Godswill Akpabio has stated that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, will emerge victorious in 2023. The former Akwa Ibom governor noted that the APC and Tinubu have the required competence, capacity, and acceptance. Akpabio, ex-Niger Delta minister, is the APC candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District. He spoke in Ukana on Sunday at a gathering of party members and supporters from the senatorial zone. “Go all out and campaign for all our candidates because the party has all it takes to win elections from the national to the states,” Akpabio told them.…
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The Zamfara State chapter of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has assured that formidable strategies have been put in place to ensure that it does not go to the 2023 general elections unprepared. This was disclosed to newsmen in Gusau, the State capital by the governorship candidate of the party, Dr. Ahmad Hashim, who said the party also signed a peace accord with other political parties in the state. The party’s flag bearer said its leaders in Zamfara were making all necessary consultations to ensure a landslide victory in the general elections. “People are looking at the party as a…
The recent dust raised by the outcome of the presidential primary of the Peoples Redemption Party has refused to settle in Taraba State. The primary which produced the eldest son of late Bashorun MKO Abiola, the winner of the 1993 June 12 presidential election, has been frowned upon by the state chapter of the party. The aggrieved members in a press statement on Sunday in Jalingo, alleged that the party’s presidential candidate, Lateef Kolawale Abiola, emerged against the wish of the teaming supporters of the party. They claimed that the flag bearer was forcefully imposed on the party by some…
The United States and its allies are seeking Pakistan’s support for the resolution to be tabled at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) next week against Russia for invading Ukraine, Express Tribune reported. The US and its western allies are set to move a resolution at the UNGA, condemning the Russian invasion and seeking withdrawal of Russian forces from the Ukrainian territories, Express Tribune reported. In order to garner maximum support, the US is particularly eyeing support of the countries, which abstained from voting in March on the similar resolution, the report said. Pakistan at the time joined China, India…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has claimed the nomination of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate is “invalid, null and void”. This was contained in a statement signed by Debo Ologunagba, the party’s national publicity secretary, on Saturday. The PDP hinged the illegality of Tinubu’s nomination on a September 30, 2022 judgement which nullified the actions of the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni. Buni is the immediate past chairman of the APC national caretaker committee. Under his leadership, the party conducted a convention which produced Abdullahi Adamu as the national chairman. In June,…
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has boasted that there is no other political party in Abia State with the requisite capacity and potential like the Peoples Democractic Party (PDP). He stated this during the inauguration of 26-member Advisory Council for the Peoples Democratic Party 2023 Campaigns, held at the Banquet hall of Government House in Umuahia, the state capital. InfoStride News reports that a former presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa chairs the Abia PDP Advisory Campaign Council, while Chief Uzodinma Okpara and Professor Paul Ananaba, SAN serves as the Deputy chairman and Secretary of…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has urged Nigerians to elect leaders that would make a difference in their lives. Tinubu made the remark while calling for prayers for peaceful, free, and fair elections in 2023. He spoke in a statement by his Media Office to felicitate with Muslims on the occasion of the Eid-el-Maulud Festival. The APC presidential candidate said Nigerians “must elect only leaders committed and determined to make the required difference in our lives.” He urged Muslims faithful to extend love and goodness to one another and imbibe the virtues of Prophet Muhammed, which…
A political youth organization, under the aegis of ODOHmeters, on Saturday petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari and security chiefs over the continued destruction of the billboards of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Prof. Benard Odoh in Ebonyi State. The youth group, in a statement signed by its Director General, Mr. Eze Onyebuchi and made available to newsmen in Abakaliki, also asked the Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi to caution Ebubeagu Operatives to desist from further alleged destruction of the billboards. According to him: “We don’t intend to engage in violence with our own brothers. We…
An explosion on Saturday that rocked the crucial Kerch bridge from Russia to Crimea, a hated symbol of the Kremlin’s occupation of the southern Ukrainian peninsula, is just “the beginning”, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s aide Mikhail Podoliak said in Kiev. The bridge was closed in the early hours of Saturday after a truck exploded, damaging the road and causing a huge fire, RT news reported. “Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled,” Podoliak said in a tweet. Ukrainian officials had earlier threatened to attack…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that it has no plan to disrupt election in Igboland in 2023. The media and publicity secretary of the group, Emma Powerful, in a press statement to the media, said there is no truth in any information circulating on alleged plans to disrupt election in 2023 in Igboland. The group rather accused the federal government of masterminding insecurity in the South East, with the hope of causing fear and accusing IPOB of their deeds. A recent video of a breakaway member of IPOB, Mr Simon Ekpa recently surfaced on the internet, where…
