Obaze and his supporters have dumped the party for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Also, the Director Media and Publicity to the House of Representative Campaign team for the Ogbia Federal Constituency candidate, Ibu Williams Mizodome, led some APC members to the PDP. InfoStride News gathered that while Obaze, who was the Assistant Legal Adviser of the APC in Yenagoa Local Government Council announced his defection through a resignation letter to the ward chairman of the party, Mizodome, who also doubled as the Secretary Obhan Emeyal Traditional Council announced his defection at the Ward Headquarters of…
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The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) has condemned the description of its 2023 presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, as spoiler. The National Secretary, Dipo Olayoku, issued a statement on Monday in Abuja. Olayoku said an emergency meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) discussed some publications against Kwankwaso. The spokesman noted that the NNPP discovered that some media reports were sponsored against the party. Olayoku insists the former governor is the one to beat in the 2023 election and “cannot be a spoiler or a pretender”. Olayoku said that other political parties and their candidates had made the NNPP candidate their…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday began a reconciliation tour of states in the North East. The tour took off in Adamawa, the home state of the party’s National Vice Chairman (North East), Comrade Mustapha Salihu, who said the tour was designed for members of the party to ventilate their grievances and have them addressed. “You can’t have a party presenting members for competitive elections and not have conflicts, and it is good that people are voicing out their grievances,” the APC Zonal chairman told newsmen. He explained that political process is a duel from which losers could be…
As the controversy regarding the leaked audio continues in Pakistan, former Prime Minister Imran Khan has challenged the coalition government led by Pakistan Muslim League (N) to arrest him. Addressing a public gathering in Taxila, Punjab on Sunday, the deposed leader said PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz wanted the cypher to disappear in a bid to hide the conspiracy hatched by PM Shehbaz Sharif’s party. “This is the movement of real independence and we are ready to face jails. I am ready to go to jail and my nation as well. We are not afraid of jail,” he was quoted as…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned all the political parties in the country not to collect any donations from foreign countries. The Chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, stated this during an interview with Trust TV on Sunday. He explained that parties cannot receive financial support from foreign countries to sponsor their electioneering activities. According to him, if such support is received, it is necessary to transfer these funds to the election commission. Mahmood explained that all the registered political parties must disclose where they got their campaign funds and follow the rules set for spending money during…
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has queried why the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and other members of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC are yet to be arrested over alleged misappropriation of funds. InfoStride News recalls that the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike had alleged that Ayu received N1 billion from a presidential aspirant before the party conducted its primary election. Following the allegation, some members of the NWC refunded about N122 billion found in their various accounts to the party. The party had, however, clarified that the money being returned was sent to them for…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been asked to ensure good governance in the 2023 political dispensation by holding elected politicians accountable to Nigerians through their parties’ manifestoes. The Commission was specifically charged to document manifestoes of all parties and use them to effect checks and balances on leaders that would emerge in next year’s elections. National Commandant of the Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Ambassador Dickson Ameh Akoh, who threw the challenge, said that INEC should not limit itself to conduct of elections alone but must be at the forefront of doing follow-ups that would make politicians abide…
The Senatorial Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State, Newton Bassey has bemoaned the poor sanitary in Calabar, the state capital. He said in an interview that the state has lost it in the area of cleanliness, adding that his party will bring about sanity and restore the lost glory of the state. “Cross River State has lost it. We were the leading states in the country in terms of cleanliness but today our place is very low”, he said. Bassey alleged that the sitting government does not care about environmental…
Former President Donald Trump “wants his old job back” and will announce within weeks his run for the presidency in 2024. Trump is eager to get back to the White House, and wants to announce his 2024 run in the coming weeks. Stating this, Kellyanne Conway, his 2016 campaign manager and close ally, said she had advised him to wait until after the midterms in November, according to Business Insider. . Speaking on Friday with CBS News, Conway was asked whether Trump would announce his candidacy after the midterm elections and before Thanksgiving. “Well, he would like to,” said Conway,…
Major stakeholders in Abia State have evaluated the growth and development of Nigeria as its 62nd Anniversary of her independence. The stakeholders drawn from the political and business circle, also expressed divergent opinions on most of the fundamental and core challenges facing the country, as well as some of the laudable and monumental strides recorded through the collective efforts of patriotic citizens of the country across all divides. While assessing the journey of Nigeria, a country widely-known as the most populous African nation in the world map since after her independence from the British rulership, the Governor of Abia State,…
The chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Osun State chapter, Prince Gboyega Famodun, has enjoined all the members of the party and supporters to put their minds at rest over the Federal High Court, Abuja, ruling over the nomination of Governor Gboyega Oyetola as the candidate of the party in the July 16, 2022 governorship election. The federal High Court nullified the nomination of Oyetola and his Deputy, Benedict Alabi on the ground that Governor Mai Buni, who submitted their names to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) violated the provisions of Nigeria constitution. Buni, according to the court, violated…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has denied withdrawing from the race. Tinubu posted a short video of himself on a treadmill on Sunday evening, in a bid to debunk rumours making the rounds. The former Lagos State Governor wrote alongside it: “Many have said I have died; others claim I have withdrawn from the presidential campaign. “Well… Nope. “This is the reality: I am strong, I am healthy and I am READY to serve Nigerians from Day One.” Tinubu came under criticism as he was missing at last Thursday’s signing of the Peace…
Ahead of the February 2023 presidential elections, five Governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday, met in Enugu State. Inside sources told DAILY POST that the discussion centred on how to deliver the Labour Party Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi in 2023. The Governors are: Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Okezie Ikeazu of Abia State and the host Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. According to the insider, the five governors were moved to back Peter Obi’s candidacy because they are not comfortable with the…
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is expected to embark on an official visit to China in the first week of November, media reports said. “Last minute details are being worked upon, but the visit is very much on,” sources told The News. Meanwhile, in Beijing, the Pakistan Embassy hosted an event on floods in Pakistan. “Delighted to host representatives of multilateral organisations, Chinese think tanks and academia at the embassy. Briefed them on recent floods in Pakistan and Pakistan’s vulnerability to climate change. Touched by their desire to contribute,” said Pakistan’s Ambassador Moinul Haque. Interestingly, Haque was also at one…
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, All Progressives Congress (APC) 2023 presidential candidate has appointed Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State as Campaign Senior Adviser on Administration and Government. Tinubu also appointed the former governor of Sokoto State, Sen. Aliyu Wamakko as Senior Adviser, Special Duties. According to the letters of appointment made available to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja and signed by Tinubu, both Masari and Wamakko are to serve in the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC). The letters said both men’s impressive political achievement and the exemplary leadership demonstrated as governor and Senator in their states and as party members qualified…
Enugu Coalition Movement has pledged to ensure electoral victories of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Barr Peter Mbah and all candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State through mass grassroots mobilization. The group, which made the pledge during the inauguration of the Igbo-etiti Local Government chapter of the group, weekend, assured that it would set up a 20-member committee in each of the entire polling units in the State for aggressive campaigns for PDP candidates. The Director-General of the group, Rt. Hon. Chinedu Nwamba while speaking at the inauguration, said that the group would also superintend over other PDP…
The gubernatorial candidate of Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna State in the 2023 election, Jonathan Asake, has opined that the main problems bedevilling the country is lack of transparent leadership. He noted that Labour Party is determined to change the narratives of what is happening in the country with a view to ensuring that leadership has a human face in its dealing with people devoid of any difference. Speaking on Sunday at Zaria with some stakeholders, the gubernatorial candidate explained, “There is the need for justice, fairness and equity in ensuring that the right thing is done in order to…
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Chairman of Matawalle Support Organization in Sokoto State, Alhaji Anas Waziri and hundreds of his supporters have defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). This was contained in a statement issued by Bashar Abubakar, Special Assistant, New Media, to Sen. Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto North), on Sunday in Sokoto. Abubakar quoted Waziri as saying, “we decided to leave the party as its leaders had failed to take us to the promised land. “Our exit from PDP is a sign of victory for APC because of its acceptability across…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has said that the Communist Party must be united to prepare for great struggles and face major risks, ahead of this month’s key Congress of the ruling party where he is expected to get endorsed for a record third five-year term unlike his predecessors. In an article published in the party’s journal Qiushi on Saturday, China’s National Day, 69-year-old Xi said the country has never been closer to achieving its great national rejuvenation, but the last mile would be full of perils and challenges. Our party must be united to lead the people to face…
The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, and the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Adolphus Wabara, have assured that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and other aggrieved members will work for the party’s victory in 2023. Responding to questions after a close door meeting with the BoT Special Reconciliation Committee on Saturday in Abuja, Okowa expressed hope that Governor Wike, Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Lawrence Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and other aggrieved members would come onboard. Okowa also hinted that the governors are discussing among themselves,…