The main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State has described the declaration of winners of Local Government Council elections in the State by the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) which the party said was aided by Governor Simon Lalong as an “executive rascality”. The PDP also described the elections as the worst in history of local government elections in the country. The Party advised the chairmen and councillors declared by PLASIEC, “not to celebrate because they were not elected by the people but rather appointed”. InfoStride News recalls that, on Sunday, the Plateau State Independent…
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In less than one month, eligible voters in Anambra State will file out to elect a new Governor for the State. There have, however, been controversies over the election as many believe that the election is already threatened. This is because of the spate of violence in the state, which has for months remained sustained. The first real doubt about the election holding first came in March 2021, when some unidentified gunmen stormed the home town of Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, Isuofia in Aguata LGA of Anambra State and attacked a gathering where he was speaking with young people about his…
The Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has said the Southeast presidential agenda would fail in 2023. Primate Ayodele said the Southeast won’t get its presidential aspiration fulfilled due to betrayal. In a statement by his Media Aide, Oluwatosin Osho, Primate Ayodele said some Southeast politicians would betray the region’s presidential agenda. The clergyman also pointed out that bad governance was responsible for the killings and crisis in the Southeast. He maintained that no group was responsible for the insecurity situation in the Southeast. The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and its militia arm, Eastern Security Network,…
Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Sunday declared that Bola Tinubu is fit and ready for his next political move. Sanwo-Olu made the comment at an event in honour of the All Progressives Congresses (APC) leader. The Lagos helmsmen assured of his predecessor’s “renewed vigour”. The Governor said Tinubu’s return excites the people of Lagos and supporters across Nigeria. “We give glory to God who brought you (Tinubu) back with sound health and stronger vigour. “We give praises to God that the intention of evil-minded people who spread malicious rumour against our leader did not materialise. ”This event shows Asiwaju is…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his visiting Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen on Saturday held “fruitful” talks with a focus on expanding cooperation in a range of key areas such as health, agriculture, water management, climate change and renewable energy. In his media statement after the talks, Modi said both sides reviewed the progress made under the India-Denmark Green Strategic Partnership and deliberated on further expansion of overall cooperation in multiple sectors. The two sides also inked four agreements that will provide for deepening of cooperation in areas of science and technology, climate change and skill development. “A year ago today,…
A member of the 8th Senate, Senator Sam Anyanwu, has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to be proactive in handling Nigeria’s political and socio-economic flaws. Anyanwu, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who represented Imo East Senatorial District, charged the president to urgently address hunger in the country. He advised the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its leaders to stop being clannish over issues affecting Nigerians, advising them to instead look for better ways to address unemployment, high cost of goods and starvation in the society. According to him, “President Muhammadu Buhari’s led APC administration should be aware…
The Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Ahmed Idris Wase, has commended the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) for the peaceful conduct of the 2021 local government elections in the state. The Deputy Speaker specifically hailed Governor Simon Bako Lalong for providing a conducive atmosphere for the will of the electorate to prevail in the just concluded local government election in the state. Wase, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Umar Muhammad Puma, on Sunday, tasked all the new 17 chairmen that won the election to be magnanimous and hit the ground running by providing dividends…
Nigeria’s dominant elite pretend to be practicing a liberal democratic framework of governance for the country, but in reality are devoid of substance and without living up to expectations of its basic principles and tenets, Prof. Attahiru Jega, former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Jega said this at the maiden lecture of Kwaravisioners Network for Rural Development, held in Ilorin on Saturday, at the University of Ilorin auditorium with the theme: ‘Politics, Governance and Leadership Recruitment in 21st Century Democracy.’ He said: “Political parties created by the dominant elite, purportedly as the special purpose vehicles for leadership…
The candidates of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in all the 17 local government areas of Plateau State have won the chairmanship seats in the Saturday 19, 2021, council election in the state. Declaring all the council election results in the state on Sunday, the Chairman of the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission, Fabian Ntung, explained that all the candidates on the platform of the All Progressive Congress have won the election. He also added that the candidates of the APC in the 325 wards in the state won the councillorship seats in the state. According to him, “The APC…
In-line with the resolution of the 94th National Executive Committee (NEC), of our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the National Working Committee (NWC), has approved the Time Table and Schedule of Activities for the year 2021 Elective National Convention, scheduled to hold on Saturday October 30 to Sunday October 31, 2021. All potential aspirants for various party offices at the national level are therefore advised to purchase their expression of interest and nomination forms at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja from Monday October 11 to Friday October 15, 2021. View Timetable below:
