The Ekiti State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that an allegation by a former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, that the Governor of Ekiti State and presidential aspirant of the party, Dr Kayode Fayemi, once asked him to rig an election in his favour has confirmed that Fayemi is an election rigger and never a democrat. The Ekiti State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Raphael Adeyanju, in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday, said, “Comrade Oshiomhole’s allegation, which was made on national television that Fayemi is a fraudulent democrat…
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The Federal High Court in Osogbo has ruled that Senator Ademola Adeleke is the duly recognised gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Osun 2022 gubernatorial election. In the judgment, which was delivered early on Wednesday by Justice Nathaniel Ayo Emmanuel, Dotun Babayemi did not participate in the PDP primary election. Justice Emmanuel, who held that the court could not pick candidates for any political party, also added that it was an internal party issue and therefore the matter was dismissed. During the PDP gubernatorial primary election held on March 8, the Wale Ojo faction which produced…
Russian and Ukrainian officials have said that negotiations on a solution to the ongoing war have been suspended as the process is mired in a stalemate. “The talks are not going on. Ukraine has actually withdrawn from the negotiation process,” Xinhua news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko as saying to reporters. Russia has received no response from Ukraine to its draft treaty, he added. “Today the negotiation process was suspended. It was suspended because there are no significant changes or upheavals after the Istanbul communique,” Mykhailo Podolyak, a member of the Ukrainian delegation, was quoted as saying.…
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has said that the worst presidential aspirant jostling to contest in the forthcoming elections on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is better than the best aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC). Seyi Makinde made this disclosure while speaking in Ibadan, the state capital. He spoke on Tuesday when he received former Senate President, Bukola Saraki. InfoStride News gathered that Saraki was in Ibadan to woo PDP delegates ahead of the forthcoming presidential primary of the party. Makinde, while speaking, said that he has no doubt that PDP would get…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders and stakeholders in Imo State have warned against any attempt to subvert the popular will of the delegates by any party officer or Ad-Hoc Panel/Committee members no matter how highly placed. The party leaders also sounded a note of warning that they will no longer tolerate misconduct by electoral committee members sent to Imo State or any effort to tamper with result sheets or any act that may impugn on the integrity of the primaries in the state. The PDP SEC/Stakeholders gave the advice in a statement jointly signed release by its State Chairman,…
Kwara State Executive Council has approved a request by the state Ministry of Finance seeking virement to commit more funds to road projects in the N27.2b bond recently obtained by the state government. The cabinet described it as a step to further open up the state for more investments. The cabinet’s approval, according to a statement by the Commissioner for Communications, Bode Towoju, in Ilorin on Tuesday, followed a memorandum presented by the Commissioner for Finance, Florence Olasumbo Oyeyemi. The approval, which was granted at the last State Executive Council meeting chaired by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, will now go to…
An All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, said he will not retire from politics. Tinubu said he won’t retire from politics until he becomes Nigeria’s President. He made the declaration while wooing APC delegates in Benue State, ahead of the party’s primary election. The APC National Leader pledged to bring his wealth of experience to bear on governance if elected. Tinubu also declared himself as the best man to replace President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Tinubu: “I won’t retire from politics until I am the president of Nigeria. I will bring the experience of my leadership…
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday faces the strongest test yet of his ability to shape a new generation of Republicans as GOP primary voters in Pennsylvania and North Carolina decide whether to rally around his hand-picked choices for critical U.S. Senate seats. As this year’s midterm primary season enters its busiest stretch with races also unfolding in Kentucky, Oregon and Idaho, Trump is poised to notch several easy wins. In North Carolina, U.S. Rep. Ted Budd is expected to best a packed field of GOP rivals, including a former governor. And in Pennsylvania’s GOP race for governor, far-right contender…
The Jigawa State Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar has said no government in the history of Nigeria will match the achievement of the All Progressive Congress APC. Badaru made the assertion at the official inauguration of 36 State Chapter Coordinators of the APC Ambassadors for Good Governance held in Abuja on Tuesday. The Jigawa governor was represented by the Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa. He claimed the APC administration has achieved a lot in the last seven years under President Muhammadu Buhari but has not been given the publicity it deserved. “The Buhari’s administration followed steps to…
A group, South-East for President 2023, SEFORP, has berated the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for jettisoning zoning arrangements ahead of its presidential primary election. The PDP had after its National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting thrown the presidential contest open to all political zones of the country, a development that has not gone down well with the people of the South-East. In a communique issued after its meeting in Enugu, SEFORP said the action of the PDP NEC was a sad reminder that the civil war was not yet over several years after. The communique was signed by Rev Okechukwu Christopher…
