The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State has declared in clear terms that it is behind the party’s presidential candidate in the forthcoming 2023 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The latest declaration by the Abia PDP comes on the heels of the recent withdrawal by some party chieftains as members of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organization. InfoStride News reports that the camp of Governor Nyesom Wike had insisted the party’s national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, worked for the emergence of Atiku Abubakar. The former vice president won the presidential ticket at the PDP primary, which was…
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Former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has warned Nigerians not to vote for those he described as “killers” during the 2023 election. Jonathan stated this on Sunday in Uyo during a special interdenominational service to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the creation of Akwa Ibom State. “In 2023, you must not make the mistake to vote killers. “Those who will carry knives, guns, and all kinds of gadgets to go and kill people because of politics, are the enemies of society. “If you kill to become a leader, you will continue to kill to remain a leader. “The people will continue to…
As India assumes the presidency of the G20, the world counts on it to mobilise credible actions to deliver on the 2030 Development Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday. In his message to a special India@75′ event on Showcasing the India-UN Partnership in Action’, the UN chief underlined that as home to the largest youth generation in history, India will be decisive in the success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “Looking ahead, India, home to the largest youth generation in history will be decisive in the success of the Sustainable Development Goals,…
The oppression of the Muhajir political activists in Pakistan — Muslim immigrants who migrated from various regions of India after the Partition of India, has continued in the country as the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) claimed that three of its party leader were killed by the Pakistan government. MQM-P leader Faisal Sabzwari has said that the three missing persons whose bodies were found in different districts of Sindh province belonged to their party, according to a Canada-based think tank, International Forum for Right and Security. The state oppression against Muhajirs is being continued since the creation of Pakistan and was…
Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has reacted to the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In a post on his social media handles on Saturday, the former presidential aspirant said he had been working silently behind the scene to ensure the return of normalcy into the party. InfoStride News recalls that the main opposition party slipped into an unusual crisis months ago after the party’s primary election held on May 29 in Abuja. Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his loyalists, who suspected foul play in the electoral process, had demanded the resignation of the PDP National Chairman,…
One of the Zamfara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirants, Hon. Ibrahim Shehu, has dragged the party to the Federal High Court for the second time in one week over short notice served to him for the rerun governorship primary election. Shehu told the media that he scored only one vote in what he described as kangaroo governorship primary election because he warned his supporters to distance themselves from the exercise. According to him, he had dragged the party hours before the election to the same Federal High Court sitting in Gusau, the state capital, saying…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said the Senator representing Enugu East Senatorial District, Chimaroke Nnamani, was listed as a member of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, PCC because he believes in the ruling party. InfoStride News had reported that the lawmaker, who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was among the list of campaign council which comprises 422 members. Reacting to the news currently making the rounds, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, told Channels TV that Tinubu enjoys support beyond the APC and it is not unusual for the “cross-party…
A staunch member of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Alhaji Illiyasu Bakura, has stated that the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has every right for his struggles for the Southern part of Nigeria to have the position of the party’s national chairmanship. Speaking with Journalists in Gusau, the ZamfaraState capital, the party’s chieftain admitted that actually, there is a lot of injustice and impasses in the running of PDP in the entire country, which he said can not help the party to grow. “I want to tell you that there is a lot of injustice and impasses going on in PDP…
The Taliban have announced that it plans to review and revise the curriculum in view of Afghan culture, international educational standards, and Islamic law. Ahmad Taqi, the Taliban spokesperson for the Ministry of Higher Education said 35 academic curricula have already been finalised, and a single academic curriculum will be set up across Afghanistan, TOLOnews reported. “We have adopted those international norms that we support and are working to align Afghanistan’s curriculum with those norms so that we can compete with other countries in curriculum,” said Taqi. There are 165 different educational curricula available nationwide, of which 20 bachelor’s degree…
Frontline 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi prayed for his supporters on Saturday as they gathered in Abuja. The former Governor of Anambra State is the flagbearer of the Labour Party (LP). Popularly known as Obidients, his followers shut down some major roads in the Central Area, including the Federal Secretariat, and others. The walk by the citizens, in their thousands, caused gridlock at some locations in the nation’s capital. In a tweet, Obi, currently in Kano State for a function, noted that he was following the march. “From Kano, I am watching the Obidients gathered in Abuja and exercising their…