Austria’s conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigned on Saturday to pull his coalition government back from the brink of collapse after the junior party demanded his head because he has been placed under investigation on suspicion of corruption. The move by Kurz, who denies wrongdoing, satisfied his coalition partner, the Greens, and came just three days before a special session of parliament at which they were preparing to back a motion of no-confidence that would have forced him out. read more At the same time, his resignation is more a matter of form than substance in terms of policy. He plans…
Former member representing Jos North/Bassa constituency in the National Assembly, Hon. Suleiman Yahaya Kwande, has reacted to the exclusion of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from the Plateau State Local Government polls, saying PDP was responsible for its fate and not the APC. Kwande disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Jos, the State Capital. “We didn’t cause it, they shot themselves on the foot. It is a PDP man that took the party to the court. We didn’t take them to court. If they had settled out of court…It happened to us in Zamfara where a…
As Nigeria gradually draws close 2023, the race for who becomes the country’s next president is fast becoming the major topic within the country’s political space. Two major political personalities seem to be on the lips of Nigerians – Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and ex- Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate. Atiku started vying for the presidency right from the days of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in which, the late MKO Abiola defeated him to emerge as the presidential candidate and eventual winner in 1992, but the election…
Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue State, on Saturday, in Makurdi expressed confidence that the PDP was waxing stronger and would win overwhelmingly at the 2023 general elections. He told newsmen that the PDP was better positioned now and was ready to wrestle power from the ruling APC. “PDP as a party made mistakes in the past and has learnt a lot of lessons from its mistakes and it is fully prepared to take over the leadership of the country from the APC. “Nobody should deceive you that PDP is polarised. We are working together as a party. “We met and…
Senior Taliban officials and U.S. representatives are to hold talks Saturday and Sunday about containing extremist groups in Afghanistan and easing the evacuation of foreign citizens and Afghans from the country, officials from both sides said. It’s the first such meeting since U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan in late August, ending a 20-year military presence there, and the Taliban’s rise to power in the nation. The talks are to take place in Doha, the capital of the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen, who is based in Doha, told The Associated Press on Saturday that the talks…
The Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has written a letter of recognition to the ‘Progressives Consolidation Group’, a group rooting for Prof. Yemi Osinbajo Presidency in 2023. The letter has made the Progressive Consolidation Group, (PCG) the first to be formally recognized by the National Secretariat of the APC, ahead of 2023 general election. In an interaction with journalists in Abuja on Saturday, Mr. Bala Gide, Co-ordinator of the Progressive Civil Society Group, an arm that works directly with the Progressives Consolidation Group, noted that the formal letter of recognition has further emboldened…
The Plateau State Local Government elections in Jos North, Bassa, Jos South, Barkin Ladi among others were generally peaceful but experienced a very low turnout of voters allegedly due to the tension that predicated the conduct of the exercise. Also, another possible reason attributed to the low turnout is the non-participation of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the elections. InfoStride News recalls that a State High Court sitting in Jos, had on 29th September, 2021 dismissed a suit filed by the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), challenging the decision of the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, BoT, has said the zoning of the party’s presidential ticket may destroy the party. Walid Jibrin, the Chairman of PDP BoT, said party leaders should be cautious in handling the zoning of the party’s presidential ticket and other elective offices. He disclosed this while addressing journalists at PDP’s National Secretariat in Abuja. Jibrin said PDP BoT was ready to assist the party’s leadership in ensuring peace ahead of the elective convention. According to Jibrin: “We are not talking about the zoning of the offices of the President, Vice President, Senate President or…
The Plateau State Local Government elections will hold as scheduled on Saturday, as the Jos appellate Court dismissed the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) application for an injunction to stop the election. PDP, through Edward Pwajok (SAN), its Counsel, had filed a motion before the Appellate Court looking for an injunction to stop the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) from conducting the polls awaiting the determination of its appeal against a High Court judgement that excluded the party from participating in the election. The lead Judge of the Court of Appeal (COA), Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi, dismissed PDP’s application on the…
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday made a strong pitch for the integration of Taiwan with the mainland amidst heightened tensions with the estranged self-ruled island, saying the “Taiwan question” will be resolved and “peaceful reunification” is in the best interest of people of both sides. The Taiwan issue brooks “no external interference”, Xi Jinping said in the backdrop of the US and Japan stepping up their backing to the estranged island in the face of China’s increasingly aggressive posture. Xi’s also comments came after China sent a record number of military jets into Taiwan’s air defence zone for four…