French President Emmanuel Macron met here on Friday with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as France took over the rotating six-month Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). At a press conference, Macron outlined the French Presidency’s agenda and said that Paris will focus on promoting the EU in the international community, pushing the digital transformation and protecting the EU’s external borders, Xinhua news agency reported. Von der Leyen recalled the solidarity between European countries during the pandemic. She said that over 70 per cent of the EU’s adult population have now been fully vaccinated against…
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Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, has expressed the belief that Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State will defeat Atiku Abubakar, ex-Peoples Democratic Party, presidential candidate, in 2023 if the duo contested. Fani-Kayode claimed Bello would make an excellent president because the governor would appeal to youths in the country. He made the remark while speaking with Channels Television on Friday. Asked if the Kogi Governor could defeat Atiku during the presidential election in 2023, Fani-Kayode said: “Why not? He will defeat him hands down. “I believe Governor Yahaya Bello. I believe that he will be an excellent president. I believe…
The Director General of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Dr. Lukman Salihu has called on the Chairman of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) and the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni to resign honourably if he fails to conduct the party’s convention tentatively slated for February. He said party leaders must understand that the survival of the party was at stake and any attempt to continue to contemplate postponement of the convention meant gambling with the future of the party. Lukman’s demand for Buni’s resignation was made known in a letter dated January 5, 2022 titled, “APC National…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Imo State chapter has urged Senator Rochas Okorocha, a former governor of Imo State to consider the option of resigning as a Senator representing Imo West having shown unpardonable incompetence. The party hinged its call for Okorocha’s resignation on what it described as poor and dismal performance in the Senate. The state chairman of APC, Hon Macdonald Ebere stated this in a statement signed by Cajetan Duke, the Publicity Secretary of the party in the State. The ruling APC said, “Imo people have had enough of Okorocha and his family, who they consider as unfit…
Joseph Odok of the University of Calabar has flayed Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross River State, for declaring that the All Progressives Congress, APC, gubernatorial race will be zoned to the southern senatorial district of the state. In a statement released in Calabar, Odok said such pronouncement in favour of the south will hit the rocks, adding that the governor is standing alone in his pronouncement. According to the university don, Ayade made the pronouncement at his “whims and caprices” without consultation with any stakeholder in APC. “The party is surely more than Gov Ayade. I have spoken to some…
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has invited President Joe Biden to deliver his first State of the Union address on March 1. “Indeed, this past year has been historic: with the life-saving American Rescue Plan, once-in-a-century Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and, soon, the truly transformational Build Back Better Act,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to Biden. “In that spirit, I am writing to invite you to address a Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday, March 1, to share your vision of the State of the Union,” Pelosi wrote. During his address to a joint session of Congress last April, Biden rolled…
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Jigawa State, has backed the presidential ambition of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. Chairman of Jigawa State chapter of the PDP, Hon. Babandi Ibrahim Gumel, stated this when he received the delegation of technical committee of Atiku 2023 campaign organization in PDP headquarters, Dutse. He said Atiku Abubakar has no problem in Jigawa State under the leadership of PDP chieftain and former governor of the state, Sule Lamido. “Atiku has no problem in Jigawa, especially that he is a friend to our leader (Lamido) and we understand that…
Zamfara State has reportedly turned to a political battlefield between Governor Bello Matawalle’s faction and Senator Kabiru Marafa’s faction of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The ruling party is also reported to be embroiled in controversy with the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The war of words between chieftains in the APC has now resulted in an alleged gang up against Governor Matawalle by Marafa’s faction of the APC and the PDP side. In a reaction, the spokesman of Marafa’s faction of the APC, Bello Bakyasuwa Maradun said his group jumped into the ongoing controversy in the…
Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, has described as timely, the warning by President Muhammadu Buhari on the need for All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders to put their house in order or else lose power to the opposition in 2023. Recall that Buhari had taken to an interview anchored by the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Thursday, to warn that PDP stands a better chance to clinch power in the forthcoming general elections if differences, disunity and lack of agreement, persists within the APC. Lalong, who doubles as Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum corroborated the President, shortly after they met at…
The leadership of the youth wing of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Southwest has vowed to take legal actions against the Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, in Ondo State, Kennedy Peretei over allegations made against Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s son, Babajide. While giving the PDP’s scribe seven days to publish his proof that Babajide had been using proxy companies to siphon funds from the state coffers, the youth leader said Peretei had been untruthful with his claims. The PDP Publicity Secretary had on Sunday claimed that Babajide had been using proxy companies to collect contracts and loot…
