The spokesperson for the Tinubu-Shettima presidential campaign council, Festus Keyamo, has reacted to reports that President Muhammadu Buhari called for his removal. Reports had emerged on Monday that President Buhari and members of the Aso Rock cabal allegedly called for the removal of Festus Keyamo as the spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress APC Campaign Council for always de-marketing the regime. It was reported that Keyamo was allegedly described as a ‘loose cannon who is daily demarketing his regime as a failed regime. Reacting, Keyamo on his Twitter page said the news was fake. ”Very funny fake news. When people…
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Ahead of the commencement of the 2023 election campaign on Wednesday, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has appointed the immediate past President of the Senate, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki as the Special Envoy and a former Senate President, Pius Anyim, as Special Adviser. Atiku in a statement by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, Monday, explained that the key appointments of Special Advisers are aimed at strengthening his presidential campaign team. The statement read in part “also appointed as Special Advisers to the candidate are former governor of Kano State,…
The Federal High Court, Osogbo, has adjourned the suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party PDP) to stop the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC) from conducting local government elections slated for October 15. The suit was adjoined till September 29 as another political party, the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) joined in the suit. Meanwhile, OSIEC has filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal, Akure, the Ondo State capital. According to Barr. J.A Ayanyemi, counsel to OSIEC, the court in its wisdom has adjourned the matter till Thursday, September 29, noting that “OSIEC has filed an appeal at the…
Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume on Monday said that he was still a full-fledged member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and that his structures were still intact in the party. The two-time Senator stated this in a statement made available to InfoStride News by his legal aide, Barr. Uche Anyanwu. Recall that there was a media report that Araraume had collapsed his political structure for the Labour Party in the 27 local government areas and all political wards of Imo State. Ararume, in a swift reaction, debunked reports that he had collapsed his political structures into the LP, saying he…
Russia has voiced its support for India and Brazil as worthy candidates for permanent membership in the UN Security Council, calling them key international actors. During the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday expressed his support for India, becoming a permanent member of the Security Council. In his address to the General Assembly just an hour before External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s speech, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the UN and Security Council have to be aligned to contemporary realities. He said Moscow sees the prospect of making the…
The Labour Party, LP, in Nasarawa State says it would not accept the suspended State Chairman of the Young Progressives Party, Bishop Namo, into its fold following a corruption allegation recently leveled against him. According to reports, the national leadership of the YPP had suspended Namo over alleged corruption in the party’s state chapter. It was learnt that the suspended Chairman received a bribe from one desperate politician to illegally substitute the name of one John Mark, who was the party’s candidate for the Akwanga/Nasarawa Eggon/Wamba Federal Constituency, in the forthcoming general election. Subsequently, Namo, on September 21, declared his…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo re-echoed its stand that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should be rejected at the polls in 2023. Ohanaeze hinged the decision on the PDP’s jettisoning of zoning arrangement before its presidential primary election. InfoStride News reports that unlike the All Progressives Congress, APC, that zoned the position to the Southern Nigeria, the PDP threw it open. In a statement on Sunday by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze, he said the PDP should not be trusted having breached its own constitution. He said, “anyone who breached the gentleman arrangement by…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State, on Sunday, accused each other of alleged plans to rig the 2023 elections in the state. The PDP, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Collins Opurozor, raised the alarm, urging the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to ensure that the vexed issue of voter register fraud is expeditiously resolved and the tainted register thoroughly cleaned up, to restore public confidence in the electoral system. The PDP said, “What is also very important to highlight is that the failed APC regime in Imo State, which has…
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has expressed optimism that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would surmount its current challenges and emerge victorious at all levels in the 2023 general elections.Governor Diri stated this at an interdenominational church service organized by the state government to mark Nigeria’s 62nd independence and the 26th anniversary of the creation of Bayelsa State at the King of Glory Chapel, Government House, Yenagoa.Represented by his deputy, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, the Governor described the post-convention crisis rocking the PDP as the “shaking of the water in the river that will not stop the boat from getting…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State on Sunday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to ensure that the vexed issue of voter register fraud is expeditiously resolved, and the tainted register thoroughly cleaned up, to restore public confidence in the electoral system. The opposition party also encouraged the candidates to keep working in sync with the electoral template of the party, which he described as the surest path to seamless victory. Collins Opurozor, Publicity Secretary Imo State PDP, made the plea in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Sunday in Owerri. The PDP said,” What…
