A call for political office seekers to shun campaigns of calumny ahead of the 2023 general elections, have been made by the leadership of the Taraba State House of Assembly. The leadership of the House, who made the call through the speaker, Joseph Albasu Kunin, on Monday, appealed to the various contestants to eschew politics of bitterness capable of leading to violence and wanton destruction of lives and property. The clarion call was observed to have been made in his welcome speech at resumption of plenary after House recess. According to him, for the present democratic dispensation to thrive and…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has announced the suspension of one of its governorship candidates, Jimi Lawal for organising what was termed an illegal primary election. Others suspended by the party are the State Financial Secretary, Hon. Bola Odumosu; Fasiu Ajadi from Abeokuta South; Alhaji Kola Akinyemi and the Chairman of the party in Ijebu North East, Aremo Tope Ashiru. The five PDP members were suspended by the party’s State Working Committee at a meeting held at the PDP Secretariat in Abeokuta on Monday. They were sanctioned for organising a congress against the decision of the party…
Spokesperson of the Atiku Campaign Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan has boasted that the success of the PDP rally in Kaduna State is a pointer that the former Vice President will win the next election. Ologbondiyan Claimed the overwhelming acceptance of its candidate has thrown the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congressive (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and that of the Labour Party, Peter Obi into a panic. In a statement, Ologbondiyan said it was the fear of the PDP Presidential candidate that made some opponents resort to sending armed thugs to disrupt PDP’s campaigns as well as the closure of…
China opposes protectionism, the erection of fences and barriers, decoupling, disruption of industrial and supply chains, unilateral sanctions, and maximum-pressure tactics, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday, apparently hitting out at the US. China adheres to the right course of economic globalisation, he told the key Congress of the ruling Communist Party here. The 20th Congress in its weeklong session starting from Sunday is widely expected to endorse a record third five-year term for Xi who also heads the party and the military. China strives to promote trade and investment liberalisation and facilitation, advance bilateral, regional, and multilateral cooperation, and…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has told his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, to step down and endorse him for the 2023 presidential poll. He stated this when he met with leaders from the northern part of the country under the umbrella of the Arewa Joint Committee for an interactive session on Monday. The interactive session took place at the Arewa House in Kaduna. It was organised by a coalition of six groups including the Arewa Consultative Forum, Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, Northern Elders Forum, Jamar Matan Arewa, among…
Following the insecurity challenges, that have bedevilled the country and the need to create state police, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has given a condition for creating the state police. InfoStride News recalls that many opinion leaders have repeatedly called for the creation of state police. However, while addressing leaders of the northern region on Monday in Kaduna, Tinubu said the creation of state police can only be achieved through a constitutional amendment that will require the collective support of all stakeholders including the National Assembly and socioeconomic organisations. Tinubu said his…
The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has alleged that the All Progressives Congress, APC, owns a fake news factory. Governor Tambuwal is the Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council. He made the claim while addressing a crowd of party supporters at a campaign rally in Kaduna, on Monday. He said: “some people said PDP has suspended its rallies in Nigeria, we issued a statement that it was fake news manufactured from the fake news laboratory of the APC and we are here in Kaduna today. “We have also just witnessed another effort to throw spanners…
Governor Gboyega Oyetola on Monday swore in the newly elected Chairmen and Councillors of local government areas in the State. The new local government executives were elected in a poll organised by Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC). Only one political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) participated in the election conducted on Saturday, October 15. Speaking to the elected Chairmen shortly after they had taken the oath of office, at Bola Ige house at the State Secretariat, Osogbo, Oyetola urged the local government executives to borrow a leaf from his transparent and accountable style of governance which has been…
Shortly after Chinese leader Xi Jinping said Beijing will not renounce the use of force to reunite Taiwan, the island nation responded by saying that it will never compromise on the values of sovereignty, democracy and freedom. “The national security team is closely monitoring the situation and will continue to pay close attention to subsequent developments,” Taiwan presidential office spokesperson Chang Tun-han was quoted as saying by CNN. “It is the consensus of the Taiwanese public that territorial sovereignty, democracy and freedom cannot be compromised, and military confrontation must not be the option for both sides of the Taiwan Strait,”…
Residents of Taraba State have been urged to opt for politicians who are willing to inject fresh ideas into governance. A group, Taraba Must Progress Movement, made the call on Sunday during an interactive session with the media in Jalingo, Taraba State capital. Led by its chairman, Dr Joshua Garba, the group pleaded with the electorates to make judiciou use of their permanent voter’s cards in ensuring that fresh people emerged as leaders in the forthcoming election. The group, while noting that old politicians in the State have failed over the years, said “it is time for Tarabans to wake…
