President of the United States, Joe Biden has advised President Muhammadu Buhari and the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against adopting a partisanship posture in next year’s general elections. Biden, however, praised Buhari over what he described as efforts in deepening democracy not only in Nigeria, but also in Africa. The US President admonished Buhari in Washington, on Wednesday, while interacting with leaders of six African countries slated to have elections in 2023 on the sidelines of the US-Africa Leaders Summit taking place in the US Capital. Biden revealed that he had followed the personality traits of…
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The chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, in Kaduna State, Mr Ben Kure, on Thursday, said he has resigned from his position because the party has derailed. Speaking at a news conference in Kaduna on Thursday, Kure said though, he has high regard for the party’s presidential candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, he is no longer a member of the party. Kure while expressing his grievances to quit the party, noted that NNPP is not fully on ground in Kaduna State adding that one cannot be a gubernatorial candidate and want to run the party. According to him, several…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has pledged to give Ndigbo a new lease of life if elected president in 2023. Atiku who was in Anambra to canvass for votes said he would improve the South East geopolitical zone through security of lives and property, economic boom, and guaranteed infrastructural development. He specifically pledged to dredge the River Niger to help boost trade and economic growth of the commercial people of the Southeast, activate the Onitsha Port and embark on massive construction of roads in Anambra State and other parts of the geopolitical zone.…
The national secretariat of the Labour Party has reportedly queried the Kogi State chapter of the party over the poor outing that greeted the campaign rally of the party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates, Peter Obi and Baba Ahmed-Datti respectively on Tuesday. Sources told the media the query was sent to the state chairman, Abdul Ahmed and members of the state executives asking them to explain how they utilized the funds earmarked for the rally. It was gathered that most of the attendees, mobilized from neighbouring Enugu State to Lokoja for the rally, invaded the Ganaja Road secretariat of the…
The APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been assured of getting 40 million votes even as he is declared hale and hearty to cover more grounds daily to campaign for his election next year. APC National Women Leader Dr Betta Edu made this statement in Calabar while speaking about the national tour by Tinubu and concerns raised about his state of health and ability to finish his campaign exercises before the actual election in February next year. “Our Presidential candidate is holding rallies back to back; he is holding long hours of consultative meetings till as late as…
The US has charged five Russian nationals, including a suspected Federal Security Service (FSB) officer, and two Americans for allegedly conspiring to obtain military-grade and dual-use technologies from US companies for Russia’s defence sector, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced. In an official statement issued on Tuesday, the DOJ said a 16-count indictment was unsealed on Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Court in New York City. The seven persons are Yevgeniy Grinin, 44, of Moscow; Aleksey Ippolitov, 57, of Moscow; Boris Livshits, 52, of St. Petersburg; Svetlana Skvortsova, 41, of Moscow; Vadim Konoshchenok, 48, of St. Petersburg; Alexey Brayman, 35, of…
As the 2023 presidential election hots up, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has expressed assurance that its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu will win in the Southwest with a landslide victory. According to the ruling party through its National Vice Chairman (South West), Isaac Kekemeke, APC will conquer the entire six states within the region. While speaking within newsmen in Akure, Ondo State capital, Kekemeke stated that the disunity within the APC fold in the runup to the 2019 poll made the party to lose to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo and Osun states in the 2019. Kekemeke,…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has promised to move Nigeria from a consuming nation to producing nation. Peter Obi was speaking on Tuesday while addressing a campaign rally at Confluence Stadium, Lokoja. According to him: “It is a promise, for I and my team are prepared to be held accountable for that, we will move Nigeria from a consuming nation to a consuming one. We will make sure that production starts from a local level, we will increase the minimum wage since the minimum wage today can hardly sustain workers, and we should be able to…
The Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by one of the governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Ojukaye Flag-Amachree against the judgment of the Federal High Court in a matter filed by one George Orlu and four others against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and the APC. Flag-Amachree had approached the Appeal Court arguing that George Orlu and the others who filed the suit at the High Court did not participate in the primaries and as such if the winner of the primaries Tonye Cole is found incompetent…
A prominent member and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has said he will not vote for his party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in next year’s presidential election, unless the issue of inclusivity in the party is addressed. George disclosed this on Tuesday morning while featuring on the Arise Television Morning Show programme. Recall that he had supported the call for Iyorchia Ayu to step down from his position as the party’s National Chairman, saying the lingering crisis bedevilling the party might cause its defeat in the 2023 presidential election. “Until this party returns to the founding…
