Isa Baba Buji, one of the All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates from Buji Local Government Area (LGA) of Jigawa State is dead. Buji died on Tuesday afternoon in Abuja. Although the cause of his death has not been confirmed, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo took to his Twitter page to mourn the deceased. His spokesman, Laolu Akande expressed sadness over the delegate’s death. Akande wrote, ”VP Osinbajo saddened by the news of the death this afternoon, in Abuja, of Alh. Isa Baba Buji, 61, one of our APC delegates from Buji Local Government, Jigawa State. ”He extends heartfelt condolence to his…
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Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has announced Bayo Lawal as his running mate ahead of the 2023 elections. Makinde made this announcement on Tuesday. InfoStride News gathered that the governor made the announcement during a meeting with some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders from the Oke Ogun zone. Some of the PDP leaders who were at the meeting according to sources are former PDP Chairman in the state, Kunmi Mustapha, his successor, Dayo Ogungbenro and Senator Hosea Agboola. Our correspondent reports that the announcement of Lawal who is the Chairman, Oyo State Housing Corporation, has cleared the speculations over…
British Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, Attorney General Suella Braverman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak listen as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses his cabinet ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London A defiant British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on Tuesday holding his first meeting after a tense day of political intrigue, which ended in him securing a victory in a no-confidence ballot of his party members with a narrow margin as a major chunk of his MPs voted against him as the leader. Johnson is rallying his Cabinet ministers, who largely backed him quite publicly…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he does not have a preferred candidate ahead of the party’s presidential primaries. Buhari also told Northern Governors, who were in Aso Rock to meet with him concerning where the next President should come from to “allow the delegates to decide. The Party must participate, nobody will appoint anybody.” The President on Monday afternoon said it was important to clear all doubts about where he stands on the choice of a presidential candidate. Buhari, according to Garba Shehu, made the declaration before the party’s 14 governors of northern states. According to the President, “no…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described the gruesome killing of parishioners at the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State, on Sunday as an unspeakable evil. The vice president said the perpetrators would be fished out and made to face the full wrath of the law. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the vice president visited Owo town and the Catholic Church to commiserate with the clergy, community and people of Ondo over the incident. The vice president also visited those who were injured at St. Louis Catholic Hospital…
A businesswoman, Mrs Florence Adepegba, has won the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, rerun primary election in Kosofe Federal Constituency of Lagos State. Adwpegba was unopposed at the election. NAN reports that Adepegba won after her opponent, Mr Olakunle Koya stepped down for her. The result of the primaries held at the PDP secretariat, Owode Mile – 12, was announced by the Returning Officer, Mr Kelly Dickson. He declared Adepegba the winner, with 29 votes cast out of 31 delegates on the list. Recall that the PDP House of Representatives’ rerun primaries in Lagos state were a result of the cancellation…
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, says the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to conduct a world-class presidential election. InfoStride News reports that the party is currently in the process of electing a candidate who would fly its flag in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election. The convention, which was scheduled for June 6, 7 is currently ongoing at the Eagles Square Abuja. Abiodun, who is the Chairman, Accreditation and Decoration Committee of the convention, spoke with newsmen on Monday shortly after inspecting the International Conference Centre, Abuja, venue for accreditation of delegates. According to the governor, all things…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked President Joe Biden’s administration to weigh in on whether the justices should hear a case on whether Meta Platforms Inc’s WhatsApp can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software. The justices are considering NSO’s appeal of a lower court’s decision allowing the lawsuit to move forward. NSO has argued that it is immune from being sued because it was acting as an agent for unidentified foreign governments when it installed the “Pegasus” spyware. WhatsApp has said the software was used for…
A former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, has withdrawn from the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential race. Nnamani announced his withdrawal during a meeting with journalists in Abuja on Monday. The former lawmaker said: “In the present circumstances, it does not make any sense for me to continue in the race as I have not had the opportunity to market my profile and ideas to the delegates of our party in a manner that allows for deliberation and introspection. “Therefore, I discontinue my aspiration and wish the party a successful primary and unity of purpose so that we can win the…
An All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Dave Umahi, on Monday, said a consensus candidate presidential candidate may emerge within the next 12 to 24 hours. Umahi said the candidate will emerge in a very peaceful way. Speaking with Channels Television, the Ebonyi State Governor commended APC Northern governors for backing the push for Southern candidate. According to Umahi: “Well, I see within the next 12 hours and 24 hours that God manifested himself and a consensus candidate emerged in a very peaceful process and the process that is acceptable to all the aspirants or at least, most of the…
