A group within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Oyo Progressives Front (OPF) has warned top officials of Caretaker Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party against tampering with the outcome of the just-concluded ward Congress of the party. InfoStride News recalls that the APC ward congresses were held across the country last week. The Oyo State congresses were conducted under the Chairmanship of Alhaji Gambo Lawan. OPF has, however warned officials of the party against tampering with the outcome of the congresses. The group noted that such attempt is an invitation to anarchy. Coordinator of the…
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The US President, Joe Biden on Thursday recalled an act of “unspeakable hate” by a white supremacist who shot ten people at a Sikh gurdwara in Winconsin in 2012 and urged Americans to stand up to hate and bigotry and ensure that all are able to practice their faith without fear. On August 5, 2012, a white supremacist opened fire inside the Oak Creek gurdwara in Winconsin, killing six people. “Nine years ago today, we witnessed an act of unspeakable hate as a white supremacist shot ten people at a Sikh Temple,” Biden tweeted. “As we remember those we lost…
Bukola Saraki, former Senate President, has reacted to the crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Working Committee, NWC. Saraki assured Nigerians that all efforts would be put in place to strengthen PDP NWC within 72 hours. The PDP National Leader, explained that PDP is very important to Nigerians; hence the need to resolve internal crisis. Saraki’s assurance was after the PDP Board of Trustees, BoT, had met over the crisis in the party. A committee was set up to address all crisis between PDP NWC members. During the meeting, it was agreed that the members of the constituted…
A High Court in Ukwa Judicial Division at Aba and presided by Justice C. H Ahuchaogu has issued an order of interim injunction restraining the All Progressive Congress (APC), the Ward congress committee chairman, Rt. Hon Sunny Goli, the Chairman of the Caretaker Executive Committee of the party in Abia State, Hon Donatus Nwankpa and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), by themselves, agents and privies from receiving, accepting and acting on the purported list of successful candidate for the APC ward Congresses in Abia from the Party’s National Electoral committee on Abia ward congress. This followed an exparte motion…
Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State has been accused of neglecting some All Progressives Congress (APC) members in the state, creating divisions among them. He was also accused of not yielding to appeals after several attempts at restoring peace. These accusations were levelled against him by Barrister Kolapo Alimi, a member of The Osun Progressives (TOP) in the Osun APC and a former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the Rauf Aregbesola administration, during a radio current affairs programme monitored by InfoStride News on Wednesday in Osogbo, the state capital. Alimi also alleged that Oyetola bought all ward…
The UN Security Council, under the Presidency of India, will meet on Friday to discuss the worsening security situation in Afghanistan. The decision to hold the open UNSC briefing on Afghanistan comes just a day after Afghanistan Foreign Minister Mohammed Haneef Atmar spoke with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar “to discuss convening an emergency UN Security Council Session on Afghanistan. UN #SecurityCouncil will meet on Friday, 6th August, under Indian Presidency to discuss and take stock of the situation in #Afghanistan,” India’s Permanent Representative to UN and Security Council President for the month of August Ambassador T S Tirumurti tweeted…
Sen. Seriake Dickson, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that there will be a shock in the country between now and next year because many politicians will decamp from one political party to another. The immediate past Governor of Bayelsa State spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today, on Wednesday. Dickson, who currently represents Bayelsa-West in the National Assembly, noted that Nigeria has not reached its peak with respect to the decamping season. Recall that prominent members of the main opposition PDP have switched camp to the All Progressives Congress (APC) recently with Ebonyi State Governor, Dave…
Former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has distanced himself from the travail of Uche Secondus, the party’s National Chairman. Atiku said he has no hands in the move to sack Secondus as National Chairman of PDP. The former Vice President, who spoke through his aide, Paul Ibe, reacted to speculations over his recent meeting with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, in Port Harcourt. In a statement by Ibe, Atiku explained that the meeting was aimed at reconciling aggrieved members of the party and not to sack Secondus. Atiku said he was only interested in the peace…
A stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Pro-Chancellor and Governing Board of University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Ikechi Emenike, has reacted to claims that he failed to deliver President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC during the last 2019 general elections held in Abia State. InfoStride News recalls that an APC chieftain from Abia, Kelvin Ugorji and other notable leaders of the party had slammed Emenike for failing to secure a win for the All Progressives Congress at his polling unit in the last presidential poll. They reiterated that Emenike remains suspended and must steer clear of party activities until…
Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, the presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Trust in the 2019 election, on Wednesday, defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. He made his position known in a statement titled, ‘Prominent politician, Olawepo-Hashim, pitches tent with APC,’ in Abuja. The statement quoted Olawepo-Hashim as saying that he opted for the APC to actualise his vision because the party is populated by people with whom they founded the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, together. According to him, he is now convinced about the passion of President Muhammadu Buhari to fight corruption in Nigeria even though critics have questioned the…
