President Muhammadu Buhari has lauded the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, who has been elected President of the Forum of Regions of Africa (FORAF), in his capacity as Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF). The election was held after a conference in Casablanca region, Morocco, at the weekend. A statement by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity confirmed the latest position to State House Correspondents on Monday. While receiving a delegation made up of Fayemi, Gov Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State and Gov Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State at State House,…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has described the allegation by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the commission was planning to change the locations of polling units as baseless. INEC made this disclosure on Monday. InfoStride News recalls that the APC had on Sunday said that the ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and INEC had concluded plans to change locations of polling units ahead of the 2023 elections so as to win the elections. APC through its Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare alleged that the INEC intended to rig the election in favour of the PDP. APC in a…
The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are currently at loggerheads over alleged plans to change locations of polling units. InfoStride News recalls that the PDP in 2019 defeated APC during the gubernatorial election. The then PDP candidate, Engineer Seyi Makinde, defeated Bayo Adelabu, the then APC gubernatorial candidate. The APC alleged that the PDP and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are planning to change locations of polling units ahead of the 2023 elections, so as to win the elections. But, PDP in its reaction insisted that the allegation…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar is considering options to placate Governor Nyesom Wike. The Rivers helmsman has been on the offensive since the party’s primaries in May where he emerged the runner-up. Wike has been demanding that the National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu should step down if the Atiku camp is really interested in resolving the crisis. The governor revealed that hours after the Abuja primary, Atiku told him that Ayu will go because it is unfair that the flagbearer and chairman are from the same region. But the former Senate President and ex-Minister remains in the…
Two Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ward chairmen in Kogi Local Government Area, Unit leaders and a former Special Adviser, weekend, defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The two Chairmen who defected are Muhammed Ozahi and Abdulkarim Shaibu Saikayi. They duo were the former Ward Chairmen of Girinya and KKSE, respectively. They defected alongside thousands of their members. Equally, Hon Ibrahim Usman Egye, also a former strong pillar of the opposition party joined the APC with his supporters from different ethnic groups. Others who equally defected were the Next level Vanguard group Chairman, Comrade Abdullahi Omare Muhammed who led…
Ahead of next year’s election, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President Abubakar Atiku said the 2023 election is a choice between the certainty of a better Nigeria and a promise of failures by the All Progressives Congress (APC). Atiku, in a statement on Sunday, acknowledged that the 2023 election wouldn’t be easy as the countdown to the general campaign for the 2023 election is drawing closer. He charged his supporters to use the remaining days to organize their base and establish strength in all the 176,846 polling units across the country. The statement read…
Innocent Nwata, the youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra, has petitioned the national chairman of the party, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu, over his alleged unlawful removal. Nwanta, who addressed journalists on Sunday, accused Basil Ejidike, chairman of the party in the state, of victimisation. He claimed he had been unlawfully removed by the chairman, even though both of them were elected during the same congress. He alleged that his removal may not be unconnected to the recent defection of Senator Stella Oduah back to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), while he stayed back. His petition read: “It…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “doing a terrific job”, former US president Donald Trump has said as he asserted that India “has never had a better friend than me”. Donald Trump made the comments in an interview with NDTV during which he spoke on a wide range of issues such as his relationship with India and Modi, the recent FBI raids at his Mar-a Lago property, the Presidential elections and the Capitol Riots. “I’ve had a great relationship with India and Prime Minister Modi. We’ve been friends. And I think he’s a great guy and doing a terrific job. It’s…
Former President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon surrendered on Thursday to face state money laundering and conspiracy charges in New York alleging he duped donors who gave money to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. Steve Bannon is scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday afternoon. Prosecutors say that while Bannon promised donors all the money they gave would go to building the wall, he was involved in funnelling hundreds of thousands of dollars to two other people involved in the scheme. The indictment didn’t identify those people by name, but the details match those of Brian Kolfage and…
A stalwart of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Cletus Obun, has expressed fears that what happened to the party during the 2019 governorship election in the state seems to be re-enacting going by internal bickerings and court cases. In 2019, factions emerged, and two governorship candidates laid claims to the APC ticket: former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Usani Usani and former Senator who represented Cross River Central, John Owan-Enoh. Obun, a former member of the state House of Assembly and ex-vice chairman in the Central Senatorial District of the defunct Action Congress in the state, lamented that…
