The aggrieved governor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) known as G5 has travelled to Spain for a crucial meeting amid the crisis rocking the party. The Nation gathered that the governors left the country for Madrid on Friday night hours after the Rivers Governor laid more allegations on the party Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu. Those on board with Wike are Governors Seyi Makinde (Oyo); Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Samuel Ortom (Benue) as the Enugu State governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi may join subsequently. Recall that Wike, during a media chat in Port Harcourt on Friday, heaped more allegations on Ayu maintaining that…
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The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar will today (Saturday) appear before the Northern leaders’ policy dialogue interactive session in Kaduna. Mr. Paul Ibe, Media Adviser to the PDP presidential candidate, in a statement said the dialogue is another opportunity for the PDP presidential candidate to relay his policy document titled: ‘My Covenant with Nigerians”. According to the statement, several groups like; the Arewa Consultative Forum, Arewa House, Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, Northern Elders Forum and Arewa Research and Development Project, among others, organized the interactive session. He said the…
Former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu has appealed to Kaduna governor Nasir El-Rufai not to leave Nigeria after the 2023 elections. The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate spoke on Saturday in Kaduna. He addressed attendees at the seventh edition of KadInvest, an annual event organised by the Kaduna State Investment Promotion Agency. Tinubu advised El-Rufai, a former FCT minister, not to “run away”, but to stay back and help to fix the country. “Nigeria needs thinkers and doer. I’m openly begging Nasir El-Rufai not to run away for (an) additional degree. “He’s going to Cairo (for) Ph.D…and everything. There are…
South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea additionally firing possibly hundreds of artillery rounds into maritime buffer zones between the rivals, further raising animosities triggered by a recent barrage of weapons tests. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the North firing around 80 rounds of artillery into waters near their eastern sea border from around 5.p.m. Friday. It said it also detected firing sounds and sighted splashes that were possibly caused by the firing of around 200 artillery rounds in waters near the western sea boundary from around 5:20 p.m. It said the shells fell inside…
The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned all its members that there is no any rerun of primaries in the state. The PDP State Chairman, Sikirulahi Ogundele, said this in a statement made available to the media on Friday evening. Ogundele recalled that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party had appealed a Federal High Court judgement that nullified all the primary elections of the PDP in Ogun, saying the NWC confirmed this in a statement issued on October 4 by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba. He stated that NWC, having appealed…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published Bashir Machina’s name on its portal as Yobe North Senatorial District candidate. This is in compliance with a letter forwarded to the electoral umpire by the APC National Headquarters, asking it to accept and publish Machina’s name as the party’s authentic candidate for the senatorial seat. Husaini Mohammed Isa, the Spokesman of the Machina Campaign Organization, confirmed this in a social media post on Friday. “INEC Publishes Machina’s Name On Its Portal As Yobe North APC Senatorial candidate. “The Independent National Electoral Commission has complied with the letter written to the Umpire…
The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has asked Governor Nyesom Wike to convert the over 60,000 polling unit advisers engaged by the state governor to pensionable jobs for the “jobless youths”. The Rivers APC also claimed that the number of polling unit advisers by the Governor of Rivers State is a “confirmation of the rate of joblessness” in the state as “documented by the National Bureau of Statistics”, a situation which they said is an indictment on the outgoing administration. The state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Darlington Nwauju, expressed concerns that the Government of the day “can wake…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorchia Ayu has denied collecting N1 billion from anyone as claimed by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, warning aggrieved persons to leave his family out of the controversy. Ayu debunked Wike’s claims while responding to questions about the allegations against him and also promised that the statement of the party account will be made available to party members soon. The PDP National Chairman said as the father of the party he decided to be quiet for peace to reign. Ayu also appealed to all aggrieved members of the party…
Rebels on the backbenches of the UK’s governing Conservative Party are on Friday said to be plotting to replace Liz Truss as party leader and prime minister with a so-called unity joint ticket team involving former leadership rival Rishi Sunak. It comes as a YouGov poll for the The Times’ found that almost half of Tory party supporters believe the party chose the wrong candidate in the leadership election. The YouGov poll found that among those who voted for the Conservatives at the last election, 62 per cent said that party members had made the wrong choice when the…
A Federal High Court sitting in Yola has nullified the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election which produced Senator Aishatu Binani as the party’s governorship candidate for Adamawa State. Ruling on suit FHC/YL/CS/12/2022 filed by Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the court declared Binani’s candidature invalid and unlawful. Justice Abdulaaziz Anka, in his ruling, also refused the plea for a fresh primary, holding that the APC, by the court judgment, had no candidate for the 2023 governorship election. The judge gave the ruling after resolving all the issues for consideration involving the outcome of the Adamawa APC governorship primary conducted on May…
