A close ally of former Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, Hon. Adekunle Akinlade, has dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC). Akinlade said his decision to dump the party was as a result of the failure of the national leadership of the APC to settle the rift within the party in Ogun. Akinlade, in a letter addressed to the State Chairman of the APC, the former House of Representatives member maintained that he could not in good conscience continue to participate in a process that is characterised by injustice. “This is to formally notify you of the resignation of my…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
Youths of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Akwa Ibom State have called for the removal of the Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC, Mr Mike Igini, over alleged compromise and exhibiting vendetta on the main opposition party in the state. The angry youths barricaded the INEC office at Udo Udoma Avenue Uyo, displaying placards with inscriptions such as: “Igini is biased”, “democracy is not for sale”, “INEC must act now”, “Akwa Ibom REC is compromised, “Igini is a factional chairman of a party.” The leader of the youths, under the auspices of Coalition of Political Parties in Akwa Ibom, Mr. Ubok-Obong…
Shehu Sani, a socio-political commentator, has reacted to the call by Ayodele Fayose, former Governor of Ekiti State, that the south should produce the next president in 2023. Sani urged Fayose to calm down on agitation for rotation of the presidency. Fayose has said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should give room for power rotation. The PDP chieftain said the party’s constitution provides room for rotational presidency. He said rotational presidency would ensure equity, justice, and fairness within the party. Referring to a comment by the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, Fayose said: “Awa South lo kan.”…
Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have embarked on a crazy, macho war against Ukraine if he were a woman, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. In an interview with the German media at the end of the G7 Summit in Schloss Elmau this week, Boris Johnson pointed to Putin’s machismo as a contributory factor in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. He also called for more women in positions of power as one of the measures towards global peace. If Putin was a woman, which he obviously isn’t, if he were, I really don’t think he would have embarked on a…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu has refuted a report that he was suspended over misappropriation. Ayu, who described the report as mischievous disclosed that he took a well-deserved, two-week leave on the 21st of June, 2022. PDP National Chairman in a statement by Special Adviser on Communication, Simon Imobo-Tswam, Wednesday said he will be back next week to resume duties, specifically on July 6, 2022. Ayu who described himself as a stickler for due process said he formally handed over to the Deputy National Chairman (North), Umar Damagun. He noted that the Deputy National…
The National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dayo Israel has described the supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi as rats. He said the APC youth wing was not threatened by the noise being made by his supporters on social media. Israel made this assertion Wednesday in Abuja while inaugurating the national task force for registration and revalidation of youth and students’ support groups held at the party’s secretariat. The Youth leader noted that the task force has been mandated to coordinate the registration and revalidation exercise of all youth and students’ support…
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State, Engineer Gabriel Itanyi, has been suspended from office. The suspension followed an expanded meeting of stakeholders and the executives of the party in the area, held on Tuesday at Ugwolawo, headquarters of the local government. According to the suspension letter, signed by twenty six persons, which comprise of the executives and stakeholders, Engineer Gabriel Itanyi was suspended because he allegedly paralyzed the activities of the party in the last two years. It noted that the suspended chairman also failed to ensure a functional party…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has urged the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to go to Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and appeal to him. He insisted that the PDP has treated Wike, a former presidential aspirant of the party, badly. Ortom, who appeared on Arise TV on Wednesday morning, also claimed that it was Wike who brought him back to the PDP in 2015 when he was treated unjustly. “Why do you just send calls to Wike, you should have to go to him,” Ortom said. “When people left the party, Wike was on ground. It…
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday spoke in support of the introduction of a price ceiling for Russian gas, which G7 states will continue to discuss “in the coming weeks.” “The second issue we need to move forward on is doing the same [introducing a price ceiling] with Russian gas, and it’s easier because it is going through pipelines… I’m very supportive of this. We must interact on this issue as well,” Macron said during a press conference after the G7 summit. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has also supported the idea of a price ceiling for Russian gas, according…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) have thrown their weight behind Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi. NLC and TUC made the pledge in separate addresses on Tuesday in Abuja. The NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, speaking during the 10th Memorial Lecture in honour late Pascal Bafya, said NLC is solidly behind Obi and will mobilise to ensure the victory of the Labour Party in 2023 general elections. He noted that labour must dive fully into politics and work hard to support candidates whose mantra will make life better for their members and…
Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State and political leader of the Ibibios, Obong Victor Attah, has defended the reason he and other stakeholders in the state chose Pastor Umo Eno as the 2023 governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Attah said he might be out of office but not out of ideas to decipher who means well for the people of Akwa Ibom and would deliver on the mandate. Speaking at his residence in Uyo, on Tuesday, the former governor said that as a statesman, he was duly consulted by other aspirants, adding that major stakeholders in the…
Ahead of the 2023 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday announced that a total of 1,091,157 old Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) are still uncollected by their owners in Lagos state. The commission also said that after two months it flagged off distribution of 34,242 newly printed PVCs for new registrants; only 6, 382 applicants had come for collection across the state. Mr Olusegun Agbaje, the Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC, made this known at the Stakeholders’ Meeting on Election with leaders of political parties, on Tuesday in Ikeja. Agbaje described the low rate of PVCs collection…
The South East Revival Group (SERG) has hailed the “rare patriotic view” of Hakeem Baba-Ahmed on Labour Party (LP) presidential flag bearer, Peter Obi Baba-Ahmed, a former permanent secretary, served as Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) secretary. The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) spokesman recently met Obi whom he commended for his zeal to fix the country. “I wish those who see him as an ethnic candidate can get to know him better. I also wish those who try to sell him will tone down his ethnic identity. “I hope the nation will see the candidates up close, we could see…
China’s latest assistance is in addition to Beijing rolling over USD 4.5 billion debt due to be paid by Islamabad in March this year and USD 2.5 billion given in 2019 to boost the sagging foreign exchange reserves of Pakistan. China has again rushed to bail out Pakistan by providing USD 2.5 billion in assistance to prop up the fast-depleting foreign exchange reserves of its cash-strapped all-weather ally, months after it rolled over a USD 4.5 billion loan due to be paid this year. The announcement of the Chinese assistance came after France signed an agreement with Pakistan to suspend…
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to grant a motion, seeking an order compelling Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting Bola Tinubu as presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The court also declined to grant the prayer, asking INEC from recognising Atiku Abubakar as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for the next year’s poll. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, ordered the plaintiffs; Incorporated Trustees of Rights for All International (RAI) and Northern Nigerian Youth Democrats (NNYD) to put all the defendants on notice. Justice Ekwo, who refused to grant prayers one, two…
A former Special Assistant to a former Governor of Kaduna State, Namadi Sambo, Zachariah Diwong, has described as ridiculous, claims by the Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Ango Abdullahi, that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar cannot fix Nigeria. Abdulahi had in a recent interview with a national paper suggested that Nigeria will be in chaos if either the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu or Atiku emerged President of Nigeria. Diwong in a statement issued Tuesday said only the people of Nigeria have the right to decide who…
Pastor Paul Enenche of Dunamis International Gospel Center on Tuesday, lambasted Nigerian politicians and leaders of major political parties for denying Southerners tickets for the 2023 presidential elections. Speaking during the healing and deliverance service at the church’s headquarters, Glory Dome Abuja on Tuesday, the fiery gospel preacher lamented how ethnic and religious groups are being marginalized in the country. The clergyman claimed major political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC should have zoned the presidency to the South-east to calm the ongoing agitation for secession. He said, “When president Olusegun Obasanjo…
The Senate on Tuesday mandated the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, to go ahead with the probe of the crisis in the judiciary by looking into the complaints raised in the petition by the Justices of the Supreme Court. It also tasked the committee to interface with the three arms of government, as well as the Bar and the Bench to collate aggregate views and positions on the short-term, medium-term and long-term measures needed to decisively address the crisis facing the Judiciary. The Senate explained that such measures must include the immediate fiscal intervention as well as…
A conservative lawyer who aided former President Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the 2020 election results and who has been repeatedly referenced in House hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol said Monday that federal agents seized his cell phone last week. John Eastman said the agents took his phone as he left a restaurant last Wednesday evening, the same day law enforcement officials conducted similar activity around the country as part of broadening investigations into efforts by Trump allies to overturn the election results in an unsuccessful bid to keep the Republican president in power.…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has approved the appointment of Mr Bamidele Olugbenga Agbede as the new Head of Service in the State Civil Service. Agbede, until his new appointment was the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works and Transport. He takes over from the State’s first female Head of Service, Mrs Peju Babafemi, who is billed to retire from the State Civil Service on June 30th, having attained the mandatory 35years in the service. Agbede’s appointment as Head of Service takes effect from July 1, 2022. Meanwhile, Governor Fayemi has commended Mrs Babafemi for her demonstrated brilliance, diligence and…