All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Femi Fani-Kayode has said Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has implicated top stalwarts of the opposition party. In a statement on Sunday, the ex-presidential aide made reference to a comment by Dino Melaye, a spokesman of Atiku Abubakar’s campaign team. “All the PDP Governors spent money at our party’s National Convention to get Senator Iyorcha Ayu elected as National Chairman”, Fani-Kayode quoted Melaye saying. The former Aviation Minister described the former Kogi Senator’s revelation as “a grave and serious matter”. FFK as better known, said it was “a public confession of a…
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The Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, has insisted he has no intention of leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He, however, said that it was important for the PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to figure out how they are going to involve the South-East in the scheme of things within the party. Ikpeazu, Governor Nyesom Wike (Rivers State), Governor Samuel Ortom (Benue State) and Governor Seyi Makinde (Oyo State) have formed a quartet of governors who have met Atiku, the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Labour Party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Mr…
The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, says he is richer than the President of the United States, US, Joe Biden. Obi said he is richer than Biden, who is worth $8.9m, because God had “over blessed” him. To this end, the former Anambra State governor said he would not steal public funds if elected President in 2023. In a viral video where he was addressing some of his followers in the US, Obi said: “If I take public money that I’m not entitled to, God should punish my children and me, not because of anything but God gave…
UK PM contender Liz Truss on Saturday (local time) promised to address energy bill problems right away if elected. “If elected, I plan within the first week of my new administration to set out our immediate action on energy bills and energy supply… We need to take difficult decisions to ensure we are not in this position every autumn and winter. Sticking plasters and kicking the can down the road will not do. I am ready to take the tough decisions to rebuild our economy,” Truss said in a Saturday article for a UK-based media outlet, reported Sputnik. UK Foreign…
Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, on Sunday, rejected any form of campaign fund from the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. InfoStride News reports that this formed part of the resolutions reached during a stakeholders’ meeting at the South-East Secretariat of the party. The governorship candidate of the party, Chief Uche Nnaji, who made the proposition before it was unanimously carried by members at the meeting, said the campaign fund was the cause of the current crisis rocking the Enugu State chapter of the APC. Reffering to the meeting of some of the…
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has warned the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP stakeholders in the state to steer clear of the political feud between the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar and the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike. Speaking shortly before a stakeholders’ meeting he held with chieftains of the party behind a closed-door, the governor advised all candidates of the party in the state to respect the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar as well as the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the PDP. Bala Mohammed advised, “I don’t want any of us to get involved…
The leadership of the Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has maintained that the expulsion of Dotun Babayemi, a gubernatorial aspirant of the party was made in line with the party’s constitution. This is as the Osun PDP called out Gboyega Famodun, the Osun Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State for its undue interference in its activities. The party also stated that the decision of the ward executives in expelling Babayemi was justified by the defence of Babayemi by the Osun APC. The party in a statement issued by the Chairman of the…
Political analyst, Deji Adeyanju, has said no one with ideas will win an election in the African continent. According to Adeyanju, only candidates with strong political structures can win election in Africa. InfoStride News reports that Adeyanju’s comment is a cryptic message to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi. Adeyanju had on different occasion accused Obi and his followers of moving about without building structures that could help him win the 2023 elections, saying Obi was visiting churches as though he would be elected by Christians only. Earlier on Sunday, Adeyanju said “WhatsApp group admin and…
Dismissing concerns that Bangladesh could go the Sri Lanka way, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that despite the Covid-19 onslaught and the conflict in Ukraine, her country’s economy continued to be in robust shape and that her regime exercised a high level of diligence when taking any loans. In an interaction with ANI, Prime Minister Hasina said that currently the world as a whole was facing challenges which were not restricted only to Bangladesh. “Our economy, still it is very strong. Though, we faced this Covid-19 pandemic, now the Ukraine-Russia war. That has its effect here. But in debt rate,…
As Nigerians continue to reflect on the polity barely 24 days to the kick-off political campaigns for the 2023 general elections, Mr. Osita Okechukwu a foundation member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, says the major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has boxed itself into irretrievable tight corner. Mr Okechukwu, who is also Director General of Voice of Nigeria, regretted that instead of sitting down to address the various challenges confronting their party, the leaders are busy passing the buck and blaming the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Recall that Simon Imobo’Tswam, Special Adviser on Media and Communications…
