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…
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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…
Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said Nigerians have experienced some of the most difficult and challenging times during the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu said despite the challenges, Buhari had continued to stir the country in the right path. He made the remark in a congratulatory statement to mark Buhari’s 79th birthday. The president had marked his 79 birthday yesterday, with the cutting of a cake in Istanbul, Turkey, where he is to participate in the 3rd Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. However, the former Lagos State Governor described…
Southeast leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Friday, evaluated the present leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari and as well poured encomium on the Nigerian leader on the occasion of his 79th birthday which took place on Friday, December 17, 2021. This was even as President Buhari had on Friday in Turkey, said he would hand over to his successor after the 2023 presidential election and return to his farm in Daura, Katsina State. The president was in Istanbul, Turkey, where he is to participate in the 3rd Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A statement…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is strong, firm in its resolve to offer better governance, and willing to take over power in 2023 to change the fortune of Nigeria. The governor made the assertion at a special reception on Friday to formally receive into PDP fold, the former Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Chibudom Nwuche at Government House, Port Harcourt. Wike explained that as a PDP controlled state government, his administration has touched every facet of Rivers State, and offered the people the best good governance can afford. According…
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Sam Ohuabunwa, has warned that jettisoning the principle of zoning and rotational presidency in 2023 could threaten the unity of the country. Ohuabunwa, however, said his ambition to be president is based on his competence and not because he is from the South East political zone. The aspirant, who stated this in an interview with journalists in Abuja, also added that Nigeria needs a president with corporate business sense and not people who have lived all their lives on government money. The PDP, through its Bala Mohammed committee, has resolved to throw the presidency…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Executive Board has approved the immediate release of more than $212 million to back up the international reserves of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire, the fund announced in a press release. “The conclusion of the first review under the ECF [Extended Credit Facility] arrangement enables the immediate disbursement of $212.3 million to reinforce international reserves, given downside risks to the domestic and global economy outlook and recovery,” the release said on Thursday. The ECF arrangement continues to support the authorities’ medium-term reform program to foster macroeconomic stability and sustainable development by stepping…
Former Governor of Abia State and Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu has called for rescheduling of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) national convention slated for February, 2022. He allayed fears of a collapse and an unmitigated injury the party could sustain if the National Chairman of Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the APC, Governor Mai Mala Buni, goes ahead with the convention in February. In a letter he wrote on Thursday in Abuja which he addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National leadership of the APC, Kalu identified three challenges that must be urgently addressed…
Attahiru Jega, erstwhile Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, has lamented the state of insecurity in Nigeria. Jega warned that the 2023 general elections may not hold if the current insecurity is not tackled immediately. He issued the warning at an event in honour of the late former governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi in Ibadan on Thursday. The former INEC boss said insecurity poses a serious threat to the conduct of the 2023 general elections. He maintained that adequate security was key to an acceptable election outcome. According to Jega: “Unless elections are conducted in an environment that…
Senator Ademola Adeleke has described the new leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winning team that will return the party to power in the forthcoming elections in the country. Senator Adeleke who is one of the PDP gubernatorial aspirants in the 2022 Osun Gubernatorial Election made this known on Thursday while submitting his nomination and expression of interest form at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja. During a closed-door meeting with leaders of the party which included the National Deputy Chairman South, Ambassador Taofeeq Arapaja, Adeleke disclosed that his aspiration to contest the gubernatorial election again in…
Following the expiration of the Agricultural Promotion Policy (APP) that lasted from 2016-2020, the Federal Government is in the process of developing another policy termed National Agricultural Technology and Innovation Policy (NATIP) to cover the 2021-2025 period. NATIP is developed to provide an integrated approach to agricultural development in terms of access and application of improved inputs, improve the linkage between agricultural research and training institutions The policy, according to the government, would also enhance the provision of input to farmers, improve agricultural mechanisation, extension services, provide rural Infrastructure and increase access to affordable funding. It would also ensure climate…
Democrats in the US Congress suffered a major setback on Thursday in their effort to grant work permits to millions of immigrants who have been living in the United States illegally for a decade or longer. Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who advises lawmakers on what is acceptable under legislature rules, rejected the inclusion of the Democrats’ proposal in President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better bill. Senator Dick Durbin, the no. 2 Senate Democrat, told reporters that he was “disappointed and we’re considering what options remain.” The parliamentarian previously rejected two other Democratic attempts to bundle immigration provisions into…