Governor of Ekiti State and chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum, John Feyemi, has stepped down from the presidential race. Fayemi asked his supporters to vote for Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Fayemi announced his withdrawal during the party’s national convention and presidential primaries in Abuja on Tuesday. Fayemi, who was one of the five presidential aspirants submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari by the ruling party’s governors, said the decision was to ensure that a Southerner won the 2023 presidential election. Details later…
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Former Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, has also stepped down for the National Leader of the All Progressives Congressive, Bola Tinubu. Amosun stated this at the ongoing presidential primary at the Eagles Square in Abuja. According to him, Tinubu can do the job. He also urged delegates from Ogun state to vote for the former Governor of Lagos state. Amosun follows in the footsteps of Akpabio, who also stepped down for Tinubu. More to follow…
Former Governor of Akwa Ibom, Godswill Akpabio, has stepped down for the National Leader of the All Progressives Congressive, Bola Tinubu. Akpabio stated this at the ongoing presidential primary at the Eagle Square in Abuja. “As I withdraw now, vote for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I am ably qualified to be your President. “But I have stepped down for Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” Akpabio said.
Ukraine will fight to recover all its territory occupied by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday, as his troops battled street-to-street in Sievierodonetsk in one of the bloodiest land battles of the war. “We have already lost too many people to simply cede our territory,” Zelensky said by video link at an event hosted by Britain’s Financial Times newspaper. Stalemate was “not an option”, he said. “We have to achieve a full deoccupation of our entire territory.” Zelensky’s remarks responded forcefully to suggestions that Ukraine must cede territory to Russia to end the war, now in its fourth…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday stormed the Eagle Square venue of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Special Convention in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the officials went around the convention venue before finally taking strategic positions. However, the officials declined to comment when approached by a NAN correspondent at the convention. NAN reports that EFCC officials had made a similar appearance at the PDP Special Convention in Abuja on May 28, without making any arrest. The visit might not be unconnected with recent social media reports indicating that delegates were…
The lawmaker representing the Kano South, Senator Kabiru Gaya has revealed that three presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC stepped down for the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. He said the former Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani and two others took the decision to enable the party arrive at a consensus candidate. Speaking with Channels TV at the Eagles Square, Federal Capital Territory Abuja, venue of the APC convention, the lawmaker said the party has succeeded in reducing the aspirant in line for consensus to two. He named them to include the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu…
Isa Baba Buji, one of the All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates from Buji Local Government Area (LGA) of Jigawa State is dead. Buji died on Tuesday afternoon in Abuja. Although the cause of his death has not been confirmed, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo took to his Twitter page to mourn the deceased. His spokesman, Laolu Akande expressed sadness over the delegate’s death. Akande wrote, ”VP Osinbajo saddened by the news of the death this afternoon, in Abuja, of Alh. Isa Baba Buji, 61, one of our APC delegates from Buji Local Government, Jigawa State. ”He extends heartfelt condolence to his…
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has announced Bayo Lawal as his running mate ahead of the 2023 elections. Makinde made this announcement on Tuesday. InfoStride News gathered that the governor made the announcement during a meeting with some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders from the Oke Ogun zone. Some of the PDP leaders who were at the meeting according to sources are former PDP Chairman in the state, Kunmi Mustapha, his successor, Dayo Ogungbenro and Senator Hosea Agboola. Our correspondent reports that the announcement of Lawal who is the Chairman, Oyo State Housing Corporation, has cleared the speculations over…
British Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, Attorney General Suella Braverman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak listen as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses his cabinet ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London A defiant British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on Tuesday holding his first meeting after a tense day of political intrigue, which ended in him securing a victory in a no-confidence ballot of his party members with a narrow margin as a major chunk of his MPs voted against him as the leader. Johnson is rallying his Cabinet ministers, who largely backed him quite publicly…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he does not have a preferred candidate ahead of the party’s presidential primaries. Buhari also told Northern Governors, who were in Aso Rock to meet with him concerning where the next President should come from to “allow the delegates to decide. The Party must participate, nobody will appoint anybody.” The President on Monday afternoon said it was important to clear all doubts about where he stands on the choice of a presidential candidate. Buhari, according to Garba Shehu, made the declaration before the party’s 14 governors of northern states. According to the President, “no…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described the gruesome killing of parishioners at the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State, on Sunday as an unspeakable evil. The vice president said the perpetrators would be fished out and made to face the full wrath of the law. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the vice president visited Owo town and the Catholic Church to commiserate with the clergy, community and people of Ondo over the incident. The vice president also visited those who were injured at St. Louis Catholic Hospital…
