A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Professor Mustapha Rabo, on Wednesday, berated the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government for donating vehicles worth N1.14 billion to neighbouring Niger Republic. He said the blood of innocent Nigerians killed by bandits and those being held in captivity would never forgive the ruling All Progressives Congress. The Nigerian government, through the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, had on Wednesday, confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the purchase and donation of vehicles, worth N1.4 billion, to neighbouring Niger Republic, to address its security…
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Abdullahi Adamu, the All Progressives Congress National Chairman, on Wednesday, told the party members that Abuja is not an Abia locality and no one should come to him crying after elections. Adamu, who disclosed this while speaking with journalists after inaugurating an eight-member Abia Reconciliation Committee, urged party members to close ranks and work as a team to secure victory in the upcoming 2023 general elections. He said, “We’ve to do some work and forget some of the prejudices and stand together. “We don’t want anybody to come here after the elections and start crying and laying blame on us…
The Governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, in Akwa Ibom State, Senator James John Akpanudoedehe has tackled the Peoples Democratic Party-led government in the State over what he described as high level of poverty and hunger occasioned by unemployment in the State. Udoedehe, who spoke through the publicity Secretary of the party, Solomon Johnny, in a press briefing in Uyo, said the problem in the State was not lack of money but the inability of the PDP government to have the interest of the people at heart since over 22 years on the saddle. He noted that…
With 2023 elections ahead, the Senior Pastor of the Dunamis International Gospel Center, Paul Enenche has cautioned against rigging. Enenche declared that rigging would not work in the season Nigeria is entering. He disclosed this during his sermon at the church’s headquarters, Glory Dome in Abuja on Wednesday night. The clergyman also urged officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to resist the urge to manipulate the results of the next general elections. According to Enenche: “No satanic and rigging modality will work in the season we are getting into. “No structure of corruption can work. We are moving…
Speaker of South Korea’s National Assembly Kim Jin-pyo met visiting US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday amid heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing in the wake of her high-profile visit to Taiwan. Pelosi is the first US House speaker to visit South Korea since former Speaker Dennis Hastert in 2002, reports Yonhap News Agency. Pelosi arrived in Seoul on Wednesday night from Taiwan where she reaffirmed unwavering US commitment to supporting the island’s democracy. China denounced her trip to Taiwan, which it regards as a renegade province, and announced live-fire military drills around the island. On Thursday, she met…
The youth wing of All Progressives Congress in Osun State has accused the Interior Minister, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola of working against the presidential ambition of the APC candidate, Bola Tinubu in the State. APC Youth Leader, Goke Akinwemimo, who addressed newsmen in Osogbo, the State capital on Wednesday, alerted the national leader of the ruling party that the Minister is no longer with the APC. Akinwemimo, however, expressed optimism that the Minister and his supporters will not succeed in their plan to bring doom to the party in the forthcoming general elections. He said, “We are saying these to alert…
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State is embroiled in disagreement over who should be the running mate to the governorship candidate, Prince Bassey Otu who is from the southern district of the state. Before now, the majority leader in the state House of Assembly, Peter Odey, representing the Ogoja State Constituency in the northern part of the state, was seen as the best choice for the party’s deputy governor. But critical stakeholders of the party in the state, including a former governorship candidate, have disagreed, calling for consensus as to who becomes the authentic deputy governorship…
The Youth Wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State on Wednesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to caution the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola over allegations of anti-party conduct aimed at grounding the party in the state. The party said the Minister has “become a liability and a political virus to Osun APC with his conduct” as seen in his inward and outward dispositions in recent times. Addressing a press conference at the APC State Secretariat, Osogbo, the party State Youths Leader, Goke Akinwemimo, noted that Aregbesola was on a move to destroy the party on account…
A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, has revealed what he would do if the supporters of the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi come after him. Oshiomhole revealed that he would respond if Obi’s followers known as Obi-dients come after him. Oshiomole spoke while appearing on Arise TV programme, The Morning Show on Wednesday. He pointed out that most of the presidential candidates have not sufficiently informed Nigerians on how they would solve the issues facing the country. Pointing out Obi, Oshiomole said the former Anambra State governor was yet to tell Nigerians…
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday will sign an executive order aimed in part at making it easier for women seeking abortions to travel between states to obtain access to the procedure. More specifically, one of the directives Biden will issue will allow states that have not outlawed abortion to apply for specific Medicaid waivers that would, in effect, help them treat women who have travelled from out of state. The order will also call on health care providers to comply with federal nondiscrimination laws and streamline the collection of key data and information on maternal health at the…
