Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has dismissed the embattled House of Representatives Member from Gwer/Gwer West Federal Constituency from the state, Mark Gbillah, as a small fry who has no capacity to threaten the electoral victory of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, or the Governor in the forthcoming elections in the state. Gbillah had at a press conference in Abuja last week, erroneously accused Governor Ortom of standing in his way ahead of the 2023 elections. He had claimed that Governor Ortom and his aides were the architect of his travails and working together with INEC against his electoral victory…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, BoT, and Governor Nyesom Wike meeting ended in a deadlock. Hopes were high earlier today as the leadership of the party began a truce meeting to seek an end to the crisis rocking the party. However, the peace meeting between the BoT Trustees and governor Wike did not sail smoothly. DAILY POST recalls that the party has been embroiled in a political crisis shortly after its presidential primaries. At the centre of the crisis that have engulfed the party are Governor Wike and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The closed-door meeting in…
An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Joe Igbokwe, has described the party’s presidential flagbearer, Bola Tinubu, as the best man to lead Nigeria. Igbokwe is the Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Drainage and Water Resources. He spoke on Tuesday at an Ndigbo gathering at the Blue Roof of the Lagos Television (LTV) in Ikeja, the capital. The event was to declare the support of Igbos for the 2023 aspirations of Tinubu and Sanwo-Olu. Igbokwe declared that anyone who governed Nigeria’s commercial hub would effortlessly govern the country. “Lagos is a 24 hour state and so anybody…
Engr. Bashir I. Bashir, governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Kano State, has debunked claims he has dumped the party to return to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Engr. Muazu Magaji, a former Works Commissioner in the government of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje in Kano State, had circulated on his Facebook page, that he, Bashir and some others had returned to the APC. However, in a quick reaction to the speculation, Bashir said, “Muazu Magaji is nothing but a confused person who cannot define exactly what he wants in his life.” He said, “the picture circulated by Muazu Magaji was…
The Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Campaign Management Committee (NCMC), Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has said the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s campaign will kick off on Monday, 10 October 2022 in Akwa Ibom State. Tambuwal who stated this, Tuesday while briefing journalists at Atiku’s campaign office in Wuse, Abuja described the PDP Presidential candidate as the most prepared. The Sokoto State Governor said “only Atiku can provide the required leadership that this country needs at this time. He has experience in governance at the federal level, which I believe none of the rest of…
The Enugu State Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been taken over by the Labour Party. InfoStride News reports that the APC in the State has been battling with series of crisis. It worsened after the party’s congress last year following the emergence of Barr. Ugochukwu Agballah as the State chairman. A delegation of the party’s stakeholders in the State were at the APC national Secretariat few weeks ago where they demanded the constitution of a caretaker committee. However, Agballa dismissed the stakeholders, including the Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama and a former Senate President, Senator Ken…
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun, Ladi Adebutu, has asked his fellow Yorubas not to be selfish in gunning for the 2023 presidential seat. Adebutu believes that the Yorubas have had a fair share of the presidency, saying former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the late Interim government leader, Ernest Shonekan, are from the race. Addressing his teeming supporters at a political function in Abeokuta, Adebutu said Yoruba is not the only tribe in Nigeria, calling on his followers to vote for Atiku Abubakar from the north. “When we took a deep look at where this…
Ukrainian forces achieved their biggest breakthrough in the south of the country since the war began, bursting through the front and advancing rapidly along the Dnipro River on Monday, threatening supply lines for thousands of Russian troops. Kyiv gave no official confirmation of the gains, but Russian sources acknowledged that a Ukrainian tank offensive had advanced dozens of kilometers along the river’s west bank, recapturing a number of villages along the way. The breakthrough mirrors recent Ukrainian successes in the east that have turned the tide in the war against Russia, even as Moscow has tried to raise the stakes…
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has accused his predecessor Imran Khan of ruining the country’s economy and called him the the biggest liar on the face of the earth who has injected poison into society to dangerously polarise the electorate after he was toppled from power in April. In an interview with The Guardian newspaper from Pakistan, Sharif spoke about the damage that Khan, who ruled Pakistan from 2018 to April this year, had done to the country in both domestic and foreign affairs. Pakistan is currently in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis, as it grapples with mounting…
Akwa Ibom Integrity Alliance has urged Governor Udom Emmanuel not to honour the Young Progressives Party, YPP, request to use the Eket Sports Stadium to flag off its political rally. The group in a statement signed by its Chairman, Mr Stephen Abia on Monday, said if the state government actually wants to preserve its legacy and avoid vandalization of the facility, it should not attempt entrusting the party with the facility. The statement said the group decided to be proactive in informing the governor about the repercussions because it knew that he (the governor) being a leader with a good…