A businesswoman, Mrs Florence Adepegba, has won the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, rerun primary election in Kosofe Federal Constituency of Lagos State. Adwpegba was unopposed at the election. NAN reports that Adepegba won after her opponent, Mr Olakunle Koya stepped down for her. The result of the primaries held at the PDP secretariat, Owode Mile – 12, was announced by the Returning Officer, Mr Kelly Dickson. He declared Adepegba the winner, with 29 votes cast out of 31 delegates on the list. Recall that the PDP House of Representatives’ rerun primaries in Lagos state were a result of the cancellation…
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, says the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to conduct a world-class presidential election. InfoStride News reports that the party is currently in the process of electing a candidate who would fly its flag in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election. The convention, which was scheduled for June 6, 7 is currently ongoing at the Eagles Square Abuja. Abiodun, who is the Chairman, Accreditation and Decoration Committee of the convention, spoke with newsmen on Monday shortly after inspecting the International Conference Centre, Abuja, venue for accreditation of delegates. According to the governor, all things…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked President Joe Biden’s administration to weigh in on whether the justices should hear a case on whether Meta Platforms Inc’s WhatsApp can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software. The justices are considering NSO’s appeal of a lower court’s decision allowing the lawsuit to move forward. NSO has argued that it is immune from being sued because it was acting as an agent for unidentified foreign governments when it installed the “Pegasus” spyware. WhatsApp has said the software was used for…
A former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, has withdrawn from the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential race. Nnamani announced his withdrawal during a meeting with journalists in Abuja on Monday. The former lawmaker said: “In the present circumstances, it does not make any sense for me to continue in the race as I have not had the opportunity to market my profile and ideas to the delegates of our party in a manner that allows for deliberation and introspection. “Therefore, I discontinue my aspiration and wish the party a successful primary and unity of purpose so that we can win the…
An All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Dave Umahi, on Monday, said a consensus candidate presidential candidate may emerge within the next 12 to 24 hours. Umahi said the candidate will emerge in a very peaceful way. Speaking with Channels Television, the Ebonyi State Governor commended APC Northern governors for backing the push for Southern candidate. According to Umahi: “Well, I see within the next 12 hours and 24 hours that God manifested himself and a consensus candidate emerged in a very peaceful process and the process that is acceptable to all the aspirants or at least, most of the…
Governors on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Monday, rejected the Senate President, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan as the consensus 2023 presidential candidate. The governors at a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, insisted that there must be a power shift which they noted would be too risky for the APC, if rotation was disallowed. The National Chairman of the APC Senator Abdullahi Adamu had anointed Lawan as the consensus candidate, a development that is currently causing ripples among the governors and other party stakeholders. The announcement came a few hours to the National Convention, which was…
As reactions continue to trail the terrorist attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo on Sunday, a Chieftain of the Accord Party and the National Legal Adviser, Maxwell Mgbudem, on Monday said the heinous attack was an indication that President Muhammadu Buhari has been overwhelmed. The attack which left scores of worshippers dead and several others critically injured has been widely condemned by well-meaning Nigerians. In a statement he issued in Abuja and sent to the media, Mgbudem said there is no doubt that Nigeria is currently at crossroads, which he said requires a concerted effort by every stakeholder to…
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has claimed that a troika of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, his wife Bushra Bibi and her friend Farah Gogi made “billions” under the tenure of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government. “It started in 2019, when Imran Khan gave a relief worth Pakistani rupees 320 million to Ahsan Jamil Gujjar – Farah’s husband – under an amnesty scheme,” PML-N leader Atta Ullah Tarar said during a press conference. The Express Tribune quoting Tarar reported that the former Prime Minister gave the relief due to his personal relations and friendship between Bushra and Farah. Regarding this, he also played…
Northern youth groups under the All Progressives Congress (APC) have disagreed with the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari and 11 governors from the North over their decision to allow a power shift to the south. Speaking on Sunday, the youth groups, APC Progressives Youth Elements and North-East Youth Forum of APC, who protested in Bauchi, said that the governors were selfish to have agreed that power should go to the South. Various placards with inscriptions such as: “It’s North or Nothing”, “We are not in support of power shift to South”, “We will not accept the decision of eleven governors”,…