The Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi has ahead of the 2023 general election vowed to collaborate with Ohanaeze Ndigbo, especially its youth wing, to make the southeast zone, the most peaceful region in Nigeria. Umahi noted that only peace and unity can earn the region their future ambition and that there will be greater development and progress in all parts of Igbo land if peace is given chance. Umahi made this known while addressing the members of the All Progressive Congress, APC, during a solidarity rally organized in honour of the National youth leader of Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide, Engr…
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Mr Valentine Ozigbo, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Nov. 6 Anambra governorship election, has described his candidacy as divine, following his re-listing by INEC. Ozigbo spoke while addressing party faithful in Awka upon his return from Abuja. Ozigbo had suffered a setback when INEC’s candidates list released on July 16 did not contain his name because his rival, Mr Ugochukwu Uba, was also claiming to be the party’s candidate. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ozigbo returned from Abuja where the Court of Appeal ordered INEC to list him as the PDP candidate. Ozigbo,…
Japan can now give defence equipment and technology to Vietnam under an agreement signed on Saturday, as the two countries step up their military cooperation amid worries about China’s growing military influence. Japan’s Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said the deal elevates their defence partnership to a new level and that Japan and Vietnam plan to deepen defence ties through multinational joint exercises and other means. Details about the transfer of specific equipment, including naval vessels, will be worked out in subsequent talks, the ministry said. Kishi’s meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart, Phan Van Giang, in Hanoi coincided with a two-day…
Last Friday’s gruesome murder of the former traditional ruler of Mkpunando community in Anambra East LGA, Alex Edozieuno and his driver, Chukwuemeka has triggered an altercation between the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). APC had raised the alarm over plots by some top government functionaries in the state, to eliminate selected leaders of the party, claiming that the late Edozieuno was also its member. But the APGA in its reply through the state governor, Willie Obiano Accused the APC of politicizing the death of the former monarch. In a press conference by the Director-General…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State has announced the expulsion of forty-one (41) members from the party. This is following their alleged violation of the provision of the party’s constitution. Those affected include a former Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Hon. Eugene Odo, former military governor, Group Capt. Joe Orji, a former Deputy Governorship candidate of the party in the State, Prince Chikwado Chukwunta, Gen. J.O.J Okoloagu, a former Reps member, Chukwuemeka Ujam and several others. Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee in the State, Dr. Ben Nwoye announced this when he addressed journalists on…
A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ekiti State, Bunmi Adeyanju has charged members of the newly constituted convention and zoning committees of the party to justify the confidence reposed in them by giving every member a level playing ground. Adeyanju stated this while reacting to the list of zoning and convention committees recently released by the party. Three of the leaders of PDP in Ekiti State, Senator Biodun Olujimi, Former Governor Ayodele Fayose and Senator Duro Faseyi made the committee list. Adeyanju expressed confidence in the calibre of people who made the list from Ekiti State, especially…
Supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Saturday protested the Kaduna State Electoral Commission’s declaration of the just concluded council election in the area inconclusive. The protesters invaded the KADSIECOM office in Kaduna where women, nursing mothers and youths gave a 24-hour ultimatum for the electoral body to reverse its decision and declared the APC candidate, Yunana Barde, winner of the poll. Recall that the Chairman, KADSIECOM, Dr Saratu Dikko-Audu, had on Friday, declared Jaba, Jema’a, Soba and Kachia local government areas in the state where the council poll took place…
Japan minister in charge of vaccines, Taro Kono, led a public opinion poll on who should succeed Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Kono had 27% support in the poll by the Nikkei newspaper and TV Tokyo that asked who would be “the right person” to lead the party and become the next prime minister. The results of the Sept. 9-11 poll were released on Saturday. Former LDP Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba was next with 17%, and ex-policy chief Fumio Kishida was third with 14%. Former Interior Minister Sanae Takaichi was fifth with 7%. Kono,…
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Coker-Aguda Local Council, Alfred Olayemi Thomas has described the ruling by the elections tribunal as a great miscarriage of justice and has vowed to upturn it at the Appeal’s tribunal. The former All Progressives Congress (APC), House of Representatives aspirant, Surulere Constituency II in 2018, and strong political ally of both the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwolu and Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Thomas, said that what happened at the elections tribunal was a ‘sham’. A statement made available to The Guardian, read in parts: “Despite the loads of…
The Association of Anambra State Development Unions (AASDU) Lagos has concluded plans to host the candidates of the participating political parties in the November 6, 2021, Anambra governorship election. President of AASDU Lagos, Chief Amechi Ebeledike, disclosed this at a press conference last Thursday in Lagos. According to him, the event tagged Nzuko Umunna would hold on Saturday, October 9, 2021, at Colonades Hotels, Ikoyi, Lagos. He explained that the platform would provide the candidates with the opportunity to interact with the major influential stakeholders in the Anambra Project and by extension connect with the grassroots. He said the event…
