The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday condemned the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party chieftains’ celebration of the turbaning of Yusuf, President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, as District Head of Daura, Katsina State, at the weekend despite escalated killings in Sokoto, Niger, Katsina, Kaduna, Plateau states and other parts of the country by terrorists. The PDP described the turbaning and celebration of Buhari’s son by the ruling party, despite the escalated killings in the country, as provocative, vexatious and heartless. InfoStride News recalls that Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo attended the ceremony, leading other government and party chieftains, including the governors…
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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has recalled the battles he fought in his political career leading to his emergence as a local government chairman, minister and eventually as governor. Speaking at the first convocation ceremony of the PAMO University of Medical Sciences over the weekend, the governor narrated how he was fought to the Supreme Court to secure his ticket as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Obio Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers state after attempts were made to deny him the ticket at the time when Uche Secondus was the state chairman of the…
Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan said the upper legislative chamber would support President Muhammadu Buhari to fulfil campaign promises to Nigerians. Lawan made the remark in Gombe at the launch of the empowerment programme of Senator Sa’idu Ahmed Alkali for his constituents. Alkali, an All Progressive Congress(APC) Senator, is representing Gombe North Senatorial District in the Senate. The Senate President said Buhari had never rested for a second in his determination to turn around the fortune of the country. “President Muhammadu Buhari who is the leader of this party (APC) in this country, who has given us great…
A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, has blamed the politicians from the Ekiti South Senatorial District of Ekiti State for the alleged political marginalisation and misadventures of the zone in the state’s governance structure. Olanipekun, who argued that the political leaders of southern extraction were architects of their political misfortunes, accused the leaders of being too timid to speak out for the zone in its quest to produce a governor. He spoke in Ikere-Ekiti on Sunday during the annual Wole Olanipekun’s Christmas Carol against the backdrops of vociferous agitations for power shift to…
At least 14 people were killed and 12 others injured in Pakistan’s financial capital of Karachi on Saturday when a powerful blast, apparently triggered by a gas explosion in a covered sewage channel, ripped through the building of a private bank situated on it, police said. Most of the casualties are reportedly customers and staff present inside the HBL bank which was built on top of a covered sewage channel in Karachi’s Shershah area and collapsed following the explosion, the Express Tribune newspaper reported. An adjacent filling station was also damaged due to the explosion. Karachi Administrator Murtaza Wahab said…
The National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), has boasted that it will win more gubernatorial and legislative seats in Nigeria come 2023 general election. Ozonkpu Victor Ike Oye, said this in a statement forwarded to InfoStride News on Sunday, by the National Publicity Secretary of APGA, Barrister Tex Okechukwu, at the end of the enlarged meeting of the National Working Committee of the party held at its National Secretariat in Abuja. The APGA National Chairman also reiterated that the party will spread more and even overtake other major political parties in Nigeria. Oye said, “APGA is consistently…
Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON) and founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Osita Okechukwu, has urged the party’s national leader and former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to retain his position as a Kingmaker. Okechukwu said looking ahead to the 2023 Presidential elections, the best thing Tinubu should do was to jettison his presidential ambition and back a younger aspirant from the South in line with the country’s zoning convention. While appreciating the huge contributions of the former Lagos State governor to Nigeria’s democracy, Okechukwu, who was also a member of the merger committee…
A Peoples Democratic Party Chieftain, Mrs Esther Abba, has described the demise of the paramount ruler of Zangon Kataf, the Agwam Bajju, Mr Nuhu Bature, as shocking. InfoStride News reports that the Agwam Bajju became the first monarch of the Bajju Chiefdom in Zangon Kataf local government area of Kaduna State after its creation in 1995, following the Zangon Kataf crisis of 1992. In a letter of condolence to the immediate family of the deceased, Bajju community and the people of Kaduna State, Abba noted that the traditional ruler left at a time his fatherly advice was needed and the…
Commissioner for Infrastructure and Public Utilities in Ekiti State, Mr Bamidele Faparusi, has resigned from his appointment. Faparusi’s resignation was contained in a letter to Gov. Kayode Fayemi and acknowledged on Dec. 17. He resigned to contest the state’s 2022 governorship election. “It is with great pleasure that I thank you for the vote of confidence reposed in me to represent Ayekire Local Council Development Area in the state’s Executive Council. “It enabled me to serve as the political head of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Utilities, which is pivotal to the development agenda of this administration. “Under your…
The Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 43 Indian fishermen and seized six trawlers for allegedly poaching in the country’s territorial waters, an official statement said on Sunday. The Navy arrested the fishermen in seas Southeast of the Delft Island in Jaffna on Saturday. “A special operation conducted by the Navy in seas Southeast of the Delft Island, Jaffna on the night of 18th December 2021, led to seizure of 6 Indian fishing trawlers poaching in Sri Lankan waters, with 43 Indian fishermen aboard,” the Navy said in a statement. The arrests were made by the Fast Attack Craft of the…
