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…
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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…
The South West Agenda for Asiwaju, SWAGA, has assured the All Progressives Congress, APC, National Leader, Bola Tinubu of 12 to 13 million votes, ahead of the 2023 presidential election. A chieftain of SWAGA, Senator Adedayo Adeyeye said Tinubu would replicate President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 feat, when he got 12 million votes from the North. The former Works and Housing Minister, spoke on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today.’ Adeyeye pointed out that the chances of Tinubu becoming the next president of Nigeria are high. He said: “Don’t forget that one of the selling points for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 was…
The Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 2019 gubernatorial election, Ademola Adeleke as an individual who has nothing to offer the people of the State other than making frivolous promises and draw back the progress of the State. The statement which was signed by Kunle Oyatomi, the party’s Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy and made available to the media is in reaction to the statement credited to Ademola Adeleke when he visited Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi on Wednesday. According to the Oyatomi, Adeleke allegedly stated…
Thugs have attacked Mr Waziri Enwongulu, the Legal Adviser, All Progressives Congress (APC) of Wakama ward, Nasarawa State. Enwongulu, while narrating his ordeal on Saturday in Wakama when officials of APC and stakeholders visited him, said that he don’t know why the unidentified men attacked him and burnt his brother’s house, NAN reports. “It was around 1am today that I heard some voices at my door that I should come out or they will set my elder brother’s house ablaze, including me. “When I came out of the house, I saw four people with knives, cutlasses and big sticks. “They…
Former Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attairu Jega, has said the two major political parties in the country have led Nigeria astray in the last 21 years of democratic governance. Speaking at the maiden inaugural lecture of Kwaravisioners Network for Rural Development, in Ilorin the Kwara State capital, on Saturday, Professor Jega advocated creation of new special vehicles to free Nigeria from its present strangulation. Speaking on the theme: “Politics, Governance and Leadership Recruitment in 21st Century Democracy” Professor Jega, who described Nigeria as a failing state, urged Nigerians to work hard to change our ways for…
Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader has finally returned to Nigeria. The former Lagos Governor landed in the state Friday evening after months of medical sojourn. Tinubu was in London, United Kingdom, for surgery on his right knee and “rigorous post-surgery physiotherapy,” according to his media office. A statement issued said contrary to rumour, the politician underwent no other surgical procedures and contemplates none in the future. It noted that Tinubu’s recuperation “has been without complication and ahead of the schedule by the attending surgeon”. The update assured that Tinubu has fully recovered from the knee surgery…
The Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Friday, advised the All Progressives Congress, APC, on who to pick as its next National Chairman. Primate Ayodele said APC should pick from Senator Kashim Shettima, Mallam Isa Yuguda and Senator Tanko Al-Makura as National Chairman. In a statement by his Media Aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele said the names he identified would help ensure victory for the APC in 2023. He, however, warned that the choice of a wrong person will dampen the crisis and affect the party a lot. According to Ayodele: “The All Progressive Congress should…
The People’s Democratic Party has thrown open its Presidential ticket to all sections of Nigeria. The Party at its 94th National Executive Council meeting in Abuja on Thursday adopted the decision of the Zoning Committee for the North to produce the next National Chairman, while the Presidential ticket can be contested by any eligible Party Member no matter the zone they belong to. The Acting National Chairman of the Party, Elder Yemi Akinwonmi who earlier commended the two committees of Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri and his Enugu State counterpart Ifeanyi Ugwaunyi saddled with the responsibility of Zoning and…
China ordered miners in Inner Mongolia to ramp up coal production and oil prices jumped on Friday as a record surge in the cost of gas revived demand for the most polluting fossil fuels to keep factories open and homes heated. The rebound in economic activity from coronavirus restrictions has exposed alarmingly low supplies of natural gas leaving traders, industry executives and governments scrambling as the northern hemisphere heads into winter. The energy crisis, which has led to fuel shortages and blackouts in some countries, has highlighted the difficulty in cutting the global economy’s dependency on fossil fuels as world…