You may recall that at our last meeting held on 17th June 2021, we focused mainly on the resumption of the nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR). More specifically, we discussed the schedule for the exercise as well as the Commission’s proposal for a two-tier online and in-person or physical registration of voters. We also presented to you two technology-driven innovations to facilitate the CVR exercise in the form of a portal for online pre-registration of voters as well as the new INEC Voter Enrolment Device (IVED) for physical registration. Since the resumption of the CVR online on 28th June 2021,…
The governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) say they are working together for the party to present a unified force in the 2023 general elections. Chairman of PDP Governors Forum, Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, disclosed this on Wednesday night while briefing newsmen after the forum meeting held in Abuja. Tambuwal said that the closed-door meeting on the party’s forthcoming national convention which started around 3 p.m., was very fruitful. “We have been meeting since 3 p.m., meeting for about 7hours. Very fruitful deliberation. “You must have seen that we received leaders of our party…
India and Australia on Saturday dismissed criticism that Quad was a sort of an ‘Asian NATO’ with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar asserting that it is important not to “misrepresent” the reality. The assertion came at a joint press event after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajath Singh held the inaugural ‘two-plus-two’ dialogue here with their Australian counterparts Marise Payne and Peter Dutton. Asked about Quad being referred to as an ‘Asian NATO’, Jaishankar said,”we call ourselves Quad and Quad is a platform where four countries have come to cooperate for their benefit and for the benefit…
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State, Mr. Valentine Ozigbo, has said Anambra people must rise now to rescue their state. Ozigbo, who was addressing party supporters in Anambra State, during a reception by members of his party to welcome him to the state, after his recent victory at the Court of Appeals in Abuja, which led to his name being published as the candidate of the party by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said the state has collapsed. The candidate said: “Entering Anambra, I had first-hand experience of the…
The Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has admitted that the agitations of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, would affect the chances of the Southeast producing a Nigerian president in 2023. Dimm Uche Okwukwu, Deputy President-General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, said Kanu’s directive that his followers should not participate in voters registration and destroy their Personal Voters Card, PVCs, would jeopardize the chance of the Igbo producing a Nigerian president. Speaking exclusively with the media, Okwukwu, urged Nigerians not to mirror Igbos from the eye of Kanu and IPOB. Okwukwu maintained that Igbos are peace loving people…
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the state has nothing to do with the 2023 elections. Uzodinma said Buhari was simply on a working visit. The governor, who stated this while appearing on Channels Television, said Buhari commissioned projects while in the state. “Our people came out to receive the president who visited Imo State in solidarity with the governor of Imo State. It has nothing to do with the 2023 election or politics. “We only received the president who came on a working visit, commissioned projects and had an interaction with us,”…
The Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KADSIECOM) on Friday, declared the September 4 local government elections in some local government areas in the state inconclusive. The local governments are Jaba, Kauru Jema’a, Kachia, Soba LGAs Local Government elections were held in 19 local governments areas of Kaduna State. Four other local government areas were postponed Chairman of KADSIECOM, Dr. Saratu Binta Dikko-Audu disclosed this at a press briefing in Kaduna on Friday She said those results are inconclusive because elections could not be held in some wards. In the case of Jaba LGA however, she said that the tribunal would…
Japan’s Vaccination Minister Taro Kono has formally announced his bid to succeed Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga by joining the leadership race of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Adding to former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and former Communications Minister Sanae Takaichi, Kono is the third lawmaker to declare candidacy in the LDP’s leadership race on September 29, reports Xinhua news agency. Addressing a press conference on Friday, Kono vowed that he would focus on curbing Covid-19 while “moving Japan forward”, saying that “we have to overcome this crisis. I want to create a warm society where people can lean on…
Ahead of 2023 general elections, Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, on Friday, said the All Progressives Congress, APC, is not interested in Igbo presidency. Uzodinma spoke while dismissing claims of APC zoning its presidential ticket to the Southeast. Appearing on Channels Television, Uzodinma said APC is looking for a Nigerian president. Asked if APC is committed to zoning the 2023 presidential ticket to the South-East, he responded: “We are not looking for an Igbo President. We are looking for a President of Nigeria. “We as a party APC believe what we are practicing here is partisan democracy and every…
The Association of Local Government of Nigeria, ALGON, Abia State chapter has passed a vote of no confidence on its Chairman, Michael Ibe Nwoke over a press release alleging that there are cabals within the LG councils. However, in a statement on Friday, the association denied the allegations stating that there is no “cabalism” within the councils. The statement noted that all Local Government Councils in the State are playing their legal role, stressing that they have been partnering with the State government in delivering “good governance to the people at the grassroots. “In the Local Government system in Abia…