Olopoeyan says Governor Seyi Makinde wants to be the Alfa and Omega of the party in the South-West. Mr Bisi Olopoeyan, a leader of aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State says Governor Seyi Makinde has hijacked the party from the party leaders. He said those who supported the PDP in the state in the 2019 governorship election are no longer with the party because of the governor’s alleged high-handedness. Olopoeyan said this in an interview with Punch saying, “everything that comes to the PDP in the South-West is taken by Seyi Makinde.” Speaking on the…
Clark urged Anyim to work hard with other leaders across the country to build consensus for equity and unity in Nigeria. The leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor must emerge from the southeast region. The Elder statesman said this when Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim visited him on Friday, December 17, 2021. Clark urged Anyim who, recently announced his interest in the 2023 presidential race, to work hard with other leaders across the country to build consensus for equity and unity in Nigeria. He emphasised his belief that “the…
The ruling party says the PDP was not an alternative to the APC in the forthcoming 2023 general election. The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday in Abuja said the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cannot return to power in a free and fair election in 2023. Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), said this during a meeting with the party’s State Caretaker Chairmen. This, he said, was especially so, because the electorate were intelligent and now knew that the PDP had nothing to offer Nigerians going by its antecedents. The APC scribe…
Pa Ayo Adebanjo, the leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere has responded to Chief Bisi Akande’s allegation against him. Akande had stated in his autobiography titled ‘My Participations’, that Adebanjo pestered the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu to build him a house in Lekki. He alleged, “One day, Sir Olaniwun (Ajayi) was launching a book at Muson Centre, Lagos. After the book presentation, Tinubu said I should not go and that he would like to see me. We met in a small room where he also invited Sir Olaniwun Ajayi. ‘Papa, you…
Pakistan is rallying Muslim countries to help Afghanistan stave off an economic and humanitarian disaster while also cajoling the neighbouring country’s new Taliban rulers to soften their image abroad. Several foreign ministers from the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation are meeting in Islamabad on Sunday to explore ways to aid Afghanistan while navigating the difficult political realities of its Taliban-run government, Pakistan’s top diplomat said Friday. The new Taliban administration in Kabul has been sanctioned by the international community, reeling from the collapse of the Afghan military and the Western-backed government in the face of the insurgents’ takeover in mid-August.…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says its focus to rebuild the party and become a credible opposition party was the reason it did not challenge the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof Charles Soludo, as the winner of the election on November 10, 2021. Soludo polled 112,229 votes, while the candidate of the PDP, Valentine Ozigbo, came second with 53,807 votes. Meanwhile, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Andy Uba, who came third with 43,285 votes had filed…
A presidential aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Ihechukwu Dallas Chima, has boasted that neither Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi nor Senator Rochas Okorocha, would stop him from clinching the party’s ticket next year. Chima, who announced his intention to contest the APC Presidential ticket for the 2023 general election at an international press conference at the NAF Conference Centre, Abuja, said he does not believe in zoning. While expressing the hope that the APC should not reduce the search for the country’s next president to the base sentiment of zoning, the young presidential aspirant declared…
The youths, women, council of elders and clergy groups in the Isi-Uzo Local Government chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have asked Dr. Davidson Nnamani to contest for the 2023 governorship election in Enugu State. The groups made the request when they visited Nnamani in his country home, Ikem, during the weekend. The party members, including non- indigenes resident in the Local Government, maintained that it was the turn of Isi-Uzo local government to produce the next governor of Enugu State in 2023. One of the delegates and an Anglican priest, Rev. Nwankemmadu Ogenyi, disclosed that Isi-Uzo has not…
The Coalition of Civil Society for Good Governance (CCSGG), has opined that allowing the South to produce the President in 2023 will end an anomaly in leadership and rewrite many wrongs in the country. The coalition appealed to politicians to consider the need for the South to produce the President in 2023. The Convener of CCSGG, Jacob Okpanachi, and the Secretary, Dahiru Al-Mustapha, in a statement noted that in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise to deliver good governance, he should sign the Electoral Amendment Bill into law. The CSOs, under the hashtag #TheNextPresident, appealed to Nigerians on the need…
Arguing that the world “cannot defeat a pandemic in an uncoordinated way”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that countries “must take concrete action in the coming days” to vaccinate 40 per cent of the world’s population by the end of the year. Speaking to journalists in New York, Antonio Guterres also asked Member States to be “far more ambitious” in their efforts to reach 70 per cent of people in all countries by the middle of 2022, a goal established by the World Health Organization (WHO). Just days from the deadline, 98 countries have not been able to…