Less than 24 hours before the Osun governorship election, there appears to be a block for the candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) in the state. The party in a statement by National Secretary of the party, Tunde Alli, on Thursday, said the PRP was disappointed with the negative effects of the “obvious in-activity of the governorship candidate of the party, Busuyi Ayowole, both on party structures in the state and at the national level.” Meanwhile, the candidate of the party in his response accused the national secretariat of the PRP of corruption. He denied withdrawing from the gubernatorial…
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As the Osun State governorship election kicks off, the National Legal Adviser of the Accord Party, Maxwell Mgbudem has said only a free and credible election would be acceptable. He called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), security agencies and other stakeholders participating in the governorship election to resist pressure that could lead to the rigging of the election. In a statement he issued on Friday, and sent to Newsmen in Abuja, Mgbudem, who is also the Deputy National Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), emphasized the need for politicians and other key stakeholders, to uphold a free…
A Pakistani court on Friday declared Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s younger son Suleman Shehbaz and another person proclaimed offenders in a money laundering case. The Lahore Special Court (Central-I) declared Suleman and Tahir Naqvi proclaimed offenders after they failed to appear despite being summoned, the Dawn newspaper reported. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had booked Shehbaz and his sons Hamza and Suleman in November 2020 under the Prevention of Corruption Act and Anti Money Laundering Act. Arrest warrants were issued for Suleman and Naqvi on May 28. At the same hearing, the court had also issued arrest warrants for another…
Kingsley Moghalu, a former presidential candidate, has said the Muslim-Muslim ticket of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) is a “political calculation”, and not a declaration of religious war. Tweeting on Friday, Moghalu, who lost the ADC presidential ticket in the primaries, said he is not surprised by the uproar the issue has generated. “As I said recently to a question on @ARISEtv, the APC Muslim-Muslim ticket was intended more as a political calculation than a declaration of “religious war,” he said. The former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Deputy-Governor said the storm being sparked…
A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, has dismissed the alleged plot to Islamize Nigeria following the party’s Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket. Oshiomhole assured Nigerians that the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu can’t Islamize Nigeria because his wife is a practicing Christian and a pastor. Speaking with TVC, the former Edo State governor described the Tinubu-Kashim Shettima combination as a “balanced ticket.” Oshiomhole suggested that the opposition was afraid of the Tinubu-Shettima ticket; hence such allegations. According to Oshiomhole: “It is a balanced ticket; balanced ticket in terms of competence, and their antecedents. The opposition party…
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday dismissed a suit filed by some aggrieved members of Akwa Ibom Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against the party over the alleged conduct of the state’s primary elections. Delivering judgment, Justice Obiora Egwuatu, held that the suit lacked merit. Justice Egwuatu said that the plaintiffs, having not participated in the elections, lacked the locus standi to institute the suit. He also agreed with the 2nd defendant (PDP) that the plaintiffs did not exhaust the party’s internal mechanism to resolve the issue before filing the matter. The judge consequently dismissed the suit for lacking…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kaduna State, Dr. Mustapha Aliyu, has warned the governorship aspirant of the ruling All Progressives Congress Party (APC), in the state, Senator Uba Sani over his choice to fly a Muslim-Muslim ticket. InfoStride News recalls that Uba Sani, a serving Senator, had on July 3, 2022, picked Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s deputy, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe as his running mate for the upcoming 2023 gubernatorial elections in the state. Reacting on Friday, Aliyu said for equity, justice, and fairness, Sani would have chosen a Christian as deputy. According to him, Balarabe is even more…
The European Union could ban the import and transit of some fuel oil from Russia around six months ahead of the planned deadline, an EU official and four traders told Reuters. The EU has been reducing imports of Russian oil products since March, after Moscow sent thousands of troops into Ukraine, and agreed a full ban from February 2023. However, the import and transit of Russian coal is being stopped sooner – from Aug. 10, and technically may include fuel oil. EU bans are based on so-called Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes used by customs. One of the codes being…
The gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Busuyi Ayowole Adedeji has declared that he is still in the gubernatorial race. Adedeji asked the electorates to disregard the information coming from the party that he has been withdrawn from the Saturday, July 16, gubernatorial election. The National Executive Committee of the PRP through its National Secretary, Babatunde Alli had in an announcement on Thursday, July 14, announced its withdrawal from the guber race. Reacting through Ilesanmi Iyanu, Director, New Media and Strategy of his campaign organisation on Friday in Osogbo, the PRP Osun gubernatorial candidate, accused the Osun PRP…
An aide to ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Phrank Shaibu has said Governor Nyesom Wike will not leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He said the PDP is Wike’s “last bus stop”. In an article, Shaibu reacted to the visit to the Rivers helmsman by All Progressives Congress (APC) governors. The Governors of Ekiti, Ondo and Lagos States, Kayode Fayemi, Rotimi Akeredolu and Babajide Sanwo-Olu met Wike in Port Harcourt. Shaibu said the trip was to “bring Wike to their fold or strike a deal with him, courtesy of one of their newest converts”. “However, what’s the sense in their move?…
