The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to withdraw from the race over the alleged hiring of unknown persons to dress as bishops. PDP described the APC’s alleged action as unpardonable. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Hon Debo Ologunagba stated this Friday at a press conference in Abuja claimed the APC is collapsing ahead of the 2023 elections. “Such action is unacceptable and unbecoming of any individual aspiring to a leadership position at any level let alone, the office of the President. This is an embarrassment to…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
Dinesh Gunawardena was sworn in as the prime minister of Sri Lanka by President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday along with 17 other cabinet ministers. Gunawardena, parliamentarian of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party, took his oath in the capital Colombo in the presence of other senior legislators. Along with Prime Ministership, Gunawardena has additional charge of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Council, and Local Government. Other ministers included: Douglas Devananda (Fisheries), Susil Premajayantha (Education), Bandula Gunawardena (Transport & Highways, and Media), Keheliya Rambukwella (Health and Water Supply), Mahinda Amaraweera (Agriculture, Wildlife, and Forest Conservations), Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe (Justice, Prisons, and…
An aggrieved governorship aspirant of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), has approached the Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo, Taraba State, seeking for the disqualification of the party’s guber candidate. The aggrieved aspirant, Philip Johnson, wants the court to restrain Professor Mohammed Yahaya Sani from filing out as the party’s governorship candidate in the next election. In a copy of his writ of summon obtained by Newsmen, he said the party should not forward the name of Professor Sani to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the governorship candidate of NNPP in Taraba. Stressing that the candidate “is…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has disclosed why his relationship with the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu took a worse turn in 2007. Atiku disclosed that Tinubu wanted him to field a Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2007, but he refused. The former Vice President, who was the then presidential candidate of the now-defunct opposition Action Congress, AC, said Tinubu wanted to be his running mate. Atiku eventually lost the election to late President Umar Yar’Adua of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. However, Atiku said Tinubu rejected his choice of Ben Obi as his running…
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, has revealed the number of Nigerians that make up his political structure. Obi disclosed that his political structure is made up of 100 million Nigerians living in poverty. The LP presidential candidate disclosed this after his meeting with Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State. According to the former Anambra State governor, all underprivileged Nigerians were his supporters. “I have said it before when people talk about structure, that my structure [is] the 100 million Nigerians living in poverty. “Those people who are finding it difficult to live. Nigerians are here today…
The Peoples Democratic Party (2023) 2023 Presidential candidate, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has said the Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Peter Obi has no political structure that can guarantee him victory. He said Obi is expecting miracles and such miracle is difficult to come by. Atiku stated this while appearing on Arise TV programme, The Morning Show monitored by the media on Friday. The former Vice President said the Labour Party’s Presidential candidate is only visible on social media without any political structure across the country. He said 90 percent of the northerners are not on social media and…
The South Korean government has condemned Japan on Friday for laying repeated claim to the easternmost islets of Dokdo in its annual defence white paper. “(The government) strongly protests against Japan’s repetition of its sovereignty claim over Dokdo, clearly an integral part of the Korean territory in terms of history, geography and international law, and urges it to immediately scrap it,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Choi Young-sam said in a statement. Such a move is of no help to efforts for building “future-oriented” bilateral relations, he added. It was issued shortly after Japanese Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi reported this year’s…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Supporters Group in Bauchi State has urged the Police and the State Government to embark on thorough investigation to unravel the sponsors of thugs who allegedly hijacked Tuesday’s violent protest staged by students of the Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic. ATAP students had taken to the streets to protest the industrial action embarked on by the Joint Action Committee of the State-owned higher institutions. Some students took over the Bauchi-Jos Expressway, where motorists were blocked from using the road. Speaking in a statement made available to the media in Bauchi on Thursday, by the leader of…
A former Governor of Enugu State in the Nigeria’s Third Republic, Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo has thrown his weight behind the Enugu State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship flagbearer, Dr Peter Mbah, and his running mate, Barr Ifeanyi Ossai, ahead of next year’s general elections. Nwodo said his decision was predicated on the track records and antecedents of the duo in the private sector. Nwodo, who disclosed this yesterday at Ogbede, headquarters of Igbo Etiti Local Government Area when Mbah and his entourage paid a “thank you visit to the council area, also stressed that the choice of Mbah and his…
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has reacted to the appearance of certain “Bishops” during the unveiling of Kashim Shettima as the Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC. InfoStride News had reported that Shettima was unveiled as Bola Tinubu’s running mate in Abuja on Wednesday, during which some persons said to be Bishops were spotted. The controversial prensece of the said Bsihops came at a time Tinubu’s choice of Shettima, a fellow Muslim, was attracting concerns. However, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, as well as the Catholic Church have since described the Bishops as fake.…
