Borno youths under the umbrella of Borno All Progressive Congress (APC) Youths Vanguard have called on Governor Babagana Zulum to withdraw his statement describing the youths as miscreants and hanger-on stating that unless the governor withdraws his statements, the days ahead will remind him of how they worked hard to bring him to power. Speaking in an interview with journalists at the NUJ Press Centre on Tuesday, the spokesman of the group, Ibrahim Hassan, said, “We have worked hard to bring this government in power, only for the governor to say that it was youths vanguard (ECOMOG) and Mohammed Yusuf…
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Zamfara State Deputy Governor, Barrister Mahdi Aliyu Gusau has boasted that the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) was very much ready to battle the All Progressives Congress (APC ) in the 2023 general elections in the State. The Deputy Governor said that he was the new PDP leader in the state, adding that he assumed that position since the defection of his boss, Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle and his supporters to the APC. According to him, he had been preparing for the battle ahead, pointing out that his inspection of the party’s Secretariat formed his readiness to face the ruling party…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday night said the screening of aspirants vying for various national offices in the 2021 National Convention of the party, has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at the Legacy House, Maitama, Abuja. Mohammed Adoke Bello, SAN, Chairman, Screening Sub-Committee of the party in a statement on Tuesday night said the exercise will start with a media chat at 10 am. The screening proper is to commence at 12 noon and the appearance scheduling will be on “first come, first served,” basis. He urged aspirants to come along with the originals of their…
Pakistan may remain on the ‘grey list’ of the FATF till the global money laundering and terror financing watchdog meets for its next session in April 2022, according to a media report on Tuesday. Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will be in session for three days from October 19-21 and it is expected that Tuesday’s session may be informed that Pakistan is still short of meeting the FATF criterion, according to a report in The News International reported from the French capital. The report, quoting sources in German media house Deutsche Welle, said the global body’s decision on putting…
The Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to make use of electronic transmission of results in the forthcoming Anambra State governorship election. Primate Ayodele also urged the INEC to dialogue with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ahead of the election. In a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin last night, Ayodele said INEC should engage IPOB in order to have a peaceful election in the State. The cleric said the electoral transmission of results will prevent rigging in the coming election, adding that “if the government…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Yobe State has made another ‘big catch’ as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, State Deputy Chairman, Alhaji Usman Amale, Assistant Secretary Ahmadu Biriri and others have defected to the ruling party. Receiving the former PDP officials in Damaturu on Tuesday, the State Governor and Chairman APC Caretaker Extraordinary Convention, Hon. Mai Mala Buni, said they should be part of the movement to salvage Nigeria. This was disclosed by Buni’s Spokesman, Mamman Mohammed in a statement he signed and made available to newsmen. Buni in the statement said, “APC is now a movement that is…
Senator Magnus Abe who formerly represented Rivers South East Senatorial district Tuesday inaugurated his parallel State Executive of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State. The inauguration came two days after the nationwide State congress of the APC which was laced with crisis in several States of the Federation. The inauguration took place at the Freedom House, a campaign secretariat of Sen. Abe located at the GRA area of Port Harcourt, thereby deepening factional crisis of the party in Rivers as another faction loyal to the former governor and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi were also claiming to be…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Hon. Sunday Frank Oputu, has said a repeat of what happened to the party in Zamfara and Rivers State in 2019, where the court disqualified the party from contesting in the general elections due to their primaries, is imminent in the state. InfoStride News reported that the faction of the party loyal to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, conducted a peaceful state congress and elected its 36 State Executive Committee (SEC) members, as Barr. Dennis Otiotio emerged as state chairman of the party. But…
A House committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is moving swiftly Tuesday to hold at least one of Donald Trump’s allies in contempt as the former president is pushing back on the probe in a new lawsuit. Trump is aggressively trying to block the committee’s work by directing former White House aide Steve Bannon not to answer questions in the probe while also suing the panel to try to prevent Congress from obtaining former White House documents. But lawmakers on the House committee say they will not back down as they gather facts and testimony about the…
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State has announced that the member representing Aba South Constituency at the state House of Assembly, Hon Obinna Ichita, is the new leader of the party in the state. This came on the heels of the recent defection of the former minority leader of the house and member representing Aba North Constituency, Hon Abraham Oba, from the APGA to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Oba, who was elected twice on the platform of APGA, announced his formal defection to the PDP at the plenary sitting of the state…
