Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, has disclosed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, would break up before the 2023 elections. Melaye said APC is not a political party but a Non-Governmental Organization, NGO. He also explained that the ruling party faced an imminent implosion due to the “illegality” of the Governor Mai Mala-Buni-led Caretaker Committee. The former APC chieftain noted that Buni’s appointment as caretaker chairman contravenes Section 183 of the 1999 Constitution as well as the Article 17(iv) of APC Constitution. Melaye, a staunch critic of the APC government spoke in a statement he titled: “The Ilegality or…
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Taliban have agreed to allow safe passage from Afghanistan for civilians hoping to join a US-directed airlift from the capital, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser said Tuesday, although a timetable for completing the evacuation of Americans, Afghan allies and possibly other civilians has yet to be worked out with the country’s new rulers. Jake Sullivan acknowledged reports that some civilians were encountering resistance, being turned away or pushed back or even beaten, as they tried to reach the Kabul international airport. He said very large numbers were reaching the airport and the problem of others was being taken up…
A non-governmental, non-partisan pressure group, Save Anambra Group (SAG), has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of fueling controversies over candidature in some political parties in Anambra State. The group frowned at the activities of INEC, which they said have denied some political parties of their choices of governorship candidates, by recognizing other candidates that are not sponsored and supported by them. In a statement issued on Monday in Awka, and signed by the National Coordinator of SAG, Dr. Okwuoma Okeke, the group expressed worry that the INEC appears complicit, by giving tacit encouragement to some individual/group in the…
Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has asked the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike to stop using the state’s money to destroy top sons and daughters of the state. Eze also called on the Governor to leave the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Uche Secondus alone, adding that governors that left the main opposition party did so because of Wike’s overbearing attitude. Eze, an erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, also lauded PDP Board of Trustees, BoT and governors for standing against Wike and rescuing the…
Chikwe Udensi, a former governorship aspirant of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) in Abia State, has lauded Governor Okezie Ikpeazu over his administration’s developmental gains. His comment comes days after Ahamdi Nweke, his colleague in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), also lauded Ikpeazu. Udensi opined that Ikpeazu has performed beyond expectations ranging from the impressive and massive road constructions across the state to the encouragement of the small and medium scale business enterprises through promotion of Made in Aba products, which has engaged thousands of teeming Abia people, as well as made them to be self dependency. The renowned…
The former Commissioner for Community Development and Cooperatives in Ogun State, Gbenga Adenmosun has told a former aide of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, that Senator Ibikunle Amosun has never been his Campaign Coordinator. Adenmosun was reacting to a statement credited to Okupe while featuring on the Morning Show programme of Arise Television, few days ago. The former Commissioner said Okupe’s “memory fails him” to have claimed that former Governor Amosun was his campaign coordinator in Ogun Central Senatorial District during the run up to the 2003 governorship election. The Amosun’s aide said: “I must say that I was rather…
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu and President-elect Hakainde Hichilema met on Monday, hours after the opposition leader won the presidential election. Once the Electoral Commission Chairman, Esau Chulu declared Hichilema winner, supporters across the nation went into a frenzy. The forthcoming inauguration would be the third time power has shifted from a ruling party to an opposition platform since independence from Britain in 1964. Lungu had alleged that the election was not free and fair, citing attacks against agents of the ruling Patriotic Front Party (PFP) in three provinces. Hours after his rival emerged victorious, Lungu and Hichilema met at the…
The Niger State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state not to hand over the current decay in the system to it come 2023. Rather, it urged the ruling party to revive the breakdown and hand over the state the way it was handed over to it in 2015. The party, through the state chairman, Bar. Tanko Beji, stated this in Minna, the state capital, said the PDP will ensure that it takes back the state in the 2023 general elections, hence whatever is not working in the areas…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the immediate amendment of the new Petroleum Industry Act Bill recently approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. Recall that Buhari on Monday signed the Petroleum Industry Bill 2021 into law. This was confirmed in a statement signed by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, and sent to the media. According to the statement, the ceremonial part of the new legislation will be done on Wednesday after the days of mandatory isolation would have been fulfilled. Reacting, the party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola…
