The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State has announced that the member representing Aba South Constituency at the state House of Assembly, Hon Obinna Ichita, is the new leader of the party in the state. This came on the heels of the recent defection of the former minority leader of the house and member representing Aba North Constituency, Hon Abraham Oba, from the APGA to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Oba, who was elected twice on the platform of APGA, announced his formal defection to the PDP at the plenary sitting of the state…
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A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Irimiya Ezekiel Afukonyo, has backed the electronic transmission of election results. The APC Chieftain, who made his position known during an interactive session with media practitioners in Wukari Local Government Area in Taraba State, said the process will go a long way to help mitigate against the rigging of elections in the country. Afukonyo, who also doubles as the chairman, governing board of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, said that the process if eventually carried out, “will be the greatest thing that will happen to our democracy.” He said, “People don’t like straightforward…
The Ekiti State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has described the three years of the Governor Kayode Fayemi administration as a disaster and colossal failure in the history of the state. The opposition party made this remark as a reaction to the three-year anniversary of the All Progressive Congress (APC) government. The Ekiti State PDP Publicity Secretary, Raphael Adeyanju, in a statement made available to journalists in Ado Ekiti on Monday described the three-year anniversary as a celebration of shamelessness on the part of the government. “We watch with a bemused sadness as the ruling APC government gleefully…
The Executive Governor of Zamfara State, Hon. Bello Mohammed Matawalle has received a report of the committee charged with the responsibility to register members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state. The team, which was sent to the state from the APC National Secretariat, was headed by Alhaji Ibrahim Kabir Masari. While handing over the report to the governor at the chamber of the Government House in Gusau, the state capital, Masari expressed happiness in the large turnout of members of the party for the registration, describing it as unprecedented and overwhelming. He informed the governor that the…
China on Monday said it has tested a hypersonic vehicle and not a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile as reported by a leading British newspaper which had claimed that the advanced space capability caught US intelligence by surprise. The Financial Times reported on Sunday that China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August that circled the globe before speeding towards its target, demonstrating an advanced space capability that caught US intelligence by surprise. Five people familiar with the test said that the Chinese military launched a rocket that carried a hypersonic glide vehicle which flew through low-orbit space before cruising down towards…
A socio-political group, Opomulero Osun, said it agrees with the position of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National State Congress Committee decision on parallel congress held in the state as being nothing but a political jamboree. Opomulero Osun asked Governor Gboyega Oyetola, the elders caucus and the newly-elected state executive committee to initiate genuine reconciliation with a view to uniting the party in the state ahead of the 2022 Governorship election. In a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the group, Sunday Akere, enjoined all party members with various grievances to explore dialogue in the general interest of…
Mr. Dele Akinleye, a former Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Political Matters to the immediate past Governor of Oyo State, late Abiola Ajimobi, has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairmanship race in the state. Our correspondent gathered that the APC state congress has been slated to hold on Saturday. State executive members of the party are expected to be elected on that day. InfoStride News recalls that four chieftains of the party had earlier indicated interest to contest the chairmanship position in the state. The four people are from Oke Ogun geopolitical zone of the state. They included Alhaji…
Former Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, has said Senator Samuel Anyanwu, who represented Imo East, is neither the problem of the state nor the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He said the PDP in the state is one and remains a united family driven by a common purpose. The former speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives said any attempt by fifth columnists to cause disaffection, especially among its leaders will not succeed. It was reported that leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South East on Sunday rejected what they called the imposition of Senator…
Rachael Akpabio, the secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) State Congress Committee (SCC) for Taraba State has revealed the real reason the exercise could not take place in the state. Unlike some states of the federation where the state congress were observed to have taken place, the reverse, as noticed by the media, was the case in Taraba as the exercise could not take place due to pockets of skirmishes. Explaining why the exercise was indefinitely postponed via a statement made available to newsmen in Jalingo, the state capital on Monday, the secretary of the committee said, the postponement…
Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida donated ritual offerings Sunday to a Tokyo shrine viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression, though he did not make a visit in person. Kishida donated masakaki religious ornaments to mark Yasukuni Shrine’s autumn festival. It was the first such observance by Kishida since he took office on Oct 4. Victims of Japanese aggression during the first half of the 20th century, especially Chinese and Koreans, see the shrine as a symbol of Japan’s militarism because it honours convicted World War II criminals among about 2.5 million war dead.…