A member of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Tomide Akinribido has charged Christians to protect Vice President Osinbajo for “refusing” to be part of Bola Tinubu’s campaign council. The name of the VP was missing from the list of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The PCC said President Muhammadu Buhari directed that Osinbajo and Federal Government’s Secretary, Boss Mustapha, be left out. The spokesman, Festus Keyamo explained that this was to ensure they were not distracted from governance. In his posts on Twitter, Akinribido suggested that the ruling APC was engaging in a…
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State has declared in clear terms that it is behind the party’s presidential candidate in the forthcoming 2023 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The latest declaration by the Abia PDP comes on the heels of the recent withdrawal by some party chieftains as members of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organization. InfoStride News reports that the camp of Governor Nyesom Wike had insisted the party’s national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, worked for the emergence of Atiku Abubakar. The former vice president won the presidential ticket at the PDP primary, which was…
Former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has warned Nigerians not to vote for those he described as “killers” during the 2023 election. Jonathan stated this on Sunday in Uyo during a special interdenominational service to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the creation of Akwa Ibom State. “In 2023, you must not make the mistake to vote killers. “Those who will carry knives, guns, and all kinds of gadgets to go and kill people because of politics, are the enemies of society. “If you kill to become a leader, you will continue to kill to remain a leader. “The people will continue to…
As India assumes the presidency of the G20, the world counts on it to mobilise credible actions to deliver on the 2030 Development Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday. In his message to a special India@75′ event on Showcasing the India-UN Partnership in Action’, the UN chief underlined that as home to the largest youth generation in history, India will be decisive in the success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “Looking ahead, India, home to the largest youth generation in history will be decisive in the success of the Sustainable Development Goals,…
The oppression of the Muhajir political activists in Pakistan — Muslim immigrants who migrated from various regions of India after the Partition of India, has continued in the country as the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) claimed that three of its party leader were killed by the Pakistan government. MQM-P leader Faisal Sabzwari has said that the three missing persons whose bodies were found in different districts of Sindh province belonged to their party, according to a Canada-based think tank, International Forum for Right and Security. The state oppression against Muhajirs is being continued since the creation of Pakistan and was…
Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has reacted to the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In a post on his social media handles on Saturday, the former presidential aspirant said he had been working silently behind the scene to ensure the return of normalcy into the party. InfoStride News recalls that the main opposition party slipped into an unusual crisis months ago after the party’s primary election held on May 29 in Abuja. Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his loyalists, who suspected foul play in the electoral process, had demanded the resignation of the PDP National Chairman,…
One of the Zamfara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirants, Hon. Ibrahim Shehu, has dragged the party to the Federal High Court for the second time in one week over short notice served to him for the rerun governorship primary election. Shehu told the media that he scored only one vote in what he described as kangaroo governorship primary election because he warned his supporters to distance themselves from the exercise. According to him, he had dragged the party hours before the election to the same Federal High Court sitting in Gusau, the state capital, saying…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said the Senator representing Enugu East Senatorial District, Chimaroke Nnamani, was listed as a member of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, PCC because he believes in the ruling party. InfoStride News had reported that the lawmaker, who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was among the list of campaign council which comprises 422 members. Reacting to the news currently making the rounds, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, told Channels TV that Tinubu enjoys support beyond the APC and it is not unusual for the “cross-party…
A staunch member of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Alhaji Illiyasu Bakura, has stated that the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has every right for his struggles for the Southern part of Nigeria to have the position of the party’s national chairmanship. Speaking with Journalists in Gusau, the ZamfaraState capital, the party’s chieftain admitted that actually, there is a lot of injustice and impasses in the running of PDP in the entire country, which he said can not help the party to grow. “I want to tell you that there is a lot of injustice and impasses going on in PDP…
The Taliban have announced that it plans to review and revise the curriculum in view of Afghan culture, international educational standards, and Islamic law. Ahmad Taqi, the Taliban spokesperson for the Ministry of Higher Education said 35 academic curricula have already been finalised, and a single academic curriculum will be set up across Afghanistan, TOLOnews reported. “We have adopted those international norms that we support and are working to align Afghanistan’s curriculum with those norms so that we can compete with other countries in curriculum,” said Taqi. There are 165 different educational curricula available nationwide, of which 20 bachelor’s degree…