Ahead of the next year’s presidential election, Umar Farouk, the National Secretary of the Labour Party (LP), says only Nigerians can stop Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate, from winning the 2023 elections. Farouk disclosed this on Thursday while featuring on the Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. He maintained that with the momentum of the “Obidients”, the party is guaranteed victory. However, Farouk insisted that the Nigerian people must decide that they are tired of the old order. “That is the docility of Nigerians not to select good leaders. If Nigerians feel that they want to continue with the old…
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The Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Musa Kwankwaso, has denied any planned merger of the party with other political parties ahead of next year’s election, saying some failed politicians are behind such rumour. He spoke with newsmen in Abeokuta, Ogun State, shortly after he addressed NNPP members at the party secretariat in the capital. Kwankwaso said, “That’s absolute nonsense. You see we believe that we are not above the three or four parties in this country, but by 2023, next year, by the grace of God NNPP will win the election at national and all…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has cautioned other politicians against pressurizing the Nigeria Army. Atiku also challenged presidential candidates and their parties to engage voters and not the Nigeria Army. The Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabo, Thursday disclosed that Nigeria’s army is facing constant pressure to compromise the 2023 elections. “Nigerians can be rest assured that it would remain neutral,” he said. Reacting to this, Atiku Campaign Organization in a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, Thursday, urged the military hierarchy to ensure that the rank and file operate within the confines…
Peru’s Congress removed President Pedro Castillo from office Wednesday and replaced him with the vice president, shortly after Castillo decreed the dissolution of the legislature ahead of a scheduled vote to oust him. The national ombudsman’s office, Constitutional Tribunal and Supreme Court called Castillo’s move to dissolve the Congress a coup, although at least one expert disagreed. Peru’s Congress has the ability to remove the president and the president has the ability to dissolve the Congress, so “technically, it is not a coup, said Eduardo Gamarra, a political science and international relations professor at Florida International University. The confusion is…
An Abeokuta Federal High Court has directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognize all National Assembly candidates of the Labour Party (LP) for the 2023 general elections in Ogun State. InfoStride News had earlier reported that the names of all candidates of the LP in Ogun were missing when INEC released its final list of candidates. Following the omission, the party had dragged the commission to court, arguing that the omission was an administrative error on the part of INEC as its conduct of primary elections did not go against the Electoral Act. The party insisted that it…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State on Friday inaugurated a 1500 -member campaign committee to mobilise votes for the party, ahead of the 2023 general elections. The party’s State Chairman, Charles Ugwuh, who inaugurated the committee at the PDP secretariat in Owerri, assured that the party is united and is the strongest party in Imo State. He said,” Victory is in sight for PDP. Success is in sight too. He urged Let’s march forward together. We have capable men who can deliver success. He urged everyone to file behind the campaign council to bring victory to the party…
Femi Fani-Kayode, spokesman of the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential campaign council, has said the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and his running mate would be punished if the APC candidate, Bola Tinubu emerges winner of the forthcoming election. The former Aviation Minister who stated this in a series of tweets while reacting to alleged attacks on Tinubu by the supporters of Obi known as Obidients, described them as a curse, an affliction. According to Fani-Kayode, Tinubu’s government if elected in 2023, would ‘deport’ Obi to Malaysia where he would answer some questions. The APC chieftain further…
Media practitioners have been told to guard against fake news during the 2023 general election to avoid causing confusion or heating the polity during the general election. The Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Dr. Dayo Oladebeye, gave the charge yesterday during a lecture he delivered at the NUJ Press Week, Ekiti State Council. Oladebeye said the social media has not helped the situation in this regard in view of the fact that almost every dick and harry always wants to post things regardless of the sources. Oladebeye, who spoke on the topic, “2023 Elections: Beyond Religion, Ethnicity – The Place of…
The Rivers State government has alleged a plot to blackmail the State Governor, Nyesom Wike, over the agitation by the G-5 governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The State’s Commissioner for Information and Communication, Chris Finebone, disclosed this at a press conference in Port Harcourt on Thursday. In a statement by Wike’s Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri, Finebone said a “faceless group” was behind a campaign of calumny against the governor. Finebone said the faceless group was aggrieved that Wike led the G-5 governors to demand “fairness, equity and justice” in PDP. He said: “This is the evidence…
