Former federal lawmaker, Dino Melaye, has said despite the leadership qualities of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, he may need to wait for another election to run for presidency. In a video posted on his social media handles on Friday, Mr Dino said based on Peter Obi’s view of the country’s challenges, the nation does not need him for now. According to Dino, the country currently needs someone who would unify the different regions and ethnic groups in the country, not someone like Obi who only wants to cut the cost of governance. He said, “Peter Obi is…
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Presidential candidate of the Action Alliance (AA), Hamza Al-Mustapha, has insisted he does not have any regrets working with late Head of State, Sani Abacha. Al-Mustapha worked as the Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to the late dictator. Abacha was Nigeria’s president from 1993 until his sudden death on June 8, 1998. Speaking on Channels Television on Friday, Al-Mustapha who was accused of plotting at least four coups from prison, insisted that serving Abacha was part of his job description. “I have no regrets. When you join the Military, you should be open-minded to work anywhere. “You can be in the worst part…
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is set to hold a huge public gathering at Parade Ground in the capital city of Islamabad on Saturday amid the worsening economic crisis in the country. Aside from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief, the Islamabad jalsa would be addressed by other senior leaders of the party. Khan will himself lead a rally from Rawalpindi to the Parade Ground venue, ARY News reported. “InshaAllah tomorrow will be our historic Islamabad jalsa at Parade Ground against Imported govt’s pol destabilisation & crushing our people under the burden of excessive load shedding in peak of summer…
The camp of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate’s running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said the Delta State governor would work with his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike. Reports have it that Wike and some PDP chieftains are aggrieved over the choice of Okowa as the party’s presidential running mate. Following his emergence, the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, constituted a committee to select his running mate. The committee had picked Wike, who came second during the PDP presidential primary election in Abuja. But, Atiku had ignored the committee’s recommendation and opted for Okowa as his running mate. Atiku’s…
One month after the victory of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, the party appears to be on a self-destruction path. It would be recalled that Atiku emerged as the candidate following the dramatic stepdown of Aminu Tambuwal, a move that angered Governor Nyesom Wike and his allies. “I just decided that this our party must not be destroyed. I would have left where I was sitting down and say this convention cannot go ahead except you allow me to talk. I would have flattened him,” Wike had said some days after…
Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola said the All Progressives Congress (APC) will beat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on July 16. Both parties will go head to head in two weeks in the state’s governorship election. Oyetola visited Ila-Orangun in Ila Local Government Area on Friday. “It will take the PDP 30 years to recover from the shock it will receive due to the defeat”, he boasted. Oyetola said his eight years in power as governor “is sure with God on my side”. He advised opposition parties to prepare for governance rather than contesting. The governor, however, appealed to the…
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has said there was no meeting between him and the Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, in France. Tinubu had recently flown to the European nation to continue high-level engagements with stakeholders. However, a chieftain of the APC in Lagos State, Joe Igbokwe, claimed there was a meeting between the duo. On Friday night, the Tinubu Media Office in a statement signed by Tunde Rahman said although the APC flag bearer holds Wike in high esteem, such a meeting never took place. Part of the statement reads:…
Taliban urged the United States on Saturday to unfreeze Afghanistan’s foreign funds and lift financial sanctions to help the war-torn country deal with its deadliest earthquake in more than two decades. Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Saturday, while speaking to reporters in Kabul, said, “In these testing times, we call on the United States to release Afghanistan’s frozen assets and lift sanctions on Afghan banks so that aid agencies could easily deliver assistance to Afghanistan.” Notably, US President Joe Biden in February signed an executive order to free 7 billion US dollars out of more than 9 billion…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s former Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, has expressed fear over the growing popularity of the presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi in some Northern States. Ahmad said Obi’s name has metamorphosed into a movement in Kano and Katsina States. He warned other presidential candidates that Obi had become a movement to beat in both States. In a tweet, the former presidential aide said Obi may likely claim 75 to 80 percent votes in Kano and Katsina States. “Let me confess, the name Peter Obi alone is a movement to beat, I was in…
The Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the reported defection of ten thousand members of the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a basket of lies emanating from a failed ruling party. The Osun PDP called on the APC to stop the self-deceit with bogus and unfounded figures of decampees. In a statement signed by Femi Carrena, the Secretary of the Osun PDP Caretaker Committee, in Osogbo on Wednesday, he maintained that the APC and its cohorts would soon reap the results of their self-deceit. While condemning the decampees as political traders and…