The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party in Rivers State, Sen. Magnus Abe has unveiled his running mate for the 2023 election. Magnus Abe unveiled his running mate on Saturday in Port Harcourt, in an event attended by leaders of the party. His running mate is a former Permanent Secretary, Patricia Ogbonnanya. Speaking during the ceremony, Sen. Magnus Abe explained that his choice of an Ekpeye woman over other tribes in the state is because the Ekpeye people were yet to produce anybody in the leadership position in the state. The former senator, who is from the Ogoni extraction,…
The Osun State chapter of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) on Saturday denied a claim that it has endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu. The Caretaker Chairman of the party in Osun, Alhaji Abdussalam Abdullateef, who made the rebuttal at a news conference in Osogbo, urged Nigerians to disregard the claim. Abdullateef explained that four members of the NNPP, who reportedly endorsed Tinubu, were “on their own.” He said that the only presidential candidate known to the NNPP is Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, “who has all it takes to give our dear country…
Nwachukwu Anakwenze, former presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has pleaded with the national chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, to voluntarily resign. This, he believed, would bring an end to the growing crisis rocking the opposition party. InfoStride News recalls that River State Governor, Nyesom Wike, had revealed details about some party leaders and the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. He also alleged that Ayu and other party chieftains conspired against him during the presidential primaries. Following the revelations and embroiled crisis, Anakwenze, in a statement in Abuja signed by the Director General of his Campaign Organisation,…
Russia on Friday began staging UN-condemned “referendums” to annex the roughly one-fifth of neighboring Ukraine it occupies, marking a new escalation in the spiraling conflict between President Vladimir Putin and the US and its allies. The votes are a “violation of the UN Charter and international law,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. The Kremlin ordered the ballots after its forces suffered their worst defeats to Ukraine’s military since the early weeks of the seven-month-long invasion. Putin this week also called for a “partial mobilization” to draft 300,000 reservists He stepped up his threats toward Ukraine’s US and European…
The federal lawmaker representing the Enugu East Senatorial District at the upper chamber, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani has been listed as a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, for the forthcoming 2023 election. InfoStride News earlier reported that a few days to the official take-off of the 2023 campaign, the ruling party on Friday released its campaign council list The council list, which comprises 422 members, was released by the PCC Secretary, James Faleke, a federal lawmaker. InfoStride News, however, observed that Senator Chimaroke, who was elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to focus on its frailties and staff of their affairs. Tinubu in a statement by Director, Media and Publicity of his Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, Friday mocked Atiku and PDP over the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike’s revealing media chat. APC said “Once again, another bid for the presidency of our country by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar is slipping away. This is unraveling before our very eyes even before…
A Peoples Democratic Party Chieftain in Kachia local government area of Kaduna State, Dr. Musa Abdul on Friday, expressed disappointment over the revelations by the River State Governor, Nyesom Wike against his party. Governor Wike had revealed details about some party leaders and the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Musa claimed the Rivers State Governor was trying to pull down the party at all costs and advised the PDP leadership to hasten to do his binding by forcing the National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu to resign before Wike destroys the party. “Wike is now a goddess of the…
Amid the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, the immediate past chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the party, Senator Walid Jibrin, on Friday, disclosed that he will remain in the party and will continue to do so until Atiku becomes the president of Nigeria in 2023. InfoStride News recalls that Senator Walid Jibrin, the chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had on August 7, 2020, resigned from his position. Although political pundits believed Mr Jibrin’s resignation came amid calls that the party’s leadership structure be reshuffled to balance the existing…
Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister and a staunch supporter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, says the Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has destroyed the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The human rights lawyer stated this via a post on his social media handles while reacting to Wike’s recent outburst against the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Wike, during a chat with some selected journalists in Port Harcourt on Friday, vowed not to back down on his demand for the resignation of PDP national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, which is currently threatening the division of the party.…
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar has said the leaders of the People Democratic Party are not engaged in “a war of attrition”. Atiku made the assertion in an apparent response to the sustained media attacks by members of the party from Governor Nyesom Wike’s camp. Wike’s camp has continued to demand the resignation of Iyorchia Ayu as the National Chairman of the party. The Rivers State Governor recently led other leaders of the party to pull out of the presidential campaign council of the PDP following the refusal of Ayu to resign from the party.…