Dr Tom Otuka, a close associate of the factional governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the forthcoming 2023 general election in Abia State, Chief Ikechi Emenike, and Party chieftain, has dumped the party and defected to the Action Peoples Party (APP) in the state. Recall that Otuka, who hails from Ndoki-Ohanso in Ukwa east local government area of Abia State, was also the deputy governorship candidate to Emenike, a factional governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in 2019. His defection came on the heels of the recent announcement of renowned technocrat and academician, Professor Osondu Akoma…
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Ahead of next year’s election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives caucus has visited a former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Daniel Bwala, to woo him to join the party. InfoStride News report that Bwala dumped the APC after its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, announced former Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima as his running mate. The leader of the delegation, House Minority Leader, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, who met with Bwala, Wednesday in his Guzape office in Abuja urged him to join the PDP to rescue Nigeria. Elumelu commended Bwala for dumping the APC on the…
The Singapore government has allowed former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to extend his stay in the country for another 14 days after he fled the crisis-hit island nation, according to a media report on Wednesday. The report on the extension of Rajapaksa’s visit pass came a day after Sri Lanka’s Cabinet spokesman Bandula Gunawardena said the ex-president was not hiding and is expected to return to the country from Singapore. Rajapaksa, 73, arrived in Singapore on July 14 on a “private visit” from the Maldives after he fled his country to escape a popular uprising against his government’s economic…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said there is a limit to what it can do in terms of curtailing vote buying during elections in the country. The INEC Commissioner representing Niger, Kogi and Kwara States in North Central Nigeria, Professor Mohammed Sani Adam, made the assertions in Minna, Niger State during a visit to monitor the ongoing voter registration exercise in the state. Prof Adam explained that vote buying is a national issue, a sociological problem and is a dimension to jeopardize the process of credible elections in Nigeria. ” There are the anti-corruption agencies like the ICPC…
The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele on Wednesday, issued a warning to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar over his ambition. Primate Ayodele in a warning to Atiku, alleged that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and three other PDP governors are planning a “great tsunami” against him if he fails to resolve the crisis within the party. He said Atiku would be shocked if he failed to strategize well as some governors would work against him in the election and the Presidency will be ceded to another person. In a…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ariyi Emami, has claimed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu is from Delta State. Emami made the remark while stressing that Tinubu was the best person to be APC’s presidential candidate. Addressing journalists on Tuesday, Emami described the Tinubu-Kashim Shettima ticket as a good product that the ruling party can easily market. According to Emami: “When a product is good, you don’t need a lot of advertisements to sell it. Asiwaju is a very good product in Delta State, I don’t see any difference in other parts of…
Hon Jacob Orban, member representing Katsina-Ala west at the Benue State House of Assembly, has defected from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to Peoples Democratic party, PDP. Orban’s defection was contained in a letter to the Speaker of the State Assembly, Rt Hon Titus Uba and read by the Deputy Speaker, Rt Hon Christopher Adaji who presided during Tuesday’s plenary on 26th July, 2022. He cited lack of internal democracy in the APC as the major factor that informed his defection, noting that the development had led to the spring up of several factions and aggrieved groups within the broom…
US officials say they have little fear that China would attack Nancy Pelosi’s plane if she flies to Taiwan. But the US House speaker would be entering one of the world’s hottest spots where a mishap, misstep or misunderstanding could endanger her safety. So the Pentagon is developing plans for any contingency. Officials told The Associated Press that if Pelosi goes to Taiwan still an uncertainty the military would increase its movement of forces and assets in the Indo-Pacific region. They declined to provide details, but said that fighter jets, ships, surveillance assets and other military systems would likely…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue State has been hit with another crisis as stakeholders of the party from the Benue South Senatorial District rejected Sam Ode, running mate of the APC governorship candidate, Fr. Hyacinth Alia. The Zone C APC elders had issued a statement rejecting the reported choice of Ode as the running mate of Fr Alia. The party stakeholders, on Tuesday, insisted that they have not had any conversation with the said Ode and wondered why he was declared the deputy governorship candidate. The elders had denied knowledge of Ode being nominated as the deputy governorship…
The Governor-elect of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has constituted a 37-man transition committee to facilitate a smooth transition between the incumbent and the newly-elected administration in the state. A statement issued by the media office of the Governor-elect disclosed that the transition committee is made up of seasoned technocrats, present and former public office holders and experts from a diverse field of endeavour, including the academia, finance, law, engineering, labour, local government administration and the media. The Committee is to be chaired by a Doctor of Nuclear Medicine and a Fellow of the Euro Institute of Reticulo-endothelial Biology &…