Ahead of the official commencement of political campaigns, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has said that he will not exchange insults with other political parties. Tinubu gave the assurance during his meeting with APC’s Northern State lawmakers in Abuja on Saturday. He explained that the APC campaign team is smarter, brilliant, and courageous, hence won’t engage in the exchange of insults. According to Tinubu: “We shall not be hauling abuses at rival political parties. “We don’t need it; we are smarter, we are brilliant, we are courageous. “We are not like them. Why do…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has wondered why the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) still exists. Tinubu stated this during the unveiling of the Tinubu/Shettima door-to-door campaign group in Abuja on Saturday. The former Governor of Lagos also described the PDP as a party that lacks direction. “They spent 16 years and forgot that there is a railway infrastructure that can do haulage, human carriage, animal husbandry and food carriage across the length and breadth of the country. “They (PDP) got there and turned it into an incubator. I wonder why they still exist…
The leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Sunday, warned the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the 2023 presidential election. Primate Ayodele warned the PDP against allowing Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to leave the party as it would jeopardize its chances in the 2023 presidential elections. In a statement signed by his Media Aide, Osho Oluwatosin, the man of God said if the PDP doesn’t settle the crisis currently facing it, the party will sink and go into oblivion after the 2023 presidential election. He urged the party leaders and the presidential candidate, Abubakar…
The former US president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys. Obama won the best narrator Emmy for his work on the Netflix documentary series, Our Great National Parks. The five-part show, which features national parks from around the globe, is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground. He was the biggest name in a category full of famous nominees for the award handed out at Saturday night’s Creative Arts Emmys, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David Attenborough and Lupita Nyong’o. Barack Obama is the second president to have an Emmy. Dwight D Eisenhower…
Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, over the weekend said that the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has what it takes to return Nigeria to the right path of development. Baba-Ahmed disclosed this in Kano during a visit to the state to commiserate with the victims of Beirut Road GSM and Kantin Kwari textile markets over the building collapse and flooding incidents, respectively, at both markets. He said, “Nigeria has never had it so well in terms of choice of candidate available to voters with the emergence of Obi, a former governor of Anambra State,…
As political parties gear up for the commencement of campaigns ahead of the 2023 general election in Nigeria, market traders, motorcycle (okada) and tricycle (keke) operators and members of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State, comprising indigenes and non-indigenes of the state, on Friday, declared their unflinching support for Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi who is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Enugu North Senatorial District of the State. The market traders, keke and okada operators and members of NURTW also declared their support for the PDP governorship candidate in…
A PDP chieftain in Abia State, Mr Ukoha Aladdin Igwe has raised an alarm over threats to his life and that of his family members for dissociating himself from calls by some persons to blacklist staff of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike. Over the weekend, a group called the Concerned Abia-North Patriots (CANP) held a press conference, asking INEC to blacklist MOUAU staff from every work that concerns election in 2023 because they allegedly hobnob with Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. In a statement released in Calabar disclaiming the conference, Igwe denied that he is a member of the…
The leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has expressed worry over the existence of moles within its ranks, especially those allegedly working for the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The party while expressing concern in a press release jointly Signed by the National Vice Chairman South East Zone, Chilos Godsent and the Zonal Secretary, ADC South East, Pastor Frank Agumadu urged members not to allow paid PDP, APC moles to destroy their efforts of many years. Recall that 27 out of the 32 state chairmen recently move against National Chairman, Chief Ralphs Okey Nwosu. Reacting…
Sri Lanka’s former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been given special security and a state bungalow for accommodation on his return here from Thailand where he fled amid months-long mass protests over the country’s worst economic crisis, officials said on Saturday. Rajapaksa, 73, was accorded a warm welcome as he returned to Colombo from Thailand amid tight security on late Friday. He was festooned with flowers by a welcoming party of ministers and politicians as he disembarked at Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport from Bangkok via Singapore. The former president wanted to move into his private residence at Mirihana in Colombo’s eastern…
As the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP deteriorates, the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, his Benue and Oyo State counterparts, Samuel Ortom and Seyi Makinde have again, met in London, United Kingdom. Although details of the Friday meeting have not been made public, political watchers believe it may be connected to the crisis within the PDP Recall that moves to reconcile Wike and Atiku Abubakar, whose relationship hit the rocks after the PDP primary election has continued to prove difficult. Vanguard had reported that Makinde who has been on his annual vacation since the last meeting, was first…