’ found that almost half of Tory party supporters believe the party chose the wrong candidate in the leadership election. The YouGov poll found that among those who voted for the Conservatives at the last election, 62 per cent said that party members had made the wrong choice when the…
A Federal High Court sitting in Yola has nullified the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election which produced Senator Aishatu Binani as the party’s governorship candidate for Adamawa State. Ruling on suit FHC/YL/CS/12/2022 filed by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the court declared Binani’s candidature invalid and unlawful. Justice Abdulaaziz Anka, in his ruling, also refused the plea for a fresh primary, holding that the APC, by the court judgment, had no candidate for the 2023 governorship election. The judge gave the ruling after resolving all the issues for consideration involving the outcome of the Adamawa APC governorship primary conducted on May…
As the crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, continues to deepen, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said the party cannot win the 2023 presidential election without his input. Wike said he and four other governors play an important role in PDP; hence the party can’t win elections without them. He made the declaration during a media chat in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Friday. Wike, Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, have been calling for the removal of Iyorchia Ayu as…
The All Progressives Congress, (APC), has officially written the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), asking the electoral umpire to recognize Bashir Sheriff Machina as its authentic candidate for Yobe North Senatorial District as directed by the Federal High Court, Damaturu. This is contained in a letter dated 12th October 2022 with reference number APC/NHDQ/INEC/19/022/128 signed by the APC’s National Chairman Sen. (Dr) Abdullahi Adamu and the National Secretary of the party Sen. Iyiola Omisore. “We write to notify the Commission of the attached Judgment dated 28th September 2022 and Order dated 5th October 2022 from the Federal High Court, Damaturu…