As the crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, continues to deepen, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said the party cannot win the 2023 presidential election without his input. Wike said he and four other governors play an important role in PDP; hence the party can’t win elections without them. He made the declaration during a media chat in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Friday. Wike, Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, have been calling for the removal of Iyorchia Ayu as…
The All Progressives Congress, (APC), has officially written the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), asking the electoral umpire to recognize Bashir Sheriff Machina as its authentic candidate for Yobe North Senatorial District as directed by the Federal High Court, Damaturu. This is contained in a letter dated 12th October 2022 with reference number APC/NHDQ/INEC/19/022/128 signed by the APC’s National Chairman Sen. (Dr) Abdullahi Adamu and the National Secretary of the party Sen. Iyiola Omisore. “We write to notify the Commission of the attached Judgment dated 28th September 2022 and Order dated 5th October 2022 from the Federal High Court, Damaturu…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has raised a fresh allegation against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu. Wike accused Ayu of collecting N100 million and N1 billion from a governor. In a media chat on Friday, the governor challenged the embattled PDP National Chairman to refute the corruption allegations against him. According to Wike, “I don’t just come out and speak, let Ayu come out and say he did not collect N1billion. Let me tell you Ayu collected N100 million from a governor. “If not for the love of this party, if we release…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday doubled down on his proposal to turn Turkey into a gas hub for Europe after deliveries to Germany through the Baltic Sea’s Nord Stream pipeline were halted. Putin floated the idea of exporting more gas through the Turk Stream gas pipeline running beneath the Black Sea to Turkey as he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of a regional summit in Kazakhstan. It’s the second unlikely energy proposal that Putin has pitched in as many days, with European leaders calling Russia’s cuts in natural gas a political bid to divide…
A popular Nigerian cleric, Pastor Adewale Giwa, has advised that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, must listen to the aggrieved governors within the party if he desires to win the presidential poll in 2023. Giwa, the Senior Pastor of the Awaiting the Second Coming of Jesus Christ Ministry, Akure, Ondo State, warned that shoving the governors aside will affect the party’s chances during the electoral process. He said the governors are speaking the minds of most Nigerians who have longed for a change of government from the All Progressives Congress, APC. “Atiku will fail woefully if…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign for Atiku Abubakar was going on as planned. The Sokoto helmsman is the Director General of the Presidential Campaign Organisation (PCO). In a statement by spokesman Mohammed Bello, Tambuwal dismissed the speculations in social media and elsewhere. The governor said the campaign train “is continuing, by the grace of God on Monday in Kaduna.” He called the suspension “fake news”, adding that people were looking forward to the PDP train in their states. Tambuwal, who declared that the PDP is the party to beat in 2023, said other parties…
The National President, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), Alhaji Yerima Shettima, has called on Nigerians not to vote on sentiments of religion, tribe or section in the 2023 election, saying that may spell doom for the future of the country. He advised that Nigerians should cast their votes devoid of any sentiment, saying candidates should be supported based on merit. Speaking to the media in Kaduna on Thursday, Alhaji Yerima Shettima said, “The constitution of the country has provided Nigerians with another opportunity to elect leaders of their choice to pilot the affairs of the country in the next four…
With less than five months to the 2023 presidential election, former President Goodluck Jonathan has endorsed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa. Jonathan described Governor Okowa of Delta State as the “incoming Vice President” of Nigeria. He spoke yesterday while hosting the Delta State governor. Pulling Okowa from his seat, Jonathan, who was seen holding a plate of kola nuts and praying for his guests, asked God to grant his visitor “acceptability.” “We pray that this kola nut being presented to all of us will give us more energy, more acceptability…
France will deploy armoured personnel carriers and tanks in central Romania by the end of October to strengthen the NATO battle group stationed there, the Defence Ministry in Bucharest said in a statement. A company of armoured personnel carriers and a company of Leclerc tanks of the French Army will be dispatched to the town of Cincu in central Romania both by rail and on wheels, Xinhua news agency quoted the statement as saying. The Battle Group Forward Presence (BGFP) was established in Romania in May by transforming the allied multinational elements within the NATO Response Force deployed in the…
Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, the Labour Party has vowed that its flagbearer, Mr. Peter Obi would succeed President Muhammadu Buhari, stating that Nigerians would jettison the two major political parties. Speaking while unveiling the party’s Presidential Campaign Council list on Wednesday, the Director General of Obi’s Campaign Organization, Dr Doyin Okupe, said the party is set to retire the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, via the forthcoming elections. InfoStride News had earlier reported that about 14 days into the official commencement of the campaign, the Labour Party released the list of its…