India and Pakistan need to work with each other to resolve their bilateral issues, the United States has said, observing that it had always encouraged the two neighbours to build a more stable relationship going forward. “With regard to India-Pakistan, I would just note that we strongly believe that India and Pakistan’s issues are ones for them to work out between themselves,” Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Dean Thompson told reporters during a conference call here. “We are pleased to see that the ceasefire that went into place earlier this year is – has…
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Assailed by knotty legal challenges and possibility that it may not feature on the ballot in the forthcoming Anambra State gubernatorial poll, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has initiated talks aimed at adopting an alternative political platform. InfoStride News gathered that the move is aimed at beating the July 30 deadline for withdrawal and replacement of candidates; and August 6 deadline for submission of nomination forms (EC13B) by political parties for the November 6 governorship poll in the state. A chieftain of the party, told the media in Abuja, yesterday, that the party has been looking into issues surrounding the…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the schedule for the activities of the 2021 congresses of the party in nine states. The states are Lagos, Oyo, Adamawa, Kebbi, Borno, Kogi, Osun, Kwara and Ebonyi. Kola Ologbondiyan, the party’s spokesperson, noted that the tenure of executives of the aforementioned states, in line with section 47(1) of the party’s constitution (as amended), will be expiring, having been elected in 2017. According to the statement, the congresses in Kogi state will hold only in wards and local government level, while in Osun state, congresses will hold…
The Chairman, Ojo Local Government, Mr Rosulu Idowu, has been re-elected with 9,111 votes in Saturday’s local government poll in Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Idowu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, defeated Oniyide Olajide of the PDP, who got 1,526 votes. Returning Officer, Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), Mr Segun Ege, said that Idowu, having complied with the requirements of the election, had been and thus returned. “I Ege Olusegun Adebisi, certify that I was the Local Government Returning Officer for the election held on the 24th July 2021 for the election was contested.…
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has revoked over 18 hectres of farmland belonging to the the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate at the September 19, 2020 governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu. A letter sent through the Edo Geographic Information Service (EdoGIS) dated 22 July 2021 and signed by the Chief Registrar, Titles and Instrument, Mrs Nora Ohiwerei, for the Managing Director, read; “I am directed to inform you that the Edo state Governor, Mr. Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki has formally revoked the statutory right on all that parcel of land measuring approximately 18.0736 hectares in Amagba village area.” The said land has…
China blamed the US for what it called a stalemate in bilateral relations as high-level face-to-face talks began Monday in the Chinese city of Tianjin. Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng urged the US to change its highly misguided mindset and dangerous policy, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The China-US relationship is in a stalemate because some Americans portray China as an imagined enemy, Xinhua quoted Xie as telling US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman. America’s No. 2 diplomat is discussing the fraught relationship between the countries in separate meetings with Xie, who is in charge of US-China relations,…
Aminu Tambuwal, Sokoto State Governor and Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, has said that the party is the only hope Nigeria has to salvage it from its current challenges, assuring that it will bounce back in 2023. He said this on Sunday at a grand reception held at the Government House, Bauchi, in honour of the PDP governors who are in the state capital for a meeting. Tambuwal said that it was obvious that it was only the PDP that had the solution to the various challenges the country is currently facing. Represented by Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku…
The low turnout recorded during Saturday’s local government elections in Ogun State has continued to generate reactions from stakeholders in the state. A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olumide Jones, has described voter apathy across the councils as a bad signal for democracy. Jones, in a chat with the media, expressed worry that the people of Ogun State were not interested in choosing who would govern them at the grassroots level. This, he said, could be attributed to the failure of those elected into power to ensure the people enjoy the dividends of democracy. The Information Technology specialist noted…
A former councillor of Ipokia Ward 1, Hon. Wale Agbetokun of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared winner of Saturday’s chairmanship election in Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State. This is as the APC defeated other political parties to claim all the 20 chairmanship seats in the Gateway State. According to the Chairman of the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC), Babatunde Osibodu, Agbetokun polled 22,607 votes to emerge winner of the council poll in Ipokia. Agbetokun, who is fondly addressed as Onikoyi, had no opposition in the election. InfoStride News reports that the Publisher of Uhuru…
A former Rivers State governorship candidate of the African Action Congress, Biokpomabo Awara, has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Awara announced his defection to the APC at the commissioning of the new state secretariat in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Recall that the former AAC candidate was adopted by the APC as its candidate after the latter was disqualified by the Supreme Court from fielding candidates during the 2019 general election in Rivers State. Addressing the crowd at the event on Saturday, the former governorship candidate thanked the Minister of Transportation Rotimi Ameachi for giving him the “privilege”…