A non-governmental body, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), has frowned at the recent decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to shrink the time for collection of permanent voters cards (PVC) to only 26 working days. InfoStride News recalls that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), had on Saturday, announced December 12, 2022, to January 22, 2023, as dates for commencement and end of collection of permanent voters cards. The electoral body made the announcement on Friday via a statement by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye.…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the recent engagement of the Presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the Chatham House in London as a good preview of what Nigerians should expect from his presidency come 2023. The spokesperson of APC North-West Presidential Campaign Council, Muhammad Molash in a statement issued on Thursday said it was indeed an opportunity for Tinubu to showcase his leadership skills to the international community, his vision for Nigeria, his enviable track records and his ability to identify talents and delegate responsibilities to them. The party insisted that the outing also showed…
Nepal’s ruling alliance has won a majority of seats in four of the seven provinces, as the Election Commission announced the results for the provincial Assembly polls. The results of the provincial Assembly polls were announced on Wednesday evening, Xinhua news agency reported. No single party has commanded a majority in all the seven provincial assemblies, as is the case for the House of Representatives of the parliament. The four ruling parties – the Nepali Congress, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center), the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) and the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party — are in the majority…
As the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign train arrives in Osun State, residents of Osogbo have lamented the untold traffic hardship it has imposed on them. The PDP presidential rally is holding on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo. Most routes in the town have been blocked as both commercial cars and motorcyclists as well as private vehicles have been forced to take alternative routes. Residents have also complained of the traffic congestion as most of them were not aware of the presidential rally that has been scheduled for today in Osogbo. While complaining that…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that 132,626 Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) belonging to voters in the 21 local government areas of Anambra State are still uncollected. The commission also stated that it has relocated six local government area collection centres in the state, as a result of the insecurity ravaging most parts of the country. The state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Queen Elizabeth Agwu, stated this on Wednesday, during a meeting with stakeholders at the state headquarters of the commission. Agwu who addressed all the political parties representatives, traditional rulers and civil society groups said the…
A federal High Court sitting in Abuja has voided the primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ebonyi State, just a few months before the general election. Recall that the Party, PDP, in its first primary election conducted in May 28th and 29th 2022, elected Mr. Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii as its gubernatorial candidate in Ebonyi State. The party also held another primary election on the 4th and 5th of June 2022, which produced Obinna Ogba as its factional governorship candidate. It was gathered that the 1st primary election of the PDP which produced Odii as a guber candidate…
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has ruled that the National Assembly candidates of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State can take part in the 2023 general elections. The Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State had filed a suit seeking the court to disqualify the APC National Assembly candidates for alleged non-compliance with the Electoral Act in the conduct of the party primaries. The PDP prayed the court to direct the Independent National Electoral Commission to delist the names of the APC candidates from the election. But the presiding judge, Justice Turaki Muhammed on Wednesday struck out…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is attending a pair of regional summits in Saudi Arabia this week amid efforts to kick-start economic growth weighed down by strict anti-COVID-19 measures. The Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Xi will attend the inaugural China-Arab States Summit and a meeting with leaders of the six nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. His state visit to Saudi Arabia will end on Saturday. China is the world’s second largest economy and a major source of outward investment. To fuel massive demand, it imports half its oil, of which…
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday reaffirmed the government’s strong commitment to supporting all efforts that promote and uphold freedom of expression and free media. He was addressing an event organised by the Islamabad Journalist Safety Forum on the theme of the UN ten years Plan of Action, according to an official statement. The Prime Minister said his government believes that the freedom of expression is sacrosanct and will remain at the heart of the development of democracy. Shehbaz noted democracy and media reinforce each other and that there can be no democracy without freedom of expression and…
The Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Jigawa has accused the ruling All Progressive Congress APC in the state of planning to buy votes during the 2023 general election. The National PDP Youth leader Mohammed Kadade Suleman made the allegations after presenting flags to the party’s candidates held at the state headquarters in Dutse, Jigawa State. He said the mammoth crowd is a clear indication that Jigawa State is for PDP and people are ready to vote out APC coming 2023 general election. “I heard one minister from Katsina State say APC has saved money and is planning to buy votes…
The Zamfara north senatorial district of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded that former chairman, Dr Ahmad Sani Kaura who died recently be replaced by somebody from the zone. A group known as “Zamfara Youth Forum” appealed to the leadership of the party to look into the matter and return the chairmanship position of the party to the zone, considering that Nigeria is in a democratic era. The youth forum explained that its attention was drawn to the rumours of plans to give the position to another senatorial district. The leader of the forum, Abba Muhammad Gusau made the…