The Network of Benue Professionals, NBF, has commended Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State for calling on the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, to either reconcile with aggrieved members of the party or resign from his position. Recall that Ortom had called on Ayu, who had promised to resign if PDP’s presidential ticket went to the North, to honour his words. The Governor made the call during an emergency meeting of the State Executive Council yesterday. Reacting, NBF described Ortom’s call as a bold step and a positive development that can only come from a…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has likened the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Bola Tinubu to a drug baron. Atiku was responding to a claim by the spokesman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo. Keyamo had likened Atiku to a bus conductor applying for a driver’s job. The Minister of State for Labour and Employment said Atiku was only hanging onto the achievements of his former boss, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. Keyamo stressed that the former Vice President has no achievement to sell to Nigerians ahead of the 2023 presidential election. He…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi Fani-Kayode has described supporters of the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi as poor little children. The former Aviation Minister, who is a staunch supporter of the APC presidential flagbearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, made the assertion in a tweet on his verified Twitter handle. He stated this while lamenting social media attacks from the Obi supporters who are popularly called Obidients. He wrote, “The problem with Peter & his Obidients is that they know how to throw punches but they don’t know how to take them. “They…
China on Saturday criticized the latest U.S. decision to tighten export controls that would make it harder for China to obtain and manufacture advanced computing chips, calling it a violation of international economic and trade rules that will isolate and backfire on the U.S. Out of the need to maintain its sci-tech hegemony, the U.S. abuses export control measures to maliciously block and suppress Chinese companies, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning. It will not only damage the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies, but also affect American companies’ interests, she said. Mao also said that the U.S.…
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said he cannot disclose who he will vote for between Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (All Progressives Congress, APC) and Peter Obi (Labour Party, LP) in the 2023 presidential election. Ngige stated this while speaking on Channels Television’s programme, Politic Today, on Friday. He admitted that both men are his friends, but his vote will be decided in the secret ballot. When asked if it would be a difficult choice to vote Tinubu, with the people from the South-East clamouring to produce Nigeria’s next president, Ngige replied: “I’ve told you I am not…
Rivers State, Governor Nyesom Wike, has said the state House of Assembly acted extra-judicially when they recognized Celestine Omehia as a former governor of the state. He said the state lawmakers had no power to confer such recognition. The Governor made the comments on Friday when he signed the bill that derecognized Omehia as former governor a day after it was passed by the state House of Assembly. The governor said the Supreme Court judgment that removed Omehia as governor is also another reason the former Commissioner of Education should not have been recognized as a former governor. According to…
The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) has said that the recent happenings in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has shown that its patented technology for sharing sleazy funds was alive. The Director of Public Affairs and Spokesperson of the Council, Festus Keyamo, stated this in a statement issued Friday while reacting to a statement credited to the PDP that APC wasn’t ready to govern Nigeria. He said in the past few weeks, the PDP has entertained Nigerians with scandalous issues that showed the party remains a clear and present danger or threat to Nigeria’s treasury and equity. Keyamo noted that the…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, said he was elected to return the party to power; and not to loot or mismanage party funds. Ayu also pledged that the National Working Committee (NWC) under his leadership will publish the income and expenditure account in December. Recall that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and some party leaders have alleged that Ayu is corrupt and has embezzled some party funds. PDP National Chairman in a statement by his Special Adviser, Simon Imobo-Tswam, Friday disclosed that he has instructed the Finance Department to maintain an update on…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday alleged that Imran Khan wanted Pakistan to face a similar situation like Sri Lanka and said the decisions of the previous government led by the cricketer-turned-politician was responsible for the current economic crisis. In August, Pakistan took a sigh of relief as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved the revival of its Extended Fund Facility programme after which the cash-strapped country will receive the 7th and 8th tranche of USD 1.17 billion. However, Sharif said the country was paying the price for the confusion created by the erstwhile regime headed by Khan. They made…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar said the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, are not ready for the election and governance. Atiku, in a statement by his spokesperson, Senator Dino Melaye, Friday urged Nigerians to critically examine the conduct and character of the people and parties that seek to lead. He claimed that it is becoming increasingly apparent that the APC members are desperate to retain power. The PDP presidential candidate also claimed that the APC used media propaganda to confuse Nigerians. The statement read…