The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has declared that its National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, won’t quit the party. PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said removing Ayu is a distraction to the party. Ologunagba said Ayu’s removal would ignite a constitutional crisis in the party. Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and a former Deputy National Chairman (South), Chief Olabode George, had called for Ayu’s removal from office. However, Ologunagba, in a chat with journalists in Abuja, said: “Those calling for Ayu’s removal ought to be aware of the implication of their demand. Are they now saying that the present Deputy…
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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has denied filing a suit against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar; and Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal. Speaking at the commissioning of House of Assembly Quarters in Port Harcourt, Wike said he was focused on delivering the dividends of democracy to the people of the state. “People have called me that I went to court against Atiku Abubakar. “I want to state categorically, that I didn’t go to court. I just want to say it for Nigerians to know. I have kept quiet. I am busy delivering the dividends…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Elders’ Forum has tasked Ekiti State Governor-elect, Mr Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji, on the consolidation of the continuity agenda. Oyebanji met with members of the forum on Thursday in continuation of the second phase of his ‘thank you tour’ alongside his deputy, Chief(Mrs) Monisade Afuye, APC State Chairman, Barrister Paul Omotosho, and other party leaders. Chairman of the Elders’ Forum, Chief George Akosile, who spoke on behalf of other members, congratulated the Governor-elect and his deputy on their landslide victory and expressed their delight that the continuity agenda that has long been anticipated had become a…
Former US President Barack Obama’s foundation set a goal last summer of raising $1.6 billion between 2021 and 2026 to pay for construction of his presidential centre and an endowment to sustain it for years to come. The foundation’s total revenue for 2021 of $160 million, almost all of it from fundraising, only gets it 10 per cent of the way there, dpa news agency reported citing the foundation’s annual report, which is traditionally released each August. It was the second lowest revenue total the foundation has recorded since its founding, according to the report. The lowest total was in…
Former Senate Majority Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba said the All Progressives Congress (APC) would win the 2023 presidential elections. The ex-chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) also expressed confidence that the party would retain Cross River State. On the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) described it as “a very emotive issue”. “I wish the APC had options open to it. As it is now the Christian community should present its charter of demand to the party. “Not everyone is happy (about the Muslim-Muslim ticket) but APC will win nevertheless”, he told reporters. Ndoma-Egba added that…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has dismissed claims that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is planning to dump the party. PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said Wike is an important and loyal member of the party. Ologunagba said the governor had invested so much in PDP to think of dumping the party. Wike has been aggrieved since the PDP’s presidential primary that produced Atiku Abubakar as its flagbearer. The governor is believed to be aggrieved that Atiku ignored him and picked Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State as his running mate. He has been associating with chieftains of…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Princess Ada Ogbu has enjoined Nigerian youths not to occupy the back seat as the country moves to another political phase. Ogbu, who is the APC senatorial candidate for Enugu West Senatorial zone, said the youths should be well positioned to take part in Nigeria’s development and legislative process. In a statement she made available to the media in commemoration of the 2022 International Youth Day, the APC chieftain said the United Nations (UN) instituted International Youth Day would “aid in drawing awareness to the ever-burning issues pertaining to youths the world…
Spokesman of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Chris Finebone has dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party. InfoStride News reports that news of his defection broke Thursday night after his meeting behind closed doors with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. Finebone has also confirmed his defection to journalists in Port Harcourt. His movement to the PDP came just two days after he criticized the Rivers State government for alleged outbreak of measles in some Rivers communities in Abua Odual Local Government Area of the State. Finebone is from Opobo Local Government where the governorship candidate of the…
The FBI agents were looking for documents relating to nuclear weapons, among others, in the unprecedented search they conducted of the premises of former US President Donald Trump earlier this week in Florida, according to a stunning news report. Neither the US Justice Department, which oversees the FBI, nor the investigating agency denied or confirmed the Thursday evening report by The Washington Post. The newspaper sourced the report to multiple officials “all unidentified” involved in the investigation of the case that caused the search but gave no further details of the kind of nuclear weapons’ documents sought by the agents.…
The Conference of 57 Chairmen, an executive group of Ndigbo in Lagos State APC has urged the party leadership and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to privately investigate those creating distractions amongst them. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Conference 57 Chairmen is a body of all the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Government Development Areas harmonised Chairmèn of Ndigbo in APC Lagos state. Conference 57 Chairmen came in place after proper harmonisation of all the five Igbo political groups in Lagos state APC – Coalition, Igbo Vision, South East, Anioma and Mandate. They came together three…