The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, has debunked speculations that he would be stepping down for the candidate of another party before the 2023 elections. InfoStride News reports that there has been speculation that the former Kano State Governor would step down for either the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, or the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu. But speaking through his campaign spokesperson, Mr. Ladipo Johnson, the NNPP candidate said he is contesting to win. In a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos…
The statement in the media, credited to the Communications Team of the disputed governorship candidate and suspended priest, Hyacinth Alia of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue State is puerile, unfounded and beer parlour conjectures. The author showed how desperate the APC is willing to market all sorts of barefaced lies to gain unhindered access to the state treasury. First, it is baffling that the campaign team of the suspended priest chose to deploy blackmail and falsehood as an art and weapon to ride to power in 2023. We find this absurd and should be completely out of tune…
The Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Katsina State on Saturday visited the erstwhile Secretary to the State Government, Dr Mustapha Inuwa to canvass for his support ahead of the 2023 general elections. The PDP governorship candidate, Yakubu Lado, along with the state party chairman, Yusuf Majigiri, led other party faithful to the Mustapha Inuwa campaign office in Katsina metropolis where they appealed to him to bury the hatchet and join the party to rescue Nigeria from its present quagmire. Inuwa who lost the APC gubernatorial ticket to former SMEDAN Boss, Dr Dikko Umar Radda is said to be unhappy with…
Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation spokesman, Charles Aniagwu, has said sacking the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyiorcha Ayu, would plunge the main opposition party into deeper crises ahead of the 2023 general elections. Aniagwu disclosed this on Saturday in a Television programme in Asaba while providing reasons why the PDP was exploring other options for resolving its current crisis. According to Aniagwu, the PDP was taking another look at the issues based on what was permissible by the laws of the party. He said the suggestion that Iyorchia Ayu must step down has been overtaken…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has demanded for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the All Progressives Congress, APC, senatorial candidate for Imo East, Mr. Alex Mbata. The party said this is to ascertain his role in the alleged non-execution of the projects funded under his watch as Pro-Chancellor of the Imo State University, Owerri. PDP, while alleging that APC candidate was indicted by White Paper on Imo State University, IMSU, said it’s alarmed at the desperate attempts by the APC Senatorial Candidate for Imo East, Mr. Alex Mbata, to distort records and bend history in order…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, on Saturday, mocked the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, for celebrating the vote of confidence passed on his successor, Sen. Iyorcha Ayu, by the party’s National Executive Committee. Wike said no amount of confidence votes would save Ayu from being exiled from the position. The governor disclosed this at a grand reception for over ninety defectors from various political parties into the PDP at the Isaac Adaka Boro Park in Port Harcourt. According to him, Secondus is dancing and seemed to have forgotten history that it wasn’t the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun has alleged that the state All Progressives Congress (APC) has launched a statewide insurgency agenda and fictional security report to create false security alarm. The party also alleged that the plans were hatched to boost its petition to relocate the Osun Election Petition Tribunal sitting from Osogbo to Abuja. The party chairman, Akindele Adekunle, made this revelation in a signed statement on Saturday in Osogbo. Adekunle in the statement also revealed that the APC had written a petition to the President of the Court of Appeal asking that the Tribunal sitting at Osogbo…
In recent days, President Joe Biden has sharpened his attacks against Donald Trump and the so-called MAGA Republicans for posing a threat to democracy. He’s likened the philosophy undergirding the dominant strain of the modern-day GOP to semi-fascism. And Democrats are taking notice. The gloves-off, no-holds-barred approach from Biden as of late has emboldened Democrats across the country, rallying the party faithful ahead of the November elections even as his harshest rhetoric makes some vulnerable incumbents visibly uncomfortable. Biden’s increasingly stark warnings about Trump-fuelled elements of the Republican Party are making up the core part of his midterm message, combined…
Newly elected UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has warned scruffy dressers will need to smarten up, as she looks to distance her image from her predecessor, Daily Mail reported. Ties will be required as part of a new dress code Truss will introduce, in an effort to establish a sharper image the public won’t associate with the ‘partygate’ era. The Prime Minister has made it clear with officials that the unbuttoned collars and laid-back atmosphere in Downing Street both left with Boris Johnson, Daily Mail reported. During Johnson’s time at No 10, he was often viewed as a scruffy dresser…
A former senator and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Yobe state, Alh. Adamu Garba Talba, has again dumped the party and joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). This is coming barely two months after Senator Talba defected to PDP from APC. In a statement on Saturday signed by Gov. Buni’s Spokesman, Mamman Mohammed, indicated that Sen. Talba said he moved to the APC to identify with the giant strides of the APC administration in the state and to ensure continuity in development. He said, “There is no hope for Yobe State and Nigeria in any other political…