An all-party meeting convened by President Ranil Wickremesinghe has discussed the 13th Amendment to Sri Lanka’s Constitution as mooted by India to resolve the long-standing demand for political autonomy for the minority Tamils in the island nation, political leaders said on Wednesday. The Tamil parties which participated in the meeting on Tuesday urged the government to hold the northern provincial council election. The 13A is already a part of the Constitution and it is a point that most parties agreed to, Tamil Progressive Alliance (TNA) leader Mano Ganesan told PTI. Ganesan, who represents mostly the Western province-based Tamils of Indian…
As the 2023 presidential election hots up, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has expressed assurance that its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu will win in the Southwest with a landslide victory. According to the ruling party through its National Vice Chairman (South West), Isaac Kekemeke, APC will conquer the entire six states within the region. While speaking within newsmen in Akure, Ondo State capital, Kekemeke stated that the disunity within the APC fold in the runup to the 2019 poll made the party to lose to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo and Osun states in the 2019. Kekemeke,…
The National Vice President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Damian Okeke-Ogene, has said all the state governors in the Southeast may vote for the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate in 2023. Okeke-Ogene made the remark while stressing that nobody can decide which presidential candidate the Southeast would vote for in 2023. He, however, noted that the Southeast is clamouring for Obi because he is a Nigerian project and not because he’s an Igbo man. In a statement, he described Obi’s national acceptance as the first of its kind in the country. He noted that elder statesmen like Chukwuemeka Ojukwu and Nnamdi Azikiwe…
Another 11,350 members of the Katsina State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Katsina. This is coming barely one week after the state governor, Aminu Bello Masari received over 1,760 PDP card-carrying members from Danja LGA into the Katsina APC. The gale of defection threatening the chances of the main opposition party in the state may not be unconnected with the unresolved leadership tussle between the Lado and Majigiri faction of the Katsina PDP. Mashi LGA is the home of the embattled PDP State Chairman, Salisu Yusuf Majigiri, a loyalist…
The Kano State Government of All Progressive Congress, APC and the opposition, New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, have engaged in a war of words over allegations that the Kwankwaso-led NPP would immediately cancel the newly created four emirates councils if the party wins the forthcoming election. The controversy began when the Kano State government said that following the consolidation of the new emirates in the state, the stage has been set for the incorporation of the traditional institution into its sectoral development programmes to accommodate the overall socio-economic needs of the people, as against the alleged NNPP plan of dissolution…
China on Tuesday advised its citizens in Afghanistan to leave the country “as soon as possible”, following a coordinated attack by Islamic State militants the previous day on a Chinese-owned hotel in the heart of Kabul. The Chinese advisory appeared to be a setback for Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers who seek foreign investments in hopes of halting the downward spiral of the Afghan economy since their takeover of the country more than a year ago. The militant Islamic State group – a key rival of the Taliban – claimed responsibility for the attack Monday afternoon on Kabul Longan Hotel, which left…
Niger State supporters of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have boosted his chances in the 2023 presidential election by giving him a massive endorsement to run for the country’s top seat in the forthcoming general elections. The crowd in their numbers trooped to the Trade Fair Complex, the venue of the flag-off rally of the APC presidential and gubernatorial campaign in Minna as early as 8 am to await the arrival of the presidential candidate. This resulted in a heavy traffic gridlock along the Minna-Suleja road, a major road to the venue.…
Senator Ben Obi and Prof Obiora Okonkwo respectively, the chairman and director general of Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council in Anambra State have revealed that a special team is working to resolve the impasse between the party’s presidential candidate and the G5 governors. They stated this on Wednesday in Awka, Anambra State, during a pre-campaign flag-off press conference to announce the visit of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Thursday. The campaign council also used the opportunity to present its itinerary for the candidate in Anambra State. Senator Ben Obi and Okonkwo who addressed journalists said efforts are ongoing to reconcile Atiku with…
Accord Party (AP) presidential flagbearer, Professor Christopher Imumolen has again urged Nigerians to endorse his candidature to demonstrate that they want a break from the ugly past of rudderless leadership. The youngest candidate believes the best way the people can point the way to a better future is for them to reject the old order and support a younger man with fresher ideas for a new era of all-round development. Speaking to reporters after a rally, he said shunning the old breed of leaders, who have had nothing to offer despite decades of being at the helm, would revamp the…
The youth wing of the Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressive Congress ( APC) in collaboration with women groups has conducted a one million solidarity walk in support of Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle. The One Million Solidarity Walk was led by the Zamfara State APC coordinator, Youth Mobilization Group for Governor Matawalle, Hon. Yazeed Danfulani who also doubled as the Zamfara State Commissioner of Commerce and Industry. InfoStride News reports that the rally started as early as 9 am on Wednesday 14th December 2022 with motorcycle riders rallying Gusau metropolis with Governor Matawalle’s posters and emblems. The rally terminated…