The Ekiti State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ado-Ekiti has granted two prayers of the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Chief Segun Oni, who is challenging the victory of the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Mr. Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji, at the just concluded governorship election in Ekiti State. The tribunal members which had its inaugural sitting today were led by Justice Wilfred I. Kpochi, chairman, Justice Sa’ad I. Zadawa (Member 1) and Justice Jacob A. Atsen (Member 2). The tribunal granted the prayers of the SDP candidate, Segun Oni, in the motion ex-parte: “an order of leave to…
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday shifted till August 12, a suit instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the propriety of the substitution of the running mates for the All Progress Congress (APC) and Labour Party. The running mates whose substitution is being challenged by PDP are Kabiru Masari and Doyin Okupe for APC and Labour Party respectively. In the suit filed by Gordy Uche SAN, on behalf of PDP, the party is claiming that the Electoral Act 2022 did not make provision for a “place holder” or temporary running mate and that time for resignation,…
The Israeli military demolished the homes on Tuesday of two Palestinians suspected of killing an Israeli security guard in a West Bank settlement in April. Vyacheslav Golev was killed in a shooting at the entrance of a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on April 29. The Palestinian militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The Israeli military later apprehended two Palestinians suspected of carrying out the attack. On Tuesday, the army said it demolished their residences in the northern West Bank village of Qarawat Bani Hassan. In a statement, the military said forces faced a violent protest,…
A group, Progressives Foundation Movement (PFM) has raised alarm over the publication of Dr. Nentawe Goshwe as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau State. It warned that the party may not have a valid candidate on the ballot for the 2023 elections. The group, in a statement issued, Tuesday, and jointly signed by Mr. Jacob Gyang, Elder Victor Useni and Musa Ardo, said they cannot guarantee supporting the party to victory in the forthcoming elections unless the right thing is done. The group reminded the national leadership of APC under Senator Abdullahi Adamu of an…
The Kaduna State chapter of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has called for the disqualification of the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar ahead of the 2023 election. The Kaduna State Chairman of the NNPP, Sani Litti urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disqualify TInubu and Atiku on the grounds of alleged financial crimes during their respective presidential primaries. Speaking on Monday, Litti called for the arrest of Tinubu and Atiku by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Department of State…
Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, Monday, said the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, lacked the capacity to win the 2023 general elections in the State. Abe also disclosed that it was on this premise that he dumped the party. The former APC chieftain made these declarations in PortHarcourt, capital of the State, while featuring on a live television programme in the State. Abe, however, said Governor Wike would not solely determine who would succeed him in 2023 general elections but the majority of the people of the State. In his words, “If the President of Nigeria, who…
Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has given a reason he did not tell former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, before he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. InfoStride News reports that Obi had in May dumped the PDP for LP. Atiku, last week said on Arise TV, said that Obi informed him of his decision to dump the PDP three days after he left the party. However, responding to Atiku’s comments, Obi admitted that the former VP was correct, adding that the reason he did not inform him was that he didn’t want people to talk him out of…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree to appoint a new commander of the Special Operations Forces (SOF), a branch of the Armed Forces. According to the decree, published on the presidential website, Viktor Khorenko was appointed the commander of the SOF, reports Xinhua news agency. Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Honcharenko wrote on Facebook that Khorenko previously served as a commander of the special reserve of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defence Ministry. Khorenko will replace Hryhorii Halahan, who was dismissed by Zelensky earlier on Monday. Last week, Zelensky dismissed Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova and head of the Security…
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi has responded to claims by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar that only a miracle can make LP win the 2023 election. Atiku, who spoke in an Arise TV interview recently, had said the Labour Party has no structure and as a result, can not win any elections. Responding to the claim, Peter Obi who was featured on a Channels TV programme on Monday, said his political journey has always been characterized by the miracle of God. He said, “Well, my political journey has been a miracle. So many things…
The Osun State House of Assembly has commenced a process of transitioning power from the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of November 27. The Speaker of the Assembly, Timothy Owoeye during the plenary on Monday presented a private member bill drafted by him tagged ‘State of Osun Transition Bill 2022’ signaling the commencement of the hand-over of power from the APC to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The bill has been passed through its second reading on Monday. The bill, according to the speaker, is aimed at a seamless transition from one government to the other coming on November 27,…