President Joe Biden called on Andrew Cuomo to resign after the release of a state report finding that the New York governor sexually harassed multiple women, created a “climate of fear” in his office and violated federal and state laws. Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the nation’s two most senior Democrats, on Tuesday both joined a chorus of politicians from both sides of the aisle demanding Cuomo step down. Cuomo, also a Democrat, responded defiantly earlier in the day, insisting he’d done nothing wrong and calling the probe by New York Attorney General Letitia James biased. The president said…
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has noted that the administration led by All Progressives Congress’ (APC) Adegboyega Oyetola is fast turning out to be a big disaster and an obscene embarrassment to the state. The party also stated that in their opinion, it was time for the governor to throw in the towel and tender his resignation for his lack of proactive acumen and capacity to manage the state instead of compounding the woes foisted on it in recent years. In a press release signed by Ayodeji Areola, the state Publicity Secretary of the party,…
The State Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State, led by Mr Ndubuisi Nwobu, has returned after the judgment of the Court of Appeal on Monday, reinstating it. The Nwobu-led committee had been dissolved by the national leadership of the party, following a court judgment in a suit instituted by Mr Samuel Anyakorah, which challenged the leadership. But the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, in a judgement last weekend, reinstated the Nwobu-led executive, thereby validating the candidature of Mr Valentine Ozigbo, who emerged from a primary election conducted by the party, against Senator Ugochukwu Uba, who…
The leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Wednesday, warned the All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the 2023 presidential election. Primate Ayodele revealed that the APC will lose the presidential election if the economic and security challenges faced by the country at the moment was not addressed immediately. In a statement by his Media Office, the clergy man said Nigerians were tired with APC and that the “only way the party can redeem its image is by working on the many issues faced by the country or else, the presidential seat will be lost gallantly in…
The Zamfara State Governor, Bello Mohammed Matawalle, has officially received the membership card of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Maradun. A leader of the APC National Registration Committee in the state, Ibrahim Masari, presented the membership card to the governor after answering questions on his personal data contained in the form. According to him, with the official registration of the governor in the APC, he has become a full-fledged member of the party. Also commenting on Matawalle’s registration, Secretary of the State Caretaker Committee, Professor Abdulahi Shinkafi, said that the committee has prepared fully to ensure successful distribution of…
Embattled Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin refused to resign Wednesday after a key ally pulled support for him, but said he will seek a vote of confidence in Parliament next month to prove his legitimacy to govern. Shortly after a meeting with King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah at the palace, Muhyiddin said in a national broadcast that he had been informed by the monarch that eight lawmakers from a key party in his ruling alliance had withdrawn support for him. The party, the United Malays National Organization, is the largest in the alliance with 38 lawmakers, but it is…
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has claimed the rejection of electronic transmission of election results by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led National Assembly, was tantamount to a coup against Nigerians. Wike made this comment during the official presentation of the nomination letter of ‘2020 Governor of the Year Award’ which was given to him by the management of the Leadership Media Group at the Government House, Port Harcourt. According to him, President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure to convince APC lawmakers to support the inclusion of electronic transmission of election results in the Electoral Act was proof of a plot…
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Governors Forum, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has warned detractors to leave the party alone, while calling for calm within the party’s fold. In a statement on Tuesday through his Special Adviser Media and Publicity, Muhammad Bello, Tambuwal was reacting to the resignation of the seven national officials of the PDP. Tambuwal who is the Governor of Sokoto state assured party stalwarts and followers that the PDP Governors Forum has never been detached from the myriads of challenges the party faces. He also maintained that all the governors under the party have been doing their…
The expanded caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday, passed a vote of confidence in Governor Samuel Ortom and reaffirmed support for him as the leader of the party in the State. State Chairman of the PDP, Sir John Ngbede moved a motion for the vote of confidence in the Governor and was chorused by all other caucus members in the affirmative. Sir Ngbede stated at the New Banquet Hall of the Benue Peoples House Makurdi that the PDP has total confidence in the ability of the Governor to lead the party to victory in the 2023 general…
The All Progressives Congress, Akwa Ibom State chapter, has suspended 17 local government caretaker chairmen of the party and two other members over alleged anti-party activities. The State Caretaker Chairman of the party, Dr Ita Udosen announced this on Tuesday in a press briefing in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital. Dr Udosen condemned the actions of the 17 LG Caretaker Chairmen who took part in a press engagement where a vote of no confidence was passed against the State Working Committee on the 31st of July 2021. Dr. Udosen said, “The State Working Committee deliberated extensively on the case…