With the 2023 general elections fast approaching, former Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has disclosed the only party he belongs to. Sanusi said the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu is aware that he belongs to the party called Nigeria. He disclosed this while noting that he’s not a member of any political party. Sanusi spoke while addressing Tinubu and other guests in Kaduna during the seventh edition of KadInvest, an annual event organised by the Kaduna State Investment Promotion Agency yesterday. The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, also lamented oil theft, Nigeria’s…
The spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, has called on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to quit the race. Keyamo accused Atiku of playing the ethnic card ahead of the 2023 presidential election; hence, should quit the race. He was reacting to Atiku’s comment that Nigeria needs a pan-Nigerian president and not a Yoruba or Igbo president in 2023. Speaking in Kaduna on Saturday, Atiku urged Nigerians to vote for him because he is a pan-Nigerian. Condemning the remark, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, accused the PDP…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has been criticized for saying the North does not need a Yoruba or Igbo president. Atiku said Northerners needed to vote for him rather than a Yoruba or Igbo candidate because he’s a Pan-Nigerian with a northern extraction. Condemning his comment, a former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, said Atiku would not be allowed to treat Nigerians the same way he did to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. In a series of tweets, Fani-Kayode said Atiku’s remark is unacceptable and despicable. Fani-Kayode said Northerners in the All Progressives Congress, APC, believe…
A year after banning most teenage girls from attending school, the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan are now imposing sweeping restrictions on which courses women can enrol in at public universities. The militant group have said the correct “Islamic environment” needs to be created for older girls to be allowed back into schools, but more than a year after they returned to power this still has not happened in most provinces, with reports suggesting hardliners in the group remain opposed to it, the BBC reported. At Nangarhar University, girls are now given the right to choose from only seven of 13…
The Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the Friday court ruling, which voided its governorship candidate’s election and declared that the party could not field anybody for the 2023 governorship election. The Yola Division of the Federal High Court had on Friday annulled the APC primary election in Adamawa through which Senator Aishatu Ahmed Binani emerged as APC governorship candidate and declared that the APC had no validly elected candidate for the 2023 governorship election in the state. The APC leadership in Adamawa State, after a meeting Saturday afternoon, held a press briefing during which…
Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has fired back at his predecessor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, for saying he would not support his second-term ambition. Despite being a sitting Senator of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Amosun had, in an interview with BBC News Yoruba, said he would not work for the APC during the governorship election in Ogun, even though he would support the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Amosun said he is behind Barr. Biyi Otegbeye of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Reacting, Abiodun said Amosun would fail “in his anti party politics” aimed to scuttle his reelection bid…
The Peoples Democratic Party, Kaduna State chapter, has rescheduled the planned consultative visit of the presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, to Kafanchan. InfoStride News recalls that in a programme schedule visit by the PDP Presidential hopeful, he was billed to move to Southern Kaduna on October 16, 2022. However, in a statement on Saturday by the state party chairman, Hon. Hassan Hyat, he said the postponed planned visit was as a result of consultations with political stakeholders and religious leaders of the zone wherein the stakeholders resolved that a new…
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has come under fire following his advice to the Northerners ahead of the 2023 general election. Atiku had while speaking at an event in Kaduna declared that, “What the average Northerner needs is somebody who’s from the north and also understands that part of the country and has been able to build bridges across the country. “This is what the Northerner needs, it doesn’t need a Yoruba or Igbo candidate, I stand before you as a Pan-Nigerian of northern origin.” Reacting, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, in a statement on…
China’s ruling Communist Party will hold its key Congress from Sunday during which a new set of senior officials will be appointed except for President Xi Jinping who is set to get endorsed for a record third term, breaking over the three-decade norm for top leaders to step down after a 10-year tenure. The weeklong 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in which 2,296 “elected” delegates under the norms and guidelines set by Xi will attend a closed-door meeting, is being held amid a rare protest against Xi and his rigid zero-COVID policy of widespread restrictions…
There have been divergent reactions after the presidential campaign flag-off of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which was held on Monday, October, 10, at the Next of Champions International Stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Many analysts and residents of the State have tackled the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar over his comment on ”making Nigeria to be like Akwa Ibom State if elected the president in the 2023 elections.” The stadium, during the flag-off rally, expectedly, was filled to capacity by supporters of the PDP which is the ruling party in Akwa Ibom State and with many…