Spokesman of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Chris Finebone has dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party. InfoStride News reports that news of his defection broke Thursday night after his meeting behind closed doors with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. Finebone has also confirmed his defection to journalists in Port Harcourt. His movement to the PDP came just two days after he criticized the Rivers State government for alleged outbreak of measles in some Rivers communities in Abua Odual Local Government Area of the State. Finebone is from Opobo Local Government where the governorship candidate of the…
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The FBI agents were looking for documents relating to nuclear weapons, among others, in the unprecedented search they conducted of the premises of former US President Donald Trump earlier this week in Florida, according to a stunning news report. Neither the US Justice Department, which oversees the FBI, nor the investigating agency denied or confirmed the Thursday evening report by The Washington Post. The newspaper sourced the report to multiple officials “all unidentified” involved in the investigation of the case that caused the search but gave no further details of the kind of nuclear weapons’ documents sought by the agents.…
The Conference of 57 Chairmen, an executive group of Ndigbo in Lagos State APC has urged the party leadership and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to privately investigate those creating distractions amongst them. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Conference 57 Chairmen is a body of all the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Government Development Areas harmonised Chairmèn of Ndigbo in APC Lagos state. Conference 57 Chairmen came in place after proper harmonisation of all the five Igbo political groups in Lagos state APC – Coalition, Igbo Vision, South East, Anioma and Mandate. They came together three…
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah has condemned the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket. Bishop Kukah described the ticket as reprehensible and unacceptable. Speaking with Channels Television on Thursday, the Catholic Bishop insisted that the ticket was a setback to the country’s national integration. Against the clamour of Nigerians, the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu had picked Kashim Shettima as his running mate. While Tinubu is a Muslim from the Southwest, Shettima is a Muslim from the North. However, Kukah wondered if Muslims would accept a Christian-Christian presidential ticket. He said Nigerians would wait to hear…
Following the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential primary election held May 29, 2022, the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has sued the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the party and the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal. InfoStride News recalls that during the primary election held in Abuja, the Sokoto Governor, while addressing delegates, asked them to vote for him but later declared that he stepped down for the former Vice President, Atiku. The election had Atiku poll 371 votes as winner, while Wike and Bukola Saraki garnered 237 and 70 votes, respectively. Wike and his loyalists have been in a…
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has declared that the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is free to come and solicit for votes in the South-East. InfoStride News recalls that a certain group, Coalition of South-East Youth Leaders, (COSEYL), had asked promoters of the Tinubu Presidency to keep off the zone. But the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, in a statement made available to the media on Friday, cautioned the group against stoking unnecessary political tension in the zone. In the statement signed by Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, the National President of OYC, he…
US President Joe Biden said that Washington knows “with certainty” that the Syrian government has held Austin Tice, a reporter and former Marine missing in Syria since 2012, and is asking for its help bringing him home. Marking a decade since Tice was taken captive, Biden on Wednesday said that “there is no higher priority in my administration than the recovery and return of Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad”, reports dpa news agency. Tice travelled to Syria in 2012 to cover the war as a freelance journalist for McClatchy, The Washington Post, and other publications. US officials believe…
Member representing Aliero/Gwandu/Jega Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Muhammed Umar Jega, on Thursday, said the chance of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, would be at risk in 2023. He said there are ongoing illegal substitution of candidates by the party, which he noted would rob the party’s victory in the 2023 general election. Speaking with journalists, the lawmaker, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Internally Displaced Persons, Migrants and Refugees, sought for President Muhammadu Buhari’s intervention before Kebbi APC collapsed totally. “President Muhammadu Buhari should intervene in this matter. This is the right time to…
Report that Governor Nyesom Wike has ordered the removal of the flags of the Peoples Democratic Party from the Government in Port Harcourt appears to be false, findings by Newsmen have shown. There were rumours on social media earlier on Thursday that Governor Wike had ordered his Chief Security Officer to remove all the PDP flags from the Government House. However, findings by Newsmen have shown that no flag has been pulled down from the Brick House located at Old GRA in Port Harcourt. A reliable source from the Government House also confirmed to the media that the report is…
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi has assured Nigerians that his government, if elected as president will give them a sense of belonging. Speaking at the Labour Party and Coalition for Peter Obi Leadership summit in Abuja on Thursday, the former Anambra State governor expressed optimism that his administration would take power back to Nigerians. According to Peter Obi, the only thing lacking in the country at the moment is leadership, stressing that his aim to occupy the number seat is to give Nigerians good leadership Peter Obi said: “Our job is to take power from those who have…
