Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, says the only way Nigeria can change is when old politicians are removed from office. Obi said this during the party’s mega rally on Wednesday in Osogbo. The presidential candidate said that it is only a vote for Alhaji Lasun Yusuf that could rescue the people of the state from suffering and poverty. “We want to change Nigeria and the only way we can change this nation is to remove all these people who have put Nigeria where it is for the past 23 years. This is the time for them…
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The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has suspended its chairman in Bauchi, Sani Shehu. North East Zonal Secretary, Babayo Liman made the announcement at a news briefing on Wednesday. Liman said Shehu was sanctioned for arrogance, disrespect to party leadership and lack of commitment to NNPP’s ideals. The scribe said after reviewing the allegations against the acting chairman, he was issued a query. “He refused to collect the query and we had no other option than to suspend him from office to move the party forward,” Liman explained. In his response, Shehu stated that he was not aware of the…
Ukraine is getting an additional USD 1.7 billion in assistance from the US government and the World Bank to pay the salaries of its beleaguered health care workers and provide other essential services. The money coming Tuesday from the US Agency for International Development, the Treasury Department and the World Bank is meant to alleviate the acute budget deficit caused by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal war of aggression, USAID said in a statement. While many medical staffers have left Ukraine, some hospitals have shut down and other hospitals have been bombed. The health workers who remain in Ukraine…
Professor Pat Utomi has said elections in Nigeria are categorized by rigging, alleging that some functionaries embezzled money from government coffers and used the same to finance political parties. Speaking during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Tuesday, the Political-economist lamented that many politicians used public funds to finance the activities of major political parties, stressing that those who cannot do so settle for smaller parties in the country. He noted that the two most popular parties in the country, the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have all failed the country, pointing out that…
Controversies have continued to trail the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for choosing a Muslim as his running mate in the 2023 general election. Tinubu, himself a Muslim, chose another Muslim, Kashim Shettima, as a running mate, attracting backlash from many Nigerians. According to a Kaduna-based activist, Dr. Mustapha Rabo, he said the state can practice the same religion if it is the majority, but not in Nigeria, where we have Christians, Muslims, idol worshipers, Hindus, and several other hidden believers. “You don’t just commando all federal resources and opportunity to one religion. This happens when people…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagso State has said the nomination of Funke Akindele as deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, underscores the unseriousness of the party. Spokesman of the party, Mr. Seye Oladejo said this in a statement after Funke Akindele confirmed her entry into politics. He stated that the PDP was trivalising the election by “giving political neophytes who have absolutely nothing to bring to the table their electoral tickets.” “It also shows lack of depth in the party as regards quality members to put forward for elections if they could give a member who…
The spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign. Baba-Ahmed said Buhari should just resign now because things would get tougher. The former Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Secretary gave the advice in reaction to the President’s revelation that he is eager to leave power. Buhari spoke when he hosted some All Progressives Congress (APC) governors, legislators and chieftains at his Daura home in Katsina. Noting that he has less than a year left in office, the Nigerian leader assured that he would do his best in the remaining months. “I wish…
Former UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Tuesday emerged as one of the early candidates to hit the threshold of 20 supporting Conservative Party members of Parliament for his nomination to compete for the post of leader and the next British prime minister, to be announced on September 5. The 42-year-old British Indian MP for Richmond in Yorkshire maintains his lead in the race to replace Boris Johnson as nominations formally opened for the contest. The prime ministerial hopefuls have until 6 pm local time to get their nominations in, with Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt, new Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and Tory…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Magnus Abe, has said he will not support Tonye Cole, who is the party’s governorship candidate in Rivers State. Abe, a former lawmaker that represented Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, is nursing the ambition to succeed outgoing Governor Nyesom Wike under the APC. “No I will not support Tonye Cole. I think that is clear to everybody,” Abe said during an interview on Channels Television’s Political Paradigm. He accused Cole of not paying his dues and pointed to the corruption allegations against him. Abe added: “I am not part…
Ahead of the governorship election in Osun State, the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday lashed out at the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Labour Party, LP, in the state. Tinubu said the PDP and Labour Party will labour till death. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had scheduled the Osun State governorship election to hold on July 16. Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola is seeking to return to power for his second term, while Ademola Adeleke of the PDP is the front runner for the gubernatorial race. LP has Lasun Yusuf as its governorship…