On Monday, when Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be on his way to India, his deputy, Wendy Sherman, will be in China representing the interests of the US and its allies during talks with Beijing’s top diplomats delivering a tough US message that it will act to defend its interests, according to senior administration officials. “The deputy secretary is going to represent the US interests and values and those of our allies and partners. We’re going to do it honestly and directly,” a senior official said on Saturday. “We’re redefining this relationship… not going to be afraid to take…
A caucus group in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osun State chapter, the Osun Progressives (TOP) has proclaimed that the current state leadership of the party as presently constituted will make “nonsense” of the laudable intention of the National Secretariat to have consensus arrangement in the coming Congress. The group comprises loyalists of the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, who is the former governor of the state for two terms. The chairman of the group, Reverend Adelowo Adebiyi made this observation in a press release on Saturday. He claimed that only a political novice will believe that the good intentions…
Ahead of 2023 general elections, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, has disclosed that only God would decide his successor. Ikpeazu assured people of the state that he would be neutral in the decision of who succeeds him as governor. The governor, however, pointed out that he would prefer a successor with passion, humility and selflessness. Speaking in Aba, the state capital, the governor explained that such qualities would enable him to create a platform that will engender participation from all kinds of people including the youth, women, disabled and downtrodden. He recalled how nobody gave him a chance in…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State has disclosed that there will be no automatic ticket for any aspirant for the party’s ward congress. The Abia APC said every member of the party is eligible to contest for any position of his choice in the forthcoming ward congress, adding that no member of the past executive is exempted from participating in the forthcoming exercise. Hon Donatus Nwankpa, the Chairman of the party in Abia State disclosed this in Umuahia, the state capital, insisting that the party leadership will not zone its governorship ticket to any bloc or senatorial zone…
The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has derided the State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, for celebrating the inauguration of cemetery as his only achievement after almost four years in office, claiming that the governor wants to provide enough burial space for the victims of his bad policies. The Ekiti State PDP Publicity Secretary, Raphael Adeyanju in a statement made available to journalists in Ado Ekiti on Friday, said that the government wants to profit from the high mortality rate occasioned by insecurity and bad economic policy of the APC controlled administration, both at the state and the…
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called for “a new coexistence” of all the countries of the Americas after stating that the model imposed more than two centuries ago “is exhausted; it has no future”. The Mexican President on Saturday proposed that Latin American states do “something similar to the European Union, but attached to our history, our reality and our identities”, reports Xinhua news agency. Lopez Obrador made his comments on the 238th anniversary of the birth of Simon Bolivar at Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City, during the 21st Foreign Ministers meeting of the Community of Latin American and…
A youth group, Youths Off The Street Initiative (YOTSI), has said that the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the Anambra governorship election, Mr Valentine Ozigbo is being victimized by corrupt judiciary officials. The Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), led by its coordinator, Mr Kennedy Iyere in a press statement he signed, based his submission on the recent court judgment ordering the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to enlist Senator Ugochukwu Uba as candidate of PDP, against Ozigbo, who was elected by the party. Uba and Ozigbo had emerged as candidates of the PDP for the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State from…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Emeka Kalu, has slammed the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, over comments on ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. Recall that Governor Nasir El-Rufai had severally criticized Jonathan’s administration for being incompetent and weak in tackling terrorism. The Kaduna Governor also adduced that all the technical advice given to Jonathan was refused. In a statement sent to newsmen on Sunday, Kalu, a former governorship aspirant in Abia State, opined that under Jonathan, insurgency was resisted with all apparatus within the reach of the government to tackle the ugly trend. He lamented that…
A political party, Action Alliance (AA), has condemned the position of the 9th Senate for standing against electronic transmission of election results. It said the decision by the senators concerning the recent move is anti-people and will cost most of the senators, who voted against the reform, their seats come 2023 general election. Senators, majority of the All Progressive Congress (APC), had voted against the transmission of election results electronically last week, against senators from the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party(PDP) who voted in favour of the reform. Hon Adekunle Rufia Omeaje, National Chairman of AA, made this assertion in Benin…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to redeem itself by recognizing ‘legitimate’ candidate of the party in the November 6 governorship election. National Chairman of the party, Mr Victor Oye, who made the call Saturday while briefing newsmen in Abuja, said that there was only one APGA, which was led by him, with Labaran Maku as National Secretary. INEC had originally received the names of Charles Soludo and his running mate, Mr Onyekachi Ibezim as candidates of APGA. However, citing a court ruling, the electoral umpire dropped the names and replaced them…