The Adamawa State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has urged the party’s presidential aspirants to seek the counsel of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Tahir Shehu, the state Chairman of the party, said those vying for the presidency should meet with Atiku on how to produce a formidable flag bearer in 2023. Shehu noted that other aspirants should meet with Atiku due to his broad political network in Nigeria and vast experience. He made the call at the party’s Secretariat in Yola, the state capital, while receiving former managing director of New Nigeria Development Company (NNDC) Mohammed Hayatudeen. According…
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A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Sen. Pius Anyim Pius, and a former Governor of Ebonyi State, Sen. Sam Egwu, on Tuesday, said the Ebonyi State House of Assembly can’t get 2/3 majority to impeach the Deputy Speaker, Mr. Odefa Obasi. Senator Anyim, who is a presidential aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, made this known while addressing stakeholders and members of the party during an enlarged meeting of the party that took place in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State. The former Senate President expressed optimism that the remaining fifteen lawmakers…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the nomination of Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu as Chairmen campaign council for Cross River, Ondo and Imo States bye-elections respectively. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday. The bye-elections in the three states are slated for Saturday, February 26, 2022. While Governor Wike Chairs National Campaign Council/Election Management Team for the Ogoja/Yala Federal Constituency and Akpabuyo State Constituency, PDP appointed Akwa Ibom…
Former President of the Senate, Sen. Bukola Saraki, has stressed that women and youths must form critical components of government in 2023 for the development of Nigeria. Saraki stated this while reacting to a statement credited to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who recently said “You will grow old, you will become president but I will become president first.” In an interview with newsmen at the National Headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja, Tuesday, Saraki acknowledged that young men and women have roles to play in the party’s mission to rescue and rebuild Nigeria. He said, “I think…
The UK government on Tuesday imposed tough sanctions against five Russian banks and three super-rich oligarchs from the country over President Vladimir Putin’s aggressive action on the Ukraine border. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the House of Commons that this is the “first tranche of measures in response to Russian troops moving into two separatist regions of Ukraine. The sanctions target Rossiya, IS Bank, General Bank, Promsvyazbank and the Black Sea Bank, as well as billionaires Gennady Timchenko, Boris Rotenberg and Igor Rotenberg as three “very high net worth individuals”. All three have been on the US sanctions list…
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State has said that Gov Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is attempting to import political cannibalism into their once politically peaceful state. They further alleged that Wike was behind the vandalisation of the fence of the Calabar Sports Club where the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) staged a rally in the state against police advice last weekend. Chairman of APC in the state, Alphonsus Ogar Eba stated this during a press interaction at the APC office in Calabar. “What Gov Wike has set to do over time is to import the political…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Enugu State Chapter, has said it is participating in tomorrow, Wednesday’s local government election in the State. A factional chairman of the party, Barr. Ugo Agballah had claimed that the party was excluded from the election. But in a statement by Comrade Adolphus Ude-led APC, he said the party was taking part in the exercise. Ude urged members of the public to ignore Agballah as he was not speaking for the party. “I want to inform members of the public that the ENSIEC dully cleared APC candidates to participate in the election and we are…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has blasted the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for postponing its scheduled 26th February national convention. Debo Ologunagba, the PDP spokesman, in a statement explained that the continued inability of the APC to conduct a routine national convention has further explained why all sectors of the country’s national life have been in the shambolic state under what it called “the incompetent, corrupt, rudderless and overtly confused APC administration”. The statement noted that the postponement of the APC national convention has further validated PDP’s stance that the APC is not a political party but a Special…
Barely a year to the 2023 general elections, some leaders and members of the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau and other States in the North Central zone of the country have condemned the statement credited to the National Leader of the party and former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, that he is ready to fight dirty over his quest to become the President of the country. They said Tinubu’s comment was unbecoming and that it was putting not only himself, but the APC in general in a bad light. InfoStride News recalls that Tinubu made the comment…
US President Joe Biden is likely to move executive order to regulate cryptocurrency this week, as per media reports. As per a memorandum by the US National Security Council (NSC) memorandum, government agencies, include the Departments of the Treasury, State, Justice, and Homeland Security, will be asked to assess the risks and opportunities that crypto poses, and delve into the details of a central bank digital currency, Bloomberg news cited an administration official as saying last month. The agencies will also review the impact of digital assets on financial stability, and normalising regulations for crypto with other countries. The Biden…