Christian politicians in the nineteen Northern States within the All Progressives Congress, APC have warned of dire consequences of the Muslim-Muslim ticket ahead of the 2023 presidential poll. The party’s presidential candidate, Ahmed Bola Tinubu had on Sunday announced former Borno Governor, Kashim Shettima as his running mate. Reacting to the Choice of the former Governor of Borno State, the group stressed that the country’s unity is of utmost importance and not any other thing. It further explained that without unity it would be impossible to build. In a Communique issued at the end of its meeting on Monday night,…
The ruling APC in Cross River State has commenced a reconciliation meeting with members of the party who aspired for different offices but controversially lost at the primaries. At a news event, the chairman of the party, Alphonsus Ogar Eba confirmed that one of the key aspirants who eyed the governorship seat was a former Senator who represented the Central Senatorial District, John Owan-Enoh. Owan-Enoh had expressed bitterness over the way he lost the guber primary to Senator Prince Bassey Otu, now the party’s candidate. He had consolidated on the controversy over Otu’s educational qualifications which were under dispute, petitioned…
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne survived a no-confidence motion on Monday in Parliament brought by an alliance of left-wing lawmakers shortly after the June elections and termed the no-confidence vote as ‘political tactics’. This non-confidence vote is just political tactics The motion required an absolute majority of 289 votes for the government’s fall, however only 146 lawmakers voted in support of the motion, Al Jazeera reported. Calling the no-confidence vote a political tactic, Borne urged the parliament to switch to a culture of compromise ahead of the vote. While the outcome was slightly doubtful, it was meant as a show…
Ahead of the governorship election in Benue State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, may have to buckle up as the Social Democratic Party goes into an alliance with the Labour Party. State Chairman of SDP, John Enemari disclosed the development while speaking with journalists in Makurdi, the state capital, on Monday. According to the Chairman, the leadership of the party has directed its members in the 2023 local government and the 276 electoral wards in the state to work with the Labour Party. The SDP chairman lamented that the crisis at the national…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Osun State, Professor Abdulganiy Olayinka Raji, has assured that the results of the Osun gubernatorial election will be announced within 12 hours. Prof. Raji made this known during his welcome address at the INEC Osun election stakeholders meeting on the governorship election on Monday in Osogbo. Raji, while unveiling steps taken by the Commission to ensure a free, fair, inclusive, and conclusive election on Saturday, July 16, 2022, added that measures put in place include ensuring adequate security, distribution of non-sensitive materials in readiness for the poll, provision of…
The Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Abdulganiy Raji revealed on Tuesday that non-sensitive materials have already been batched to the Polling Unit Level and are ready to be conveyed to the Registration Area Centres (RACs) for the conduct of the state governorship election. He said this during an election stakeholders’ meeting held in Osogbo for the Osun gubernatorial poll coming on Saturday. Prof Raji continued that sensitive materials would arrive in Osun state on Tuesday. “Production of Maps of all Polling Units in the state both electronically and hardcopy for ease of movement and location of Polling Units…
A former governorship aspirant under the All Progressives Congress, APC, Prince Tonye Princewill has become the latest member of the party to leave. Princewill announced his resignation in a letter he personally signed and addressed to the ward chairman of the APC in Ward 3 in Buguma Asari Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State. The former APC chieftain identified the choice of the “Muslim-Muslim” presidential ticket by the party as his reason for resigning, adding that he cannot defend the choice of a Muslim to deputize another Muslim “, especially at a time like this, against all protestations from…
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the development of bilateral economic cooperation and the situation in Ukraine during a telephone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Both leaders “focused on tasks to further promote economic cooperation, including measures to improve the contractual legal framework, boost trade and use national currencies in transactions, as well as to ensure uninterrupted supplies of Russian energy,” the Kremlin said on Monday. “The two leaders agreed on close interaction in these areas at the level of the co-chairs of the bilateral intergovernmental commission and the leaders of relevant agencies,” it added. Putin and Erdogan also…
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Northeast zone has commended the party’s presidential candidate, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, for his choice of running mate from the region. Senator Kashim Shettima, who hails from Borno State, has been announced as the running mate to the APC presidential candidate. Though his emergence, as noticed by DAILY POST, was received with mixed feelings due to his religious background and that of his principal, this seems not to have bothered the party’s leadership in the zone. Describing Tinubu’s choice as the best thing that has happened to the region in recent times, his action, they believed,…
Former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff has commended the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu for picking an ex-governor of the State, Kashim Shettima as his running mate. Sheriff vowed to ensure that Tinubu and Shettima win 2023 presidential election with a landslide victory. In a statement released by his aide, Cairo Ojougboh, he urged APC chieftains to line up behind Tinubu and Shettima to ensure victory for the party in 2023. He disclosed that Sherriff notified him of his nomination as the running mate to Tinubu. The statement reads: “I, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff on behalf…