Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike has accused the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government of plotting to rig the 2023 general elections by nominating presidential aide, Lauretta Onochie as a National Commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The Governor, who made the accusation in Port Harcourt during the presentation of his scorecard as Governor for six years, said despite the protest by Nigerians against the nomination of Onochie, the National Assembly appears determined to confirm her nomination. He said the move is a plot of the grand design of the APC to rig the 2023 elections. Governor Wike therefore…
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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday in Abuja kickstarted its move to unseat Zamfara State Governor, Bello Muhammad Matawalle, at the Federal High Court over alleged unlawful defection. Also slated for removal from office is the Deputy Governor of the state, Alhaji Mahadi Aliyu Gusau, over the same issue. The party asked the court to sack the Governor and his Deputy over their unlawful defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The request forms part of the reliefs being sought in a suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/489/2021, filed in the names of two PDP members from Zamfara State, Alhaji Sani Kaura…
It is no more business as usual as the Lagos State House of Assembly has passed a bill stopping the parade of suspects before the media. The amended Criminal Justice Law of Lagos state, newly passed on Monday, now bars police, henceforth from parading suspect. Deputy Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Wasiu Eshinlokun-Sanni on behalf of the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, passed the bill. Here are five major things all Lagos residents and visitors should know about the new law. No more parading of suspect by police Unlike the case of Chidinma Ojukwu and other suspects in the…
Nepal’s Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the dissolved House of Representatives for a second time in nearly five months, delivering a major blow to Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli who is currently heading a minority government after losing a trust vote in the House. A five-member Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court on Monday also ordered appointment of Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba as prime minister within two days. The bench led by Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana had concluded hearings in the case last week. The bench comprised four other senior most justices — Dipak Kumar Karki,…
Prof. Attahiru Jega, a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has kicked against the nomination of presidential aide, Lauretta Onochie, as INEC’s National Commissioner. Protests have greeted the nomination of Onochie as commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by President Muhammadu Buhari. Although she admitted that she was a member of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) before the 2019 general elections, Onochie during her screening by the Senate Committee on Thursday, denied being a member of any political party in Nigeria at the moment. However, Jega in an interview with Channels TV on Sunday,…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed the Governors of Lagos and Kwara, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman to lead reconciliation efforts in Anambra. This followed the dispute over the outcome of the June 26 primary election which took place at Golden Tulip Hotel, Agulu Lake in Awka. Ogun Governor Dapo Abiodun chaired the committee. Andy Uba defeated 13 other aspirants to emerge as the flagbearer. In a statement, APC National Secretary, John Akpan Udoedehe said Sanwo-Olu and Abdulrazaq were tasked to unify and strengthen the party ahead of November 6 election. They are to bring together all the aspirants…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State has claimed that Lauretta Onochie, Social Media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, is not a card carrying member of the party. The party further asked the Senate to ignore the protests and plethora of petitions against Onochie’s nomination. Protests have greeted the nomination of Onochie as commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by President Mohammadu Buhari. The APC described as fictitious and frivolous petition from a senatorial district in Delta State which has vehemently opposed her nomination because she is Anioma daughter. In a communiqué at the end of a…
President Xi Jinping, who assiduously built the image of being “core” leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), is frustrated with the officials for waiting for his instructions before acting, according to a recently published book by the ruling party. The book, published by the CPC Central Party Literature Press last month, for the first time made public Xi’s angry remarks, providing a rare glimpse into his meetings which otherwise were shrouded in secrecy. Xi, 68, had expressed frustration over the lack of initiative among officials at an internal meeting in January and complained that too many waited for…
The caretaker committee chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ebonyi State, Fred Udeogu, at the weekend vowed that the forthcoming PDP Congresses will be conducted without rancour, crisis or sidelining of chieftains of the party. Udeogu made this known while interacting with newsmen in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state, wherein he said the Congresses of the party will be free, fair and credible. According to him: “By November last year, the governor defected to APC and national organ of PDP dissolved the entire structure of the party in Ebonyi and constituted a caretaker committee to hold on the…
Zamfara State Deputy Governor, Barrister Mahadi Aliyu Gusau, on Sunday, held a closed-door meeting with the leaders of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) across the 14 Local Government Areas of the State. The meeting, which was held at the deputy Governor’s residence in Gusau, the state capital, focused on how to strengthen the party in the State following the recent defection of the State Governor, Hon. Bello Mohammed Matawalle and his cabinet members to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Briefing newsmen shortly after the meeting, the Deputy Governor said the meeting became very imperative in order…
