Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has threatened to fight to finish anyone working with former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus. Secondus is a strong ally of presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar. Wike issued the threat on Saturday at the flagging off ceremony of the construction of internal roads Omagwa, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. The governor maintained he will “finish” anyone who pitches his tent with “enemies of the state”. He said, “If anybody fights our system we will fight the person back. “Let me tell you what you don’t…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
The US for the first time Friday said it will give Ukraine Scan Eagle surveillance drones, mine-resistant vehicles, anti-armor rounds and howitzer weapons to help Ukrainian forces regain territory and mount a counteroffensive against Russian invaders. A senior defense official told reporters that a new $775 million aid package will include 15 Scan Eagles, 40 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles known as MRAPs with mine-clearing rollers, and 2,000 anti-armor rounds that can help Ukraine troops move forward in the south and east, where Russian forces have placed mines. The official said the U.S. is looking to help shape and arm the Ukrainian…
Action Democratic Party (ADP) governorship candidate, Victor Fingesi, has castigated the Nyesom Wike-led Rivers State Government. Fingesi spoke on Friday after State ADP Chairman, Kendrick Christian presented him to the public, NAN reports. He said the major problem in Rivers was poverty, “which is the reason we are having increased rate of crime and insecurity”. The candidate stated that the government generate N57.3billion annually but more than 1.7 million youths are unemployed. Fingesi added that the state has over 188,590 out of school children due to poor leadership. In his remarks, Christians said the party was tired of bad governance…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been appointed as the Chairman of the Presidential Campaign Council as campaign kicks-off in September ahead of the 2023 elections. A party source toldthe media that the decision was reached following the meeting between the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the governors elected on the platform of the party on Wednesday, in Abuja. While the Governor of Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong holds on to his position as the Director-General of the Presidential Campaign, he would be reporting directly to Buhari who has been vested with power to make final decision on…
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has said the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu would win the 2023 election. Fani-Kayode said great things would happen to Nigerians under Tinubu’s leadership. He disclosed this after he met Tinubu, ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The former Minister met with Tinubu in company of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. In a series of tweets, Fani-Kayode said the meeting was fruitful and productive. He said APC would emerge victorious in 2023. According to Fani-Kayode: “It was an honor and privilege to spend quality time with our presidential…
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday voided the exclusion of a House of Representatives candidate for Fufore/Song Federal Constituency of Adamawa State, Boya Aliu Wakili from the 2023 election. The exclusion carried out by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC against the politician was set aside on grounds of illegality, injustice and a breach of fundamental rights of the candidate. Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a judgment, ordered INEC to immediately upload into its portal the name of the candidate having been found to have been unjustly excluded from the list of successful candidates published by the electoral body…
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, expressed outrage on Friday over a 34-year prison sentence handed down to a Saudi woman charged with aiding dissidents. Al-Shehab, 34, was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2021 while on a holiday from the United Kingdom where she is a student. She was accused of spreading false information and aiding dissidents seeking to disrupt public order with her tweets, retweets and follows on Twitter. The UN human rights office, OHCHR, expressed outrage on Friday over a prison sentence spanning more than three decades handed down to a Saudi woman charged with following and retweeting…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Imo State on Friday said the regime of Gov Hope Uzodinma has approached its expiry date and must give way to a PDP led-administration. The opposition party alleged that the Imo State government through its sponsored protest is trying to hoodwink the people and divert attention from the woes and infamies of the wobbling regime. In a statement signed by the Director-General, Imo PDP New Media, Collins Opurozor and made available to the media in Owerri, the PDP said as long as God is still on the throne, Imo people will overcome Uzodinma. The…
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi and the governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo on Friday met in Awka. The meeting which was held behind closed doors at the Anambra State Governor’s Lodge in Amawbia, Awka South Local Government Area lasted for about two hours. The reason for the meeting was not made known to journalists, as both leaders declined press interviews at the end of the session. It was, however, believed that their meeting had to do with the presidential election of 2023. Just a week ago, Soludo had in an address accused Igbos…
Two officers and a woman leader from Onna local government area, (LGA) Governor Udom Emmanuel’s LGA have resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party and joined the Young Progressives Party in the state.. Usenobong Akpabio, Chairman of the defection and inter-party committee of YPP in the state who disclosed this in a statement on Friday said about 580 other officers from other local governments have also joined the party recently. The party witnessed the mass exodus following the defection and subsequent emergence of the Senator representing Akwa Ibom North East at the National Assembly, Bassey Akpan as the 2023 Governorship candidate…