Mr. Ogar Osim, Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) in Cross River, on Friday told the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in the state that its mandate was to mobilise workers to support the party in the coming elections and not to select candidates for the party. Osim said this at a news conference in Calabar while reacting to a vote of no confidence passed on him by the NLC and affiliate unions in the state. The NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) had met earlier and produced a statement signed by both chairman Mr Ben Ukpepi and Mr Monday…
Omoyele Sowore, the Presidential Candidate of the African Action Party, AAC, has claimed some former Nigerian leaders are working for Peter Obi, the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate. Sowore claimed that former Heads of State, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubakar are all ‘working for’ Obi. He urged Nigerians not to vote for Obi because criminals were backing him. In a Facebook post, Sowore said the former Nigerian leaders are Obi’s “godfathers.” According to Sowore, these godfathers ruined Nigeria, hence Obi should be rejected. “Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, Aliyu Gusau, Abubakar Abdusalam and Ango Abdulahi are Peter Obi’s ‘Godfathers’.…
The US has approved a new type of eye drop which they say could eliminate the need for reading glasses. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) recently approved the use of an eye drop designed to improve age-related near-vision, reports Express.co.uk. Called Vuity, the drop is applied to each eye once a day and starts working within 15 minutes of application. The makers say each drop lasts for at least six hours. As per the report, the drug is a formulation of a well-known compound known as pilocarpine. The researchers behind Vuity designed it to allow for the eye drop…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, expressed willingness to reconcile with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. Atiku said he is open to a reconciliation with Wike in the interest of the party. Addressing journalists in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, Atiku insisted that there are no factions in the PDP. The PDP presidential candidate insisted that the PDP was united. “It is a social media drama. There is nothing like a Wike camp or Atiku camp. There is one PDP family.” On plans to meet Wike for a possible reconciliation, and Atiku said: “Why…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has denied seeking President Muhammadu Buhari’s permission to dump the All Progressives Congress, APC, over the party’s Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket. Osinbajo said a widely circulated memorandum suggesting he asked Buhari for permission to leave APC was not from him. The memorandum, dated June 24, 2022 with reference number SH/VP/605/2./0 and titled ‘Permission to resign from APC,’ listed family pressure and other reasons for the alleged decision. Reacting, Osinbajo, through his spokesman, Laolu Akande, described the memorandum as fake. Akande said Osinbajo would never author such a memo full of errors. “Where do you people even get…
Chairman of Labour Party (LP) in Cross River State, Ambassador Ogar Osim, has stated that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) are attempting to scuttle and destabilise the party in the state. He dismissed the reported vote of no confidence against him passed by the organised abour union Thursday afternoon, saying the people behind it were sponsored. Organised labour held a news conference Thursday to denounce Ogar Osim’s leadership, saying he hoards information about political processes towards electing party candidates and runs the party unilaterally. A release signed by Comrades Godwin Amoikwen, NLC chairman, and Ken…
Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has reportedly picked Pastor Bishop Isaac Idahosa as his running mate. The party disclosed this via a tweet on Thursday that read: “Our VP Pastor Bishop Isaac Idahosa from Edo State.” Bishop Idahosa, who hails from Edo State is the Senior Pastor of God First Ministry, a.k.a Illumination Assembly. The church has its headquarters in Lekki, Lagos State. Idahosa’s emergence as Kwankwaso’s running mate followed the inability of NNPP to form an alliance with the Labour Party, presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Kwankwaso and Obi had disagreed over who…
Sri Lankan Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Thursday informed Gotabaya Rajapaksa that he should submit his letter of resignation as the President as soon as possible or else he will consider other options to remove him from the office, according to a media report. On Wednesday, the Parliament Speaker said that the President in a telephone conversation had informed that he would tender his letter of resignation during the day, before midnight. However, he has not done it yet. Speaker Abeywardena said that he informed President Rajapaksa to submit his letter of resignation as soon as possible, citing that he…
The people of Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State have assured Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of their 100 percent support and loyalty ahead of the Enugu North Senatorial District election in 2023. They said this was in appreciation of his administration’s unprecedented transformation of the University town of Nsukka, empowerment of their sons and daughters and other numerous remarkable achievements. The people of Nsukka, who unanimously gave the endorsement through a motion moved by the member representing Nsukka East Constituency, Rt. Hon. Dr. Chinedu Nwamba and seconded by his Nsukka West counterpart, Hon. Emmanuel Ugwuerua, when they paid a Thank-you/Solidarity…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the African Action Congress (AAC) and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) are yet to upload details of their governorship candidates on the electoral body’s nomination portal. While Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is the NNPP presidential candidate, Dumebi Kachikwu is ADC flag bearer. Parties are expected to put up the names of their candidates for the governorship and state assembly elections by July 15. INEC, in a statement signed on Wednesday by its national Commissioner, Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, said it has so far processed 6,995 nomination forms uploaded by 16 out…