The former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Anayo Okorocha, on Tuesday expressed fear that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) would face multiple litigation after the rescheduled National Convention of the party. He said the APC has unfortunately forgotten how it started and was making the mistake of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), expressing the belief that the National Convention will be an opportunity to correct their mistakes, if they listen to somebody like him. Speaking on Tuesday on the state of tge APC after plenary at the National Assembly, Okorocha, who represents Imo West, lamented that the travails of…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) appears to have reached consensus on a zoning formula that will see to the swapping of offices held between the north and south. By the latest development, all offices that were occupied by northerners in the last eight years will go to the south and vice versa. They settled for this system after a meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and 19 governors elected under the APC at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday. At the meeting were Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha; and the Chief of Staff…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government’s continued withholding of assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill indicates that they are averse to credible elections. PDP warned that the President’s refusal to assent to the bill may trigger a serious political crisis that can derail the electoral system and truncate democracy. Addressing a world press conference at the party headquarters, Abuja on Tuesday, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba said the current stance of President Buhari further validates the opposition party’s position that “the Buhari-led APC government is…
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently holding a closed-door meeting with governors elected under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja. The meeting, which is taking place at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, is not unconnected to the postponement of the party’s national convention earlier scheduled to hold February 26. Those in a attendance are Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and 18 governors, including the Yobe, Kogi, Kano, Ekiti, Kwara, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Lagos Jigawa, Imo, Ogun, Niger Borno, Gombe, Plateau, Osun, Kebbi. Recall that the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the ruling party, yesterday, picked…
President Joe Biden’s administration has prepared an initial package of sanctions against Russia that includes barring U.S. financial institutions from processing transactions for major Russian banks, three people familiar with the matter said. The measures, which would only be implemented if Russia invades Ukraine, aim to hurt the Russian economy by cutting the “correspondent” banking relationships between targeted Russian banks and U.S. banks that enable international payments. While U.S. authorities have said banking restrictions would be part of a package of possible sanctions, the administration’s plan to cut correspondent banking ties – which underpin global money flows – has not…
Lawmakers from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-South region have endorsed the presidential aspiration of Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi State in 2023. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lawmakers converged on Calabar, the Cross River State capital, on Monday to seek support for Yahaya Bello under the “GYB 2 PYB Legislative Team 2023”. Speaking, Mr Matthew Kolawole, Speaker of Kogi House of Assembly and National Coordinator of the Legislative Team, said it was time for a generational shift in governance Kolawole said that the lawmakers were ready to reshape and direct the political path…
In reaction to the postponement of the national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a pressure group within the party known as ‘Concerned APC Stakeholders Forum’ (CASF), has expressed satisfaction with the development. The Governor Mai Buni led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), had on Monday, after an extensive stakeholders’ meeting, transmitted a letter to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), intimating it of the decision to hold zonal congresses on Saturday, 26th March, instead of the planned national convention for this Saturday. Dr. Abdulkadir Suleiman, the Executive Secretary of CASF, in a statement on Monday, hailed the…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it was ready to conduct a free, fair and transparent bye-election in Ngor-Okpala on February 26th. It said that everything has been put in place to ensure the smooth conduct of the poll. INEC Resident Commissioner in lmo State, Prof. Chukwuemeka Francis Ezeonu, stated this on Monday when the executive members of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NWAOJ, in the state paid a courtesy visit to his office along Port Harcourt road, Owerri. He listed some of the challenges facing the Commission in the state including the burning of INEC…
The 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has said the Federal High Court suit challenging his Nigerian citizenship was politically orchestrated to stop him from enjoying his rights and privileges. Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo on Monday struck out the suit instituted by the Incorporated Trustees of Egalitarian Mission for Africa on the account that the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) had no legal right in the first instance to query the citizenship of the former Vice President. The justice cautioned the NGO to refrain from filing frivolous applications targeted at harassing politically exposed Nigerians.…
Dapo Fasola, the convener of Yoruba Youth Likeminds (YYL) has advised Tinubu to give up his presidential ambition, and support the aspirations and interests of his foot soldiers. He wrote: “BRF summed it up succinctly when he said, “May our loyalty not be tested”. Nothing in life is infinitesimal. Even loyalty has a limit. If you test the loyalty of the dog you keep at home, feed and take good care of, it would react. “Nothing can be worse than discovering that the person you had loved, trusted and offered all your loyalty to has backstabbed you. That is what…