Ahead of the 2023 presidential election in February next year, a group of Abuja-based pastors and bishops, have expressed their support for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC. This was made known in a statement jointly signed on Sunday by Apostle Babatunde Oguntimehin, and Revd Friday Obi, national president and secretary, respectively. The clerics under the body known as the Nigerian Coalition of Pastor for Good Leadership stated that it would not be fair for Nigerians to jettison the capacity of Tinubu on the altar of the contentious Muslim-Muslim ticket. The group also noted…
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The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has tackled his counterpart from the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, for failing to attend the presidential debate in Abuja. Kwankwaso said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, was better than Tinubu. Okowa represented the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar at the debate organised by Arise Television and the Centre for Development and Democracy, CDD, in Abuja on Sunday. Expected at the debate were Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP; Kwankwaso, Atiku and Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC.…
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s long march, which was suspended after the failed assassination attempt on party chief Imran Khan last week, will resume on Thursday, two senior party leaders said on Monday. Speaking to party workers at Zaman Park in Lahore, Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced that the long march will resume on Thursday from the same location where the attack on Khan took place. Another senior leader Faisal Javed Khan also said that the party’s long march will resume on November 10. This is the third time that the party has changed the date of the long march which came…
Abia State House of Assembly candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Umunneochi Constituency, Engr Ejike Chukwu, has blamed successive administrations of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the past twenty years for the dilapidated state of infrastructure and worsening economy of the state. Pointing out that the state is bedevilled by decaying road infrastructure, soaring unemployment rate and unending power outages, the politician insisted that the ruling PDP government in the state has failed in all indices of governance and therefore has nothing to show to justify the mandates given to the party by Abia electorates since…
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Ogun State has asked Governor Dapo Abiodun, the Inspector General of Police and the Director of State Security Service to ensure the security of lives and property before, during and after the 2023 general elections. The Chairman of the NNPP in Ogun, Olaposi Oginni, said this on Monday during a meeting with officials and candidates of the NNPP at the party secretariat in Abeokuta. Oginni appealed to Abiodun to ensure that the peace being enjoyed in the political space at the moment is not tampered with. He alleged that some members of the…
APC national women’s leader, Dr Betta Edu has pledged to mobilise 40 million Nigerian women to vote for the presidential candidate of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu next year. She made the pledge when she received a Leadership Woman of the Year Award from Igbere TV, an online platform in Nigeria. The Award was received on behalf of Edu by Deputy National women leader, Zainab Ibrahim “We have so far mobilised several millions of women for our principal, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. We are targeting beyond 40 million women to vote for him during next year’s presidential election. “It is…
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, has said he never borrowed during his time as the governor of Anambra State. The former governor of Anambra State disclosed this on Sunday during the Arise TV Town Hall meeting that hosted presidential candidates from various political parties in Abuja. “During my time as a former governor, I served for eight eights. If you go to that state you will find that I never borrowed from any financial institution in Nigeria. I have never been invited or questioned about any missing money anywhere. “The day I left the…
The New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of planning to buy Nigerians like sacrificial rams in the upcoming 2023 general election. The NNPP gubernatorial candidate in Jigawa State, Mallam Aminu Ibrahim Ringim, stated this on Saturday at the commissioning of the party’s headquarters in Aujara ward, Jahun Local Government. He said APC and PDP plan to use the money to buy votes from Nigerians during the coming 2023 general election. “Don’t reject any money given to you to defraud you of your votes; collect the money is…
Engr. Chucks Ololo, brother-in-law of former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has dumped the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Labour Party (LP). The governorship aspirant under the All Progressive Congress in the 2019 general elections made this known at the LP state party secretariat in Owerri, Imo State. The former APC chieftain said his defection was to join forces with LP to salvage the country through the vision of the presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi. Ololo, who is the husband to Okorocha’s younger sister, Ogechi Ololo, said aside from ensuring that his over 5000 supporters join him in LP, he…
Some members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Sokoto State. The APC Chairman in the state who received the defectors on Sunday said the latest defection was another set of scores of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members from Dundaye, Gumburawa and Gidan Bubu districts in Wamakko Local Government Area of the state. The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, who spoke at the event, described the development as a success. “The APC administration under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari has brought positive developmental projects aimed at impacting the lives of…
