Arewa Joint Committee says the region has not endorsed any presidential candidate for the February 2023 general elections. Mallam Murtala Aliyu, the chairman steering committee of the Arewa group in a communique signed and made available to newsmen in Kaduna, explained that the interaction was not aimed at endorsing any presidential candidate. The six presidential candidates of the various political parties, except New Nigerian Peoples Party, (NNPP) Rabiu Kwankwaso were at Arewa House, Kaduna on Saturday and Monday for an interactive session with the joint committee comprising of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Arewa House, Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, the…
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The Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, has on Wednesday dismissed a suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) against Adekunle Akinlade, Ladi Adebutu and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). InfoStride News recalls that the APC in Ogun had approached the court, seeking the disqualification of Adebutu and Akinlade as governorship and deputy governorship candidates of the PDP in the state. The APC had claimed that Akinlade did not resign his membership of the APC before he became the running mate to Adebutu of the PDP. The applicant also said that Akinlade, having contested the…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has commenced talks with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State ahead of the 2023 elections. An APC chieftain, Farouk Aliyu, said the party wants Wike’s backing during the next general elections. Wike and his camp have been at loggerheads with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership since the party’s presidential primaries. The governor had lost the PDP’s presidential ticket to Atiku Abubakar and has been calling for the removal of Iyorchia Ayu as the party’s National Chairman. However, Aliyu said the APC was ready to receive Wike as a new member ahead of the next…
On October 15th, a couple of United States Congressmen placed a proposed resolution in the House of Representatives urging US President Joe Biden to consider recognising the atrocities committed by the Armed Forces of Pakistan in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. US Congressman Steve Chabot (Republican), in association with Congressman of Indian origin Ro Khanna (Democrat), urged Biden to recognize the 1971 genocide as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. The resolution is an eight-page long and is titled – ‘Recognising the Bangladesh Genocide of 1971’ and primarily focuses on the active role played by the Pakistan army…
A High Court sitting in Abakaliki on Tuesday remanded the Ebonyi South Senatorial candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Linus Okorie, in the correctional centre. Okorie was arraigned in court on a five count-charge, bordering on fake news, murder, harbouring drug traffickers and two other charges. The police prosecutor, Chinagorom Ndubuaku, who brought the charges against the former member of the Federal House of Representatives, said the defendant has been on police wanted list for committing various crimes. In a swift reaction, the leading counsel to the defendant, Mr. Chika Nomeh, who spoke to newsmen shortly after the court said;…
Former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, said endorsement of candidates from other political parties is “consistent” with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike’s style of politics. Chidoka was speaking in reaction to the endorsement of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwolu for a second term by Wike. Gov. Wike made the endorsement during a conference of the Committee of Wives of Lagos State officials in Lagos on Monday. Speaking on Channels TV Politics Today on Tuesday, Chidoka, who is also a special adviser to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, said Wike did the same thing during the…
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said he will support his Lagos State counterpart, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, even though they don’t belong to the same political parties. Wike stated this during a conference organised by the wives of Lagos State officials on Tuesday at Eko Hotel, Lagos. The Rivers governor explained that his presence at the event is because Sanwo-Olu is “doing well” for the people of the state. Wike said: “If Sanwo-Olu is not doing well, even if he belongs to my party, I won’t come. So, for me, if you are in my party and you are…
Daniel Bwala, the spokesman of Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign has told Nigerians to express their feelings over the former Vice president’s deleting of the tweet he posted to condemn the cruel murder of a Christian girl, Deborah Samuel. Bwala, a Special Adviser to the Deputy Senate President on Legal and Constitutional Matters at the National Assembly of Nigeria, said this when he appeared on Arise Television’s The Morning Show. Atiku had posted a tweet hours after Deborah Samuel was killed for alleged blasphemy in her school. But he later deleted the tweet. Atiku has started his campaigns and Nigerians are…
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that he fully supports Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remark to Russian President Vladimir Putin that this is “not an era of war”, emphasising that all efforts towards creating conditions for a solution to the Ukraine conflict under the UN Charter and international law will be “very much welcomed.” Speaking to PTI here ahead of his visit to India, Guterres also said he is “very concerned with escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war, especially when escalation causes a large number of civilian victims, obviously it only worsens what is already a very difficult situation.” Russian…
The Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq, has been dragged before a Federal High Court in Abuja for allegedly using forged West African School Certificate to secure nomination for the 2023 governorship election in the state. In a suit instituted against him by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Federal High Court was asked to disqualify the governor and the All Progressives Congress (APC) from participating in next year’s gubernatorial election. The fresh suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1324/22 is filed on PDP’s behalf by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Chief Paul Erokoro, and has Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq and…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has picked holes in a recent comment by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. In a video making the rounds on social media, Tinubu had while fielding questions from journalists on how he would tackle climate change if elected president, said “a question of how do you prevent a church rat from eating poisoned holy communion.” “We are a poor nation. They say firewood is not for fetch. They say we need to plant more trees and they are not giving us money. “We need to tell the West,…
A strong political ally of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Coordinator of the Arewa Media Organization, AbdulMajid Danbilki Kwamanda has said that with the overwhelming acceptance of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Presidential candidate, Ahmed Bola Tunubu in the North, he will win the election. Kwamanda, who has been a member of The Buhari Organization, TBO, since its formation in 2000, and has stood behind President Muhammadu Buhari in all his political undertakings, said the APC Presidential Candidate’s acceptance in the North is real not imaginary. He said, “the Northern Nigeria of today, the South-South, the South-East and the…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has criticized the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, BoT, for mandating the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, to resign after the 2023 general elections. Wike criticized the party’s BoT for not mandating Wike to fulfill his initial commitment that he would resign if a northerner becomes PDP’s presidential candidate. The governor spoke yesterday at the international wing of the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, on arrival from a brief trip to Spain. “To say he should make another commitment that he will resign after the elections, for me, BOT resolution is ridiculous,”…
Poised for record third five-year term and perhaps for life, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s high-voltage Marxist rhetoric on Sunday with a vow to make China a modern socialist country has raised hackles at home and abroad that the Communist giant, which for decades relegated the ideology to the background, could be taking the turn to the extreme left. “From this day forward, the central task of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will be to lead the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in a concerted effort to realise the Second Centenary Goal of building China into a great modern…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the violent attack on its presidential campaign rally in Kaduna, Kaduna State capital on Monday, October. PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon Debo Ologunagba, Monday said the attacks were carried out by heavily armed hoodlums allegedly sponsored by the liquidating All Progressives Congress (APC). The opposition publicity, scribe who described the unprovoked attack as reprehensible said it further exposed the desperation of the APC. Explaining the possible reason why they were allegedly attacked, PDP said the opponents are overwhelmed by the continuing popularity of its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar.…
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…
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…