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has challenged presidential candidates of the various political parties for next year’s general election to put Nigeria first above personal interests. Governor Ortom threw the challenge on Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 when he received at his private residence in Abuja the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi who paid him a visit. He said Nigerians were in dire need of people with “commitment and competence” that would fix the leadership crisis that has plunged the country into outright chaos. The Governor noted that the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Obi was one among…
On July 7, Boris Johnson resigned as the leader of the Conservative Party and the prime minister of the United Kingdom. His exit came after his cabinet faced a flurry of resignations over alleged scandals, including allegations of sexual misconduct against a lawmaker and parties held during the Covid-19 lockdown. The UK is now looking at a fresh election. It is not a general election but an election within the Conservative Party. The party will elect its new leader and the country’s PM through this poll. Who remains the PM for now? Johnson would remain the PM until a…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has declared he has no intention to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. InfoStride News reports that there have been insinuations that the governor and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike were planning to dump the main opposition party following the crisis rocking the PDP. But speaking on Arise TV on Thursday, Ortom said they remain members of the party. Recall that Ortom and some other stakeholders of the party had expressed anger over the decision of the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar to pick Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State as his running mate…
The administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in Enugu State has expressed happiness over the victory of Senator Ademola Adeleke in the keenly contested 2022 Osun State Governorship election. A statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Simon Uchenna Ortuanya, described the electoral victory of Senator Adeleke, as “a big vote of confidence, by the great people of Osun State, in your capacity and competence to turn fortunes around in the State”. The statement disclosed that Senator Adeleke is “not only from Osun State but also from Enugu State (the Coal City State) where you were born”. Pointing…
Kashim Shettima, All Progressives Congress (APC) 2023 Vice-Presidential candidate has insisted that he never supported the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in order to be his running mate. Shettima disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja when he was formally presented as the party’s Vice-Presidential candidate by Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, the APC National Chairman. Commenting on his nomination and the APC Muslim-Muslim ticket, Shettima, who currently represents Borno Central in the National Assembly, said, “I don’t intend to be Vice-President to represent members of the Muslim community. No, the Sultan of Sokoto is capable of doing that. “I do not…
The Chairman of the Zamfara State chapter of African Democratic Congress, ADC, Hon. Kabiru Garba Gusau has announced the immediate sack of the party’s chairman, Alhaji Tukur Abubakar Bungudu and his executive members in Bungudu Local Government Area of the State for anti-party activities. He said that the party received allegations against the Bungudu Local Government chairman about romancing with the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the State. Garba explained that the decision became imperative considering the fact that he holds a political position, which he said was contrary to ADC constitution, saying that the party will not allow…
Former finance minister Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss will battle it out to become Britain’s next prime minister after they won the final lawmaker vote, setting up the last stage of the contest to replace Boris Johnson. Sunak has led in all rounds of the voting among Conservative lawmakers, but it is Truss who seems to have gained the advantage so far among the 200,000 members of the governing party who will ultimately choose the winner. The final stretch of a weeks-long contest will pit Sunak, a former Goldman Sachs banker who has raised the tax burden…
Renowned novelist, Chimamanda Adichie has said she can’t wait for the former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi to become Nigeria’s next President. Adichie said this in a lengthy Facebook post to mark Mr Obi’s 61st birthday on Tuesday, stating that she admires his love for education. “I can’t wait for February 25, 2023, when I, with personal pride in you and with hope for what Nigeria can become, will cast my vote for you and your running mate, Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed,” Adichie wrote. Chimamanda mentioned that she is inspired by Obi’s intellectual curiosity and his genuine love for…
An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Lagos State, Moshood Salvador, defected to the Labour Party (LP) on Wednesday. Salvador announced that the national leadership of LP had given him the 2023 governorship ticket. The leader of Conscience Forum (CF) in Lagos APC said he was moving to his new party with all members of the forum. At the official declaration in Surulere, Salvador expressed confidence that the platform would perform well at the polls. “My concern is all about people. All the APC promised to give to my people, none was given. “It is not worthy to be in…
President Muhammadu Buhari has told Kashim Shettima, the running mate of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, that he will respond to him when he is handing over to them in 2023. According to a statement signed by Garba Shehu, the President’s aide on Media and Publicity, Buhari was responding to a flowery speech by Senator Shettima. Shettima was picked as the running mate to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a controversial Muslim-Muslim-Muslim ticket of the APC and was unveiled before the party’s leadership on Wednesday. “I will respond to your speech when I am handing…