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has admitted that the All Progressives Congress, APC, may not get as many votes as they polled in the 2015 and 2019 elections, in 2023, as President Muhammadu Buhari will not be on the ballot. Osinbajo feels Buhari’s personality attracted the bulk of the votes APC got during the polls. The vice president has now urged the youth arm of the party to put in work in building a stronger membership base from the grassroots. He stated this when he received a delegation of the APC National Youth Lobby Group, at the Presidential Villa to present…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of grossly disobeying his late father, Pa Emmanuel Abiodun, who died on August 2. PDP accused Gov Abiodun of failing to heed the voice of his father, who he said advised him to take Ogun workers and pensioners’ welfare as a priority. Abiodun had recently recalled how his father advised him to treat workers well when he assumed office in 2019. But, the opposition party said the governor did not follow the advice of his father if he were to he judged based on the complaints of…
Zambia opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema has won the presidential election by a landslide. The Electoral Commission released the results on Monday at the capital Lusaka. Hichilema got 2,810,777 votes against President Edgar Lungu 1,814,201, with all but one of the 156 constituencies counted. “I, therefore, declare Hichilema to be President of Zambia”, Esau Chulu, the Electoral Commission chairman said. It would be third time power has shifted from a ruling party to the opposition since the country’s independence from Britain in 1964. Hichilema’s supporters across the nation are in a celebration mood. The United Party for National Development (UPND) candidate…
Niger State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Tanko Beji said former state Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu has no moral justification to accuse the party of using tribal sentiment in the last congress. He also replied Dr. Aliyu’s claims that the state congress held by the party was a sham, saying it was orderly and peacefully organized with over 2,300 delegates from the 25 LGAs in attendance. The state party Chairman, Bar. Tanko Beji stated this while briefing Newsmen in Minna said if the tribal sentiment was applied in the state, Dr. Babangida Aliyu wouldn’t have emerged governor of…
A socio-political group in the fold of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Abia State, Youths For Progressive Alliance (YFPA), has advised fifth columnists to desist from evil campaigns of calumny targeted at the Minister of State, Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah. The youth group said the lastest was a purported news feature published in a local tabloid, National Star Newspaper, dated August 9th-15th, 2021 where the writer made fictitious and slanderous claims of a power tussle for the soul of the APC in the state between Ogah and the Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu.…
The Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the death of Hon. Omolafe Adedayo, popularly known as ‘Expensive’ as a huge shock. According to the PDP, the demise of the Federal lawmaker is difficult to accept, particularly that he was not sick until his passing. InfoStride News had reported that the lawmaker who was a former Chairman of Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State gave up the ghost in the early hours of Monday. During the former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, he served as the Co-ordinator of Sure-P programme in Ondo State. The party…
The Osun Progressives (TOP), a caucus in the Osun Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that the information credited to the Chairman of the Ward Congress Appeal Committee for Osun State that its work has been concluded is far from the truth and cannot be substantiated. This position was made known by Rasaq Salinsile, the Osun APC Caretaker Secretary and Vice-Chairman of TOP in a press conference on Sunday in Osogbo. Salinsile, who stood in for the Chairman, Adelowo Adebiyi, also stated that he was there at the Osun APC Secretariat on Saturday evening when gunshots caused…
The US told the UN Security Council that the international community should ensure that Afghanistan “cannot ever, ever again be a base for terrorism and urged the country’s neighbours and others in the region and beyond to give refuge to Afghans attempting to flee. The Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, bringing an end to a two-decade campaign in which the US and its allies had tried to transform Afghanistan. The country’s Western-trained security forces collapsed or fled, ahead of the planned withdrawal of the last American troops at the end of the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has asked the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop talking if it has nothing meaningful and sensible to contribute to the political development of the state. The APC accused PDP of dishing out malicious statements capable of destabilizing the state. This reaction is contained in a statement issued from the Party’s Directorate of Publicity, Research and Strategy and signed by its Director, Barr Kunle Oyatomi on Monday in Osogbo. The spokesman, however, drew the attention of Osun citizenry to claims that the PDP in the state had a terrible antecedent and…
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, Desmond Akawor, has declared that the leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the State, Chibuike Amaechi, would return to the party. The PDP Chairman said this at an event in the Ikwerre LGA where scores of defectors from other political parties joined the PDP. According to him, “Our brothers that are joining the PDP; I listened to almost all your leaders, they were all PDP members. They have gone to see. They saw nothing and that is why they are all back. “One day, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi,…
As some members kicked over the conduct of the recent ward congress in Ekiti State, the All Progressives Congress Appeal Panel, has ruled out the possibility of making recommendations to the party on sharing of positions. The panel said the Caretaker Committee and Extraordinary National Convention Committee, headed by Governor Mai Mala Buni, has not given the committee the mandate to share positions, but to listen to complaints and suggest how best to get justice for the aggrieved members. The members of the committee are: former Oyo State Deputy Governor, Chief Iyiola Oladokun, as Chairman; ex-House of Representatives member, Hon…