A governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Zamfara State, Ibrahim Shehu has challenged the victory of Dauda Lawal Dare in the just concluded party’s primary election as the flag bearer of the party. Shehu challenged the party’s governorship candidate at the Federal High court in Gusau, the State capital, saying the primary election of the party was full of irregularities, praying the court to nullify the primary election and order a fresh one. The former federal lawmaker joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the electoral committee chairman sent to the State to conduct…
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President Muhammadu Buhari played a neutral and laudable role in the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary for the 2023 presidential ticket, Garba Shehu, said on Tuesday. According to him, those who had assembled to witness a catastrophe were disappointed. In a statement, the presidential spokesman noted that there was no intrigue, no division, no disagreement, no defeated candidates rejecting the result, no splits and no third-party runs. Shehu said the opposition’s reaction to the successful nomination convention has come by way of a counter offensive. The aide said there was clear evidence of a conspiracy to destabilize the governing party…
Taiwan on Tuesday said that China’s claim of Sovereignty over the Taiwan Strait is false and the only waters over which any country has full sovereignty are its 12-nautical mile territorial waters. While accusing Beijing of distorting international law, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) spokeswoman, Joanne Ou said that by ignoring Taipei’s sovereignty claim over the Taiwan Strait and downgrading the strait to its own exclusive economic zone (EEZ), China revealed its ambition to annex Taiwan, Focus Taiwan reported. Taiwan will continue to work with like-minded countries to jointly uphold rule-based international orders and promote peace and stability in…
Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that there is no vacancy at the Agodi secretariat in 2023. The party urged opposition political parties in the state not to waste their money. The PDP said this on Wednesday. The Agodi secretariat is the seat of the Oyo State Government. The PDP, which is the ruling party in the state, has however said that there is no vacancy in the secretariat. The party urged the major opposition political parties in the state, All Progressives Congress (APC), Accord Party, Social Democratic Party (SDP), Labour Party, and others not…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar is scheduled to meet with governors of the party. The meeting is aimed at concluding plans on who emerges as Atiku’s running mate ahead of the 2023 elections. A notice of the meeting was made public by the Secretariat of the PDP Governors Forum, signed by the Director-General of the PDP GF, CID Maduagbanam. The notice said the meeting started at the Legacy House in Abuja, at 2:30pm. Atiku is yet to pick his running mate since emerging the PDP’s presidential candidate. However, some names like Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers…
Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Eyinnaya Abaribe, has officially resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). His resignation letter was read by the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, during Wednesday’s plenary. Until his resignation, Abaribe was the Minority Leader in the Senate. The letter was entitled “Notification for Resignation from Membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Senate.” It read: “This is to notify you and my dear colleagues in the Senate that I have formally resigned my membership of the PDP through my ward. “This…
Alhaji Bashir Sheriff Machina, who emerged as the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ‘Zone C’ Senatorial District of Yobe State has been urged by concerned stakeholders of the party not to step down for incumbent Sen. Ahmed Lawan ahead of the 2023 general elections. TheInfoStride News recalls that Lawan, who was an aspirant for the just concluded APC presidential primary election that produced Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as candidate, has approached Machina to allow him fly the senatorial flag. Abba Maina Yusufari, leader of the stakeholders, in a press statement, said, “For keen observers of Yobe politics, no…
Donald Trump’s closest campaign advisers, top government officials and even his family were dismantling his false claims of 2020 election fraud ahead of Jan 6, but the defeated president was becoming detached from reality and clinging to outlandish theories to stay in power, the committee investigating the Capitol attack was told Monday. On election night itself, Trump was growing increasingly unhappy and refusing to accept the results as they came in, former campaign manager Bill Stepien said in testimony played before the House panel. Son-in-law Jared Kushner tried to steer Trump away from attorney Rudy Giuliani and his far-flung theories…
Two frontline members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senate Majority Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi; and Adamu Aliero, have officially defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), NAN reports. The formal defections of the two APC senators from Kebbi State were conveyed in two separate letters addressed to Senate President Ahmad Lawan, and read at plenary on Tuesday Sen. Ailero and Sen. Abdullahi represent Kebbi Central and Kebbi North Senatorial districts respectively. Also to defect formally from the PDP to the All Progressives Grand Alliance on June 15, is the Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe His defection and exit as Minority…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives has expressed dismay with the losses suffered by lawmakers at the just concluded primaries. Gbajabimaila, in his welcome remarks on Tuesday, blamed the indirect primaries system for the woeful performance of the lawmakers during the primaries. He noted that the lawmakers had fought against the indirect primaries because they saw it coming. It would be recalled that the National Assembly had passed the Electoral Act with direct primary as the only option for election. But President Muhammadu Buhari rejected the bill until other means of primaries were included. “Many of our members lost…