Ahead of next year’s general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Youth Leader, Muhammed Suleiman said the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar will deliver good governance. He stated this during the PDP North Central Zonal Youth Summit 2022, with the theme Mainstreaming Youth Energies Towards Electoral Victories for the Party Come 2023 and Beyond on Wednesday in Abuja. He said, “I don’t know why some of our leaders are promoting disunity, ethnicity and religious bigotry. The APC campaign was based on ethnicity in 2015 and it will hunt them in 2023. PDP National Youth Leader urged…
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State who is also the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2023 election, has unveiled his female running mate, Professor Kaletapwa Farauta. Fintiri unveiled Farauta, Wednesday at the Banquette Hall of the State House in Yola during a ceremony that had massive attendance by men and women supporters mostly wearing newly designed Fintiri-Farauta (FIFA 2023) campaign logo of the PDP joint ticket. Professor Kaletapwa Farauta who is currently the Vice Chancellor of the Adamawa State University, Mubi, was nominated as Fintiri’s running mate in June, not long after Senator Aishatu Ahmed…
A governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Prince Dotun Babayemi, has raised alarm over the threat to his life. Babayemi disclosed that some people are after his life because of his efforts at seeking redress in a court of law. Babayemi emerged the candidate for a parallel governorship primary of PDP while the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) identified Senator Ademola Adeleke who emerged as governor-elect as a candidate of the party. Babayemi is seeking to get justice as regards the controversy surrounding who the authentic gubernatorial candidate of the party is…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate in Gombe State, Muhammad Barde have asked the Federal High Court in Abuja, to disqualify the Gombe State Governor, Mohammed Yahaya Inuwa and his Deputy, Jatau Daniel, from contesting in the 2023 governorship election for allegedly submitting forged certificates. In a suit No: FJC/ABJ/CS/1301/2022 instituted on August 2, 2022, PDP and its governorship candidate are praying the court to disqualify the governor and his deputy from contesting the election for submitting forged documents and certificates to INEC which were published on 22nd July, 2022. In an originating summons filed on their…
A new round of US sanctions targeting Russian elites includes a woman named in news reports as Vladimir Putin’s longtime romantic partner. The Treasury Department said Tuesday that the government has frozen the visa of Alina Kabaeva, an Olympic gymnast in her youth and former member of the state Duma, and imposed other property restrictions. The department said she is also head of a Russian national media company that promotes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Critics of the Kremlin and imprisoned Russian rights campaigner Alexey Navalny have been calling for sanctions against Kabaeva, saying her news outlet took the lead in…
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State who participated in the last primaries for the party’s House of Assembly and other tickets but failed in their bids have teamed up to vent their grievances. Blaming their failure on the party in the state, they accuse the leaders of high-handedness against some aspirants and imposition of favoured aspirants at the expense of others. The aggrieved aspirants, 107 in number, said in a statement obtained Tuesday that imposition marred the party’s last primary elections. The aspirants, rising under the aegis of the Roundtable of House of Assembly Aggrieved Aspirants…
One of the major support groups of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, Door-to-Door for Gburugburu, has reiterated its unflinching support for Gov. Ugwuanyi and his political decisions ahead of the 2023 general elections. The group, comprising women, men and youths across the 17 local government areas of Enugu State, expressed their confidence in Gov. Ugwuanyi and his uncommon leadership style anchored on peace and good governance. They reassured the governor that they are solidly behind him, stressing that where he stands is where they stand in respect of the 2023 general elections. Speaking when members of Door-to-Door for Gburugburu…
A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in the just concluded party primaries, Morgan West have asked the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt to join other aspirants including, George Kelly, Tammy Danagogo and Isaac Kamalu in the suit challenging the emergence of Siminialayi Fubara as the governorship candidate of the PDP. West wants the court to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission from publishing the name of Fubara and recognizing him as the candidate of the PDP. The governorship aspirant is claiming that the PDP governorship primary held in May, which produced Fubara as the party’s governorship…
The Osun All Progressives Congress (APC) has been cautioned against dragging the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into her internal crisis. The Osun PDP which asserted that it has no relationship with the APC or its emerging internal implosion made this known in a statement signed by Akindele Adekunle, its Caretaker Transition Committee chairman in Osogbo on Tuesday. The Osun PDP which also maintained that it had no allies within the APC and had no hand in the alleged planned local and national demonstration noted that it found it preposterous for the Osun APC chairman to blame it for its leadership…
Opposition leader Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) received illegal funding and should explain why its finances should not be confiscated, said the country’s election commission on Tuesday. A three-member bench of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced its verdict in a case filed by PTI founding member Akbar S Babar in November 2014. PTI “knowingly and willingly” received funding from Wootton Cricket Ltd, which was operated by the now-jailed business tycoon Arif Naqvi. It was a “willing recipient” of $2,121,500, said the ECP. UAE-based Bristol Engineering Services, Cayman Island-registered E-Planet Trustees, Australia-based Dunpec Limited, UK-based SS Marketing Manchester and…