The Accord Party in Osun State has expressed concern over the State government’s recent award of a N3.3 billion road contract. The Osun chapter of the party opined that awarding such a contract in just two months to the Osun gubernatorial election was a cause for alarm. In a statement on Monday, Pastor Victor Akande, the Osun Accord Party chairman wondered why the Oyetola administration would award such a contract at this period. Akande noted that, “We know of a fact that the Federal Government through the Ministry of Works had awarded the contract of this same road (Osogbo-Okinni-Ilobu), under…
An All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential aspirant, Rotimi Amaechi has officially resigned as the Minister of Transportation. Amaechi said he resigned from Buhari’s cabinet to focus on his Presidential ambition. There have been speculations over Amaechi’s resignation, following Buhari’s directive to his Ministers. Buhari had ordered his Ministers and appointees with political ambition to resign. Though, some Ministers complied immediately, Amaechi and others stayed on. However, the minister finally tendered his resignation and it was contained in a statement by the Amaechi Presidential Media Committee, signed by Kingsley Wali. The former Rivers State Governor expressed gratitude to Buhari for considering…
US President Joe Biden on Monday thanked Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his country’s moral leadership in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the two held talks at the White House on Monday about the ongoing conflict. Mitsotakis was in Washington to mark a COVID-delayed commemoration of the bicentennial of the start of the Greek War of Independence, a more than eight-year-long struggle that led to the ouster of the Ottoman Empire. He will deliver an address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. But the celebratory moment was shadowed by the most significant fighting on…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has cleared twelve Benue State aspirants, ahead of the Friday governorship primary election in the state. Mr Dan Morgan-Ihomun, the state APC Publicity Secretary, said this when he spoke with newsmen on Monday in Makurdi. Morgan-Ihomun promised that there would be no manipulations at the governorship primaries, insisting that all aspirants would be given a level playing field. “There will be a level playing field for every aspirant in order to elect the best candidate,” Morgan-Ihomun said. “It’s the delegates that will elect who will be our candidate for the 2023 governorship election. “We do…
A Peoples Democratic Party presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday barred journalists from a meeting he held with Plateau PDP delegates. Sources in the party who criticised Atiku, interpreted the former vice president’s action as desperation to clinch the party’s presidential ticket in the forthcoming primary election. The former Vice President who arrived at the Plateau State PDP Secretariat at about 2pm, was visibly angered by the crowd of journalists. Shouting fiercely, the presidential aspirant ordered all the journalists out saying he had no business with them. “I have nothing to do with journalists. I’m here to see delegates”. Propelled…
The Ikeoha Campaign Organisation says it has uncovered plans to frame, arrest, and detain supporters of the former Deputy President of the Senate and the prime governorship aspirant in Enugu State, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary elections in the state. It also alerted the public to alleged plans to unleash cultists on Ekweremadu’s supporters. The campaign organisation revealed this on Monday in a statement signed by the Director-General, Charles Ogbo Asogwa, calling on the heads of security agencies and the leadership of the PDP in Enugu State to take note and nip the plots…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its gubernatorial candidate in Osun State, Ademola Adeleke have been warned to desist from unnecessarily heating the political climate in the state as it prepares for the July 16, 2022, gubernatorial election. The warning, handed down by the Adegboyega Oyetola Campaign Council also described the boast by the PDP and its gubernatorial candidate, Ademola Adeleke that he had acquired enough money in hard currencies to buy Osun and its people for the July 16 gubernatorial contest as absurd, unthinkable and unacceptable. In a statement signed by its Director-General, Senator Ajibola Basiru and obtained by…
President Joe Biden on Sunday cited the Buffalo shootings in calling for national unity as a remedy for the hate that remains a stain on the soul of America” while New York’s governor and the city’s mayor appealed for forceful action from Washington after the latest mass shooting had caused a community to grieve. Biden used his remarks at a Capitol ceremony honoring law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty in 2021 to decry what he said his Justice Department has labeled as a hate crime, a racially motivated act of white supremacy and violent extremism.…
A non-governmental organization, Legal Aid and Self Development Initiative (LASEDI), has thrown its weight behind the zoning of the governorship position in Enugu State to the Enugu East Senatorial District. It, however, said all aspirants with pending corruption cases should quit the race. LASEDI made its position known on Monday through its Executive Secretary, Barr. Onyinye Isiani. He lauded the efforts of the administration of Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in sustaining peace in the state. According to him, “This administration has also embarked on projects which directly impact the citizens, especially those in the rural areas. This is highly commendable.…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Gwaram Local Government Area has suspended two-party executives for allegedly disobeying the party’s directives. Chairman of the party in Gwaram, Ayuba Umar Nasarawa, stated this after a meeting with the party’s executives. He said those suspended include Gambo Umar Bango, APC youth leader of Gwaram Local Government Area and Salisu Garba, APC chairman of Dingaya ward. He explained that the party had set up a committee to investigate the alleged misconduct and violation of the party’s guidelines. Nasarawa noted that the affected executives will remain suspended until after the outcome of the committee. He…