Yusuf Idris, Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State has said there is no President like incumbent Muhammadu Buhari in the history of Nigeria. The spokesperson said the President had done well since he assumed office in 2015. Idris told NAN that the programmes, policies, and achievements of the administration were not getting enough publicity. The politician said only Buhari initiated a social investments programme that has various components. He listed N-Power, the Conditional Cash. Transfer, TraderMoni and Senior Citizens’ welfare, among others. Idris noted that in Zamfara, more than 200,000 people have benefited in the…
The US does not have a central body to conduct elections and the task is left to a chaotic patchwork of state and local authorities with their own rules and methods. The Federal Election Commission is only in charge of enforcing federal election campaign laws and not running the elections. There isn’t even a common voting machine for the country and within a state, the machines could vary: In New York state, the city uses machines from a company called Election Systems & Software, while elsewhere machines from Dominion Voting Systems, a company founded in Canada and has headquarters in…
The Biden administration is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal to engage in peace talks unless President Vladimir Putin is removed from power, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The paper quoted unnamed people familiar with the discussions as saying that the request by American officials was not aimed at pushing Ukraine to the negotiating table, but a calculated attempt to ensure Kyiv maintains the support of other nations facing constituencies wary of fueling a war for many years to come. It said the discussions illustrated the complexity of…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun has issued a warning to Olasoji Adagunodo to withdraw the pending court case on the Osun PDP chairmanship tussle. In a statement signed by the Osun PDP caretaker chairman, Akindele Adekunle in Osogbo on Saturday, the party in the warning, alleged that the case has been hijacked by the All Progressives Congress (APC). Adagunodo, was a former PDP chairman in Osun before he was removed and his removal threw the state chapter of the party into uncertainty with two factions arising before peace was finally restored in 2021. Adagunodo is now the PDP…
Mysterious bees on Saturday disrupted a rally by the ruling All Progressive Congress, (APC), in Kogi State. The bees seen in a video circulating on social media chased away many supporters of the APC. The incident happened at a political rally in Ihima, under the Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State. Supporters of the APC were spotted running for dear lives when the mysterious bees invaded the rally. The development has continued to generate mixed reactions in the social media space.
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday, inaugurated the Electoral Logistics Committee (ELOC). The team has the responsibility to ensure hitch-free logistics ahead and during the 2023 general elections. Yakubu stressed that the committee was critical to the successful conduct of the polls. Yakubu recalled how flights that conveyed essential election materials in the 2019 poll couldn’t land in some airports due to poor visibility. He urged the team to submit periodic reports through the chairman of the committee, an INEC National Commissioner. Section 27(3) of the Electoral Act 2022 empowers INEC to request…
The Zamfara State Council of Ulama of Nigeria has called on politicians to concentrate on issues that will bring peace and unity to the country for the successful development of democracy and the nation entirely. The chairman of the council in the state, Sheik Ahmad Umar Kanoma made the call at a peace dialogue meeting organised for party chairmen and other stakeholders in Gusau, the state capital. He noted that politics of bitterness cannot help the country to move forward, saying that the politicians are supposed to be guiding youths on the issue of unity. “The Council is not in…
Pakistan’s electronic media watchdog on Saturday prohibited television channels from broadcasting or rebroadcasting ousted premier Imran Khan’s speeches or media talks, saying airing such content would likely to create hatred among the people and endanger national security. The Pakistan Electronic Media and Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) warned that it will suspend the broadcasting licence in case of any violation. In case of any violation, the observed licence may be suspended without any show-cause notice in the public interest along with other enabling provisions of law, it said in a notification. It also said that Khan during his long march speeches and…
PDP governorship candidate in Ogun State, Hon. Ladi Adebutu has asked the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike and others who could not accept Iyorchia Ayu as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to leave the party. InfoStride News recalls that Wike and four other governors of the PDP have insisted that Ayu should resign as the Chairman of the party or they would not support the presidential candidacy of Atiku Abubakar. According to them, Ayu had promised that he would resign his position if a northerner emerged as the presidential candidate of the PDP. After Atiku emerged…
The Peoples Democratic Party has lambasted a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Fani-Kayode, over comment projecting the vice presidential candidate of the ruling party, Kashim Shettima as a godly man. The former aviation minister, who is a staunch supporter of the APC presidential flag bearer, Bola Tinubu, had in a recent outing, referred to Shettima as a refined godly man ready to help the country. But PDP in a statement issued on Saturday by its Spokesperson for the Presidential Campaign Management Committee, Senator Dino Melaye, said Shettima was rather preparing to help his “Bandits’ Empire” not Nigeria.…