A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Irimiya Ezekiel Afukonyo, has backed the electronic transmission of election results. The APC Chieftain, who made his position known during an interactive session with media practitioners in Wukari Local Government Area in Taraba State, said the process will go a long way to help mitigate against the rigging of elections in the country. Afukonyo, who also doubles as the chairman, governing board of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, said that the process if eventually carried out, “will be the greatest thing that will happen to our democracy.” He said, “People don’t like straightforward…
The Ekiti State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has described the three years of the Governor Kayode Fayemi administration as a disaster and colossal failure in the history of the state. The opposition party made this remark as a reaction to the three-year anniversary of the All Progressive Congress (APC) government. The Ekiti State PDP Publicity Secretary, Raphael Adeyanju, in a statement made available to journalists in Ado Ekiti on Monday described the three-year anniversary as a celebration of shamelessness on the part of the government. “We watch with a bemused sadness as the ruling APC government gleefully…
The Executive Governor of Zamfara State, Hon. Bello Mohammed Matawalle has received a report of the committee charged with the responsibility to register members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state. The team, which was sent to the state from the APC National Secretariat, was headed by Alhaji Ibrahim Kabir Masari. While handing over the report to the governor at the chamber of the Government House in Gusau, the state capital, Masari expressed happiness in the large turnout of members of the party for the registration, describing it as unprecedented and overwhelming. He informed the governor that the…
China on Monday said it has tested a hypersonic vehicle and not a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile as reported by a leading British newspaper which had claimed that the advanced space capability caught US intelligence by surprise. The Financial Times reported on Sunday that China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August that circled the globe before speeding towards its target, demonstrating an advanced space capability that caught US intelligence by surprise. Five people familiar with the test said that the Chinese military launched a rocket that carried a hypersonic glide vehicle which flew through low-orbit space before cruising down towards…
A socio-political group, Opomulero Osun, said it agrees with the position of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National State Congress Committee decision on parallel congress held in the state as being nothing but a political jamboree. Opomulero Osun asked Governor Gboyega Oyetola, the elders caucus and the newly-elected state executive committee to initiate genuine reconciliation with a view to uniting the party in the state ahead of the 2022 Governorship election. In a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the group, Sunday Akere, enjoined all party members with various grievances to explore dialogue in the general interest of…
Mr. Dele Akinleye, a former Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Political Matters to the immediate past Governor of Oyo State, late Abiola Ajimobi, has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairmanship race in the state. Our correspondent gathered that the APC state congress has been slated to hold on Saturday. State executive members of the party are expected to be elected on that day. InfoStride News recalls that four chieftains of the party had earlier indicated interest to contest the chairmanship position in the state. The four people are from Oke Ogun geopolitical zone of the state. They included Alhaji…
Former Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, has said Senator Samuel Anyanwu, who represented Imo East, is neither the problem of the state nor the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He said the PDP in the state is one and remains a united family driven by a common purpose. The former speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives said any attempt by fifth columnists to cause disaffection, especially among its leaders will not succeed. It was reported that leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South East on Sunday rejected what they called the imposition of Senator…
Rachael Akpabio, the secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) State Congress Committee (SCC) for Taraba State has revealed the real reason the exercise could not take place in the state. Unlike some states of the federation where the state congress were observed to have taken place, the reverse, as noticed by the media, was the case in Taraba as the exercise could not take place due to pockets of skirmishes. Explaining why the exercise was indefinitely postponed via a statement made available to newsmen in Jalingo, the state capital on Monday, the secretary of the committee said, the postponement…
Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida donated ritual offerings Sunday to a Tokyo shrine viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression, though he did not make a visit in person. Kishida donated masakaki religious ornaments to mark Yasukuni Shrine’s autumn festival. It was the first such observance by Kishida since he took office on Oct 4. Victims of Japanese aggression during the first half of the 20th century, especially Chinese and Koreans, see the shrine as a symbol of Japan’s militarism because it honours convicted World War II criminals among about 2.5 million war dead.…
Ahead of the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State, a Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to nullify the primary election of the All Progressives Congress, APC, which produced Senator Emmanuel Andy Uba as its governorship candidate. A governorship aspirant of the APC in Anambra, Chief George Moghalu in a suit on Monday alleged that the Electoral Act and APC guidelines were brazenly raped in a purportedly primary claimed to have been conducted in June this year. In the suit instituted on his behalf by Chief Chris Uche, SAN, the plaintiff who claimed to have bought a…