Palpable anxiety has mounted over who will fly the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 governorship election in Delta State, following the reservation of judgment in an appeal filed by the speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly and winner of the May 25 primary of the PDP, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori. A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal on Friday announced that its judgment has been reserved in Oborevwori and PDP’s appeal against the judgment of Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, which ordered the removal of Oborevwori as PDP candidate in…
National Assembly candidates of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State have vowed to resist further attempt by Justice Stephen Daylop-Pam of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt to continue hearing the suit seeking to disqualify them from the 2023 general elections. The candidates said they would rather go to jail than allow the judge continue to hear the suit. InfoStride News reports that one of the defendants in the suit and candidate of the APC for the Emohua/Ikwerre Federal constituency Ezemonye Ezekiel Amadi had asked the judge to recuse himself from the suit on the last adjourned date.…
A former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, Valentine Ozigbo has dumped the leading opposition platform. 52-year-old Ozigbo was the PDP standard bearer in the 2021 Anambra governorship election. The ex-President of Transcorp has announced that he would work for the emergence of Peter Obi as Nigeria’s President. The former Anambra governor is the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP). Ozigbo explained that his decision to resign from the PDP was based on the need for Nigeria to have a competent and visionary individual in charge of affairs. He observed Nigerians have been split…
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has expressed his opinion on the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Fani-Kayode said a demon and devil has entered into the PDP. He spoke against the backdrop of a remark by PDP chieftain, Bode George, that a devil may have infiltrated the ranks of the opposition party. George was reacting to the impasse between Governor Nyesom Wike and the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Urging them to “cool down,” the PDP chieftain said it appears “some kind of devil” has entered the party. Reacting, Fani-Kayode stressed that Wike and Southerners were cheated in…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party for the 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi, has accused the opposition of insinuating fake news and misinformation against him using social media. The statement might be in response to increasing complaints and allegations against the teeming supporters of Mr Obi, known as the ‘Obedient’. Recall that the presidential candidate of All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu had claimed that supporters of Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi were defaming him. Tinubu, in a statement signed by Director, Media and Communications, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, had urged Obi to call his supporters to order,…
The gubernatorial candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau State, Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda on Thursday presented his running mate, Pam Bot-Mang to the Jos South traditional council, at the palace of Dagwom Rwey of Jos South, Da. Ngah Dangyang. He said Pam Bot-Mang was not picked as the running mate because he is Berom from Jos South but because of his track record of integrity, self-reliance and humility to add electoral value to the ticket. Yilwatda noted that his relationship with Bot-Mang started during his secondary school days about 40 years ago, when he served him as…
Senator Walid Jibrin, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday, in Kaduna told the PDP family to be patient and focus on winning the 2023 elections as the party works toward reconciling the lingering crisis bedevilling the party. In a statement, he issued to newsmen in Kaduna, on Thursday, Senator Jibrin, explained that efforts are on top gear to reconcile, the River State Governor, Nyeson Wike, the party (PDP) and the Presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar. Senator Walid, while calling on members of the PDP and all Nigerians to remain calm…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has warned governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke to exercise caution in order not to talk himself into avoidable trouble. The APC said Adeleke had been speaking uncontrollably since he was declared the winner of the July 16, 2022, governorship election in Osun State by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). It would be recalled that Adeleke spoke boastfully in Ijebu-Jesa few days ago while formally welcoming into the PDP, the former State commissioner for Finance, under Rauf Aregbesola’s administration, Dr Wale Bolorunduro. On the occasion, Adeleke reportedly said that the APC and Oyetola’s…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George has made an appeal to the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to “cool down” amid the crisis in the party. Speaking during a Channels TV interview on Wednesday, George said it appeared “some kind of devil” has entered the party. Wike and Atiku have been at loggerheads since the PDP presidential primary in May. The governor lost out to the ex-vice president and was also snubbed as running mate, with Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta, preferred. Efforts by PDP stakeholders and elders…
Femi Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has defended the same faith ticket of the party, insisting it is the choice of the presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Admitting that no real Christian would be pleased with such selection, the former PDP stalwart said he had prayed about it and that there was nothing wrong with the choice. Fani-Kayode, who had before now spoken against the APC and Tinubu and even went ahead on many occasions to accuse the ruling party of plotting to islamize the country, said he was only against the APC because he was in…