President Joe Biden forcefully blamed Donald Trump and his supporters for holding a dagger at the throat of democracy with election lies that sparked last year’s deadly assault on the US Capitol, using the anniversary of the attack to warn that America’s system of government remains under urgent threat. The president Thursday set the tone on a day of remembrance that brought fiery speeches, moments of silence and anguished accounts from lawmakers recalling the terrifying hours of Jan 6, 2021, when the Trump mob laid siege to the Capitol and rioters tried to stop the routine, ceremonial certification of election…
Senator Orji Uzor Kalu says President Muhammadu Buhari may surprise the people of South-East ahead of 2023. Kalu spoke on Thursday in his Camp Neya country home in Igbere, during a meeting with members of his political structures in Abia. The lawmaker noted that Buhari’s single biggest capital project is being constructed in the South-East. He described the N369billion second Niger Bridge as the current administration’s costliest. The Senate Chief Whip urged Igbos to have faith in the President and support the All Progressives Congress (APC) government. “The President still has 17 months in office and has a role to…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to perish the thoughts of presenting any candidate as his successor in 2023. PDP warned that Nigerians don’t need Buhari to decide his successor in 2023. Buhari had given reason he won’t name his successor now. The President said he would keep the name of the person to himself because the person might be assassinated. Reacting, PDP said Nigerians would firmly resist any presidential candidate Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, would field in 2023. In a series of tweets on its verified Twitter handle, PDP wrote: “The @OfficialPDPNig…
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola has expressed his interest to contest for a second term in office. Governor Oyetola, who made this known, Thursday, during an unscheduled visit to the meeting of the Osun State Council of Traditional Rulers in Osogbo, declared that his intention to run for a second term was part of efforts to consolidate on the good works and appreciable performance of his administration. While seeking the blessings of the monarchs, the Osun Governor appealed to them to persist in their prayers for the success of his administration. He noted that their prayers had been the driving…
The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has predicted that the corporate existence of the country may come to an end if the north retains power in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Speaking during a sermon at the adoration ground in Enugu State, the popular Catholic priest warned President Muhammadu Buhari against planning to hand over power to the north. According to Mbaka, the Northerners should forget about leadership in the coming political era, saying there may be a disaster if the north tries to impose the next President on Nigerians. He said, “The issue…
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said he has not yet thought about an extension to Chief of the Army Staff Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa’s tenure as there is still time for his term to end, according to a media report on Friday. Talking about the contentious issue of the extension in Bajwa’s tenure, Prime Minister Khan said that he enjoyed an unprecedented relationship with the military leadership, the Dawn newspaper reported. The current year has just started and November is far away. Then why there is worry about extension in the tenure of the army chief, the prime minister…
The year 2021 was an eventful political year which witnessed a burst of activities that will remain evergreen in Imo’s political calendar. InfoStride News correspondent compiled some of these issues and events that shaped the heartland State’s politics and made it an unforgettable political year. Dramatic Imo Assembly: impeachment of two Speakers in 12 months and suspension of lawmakers: In the last 12 months, Imo political space, especially the State House of Assembly stayed in the scene almost all year round and witnessed the swearing in of three Speakers within a space of one year. At first, former Speaker, Hon.Chiji…
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, an All Progressives Congress group has called for the sack of the Director-General of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Alhaji Salihu Moh Lukman. The group, which operates under the aegis of All Progressives Congress Youth Development and Solidarity Forum (APC-YDSF) accused the DG of harbouring selfish interest that favours the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying if he.was not sacked immediately, the ruling party must be ready to face its consequences. In a statement, which was signed by its Secretary-General, Hon. Tobias Ogbeh and made available to the media on Thursday in Abuja, the group…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s tagging of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP as a failure. InfoStride News recalls that President Buhari, during an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, said what comes to his mind when the acronym, PDP is mentioned, is failure. Reacting, Governor Ortom in a statement issued on Thursday by his Chief Press Secretary, Nathaniel Ikyur said it is the ruling All Progressives Congress that failed Nigerians by retrogressing the affairs of the nation. He said, “as a critical stakeholder of the PDP, this is completely false. If anyone has…
A public commentator in Zamfara State, Ahmad Bakare has said the threading of words between the ruling APC in the state and the opposition PDP has opened the eyes of Zamfara people to what has been going on within the circle of the state government. In an exclusive interview with Newsmen in Gusau, the public commentator said citizens all along were kept in total darkness regarding the expenses of the state government. He said the state PDP spokesperson, Professor Kabiru Umar Jabaka knew about the monumental corruption rocking the state government and refused to open up until he was short…