The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, has warned against alleged plans by some terrorists to assassinate the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi. A statement issued on Saturday by the President-General of the coalition, Goodluck Ibem, alleged that some terrorists told their kidnapped victims who were freed recently that they have concluded plans to assassinate Obi over his decision to run for the presidency in 2023, saying Obi is a threat. Replying to the threat, COSEYL said Peter Obi has the constitutional right as a bonafide citizen of Nigeria to run for any political office…
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said he would not quit active politics, despite losing his bid to emerge as the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate. Osinbajo explained that he would continue to contribute his quota in active politics that would bring about real change. Speaking with “representatives of the Diaspora Professionals for PYO” during a virtual meeting, Osinbajo said he would continue to push for a better Nigeria. A statement by his media aide, Laolu Akande, quotes Osinbajo as saying: “I intend to stay very actively engaged in the politics of our country, because I believe strongly that, if…
There are indications that the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may lose its strongholds and voter base in Rivers State in the 2023 general elections. The imminent upheaval is premised on the expressed dissatisfaction with the outcome of the just concluded PDP presidential primaries and the controversial selection of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as its vice-presidential candidate. Consequently, many PDP stalwarts and supporters are reportedly demoralized and negotiating conditions for defection to either the All progressives Congress, APC, or Labour party. Findings in Rivers State uncovered ongoing political horse-trading to occasion a radical collapse of the existing PDP structures into…
Owing to greater opportunities with cheaper prices over land purchasing rights, labour wages, and operational expenses for factories and warehouses, Vietnam may replace China as the factory of the world in near future. As Omicron flare-ups in China’s manufacturing hubs, like Guangdong Province and Shanghai, disrupted supply chains, Vietnams Q1 economic figures appear to show promising outlook amid the pandemic, reported Global Times. According to Vietnams General Statistics Office, Vietnams economy expanded by 5.03 per cent in Q1 of 2022, compared with the same period of last year, surpassing China which grew 4.8 per cent. Whats more, Vietnams foreign trade…
A former Deputy Speaker in the House of Representatives, Lasun Yusuff has revealed that the anticipated defeat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Osun gubernatorial election will result in the political death of many politicians. Yusuff, who is the Labour Party gubernatorial candidate in the election also revealed that APC chieftains in the state were human haters who were not interested in developing young politicians. Making this revelation while featuring on a radio current affairs programme in Osogbo on Thursday, Yusuff who served as Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives under the banner of the APC explained that most…
Last week, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) won the Ekiti State Governorship election in a landslide. The party won 15 out of 16 local governments, breaking a 23years jinx in the state. With the victory, that is the first time transition will be happening within the party. At the return of democracy in 1999, Niyi Adebayo of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) candidate emerged as governor of the state. He was defeated in 2003 by Ayodele Fayose. But Fayose’s tenure was truncated by the impeachment of 2006. In 2007, Segun Oni was declared the winner but was sacked by…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Joe Igbokwe has criticized the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi over his anti- infrastructure comment. Igbokwe said Obi was an overrated presidential candidate. He recounted a recent comment by Obi where he condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s system of stimulating the economy through infrastructure. The former Anambra State governor had said: “You can’t use infrastructure to drive economic growth. “You invest in education and the SME (Small, Medium Enterprises) sector instead to deal with poverty.” Recalling the comment, Igbokwe stressed that the LP presidential candidate was…
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate, Ifeanyi Okowa, has lambasted his critics. Okowa has been facing criticisms from some quarters since his emergence as the running mate of PDP flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar. On Friday, he fired back at his critics after inspecting ongoing projects at the Dennis Osadebey University, Asaba. The Delta Governor told them to visit the state to assess the level of infrastructural development. “People in Lagos and Abuja say that they are not seeing what we are doing. “It is either that they don’t come or that they just want to be wicked in their ways”,…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has denied meddling in an investigation into the 2020 mass shooting, the worst the country’s history. Brenda Lucki, head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), has been accused of pressuring local officers to help advance Trudeau’s gun control plans, the BBC quoted the Halifax Examiner as saying, which was the first to report on the development. According to the Halifax Examiner, the accusation stemmed from notes made by a local RCMP officer, released as part of a public investigation into the mass shooting on April 18-19, 2020, during which a gunman posing as a…