A socio-political group, the Peoples Democratic Party Coalition (PDPCO), has written to the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, for an urgent need to constitute a harmonization drive to address the pressing problems confronting the party with particular reference to mass exodus of members to the All Progressive Congress (APC). In a letter signed by its National Coordinator, Chief Emeka Kalu, and addressed to Chief Uche Secondus, the PDP Coalition stated that the party leadership needs to take swift action to save the party’s successfully achieved blueprints from hitting the wall due to misguided happenings…
A member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Grace Folashade Jackson Bent was on Saturday formally received into the opposition party in Adamawa State, the All Progressives Congress, APC. The female Senator was welcomed by the National Chairman, extraordinary caretaker committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), His Excellency, Mai Mala Buni, represented by a former Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani. The APC Chieftain from the South-East said Bent was the first female Senator to formally decamp to the APC because she considered the party to be a moving train. Nnamani said, “APC…
US President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as his ambassador to India. If confirmed by the Senate, Garcetti, 50, would replace Kenneth Juster, who served as India’s Ambassador to the US during the Trump administration. Early this week, Juster was appointed as distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Announcing the nomination along with several other ambassadors, the White House said Eric M Garcetti has been the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles since 2013, following 12 years as a member of the City Council, including six as Council President. As Mayor, Garcetti…
A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to penalize Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for allegedly turning project commissioning into an unlawful campaign. In a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday, Eze, a former national spokesman of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), said Wike has continued to carry on with political rallies round the state inviting national figures and using the avenue to speak ill of President Mohammadu Buhari and the ruling APC in disregard for the law regulating political and electoral activities. He opined…
Deji Adeyanju, a popular Nigerian activist has disclosed that Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, stands a better chance to clinch the party’s presidential ticket, ahead of 2023. Deji Adeyanju explained that Tinubu has the backing of most APC governors and Senators. In a tweet, he noted that Tinubu’s wide support within the party structure was responsible for the delay of APC’s national Congress. The convener of Concerned Nigerians also claimed that both the APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, plans to field a Northern presidential candidate in 2023. According to Adeyanju: “Both APC and…
The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Ayodele, has warned Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, against contesting for president in 2023. Primate Ayodele warned that Tinubu’s handling of Nigeria would be a disaster and a disgrace to the current and next generation. He spoke on Saturday in his church during the launch of the 2021 edition of his annual book “Warning to the Nations.” The clergyman also disclosed that the APC would not give the former Lagos State governor its presidential ticket in 2023. Primate Ayodele claimed Tinubu is one of the problems of…
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) says it was shocked to realise that a letter it wrote to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on congresses leaked. The party’s letter dated July 6, 2021 and signed by Chairman and Secretary of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni and Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, was addressed to INEC Chairman. The letter said the party had rescheduled its congresses. In a statement signed by Akpanudoedehe said,”The document in circulation does not intend a postponement of the congresses. “How it leaked from INEC is strange. It is to cure the…
Most Hong Kongers are doubtful about their future under the Chinese imposed national security law which has left a “chilling effect” on people of the territory since its passage in June 2020, according to reports. Quoting Mainland Affairs Council, Taipei Times reported that over 60 per cent of people expressed doubts about their future under the draconian law which was imposed in June last year. In a report marking the 24th anniversary of the territory’s handover to China, the council said that the US-based Freedom House in March gave Hong Kong the worst rating in the history of its Freedom…
Akachukwu Nwankpo, governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Anambra, has selected a Pastor, Lawrence Ughammadu, as his running mate. Harris Chuma-Odili, Director General, Publicity and Strategy of the campaign made the announcement. He said Ughammadu was nominated by the party after careful considerations and deliberations within the hierarchy. Chuma-Odili described the running mate as a distinguished man of God, youth advocate, social critic and philanthropist. The spokesman said Nwankpo had an option to pick whoever he wanted but chose to involve the party in deciding who to run with. “Pastor Lawrence got the nod because he is…
The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Ayodele has made prophecies on the fate of Ifeanyi Ubah, candidate of Young Progressive Party, YPP. The cleric asked Ifeanyi Ubah to pray that confusion rocks the boat of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for him to become the next governor of Anambra State. Primate Ayodele said the only way Ubah can win the election is if APGA fails to put its house in order. The cleric spoke at the launch of his annual book of Prophecy titled, ‘Warnings to the Nations, on Saturday. In a statement by his Media Office, Ayodele…