Ahead of the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State, a Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to nullify the primary election of the All Progressives Congress, APC, which produced Senator Emmanuel Andy Uba as its governorship candidate. A governorship aspirant of the APC in Anambra, Chief George Moghalu in a suit on Monday alleged that the Electoral Act and APC guidelines were brazenly raped in a purportedly primary claimed to have been conducted in June this year. In the suit instituted on his behalf by Chief Chris Uche, SAN, the plaintiff who claimed to have bought a…
A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank Nigeria, Kingsley Moghalu, has revealed why he refused to join the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2019 despite being given the opportunity. Speaking during an interview on Channels Television Programme, The Chat, Moghalu explained that neither of the parties can help to actualise his vision for Nigeria. He noted that he doesn’t believe that the Nigerian political leadership class is sincere or capable of changing this country for the better. “In 2019, I had the opportunity to join the PDP or the APC but I advised myself…
A former Governor of Plateau State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Fidelis Tapgun, has expressed concern after the party ignored the central senatorial district of the state in zoning its 2023 governorship ticket. He lamented that mistakes over the years had prolonged the crisis that had rocked the party, insisting that failure to zone the governorship to the central zone would rob the party of victory in the 2023 general elections. Speaking to newsmen in Jos on Sunday, he enjoined the former Commissioner for Works, Chris Hassan, to reconcile all aggrieved factions and work hard to ensure…
Mr Uche Secondus, former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday said he has no intention of withdrawing the case challenging his removal from court. Recall that a Rivers State High Court had restrained Secondus from exercising the functions of the National Chairman of the PDP. The judge, Justice O. Gbasam who gave the order, also approved the suspension of Secondus as a member of the party pending the hearing and determination of motion on notice for interlocutory injunction. Secondus had also vowed to defend himself in court if summoned. However, a statement by Secondus’s Media Adviser,…
Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu has sought a meeting with party president Sonia Gandhi, flagging in his letter issues which the government “must deliver upon” and saying it is the poll-bound state’s “last chance for resurrection and redemption”. In the letter to the Congress president on October 15, a day after he had meetings with senior party leaders in Delhi, Sidhu pitched for a “Punjab Model with a 13-Point Agenda to be part of the Congress manifesto for the 2022 Assembly Elections”. Days after resigning as Punjab Congress chief, Sidhu had on October 15 said his concerns have been…
The Peoples Democratic Party, an opposition party in Nigeria has derided the All Progressives Congress’s nationwide congress on Saturday, saying 20 states out of 36 states including the Federal Capital Territory were imploded in crisis after the crisis. PDP said, it’s no wonder that APC has plunged the nation into disaster, stating that the party lacked capacity to manage its own affairs not to talk of managing the nation. Reacting to plethora of crisis as a result of parallel congresses across the states, PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan in a statement on Sunday, which was obtained by the media,…
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has commended the process that led to the emergence of the newly elected State Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing it as peaceful, adding that it was a reflection of the desire of members of the APC to move the party forward in the state. Fayemi spoke in Ado- Ekiti Saturday, at the end of the State Congress that produced Barr Paul Omotosho as state chairman and Hon Sola Elesin as Vice Chairman. The Governor thanked officials of the National Congress Committee led by Alhaji Yusuf Galambi and the Local Working Committee…
The Chairman of the state Congress committee, for Osun State All Progressives Congress (APC) Gbenga Elegbeleye said his committee does not recognise any other congress organised aside the one he conducted. Elegbeleye had announced Prince Gbenga Famodun as the chairman of Osun chapter of APC. Recall that the a caucus group in the party, Osun Progressives (TOP) – contain the people who are loyal to former governor Rauf Aregbesola, the minister of Interior, held a parallel congress on Saturday and announced former caretaker secretary of APC, Rasak Salinsile as their chairman. Elegbeleye, however, described the congress as a party ceremony…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has congratulated Pastor Cornelius Ojelabi on his emergence as the new chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State. Gbajabiamila said he was not surprised at the emergence of Pastor Ojelabi, a former member of the House of Representatives and former state commissioner, whom he described as a good ambassador of the House of Representatives. This was contained in a statement signed by Lanre Lasisi, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Speaker, House of Representatives, on Sunday. He said the new Lagos APC Chairman has…
China allegedly carried out its first-ever test of a “nuclear capable hypersonic missile” taking by surprise US intelligence, according to a report in a UK-based newspaper. Citing the UK daily, NHK World reported that China carried out a test on a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August. According to the newspaper, the missile flew through low-orbit space before cruising toward its target. It missed the target but the test is said to show “astounding progress” by China on hypersonic missile technology that “caught US intelligence by surprise”, reported NHK World. The US and Russia have also been working on hypersonic missiles.…