Benue State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday said it read with a mix of pity and amusement, a press statement by the All Progressives Congress (APC) raising the alarm over a purported plot by PDP to sponsor protests under their name. A statement issued by Benue PDP Publicity Secretary, Bemgba Iortyom, described the statement as ‘nebulous, bathetic and totally unintelligent. Lortyom said, “If the purported protests were to be a form of sabotage against APC, wouldn’t such amount to flogging the dead since the opposition party has already hanged itself by its failure to conduct lawful…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has listed two conditions for political parties to change nominated candidates or running mates of their presidential candidates. INEC’s Commissioner on Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, disclosed this while appearing on Channels Television’s programme, Politics Today, on Friday. “A political party cannot substitute a nominated candidate, except in two instances: if the nominated candidate dies. Or if the nominated candidate withdraws from the race. “Any withdrawal must be accompanied by a letter written by the nominated candidate to the political party, indicating he has withdrawn from the race, along with a sworn affidavit…
The Osun State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Gboyega Famodun, has condemned the attack on some members of the party in Ilesa-West Local Government Council Area of the state, by some suspected political thugs. InfoStride News reported that some hoodlums suspected to be political thugs attacked and disrupted the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) by people in Ilesa West Local Government Area of Osun State on Thursday. Famodun in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Kola Olabisi, in Osogbo, described the attack as needless, wicked, primitive, callous and a development which poses danger to the…
One of the senatorial aspirants who contested the recently-held primary election of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo Central Senatorial District, Engineer Faozy Oladotun Nurudeen, has dumped the party. Nurudeen, said that he has dumped APC and joined Accord Party. He made these announcement on Friday. InfoStride News recalls that Nurudeen was one of the seven aspirants who indicated interest to represent Oyo Central Senatorial District on the platform of APC. The politician in a statement made available to the media on Friday explained that the APC primary election was not truly representational of the choice of the people. He…
The devastating earthquake this week is just one of several emergencies facing Afghanistan, and continued dialogue with the Taliban remains the only way to address ongoing challenges in the country, the top UN official said on Thursday. Ramiz Alakbarov, Acting Special Representative at the UN’s Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, provided an update on the earthquake, citing figures which revealed nearly 800 confirmed deaths and more than 1,400 injured. He said despite difficulties, “we firmly continue to believe that a strategy of continued engagement and dialogue remains to be the only way forward for the sake of the Afghan people, as…
Former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has reacted to Nollywood Actress Tonto Dikeh’s emergence as the Deputy Governorship candidate in Rivers State under the African Democratic Congress (ADC). InfoStride News had earlier reported that the ADC governorship candidate, Tonte Ibraye, confirmed Tonto Dikeh as his running mate in a statement posted on Instagram on Friday. Part of the statement had read: “After series of consultations with leaders of our party the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Rivers State and the national level, I’m glad to announce Amb. Tonto Dikeh ‘Tonto let ’ as my running mate for the 2023 gubernatorial election…
An All Progressives Congress (APC) Chieftain in Oyo State on Friday alleged that members of the state House of Assembly are only active when they are financially induced. Isaac Ajiboye Omodewu, Chairman of the party and a former Commissioner in the state made the allegations in Ibadan while reacting to the recent approval of a N2 billion loan by the state House of Assembly for Governor Seyi Makinde. InfoStride News recalls that members of the Oyo State House of Assembly on Thursday, during an emergency meeting, approved the sum of N2bn loan for the state government. Omodewu claimed the lawmakers…
Ahead of the 2023 general election, hundreds of members of the All Progressives Congress, Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressive Grand Alliance in Umuahia East Constituency of Abia State, have joined the Labour Party (LP). The party men claimed the economic and infrastructural deficits in Umuahia east state constituency, reportedly occasioned by poor representation of the constituency by those entrusted with people’s mandate at the local government and state levels were responsible for their move. They vowed to deliver for the Labour Party at all levels of political leadership in the state with their permanent voter cards in the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to perish the alleged attempts to embark on secret voters registration with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to inflate the current figure of the current voters register. In a signed statement by Adekunle Akindele in Osogbo on Friday, the caretaker committee chairman, the PDP reminded INEC that the party and all political parties in Osun State were already in possession of current numbers on the voter register in each of the 3,763 polling units in the state. It added that it will be suicidal for…
Ukraine has submitted a new lawsuit against Russia to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over Moscow’s ongoing illegal invasion of Kiev, says Justice Minister Denys Malyuska. In a statement, the Justice Ministry said the lawsuit addresses “Russia’s egregious human rights violations during the initial phase of the war, from the onset of Russia’s invasion in the early hours of February 24, until the effective withdrawal of its ground forces from around Kiev and other cities in northern Ukraine on April 7”, reports Ukrayinska Pravda. By these proceedings, Ukraine seeks, in addition to orders of the Court requiring the…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu are not smart. Okowa said Tinubu’s decision to place his running mate, Kabiru Masari as a placeholder was an indication that the APC is not smart. Featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today, the Governor of Delta State, said making Masari a placeholder showed that APC was not organized and not ready for election. According to Okowa: “You can find that the APC is finding it difficult to get who would be their vice presidential candidate, we are…