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has urged the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, to avoid creating needless division among Ndigbo ahead of the 2023 general election. This is following a press statement issued by the MASSOB national leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu, wherein he told the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Vice Presidential candidate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to stop claiming to be Igbo. However, the statement did not go down well with the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide. The Igbo youth group has now asked MASSOB to retrace its steps, noting that Okowa had never denied…
Former US President Donald Trump kept his date with New York Attorney General in Manhattan but declined to answer questions from the latters office, a calculated and yet surprising gamble in a high-stakes legal interview that will likely determine the course of a civil investigation into his companys business practices of whether he has misused tax breaks. Shortly after questioning began on Wednesday morning, Trump’s office released a statement saying he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, explaining that he “declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the US…
Deji Adeyanju, a socio-political activist, has identified ways the All Progressives Congress, APC, may rig the 2023 presidential election. Adeyanju alleged that APC would use what he called collusive rigging during the February presidential election. The Abuja-based activist said the ruling party would send its thugs into polling units to manipulate votes after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has used its BIVAS to validate voters. In a series of tweets, Adeyanju wrote: “Let me offer free advice on how APC will rig in February. They will wait for INEC to use BIVAS to validate voters, then drive away people…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Southwest, Chief Bode George, on Wednesday, called on angry members of the party to sheathe their swords for the benefit of the party. George, who urged the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to reach out to aggrieved persons, also pleaded with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to continue to show interest in the party’s affairs. The PDP chieftain also urged the party’s National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, to honour his promise and resign. He said Ayu had earlier vowed to resign if the party’s presidential candidate emerged from the…
An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo has dismissed the preliminary objection raised by the State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola in the suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Recall the Osun PDP had filed a suit challenging the legality of the State government appointing caretaker committee members instead of organising a local government election. The Osun PDP held that conducting a local government election would afford other political parties the opportunity to participate in the political process. Led by Adebayo Alade, its lead counsel in suit number Hos/M.39/2021 instituted by the PDP against the governor and 74 others…
The Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu has once again reiterated his stance that the next president of Nigeria must come from the South. Akeredolu stated this on Wednesday night when he made an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today. According to him, he would be “alright” if either Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (All Progressives Congress, APC) or Peter Obi (Labour Party, LP) wins the 2023 presidential election. When questioned about supporting the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the APC, Akeredolu insisted there were bigger issues to focus on. “Religion is not the issue now. We have other issues that should be at…
A former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Chairman, Abubakar Baraje, has claimed that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is a crucial member of the party. Baraje declared Wike a leader in the PDP. He spoke against the backdrop of Wike’s face-off with PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over the choice of the party’s running mate. Wike has been aggrieved with Atiku and PDP leaders over the choice of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State as the party’s presidential running mate. The governor had met with some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC, believed to be “men” of the…
The Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman in the state, Gboyega Famodun, have been accused of delivering victory to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the last gubernatorial election. Rasaq Salinsile, the factional Chairman of the party in the state, who levelled the allegation during a press conference in Osogbo on Wednesday also added that the governor and his party chairman clearly deviated from the best practices in politicking, party administration, governance, and democracy. Recall that prior to the gubernatorial election in Osun, both the IleriOluwa group of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola and The Osun…
Hajiya Yar-Sokoto Jega, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) women leader for Kebbi Central, Kebbi State, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Jega said this when she spoke at a ceremony in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday, According to her, she left the party because of injustice and a lack of purposeful leadership. Jega stated that she decided to join the APC because of the numerous achievements of Gov. Atiku Bagudu, adding that she joined the party with over 800 supporters. “I have been in PDP for many years, they have nothing to show to people and we have been…
The Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi on Tuesday met with the Consul-General of the United States in Nigeria, William B. Stevens. The former Anambra State governor disclosed this in a tweet on his verified Twitter handle on Wednesday. According to him, they had constructive discussions and exchanged ideas during the meeting. Peter Obi said he shared his vision of a new, secure and united Nigeria which would be birthed by the actualization of his presidential ambition with the US Consul-General. He wrote, “It was my pleasure to meet with William B. Stevens, the new Consul-General of the United States…