Governors on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Monday, rejected the Senate President, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan as the consensus 2023 presidential candidate. The governors at a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, insisted that there must be a power shift which they noted would be too risky for the APC, if rotation was disallowed. The National Chairman of the APC Senator Abdullahi Adamu had anointed Lawan as the consensus candidate, a development that is currently causing ripples among the governors and other party stakeholders. The announcement came a few hours to the National Convention, which was…
As reactions continue to trail the terrorist attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo on Sunday, a Chieftain of the Accord Party and the National Legal Adviser, Maxwell Mgbudem, on Monday said the heinous attack was an indication that President Muhammadu Buhari has been overwhelmed. The attack which left scores of worshippers dead and several others critically injured has been widely condemned by well-meaning Nigerians. In a statement he issued in Abuja and sent to the media, Mgbudem said there is no doubt that Nigeria is currently at crossroads, which he said requires a concerted effort by every stakeholder to…
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has claimed that a troika of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, his wife Bushra Bibi and her friend Farah Gogi made “billions” under the tenure of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government. “It started in 2019, when Imran Khan gave a relief worth Pakistani rupees 320 million to Ahsan Jamil Gujjar – Farah’s husband – under an amnesty scheme,” PML-N leader Atta Ullah Tarar said during a press conference. The Express Tribune quoting Tarar reported that the former Prime Minister gave the relief due to his personal relations and friendship between Bushra and Farah. Regarding this, he also played…
Northern youth groups under the All Progressives Congress (APC) have disagreed with the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari and 11 governors from the North over their decision to allow a power shift to the south. Speaking on Sunday, the youth groups, APC Progressives Youth Elements and North-East Youth Forum of APC, who protested in Bauchi, said that the governors were selfish to have agreed that power should go to the South. Various placards with inscriptions such as: “It’s North or Nothing”, “We are not in support of power shift to South”, “We will not accept the decision of eleven governors”,…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has called on members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State to continue to support the party. The call is coming one week after he was defeated at the PDP presidential primaries by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. The governor was speaking in Port Harcourt through his deputy Ipalibo Harry-Banigo who represented him at the thanksgiving service of the PDP in Rivers State on Sunday for successful primaries. He said the members must continue to support the party to enable it win the upcoming general elections, assuring that the PDP is ready to…
A former Senator who represented the Southern Kaduna Senatorial Zone in the National Assembly, Caleb Zagi, has won the Kaduna governorship ticket of the African Democratic Party (ADC). He polled 185 votes to defeat his opponent, Abdulmumini Dada Umar who polled 32 votes. The results of the primary held on Saturday were announced by the Returning Officer for the election, Alh Tijani Ahmed. Senator Zagi, in his acceptance speech, shortly after he was declared winner, expressed gratitude to the delegates for the confidence reposed in him and promised to work with every member of ADC to ensure the victory of…
Many members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara. The defectors were led by an aggrieved House of Assembly aspirant, Mr Umar Usman, the son of the Emir of Yashikira. Usman gave high-handedness and impunity in the party as reasons for their defection. He condemned the imposition of candidates against local zoning arrangements in the local government. The state Chairman of SDP, Alhaji Azeez Afolabi, received the defectors in Baruten. Afolabi led other state working committee members to Kosinski, headquarters of Baruten local…
The prime minister also took an overview of the development projects, including the under-construction Gwadar airport which was being built under a Chinese grant and faced a delay in completion. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday hit out at the previous government led by ousted premier Imran Khan for “miserably failing the people of Gwadar, a day after he visited the port city in Balochistan and inaugurated a six-lane expressway built under the USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Expressing dissatisfaction over the slow pace of work on projects in Gwadar, the prime minister asserted that the development of…
Former National President of the Trade Union of Nigeria (TUC), Bobboi Bala Kaigama, has vowed never to indulge in acts that will negate the right of citizens both in Nigeria and the globe at large. He made this known on Sunday in a statement announcing the withdrawal of his membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Kaigama was among the numerous aspirants that jostled for the senatorial ticket of the Taraba Central senatorial district on the platform of the APC in the just concluded primaries of the party. Like Professor Mohammed Sani Yahaya, who had earlier withdrawn from the…
Ahead of the next year’s general election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will present the certificate of return to its gubernatorial candidates on Tuesday. PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba on Sunday disclosed that a Certificate of Return for the House of Assembly, House of Representatives and Senatorial Candidates will be issued at the respective PDP State Chapters from Wednesday, June 8, 2022. The PDP also invited all presidential candidates, all governors, members of the Board of Trustees, members of the National Executive Committee, members of the National Assembly and all critical stakeholders to attend…