The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has released its timetable and schedule of activities for the conduct of congresses in Anambra State to elect new Ward, Local Government Area (LGA) and State Executive Committee members. In a statement by Hon. Umar M. Nature, National organizing Secretary on Saturday, PDP disclosed that sale of forms would commence on Tuesday, February 1 to Friday, February 14, 2022, while the congress to elect Ward Executive and 3 Ad-Hoc delegates is slated for Saturday, February 19, 2022. The timetable also showed that Ward Congresses Appeals would take place on…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
The 2023 presidential election is 13 months away and some politicians have already been mooted to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari. Campaigns for the 2023 presidential election have now been set in motion. The drumbeat is getting louder as many politicians have already thrown their hats in the ring. While political parties are still planning and weighing their options ahead of the elections, campaign posters of some presidential hopefuls have started littering the country already. Those whose posters and billboards are yet to be seen anywhere have been giving us hints about their intentions to run for the highest political office…
Pakistan on Friday announced that Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit China to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics next week, reinforcing the “all-weather strategic cooperative partnership” between the two countries. During the visit, Khan will have meetings with the Chinese leadership, Foreign Office spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said at the weekly briefing. The visit will reinforce the all-weather strategic cooperative partnership between our two countries, and further advance the objective of building a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era, he said. The foreign office on January 13 had said that Khan…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Friday, demanded a full disclosure of specifics of the subsidy templates including details of the cost of importation of petroleum products into the country to warrant the additional N2.557 trillion being requested for subsidy. Mr. Debo Ologunagba, National Publicity Secretary of the party stated this in a statement on Friday. According to him, the party called on the National Assembly to stand with the people and reject what it called “scandalous N2.557 trillion addition for fuel subsidy” at this critical time as approving such would be a great and unpardonable disservice to Nigerians He…
Amid internal wranglings within the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, there are indications that stakeholders are waiting on President Muhammadu Buhari to decide the fate of the party concerning zoning. Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun gave this indication on Friday after paying a thank you visit to President Buhari for making out time to commission some landmark projects in his state recently. Owing to pressures within the party, the APC has settled for February 2022 to conduct its national convention. InfoStride News gathered that there have been bickering in the party over zoning of the National Working Committee (NWC) offices…
The Chairman of the Ekiti State Governorship Primary Election Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abubakar Badaru has revealed that all the governorship aspirants participated in the just concluded primary election in the state. Badaru insisted that media reports alleging that the exercise was boycotted were untrue. There had been reports that seven aspirants expected to participate in Thursday’s governorship primary election of the party, boycotted the race over allegations of fraud and manipulation of the process in favour of the immediate past Secretary to the State Government, Biodun Oyebanji. Oyebanji who eventually won the primary election in Ekiti…
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has praised the Governor of Oyo State, Engr Seyi Makinde, for his positive disposition during yesterday’s People’s Democractic Party (PDP) governorship primary election. Fayose, who also applauded all members and supporters of the PDP in Ekiti State, particularly the aspirants for the peaceful manner the primary election was conducted. He stated, “all PDP members, supporters and the entire people of Ekiti who are yearning for good governance are winners.” In a statement on Thursday, by his Spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said Governor Makinde has proved to be a man of his words and…
North Korea said Friday its two latest rounds of weapons tests this week were successful while vowing to bolster its nuclear war deterrent and speed up the development of more powerful warheads. It appeared North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not attend the tests on Tuesday and Thursday, which were detected by the militaries of neighbours South Korea and Japan. But Kim did inspect a munitions factory where workers pledged loyalty to their leader, who smashes with his bold pluck the challenges of US imperialists and their vassal forces,” state media said. North Korea has been ramping up its…
Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has hailed Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, over Wednesday’s primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. The Ekiti State governorship primary election produced Bisi Kolawole as party’s flagbearer for the June 18 poll. Fayose thanked PDP aspirants, members and supporters for their conduct during the exercise. In a statement by spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said the Oyo helmsman proved to be “a man of his words and he deserved to be appreciated.” “By ensuring a level playing ground before and during the primary election, Governor Makinde has further earned my…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, David Ayodele Asalu has called for an end to the campaign of calumny targeted at Senator Ademola Adeleke. Asalu also said such a campaign is a calculated attempt to weaken the party towards the upcoming gubernatorial primary election in the party and election in the state. Asalu who made the call in a personally signed statement on Thursday noted that those opposed to the candidature of Senator Ademola Adeleke went too far with the outright falsehood and blackmails they have employed in their push to stop him from contesting…
The governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Osun State is to hold on March 7, ahead of its governorship election slated for June 16, 2022. The date was announced by the party’s National Organizing Secretary, Umar M. Bature, while releasing the activities lined up for the governorship election in the state. According to him, “The National Working Committee (NWC) of our great party, the PDP at its 544th meeting Wednesday, the 26th of January, 2022, after a careful consideration, approved the Osun State Screening Committee and Appeal Panel reports, which cleared all the six gubernatorial aspirants.”…
President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Congress to immediately enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S. Constitution and formally protect women’s rights nearly a century after lawmakers first raised them. In a statement, Biden urged Congress “to pass a resolution recognizing ratification of the ERA,” saying recent legal analysis showed there was nothing preventing lawmakers from acting. The Democratic president’s call comes amid jostling over the deadline to enact the ERA, which passed Congress in 1972 with a 1982 deadline to be enacted if 38 state legislatures voted to approve. Nearly 100 years have passed since it was…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday said it has constituted the Gubernatorial Appeal Panel to consider appeals arising from the conduct of the governorship primary election for the upcoming 2022 election in Ekiti State. This was contained in a statement by Hon. Umar M. Bature, National Organizing Secretary of the party. According to the statement, the appeal panel is scheduled to sit on Friday, January 28, 2022, at the National Executive Committee (NEC) Hall of the PDP National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja at 3 pm. The members of the appeal…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, state government officials and All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwarts have endorsed the ambition of party leader, Bola Tinubu. On Thursday, they attended the launch of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Movement (ABAT) in Ikeja. The organization was formed to mobilise grassroots support towards making Tinubu the next President. Sanwo-Olu announced their unshaken support for the former Lagos Governor, declaring him “the best man to lead Nigeria from 2023”. The governor said Tinubu’s qualification rests on his capacity in deploying “genius and statecraft to nurture a city on the brink to a flourishing economy”. He…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Thursday urged Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State to immediately unseal the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state secretariat that has been shut since 2019. He said it is uncalled for that the state government refuses to unseal the secretariat as the 2023 election approaches. Speaking through Raymond Dokpesi, Chairman of the Technical Committee for the actualisation of Atiku Abubakar presidential ambition, he said Umahi should also consider releasing Nwoba Chika Nwoba, the party’s Publicity Secretary, from police custody after he was seized over alleged fake news and cybercrime. “I remember vividly when I came…
The Ekiti State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of another suspected thug with guns and other weapons. This is coming after, over one hundred thugs were arrested at border town of Ekiti with dangerous weapons by soldiers. According to the spokesperson for the Ekiti State Police Command, “On 26th January, 2022 at about 1830hrs, the operatives of Ijero Divisional Police Headquarters on patrol led by the DPO sighted a Toyota Hiace Bus parked by the roadside conveying about twelve hefty men suspected to be thugs. “The Police operatives advanced toward the suspected men and on sighting the Police, they…
There’s still room for diplomacy in the Ukrainian crisis. At least that’s the conviction of French President Emmanuel Macron, who continues to push for dialogue with Russia despite signs pointing to a potential war. His stance reflects France’s post-World War II tradition of carving its own geopolitical path, refusing to line up blindly behind the US. It’s also part of Macron’s domestic political strategy amid campaigning for April’s presidential election, where nationalists are setting the agenda and a war in Ukraine could prove an unwelcome distraction. Macron is preparing to talk Friday with Vladimir Putin, and Macron’s presidential palace hosted…
Joe Igbokwe, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has opened up on a “conflict of choice” between Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Igbokwe said the APC would decide who would emerge as its flagbearer in the 2023 presidential election. The Special Adviser for Drainage and Water Resources to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, made the comments while appearing on Arise TV’s Morning Programme. He, however, vowed to vote Tinubu if the national leader of the APC clinches the party’s presidential candidate. Asked if there will not…
A former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, on Thursday reacted to a remark that President Muhammadu Buhari would hand over to an All Progressives Congress, APC, government in 2023. Omokri said he wonders if Buhari plans to rig the 2023 presidential election. Recall that Buhari’s aide, Garba Shehu, had claimed the president would hand over to an APC government. Shehu spoke in response to claims that Buhari shifted subsidy removal to the next government. Garba had made the remarks while addressing journalists after the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Reacting, Omokri, in a tweet,…
The Magistrate Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State on Thursday remanded the Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Nwoba Chika Nwoba in police custody for allegedly publishing materials against the member representing Ezza/Ikwo federal constituency, Chinedu Oga on Facebook. InfoStride News gathered that the embattled publicity secretary, Nwoba was also arraigned in the same court on Wednesday for allegedly publishing malicious content against Governor David Umahi on Facebook Nwoba was arraigned in court on a 21 count charge bordering on false news with intent to cause fear and alarm to the public. Nwoba was alleged to have published…