Some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday, defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ikorodu area of Lagos State. Prince Abiodun Ogunleye, a former deputy governor of Lagos State, while receiving the defectors at the APC party secretariat, assured them of equity and fairness in the ruling party. “We’ll ensure that you benefit from every opportunity regarding the welfare of members without sentiments in our party,” Ogunleye said. He admonished the defectors to get their Permanent voters Card(PVC)and vote for APC in all elective positions in 2023 general elections. Mr Olayinka Adewale, speaking on behalf…
Armed policemen on Friday took over the entry gate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Secretariat along Okigwe road in Owerri, Imo State capital. InfoStride News gathered that the policemen, who restricted movement in and out of the secretariat, were complimented by officers of the Department of State Services, DSS, and are at the location to forestall a possible breakdown of law and order. A party source, who pleaded anonymity when Newsmen visited the scene, said the security officials were mobilized to enforce the Supreme Court judgment reinstating Dan Nwafor, a member of Senator Rochas Okorocha political family as the…
Bangladesh will start a de-radicalisation campaign for Islamists in jail as years of security clampdown has waned the strength of the militant outfits in the country since the 2016 terrorist attack on a posh Dhaka restaurant in which 20 people, including an Indian and 16 other foreigners, were killed, officials said here on Friday. “The initiative is aimed to prevent the jailed militants’ return to the path of militancy, said a spokesman of police’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit as Bangladesh revisits the horror of the July 1, 2016 night at the Holey Artisan cafe. CTTC unit chief…
As the Osun governorship election draws nearer, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has appealed to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to make provisions for people living with disabilities (PWD). The party’s National Leader for Persons Living with Disabilities (PWDs), Hon. Tolu Bankole, in a statement made available to Newsmen on Friday, told INEC to show demonstrable improvement on election day by making sure those who have one physical challenge or the other can vote without hassles on July 16. While commending INEC for the voter education and sensitization training for visually impaired voters on the use of Braille Ballots…
Aggrieved members of the People Democratic Party (PDP) have been urged to accept the emergence of Atiku Abubakar and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State as presidential and vice-presidential candidates. A chieftain of PDP, Chief Jackson Ude, gave the advice in a statement on Thursday in Lagos, urging the aggrieved members to sheath their swords and accept their emergence as an act of God. Ude charged party stakeholders to concentrate and channel energy towards saving Nigeria and Nigerians. He urged Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State and former Ekiti Governor, Ayo Fayose, to accept the outcome of the process that…
The leadership of the Action Alliance (AA) on Thursday in Lagos dispelled the rumoured litigation instituted against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu. Mr Adekunle Omoaje, National Chairman of AA, said in a statement that the APC presidential standard bearer, had not committed any offence that would warrant court case against him by the party. Recall that the purported suit against Tinubu, reported in some sections of the media on Wednesday, asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission from including the name of the All Progressives Congress…
The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has said that Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), should have consulted Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, before choosing his running mate. Atiku picked Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as his running mate for the 2023 election. But Ortom, speaking on Channels Television on Thursday night, claimed 14 out of 17 members of a committee set up by the PDP to guide the former vice president had preferred Wike. “The candidate who won the primary has the final say, I have no problem with that. “But I think…
Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.The 51-year-old Jackson is the court’s 116th justice and she took the place Thursday of the justice she once worked for. Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement took effect at noon. Moments later, joined by her family, Jackson recited the two oaths required of Supreme Court justices, one administered by Breyer and the other by Chief Justice John Roberts.“With a full heart, I accept the solemn responsibility of supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States and…
The attention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been drawn to a story planted in an online medium, by some so-called loyalists of the immediate past governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, insinuating that an imaginary peace accord between him and Governor Abiodun was proposed. We want to alert members of the general public, especially members of our dear party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), that contrary to the fake news, there was no proposed “agreement for power sharing” with anyone or group by the APC in Ogun State. There could not have been any agreement or sharing…
Former Media Aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has cautioned members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against disparaging Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and Samuel Ortom of Benue State. Omokri said Wike and Ortom laboured to build the opposition, hence should not be disparaged. The staunch supporter of PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar said the party should appeal and listen to both governors. In a tweet, Omokri said PDP should accommodate Wike and Ortom. “Stooping to conquer is not weakness. Nobody in the PDP should disparage Wike or Ortom. They should be appealed to and listened to.…