Ex-Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekwerwmadu has given his personal assessment of the just concluded primary elections by political parties into various political offices and said, “narrow political interests” has affected the 2022 Electoral Act as amended. He said the direct mode of primary election is the only viable alternative in the nomination of candidates in order to consolidate Nigeria’s democracy. The lawmaker decried the overwhelming negative interests of desperate politicians that made nonsense of the 2022 Electoral Act. On security challenges, he feared that Nigeria was gradually turning into another Somalia, if nothing was urgently done to tackle…
As the deadline by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for presidential candidates to produce their running mate almost elapses, President Muhammadu Buhari has held a closed-door meeting with the All Progressives Governors Forum at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The APC governors were led to the meeting by the Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, before they left for Ekiti State to participate in the final campaigns preceding the gubernatorial election. Recall that while the APC has produced former Lagos State Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as its presidential flagbearer in the 2023 general elections,…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday (local time) discussed the current economic and political challenges with Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Blinken spoke with Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe and affirmed the US commitment to the Sri Lankan people during this challenging time and the importance of supporting reforms that address the concerns of all Sri Lankans, including on democratic governance and human rights, read US Department of State press release. The Sri Lankan economy has been facing a crisis owing to a serious Balance of Payments (BoP) problem. Its foreign exchange reserves are depleting rapidly and…
Festus Keyamo, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour and Employment, has called on former African Democratic Party (ADC) presidential aspirant, Kingsley Moghalu to join the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Keyamo made the call after Moghalu resigned from the ADC, having failed to clinch the presidential ticket of the party. Moghalu lost in the primaries to owner of Roots Television Nigeria, Dumebi Kachikwu, on June 8. In a letter written to the National Chairman of ADC, Chief Okey Nwosu, on Monday, Moghalu claimed that the conduct of the election revealed a fundamental clash of values between him and the leadership…
African Democratic Party (ADC) presidential aspirant, Kingsley Moghalu, has resigned from the party after he failed to clinch the presidential ticket. Moghalu lost in the primaries to Roots Television Nigeria, Dumebi Kachikwu, on June 8. Kachikwu garnered 977 votes in the primary election of the party that was held in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Moghalu, who was the presidential candidate of Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the 2019 elections, could only poll 589 votes. In a letter written to the National Chairman of ADC, Chief Okey Nwosu, Moghalu claimed the conduct of the election “revealed a fundamental clash of values between…
Nigerians have been urged to always look out for the ideologies of political parties and their candidates before voting for them in any election. A cleric, Prophet Ade Ologbonyo who gave the advice said the progress and development the people yearn for will continue to elude the country if politicians without ideology are in positions of authority. Ologbonyo, a pastor with the Planter of Christ Apostolic Church, CAC (BOANERGES), said the Owo attack would have been averted if those at the helm of affairs had acted on the revelation God gave to him before the incident occurred. He spoke in…
Over 550 supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and Social Democratic Party, SDP have shifted their loyalty to the ruling All Progressives Congress APC in Gamsarka ward, Auyo local government area of Jigawa State. Chairman of the party, Sale Muhammad Ganuwa disclosed this while addressing party loyalists at the ward headquarters in Gamsarka. The chairman welcomed the new entrants into the party and also promised to walk hand in hand with the new members for the party’s victory. He assured the new members of justice and fairness. Muhammad Umar who led the decampees said they decided to join the…
China on Thursday termed the critical remarks by a top US General on its infrastructure build-up at the Sino-India border as a “despicable act” and criticised the attempts of some American officials to “add fuel to fire”, emphasising that Beijing and New Delhi have the “will and capability” to properly resolve their differences through talks. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made the remarks during a media briefing here while replying to a question on the comments by US Army’s Pacific Commanding General Charles A Flynn, who termed the situation in eastern Ladakh as “alarming.” “This border issue is between…
Prof Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the closure of all political party primaries effective Thursday, June 9, 2022. The Commission has also disclosed plans to start uploading names of nominated candidates of parties to the INEC portal. INEC made the disclosure during a meeting of State Resident Electoral Commissioners at the Commission’s headquarters on Thursday. The INEC Chairman, Yakubu informed that beginning from Friday, the 10th, to the 17th of June, the 18 political parties in the country are required to upload names and other details of their candidates, including those of presidents…
Mr. Jude Ezenwafor, the factional presidential candidate of the Labour Party has reportedly withdrawn from the contest. Ezenwafor had received ultimatum from the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide led by Mazi Okwu Nnabuike to withdraw from the contest. InfoStride News learnt that he took the decision via a letter he conveyed to the national leadership of his faction of the party. He said in the letter being circulated online that his decision to withdraw was personal and appealed to his supporters to understand him. The letter reads, “I hereby withdraw from the forthcoming Presidential Election in 2023. After consulting my…