Obaze and his supporters have dumped the party for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Also, the Director Media and Publicity to the House of Representative Campaign team for the Ogbia Federal Constituency candidate, Ibu Williams Mizodome, led some APC members to the PDP. InfoStride News gathered that while Obaze, who was the Assistant Legal Adviser of the APC in Yenagoa Local Government Council announced his defection through a resignation letter to the ward chairman of the party, Mizodome, who also doubled as the Secretary Obhan Emeyal Traditional Council announced his defection at the Ward Headquarters of…
The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) has condemned the description of its 2023 presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, as spoiler. The National Secretary, Dipo Olayoku, issued a statement on Monday in Abuja. Olayoku said an emergency meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) discussed some publications against Kwankwaso. The spokesman noted that the NNPP discovered that some media reports were sponsored against the party. Olayoku insists the former governor is the one to beat in the 2023 election and “cannot be a spoiler or a pretender”. Olayoku said that other political parties and their candidates had made the NNPP candidate their…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday began a reconciliation tour of states in the North East. The tour took off in Adamawa, the home state of the party’s National Vice Chairman (North East), Comrade Mustapha Salihu, who said the tour was designed for members of the party to ventilate their grievances and have them addressed. “You can’t have a party presenting members for competitive elections and not have conflicts, and it is good that people are voicing out their grievances,” the APC Zonal chairman told newsmen. He explained that political process is a duel from which losers could be…
As the controversy regarding the leaked audio continues in Pakistan, former Prime Minister Imran Khan has challenged the coalition government led by Pakistan Muslim League (N) to arrest him. Addressing a public gathering in Taxila, Punjab on Sunday, the deposed leader said PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz wanted the cypher to disappear in a bid to hide the conspiracy hatched by PM Shehbaz Sharif’s party. “This is the movement of real independence and we are ready to face jails. I am ready to go to jail and my nation as well. We are not afraid of jail,” he was quoted as…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned all the political parties in the country not to collect any donations from foreign countries. The Chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, stated this during an interview with Trust TV on Sunday. He explained that parties cannot receive financial support from foreign countries to sponsor their electioneering activities. According to him, if such support is received, it is necessary to transfer these funds to the election commission. Mahmood explained that all the registered political parties must disclose where they got their campaign funds and follow the rules set for spending money during…
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has queried why the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and other members of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC are yet to be arrested over alleged misappropriation of funds. InfoStride News recalls that the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike had alleged that Ayu received N1 billion from a presidential aspirant before the party conducted its primary election. Following the allegation, some members of the NWC refunded about N122 billion found in their various accounts to the party. The party had, however, clarified that the money being returned was sent to them for…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been asked to ensure good governance in the 2023 political dispensation by holding elected politicians accountable to Nigerians through their parties’ manifestoes. The Commission was specifically charged to document manifestoes of all parties and use them to effect checks and balances on leaders that would emerge in next year’s elections. National Commandant of the Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Ambassador Dickson Ameh Akoh, who threw the challenge, said that INEC should not limit itself to conduct of elections alone but must be at the forefront of doing follow-ups that would make politicians abide…
The Senatorial Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State, Newton Bassey has bemoaned the poor sanitary in Calabar, the state capital. He said in an interview that the state has lost it in the area of cleanliness, adding that his party will bring about sanity and restore the lost glory of the state. “Cross River State has lost it. We were the leading states in the country in terms of cleanliness but today our place is very low”, he said. Bassey alleged that the sitting government does not care about environmental…
Former President Donald Trump “wants his old job back” and will announce within weeks his run for the presidency in 2024. Trump is eager to get back to the White House, and wants to announce his 2024 run in the coming weeks. Stating this, Kellyanne Conway, his 2016 campaign manager and close ally, said she had advised him to wait until after the midterms in November, according to Business Insider. . Speaking on Friday with CBS News, Conway was asked whether Trump would announce his candidacy after the midterm elections and before Thanksgiving. “Well, he would like to,” said Conway,…
Major stakeholders in Abia State have evaluated the growth and development of Nigeria as its 62nd Anniversary of her independence. The stakeholders drawn from the political and business circle, also expressed divergent opinions on most of the fundamental and core challenges facing the country, as well as some of the laudable and monumental strides recorded through the collective efforts of patriotic citizens of the country across all divides. While assessing the journey of Nigeria, a country widely-known as the most populous African nation in the world map since after her independence from the British rulership, the Governor of Abia State,…