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah has condemned the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket. Bishop Kukah described the ticket as reprehensible and unacceptable. Speaking with Channels Television on Thursday, the Catholic Bishop insisted that the ticket was a setback to the country’s national integration. Against the clamour of Nigerians, the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu had picked Kashim Shettima as his running mate. While Tinubu is a Muslim from the Southwest, Shettima is a Muslim from the North. However, Kukah wondered if Muslims would accept a Christian-Christian presidential ticket. He said Nigerians would wait to hear…
Following the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential primary election held May 29, 2022, the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has sued the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the party and the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal. InfoStride News recalls that during the primary election held in Abuja, the Sokoto Governor, while addressing delegates, asked them to vote for him but later declared that he stepped down for the former Vice President, Atiku. The election had Atiku poll 371 votes as winner, while Wike and Bukola Saraki garnered 237 and 70 votes, respectively. Wike and his loyalists have been in a…
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has declared that the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is free to come and solicit for votes in the South-East. InfoStride News recalls that a certain group, Coalition of South-East Youth Leaders, (COSEYL), had asked promoters of the Tinubu Presidency to keep off the zone. But the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, in a statement made available to the media on Friday, cautioned the group against stoking unnecessary political tension in the zone. In the statement signed by Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, the National President of OYC, he…
US President Joe Biden said that Washington knows “with certainty” that the Syrian government has held Austin Tice, a reporter and former Marine missing in Syria since 2012, and is asking for its help bringing him home. Marking a decade since Tice was taken captive, Biden on Wednesday said that “there is no higher priority in my administration than the recovery and return of Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad”, reports dpa news agency. Tice travelled to Syria in 2012 to cover the war as a freelance journalist for McClatchy, The Washington Post, and other publications. US officials believe…
Member representing Aliero/Gwandu/Jega Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Muhammed Umar Jega, on Thursday, said the chance of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, would be at risk in 2023. He said there are ongoing illegal substitution of candidates by the party, which he noted would rob the party’s victory in the 2023 general election. Speaking with journalists, the lawmaker, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Internally Displaced Persons, Migrants and Refugees, sought for President Muhammadu Buhari’s intervention before Kebbi APC collapsed totally. “President Muhammadu Buhari should intervene in this matter. This is the right time to…
Report that Governor Nyesom Wike has ordered the removal of the flags of the Peoples Democratic Party from the Government in Port Harcourt appears to be false, findings by Newsmen have shown. There were rumours on social media earlier on Thursday that Governor Wike had ordered his Chief Security Officer to remove all the PDP flags from the Government House. However, findings by Newsmen have shown that no flag has been pulled down from the Brick House located at Old GRA in Port Harcourt. A reliable source from the Government House also confirmed to the media that the report is…
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi has assured Nigerians that his government, if elected as president will give them a sense of belonging. Speaking at the Labour Party and Coalition for Peter Obi Leadership summit in Abuja on Thursday, the former Anambra State governor expressed optimism that his administration would take power back to Nigerians. According to Peter Obi, the only thing lacking in the country at the moment is leadership, stressing that his aim to occupy the number seat is to give Nigerians good leadership Peter Obi said: “Our job is to take power from those who have…
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has urged the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, to avoid creating needless division among Ndigbo ahead of the 2023 general election. This is following a press statement issued by the MASSOB national leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu, wherein he told the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Vice Presidential candidate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to stop claiming to be Igbo. However, the statement did not go down well with the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide. The Igbo youth group has now asked MASSOB to retrace its steps, noting that Okowa had never denied…
Former US President Donald Trump kept his date with New York Attorney General in Manhattan but declined to answer questions from the latters office, a calculated and yet surprising gamble in a high-stakes legal interview that will likely determine the course of a civil investigation into his companys business practices of whether he has misused tax breaks. Shortly after questioning began on Wednesday morning, Trump’s office released a statement saying he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, explaining that he “declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the US…
Deji Adeyanju, a socio-political activist, has identified ways the All Progressives Congress, APC, may rig the 2023 presidential election. Adeyanju alleged that APC would use what he called collusive rigging during the February presidential election. The Abuja-based activist said the ruling party would send its thugs into polling units to manipulate votes after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has used its BIVAS to validate voters. In a series of tweets, Adeyanju wrote: “Let me offer free advice on how APC will rig in February. They will wait for INEC to use BIVAS to validate voters, then drive away people…