The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the immediate amendment of the new Petroleum Industry Act Bill recently approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. Recall that Buhari on Monday signed the Petroleum Industry Bill 2021 into law. This was confirmed in a statement signed by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, and sent to the media. According to the statement, the ceremonial part of the new legislation will be done on Wednesday after the days of mandatory isolation would have been fulfilled. Reacting, the party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola…
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Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has admitted that the All Progressives Congress, APC, may not get as many votes as they polled in the 2015 and 2019 elections, in 2023, as President Muhammadu Buhari will not be on the ballot. Osinbajo feels Buhari’s personality attracted the bulk of the votes APC got during the polls. The vice president has now urged the youth arm of the party to put in work in building a stronger membership base from the grassroots. He stated this when he received a delegation of the APC National Youth Lobby Group, at the Presidential Villa to present…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of grossly disobeying his late father, Pa Emmanuel Abiodun, who died on August 2. PDP accused Gov Abiodun of failing to heed the voice of his father, who he said advised him to take Ogun workers and pensioners’ welfare as a priority. Abiodun had recently recalled how his father advised him to treat workers well when he assumed office in 2019. But, the opposition party said the governor did not follow the advice of his father if he were to he judged based on the complaints of…
Zambia opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema has won the presidential election by a landslide. The Electoral Commission released the results on Monday at the capital Lusaka. Hichilema got 2,810,777 votes against President Edgar Lungu 1,814,201, with all but one of the 156 constituencies counted. “I, therefore, declare Hichilema to be President of Zambia”, Esau Chulu, the Electoral Commission chairman said. It would be third time power has shifted from a ruling party to the opposition since the country’s independence from Britain in 1964. Hichilema’s supporters across the nation are in a celebration mood. The United Party for National Development (UPND) candidate…
Niger State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Tanko Beji said former state Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu has no moral justification to accuse the party of using tribal sentiment in the last congress. He also replied Dr. Aliyu’s claims that the state congress held by the party was a sham, saying it was orderly and peacefully organized with over 2,300 delegates from the 25 LGAs in attendance. The state party Chairman, Bar. Tanko Beji stated this while briefing Newsmen in Minna said if the tribal sentiment was applied in the state, Dr. Babangida Aliyu wouldn’t have emerged governor of…
A socio-political group in the fold of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Abia State, Youths For Progressive Alliance (YFPA), has advised fifth columnists to desist from evil campaigns of calumny targeted at the Minister of State, Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah. The youth group said the lastest was a purported news feature published in a local tabloid, National Star Newspaper, dated August 9th-15th, 2021 where the writer made fictitious and slanderous claims of a power tussle for the soul of the APC in the state between Ogah and the Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu.…
The Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the death of Hon. Omolafe Adedayo, popularly known as ‘Expensive’ as a huge shock. According to the PDP, the demise of the Federal lawmaker is difficult to accept, particularly that he was not sick until his passing. InfoStride News had reported that the lawmaker who was a former Chairman of Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State gave up the ghost in the early hours of Monday. During the former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, he served as the Co-ordinator of Sure-P programme in Ondo State. The party…
The Osun Progressives (TOP), a caucus in the Osun Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that the information credited to the Chairman of the Ward Congress Appeal Committee for Osun State that its work has been concluded is far from the truth and cannot be substantiated. This position was made known by Rasaq Salinsile, the Osun APC Caretaker Secretary and Vice-Chairman of TOP in a press conference on Sunday in Osogbo. Salinsile, who stood in for the Chairman, Adelowo Adebiyi, also stated that he was there at the Osun APC Secretariat on Saturday evening when gunshots caused…
The US told the UN Security Council that the international community should ensure that Afghanistan “cannot ever, ever again be a base for terrorism and urged the country’s neighbours and others in the region and beyond to give refuge to Afghans attempting to flee. The Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, bringing an end to a two-decade campaign in which the US and its allies had tried to transform Afghanistan. The country’s Western-trained security forces collapsed or fled, ahead of the planned withdrawal of the last American troops at the end of the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has asked the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop talking if it has nothing meaningful and sensible to contribute to the political development of the state. The APC accused PDP of dishing out malicious statements capable of destabilizing the state. This reaction is contained in a statement issued from the Party’s Directorate of Publicity, Research and Strategy and signed by its Director, Barr Kunle Oyatomi on Monday in Osogbo. The spokesman, however, drew the attention of Osun citizenry to claims that the PDP in the state had a terrible antecedent and…
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, Desmond Akawor, has declared that the leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the State, Chibuike Amaechi, would return to the party. The PDP Chairman said this at an event in the Ikwerre LGA where scores of defectors from other political parties joined the PDP. According to him, “Our brothers that are joining the PDP; I listened to almost all your leaders, they were all PDP members. They have gone to see. They saw nothing and that is why they are all back. “One day, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi,…
As some members kicked over the conduct of the recent ward congress in Ekiti State, the All Progressives Congress Appeal Panel, has ruled out the possibility of making recommendations to the party on sharing of positions. The panel said the Caretaker Committee and Extraordinary National Convention Committee, headed by Governor Mai Mala Buni, has not given the committee the mandate to share positions, but to listen to complaints and suggest how best to get justice for the aggrieved members. The members of the committee are: former Oyo State Deputy Governor, Chief Iyiola Oladokun, as Chairman; ex-House of Representatives member, Hon…
Ahead of the 2023 general election, the Engr Chidi Ibe-led Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, has emphasized the urgent need for the Igbo nation to have a formidable political rallying point in their quest for presidential power in Nigeria. The highest Igbo ethnic group regretted that ndigbo will not continue to exist without a political rallying point, regretting that northern and some parts of southern Nigeria have been relevant in the current Nigerian system. Ohanaeze Ndigbo, in a statement by its Secretary General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, on Monday insisted that ndigbo must have a rallying political point to…
Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents entered Kabul on Sunday, President Ashraf Ghani left the country and the US Embassy said the capital’s airport, where diplomats, officials and other Afghans had fled, had come under fire. It was not yet clear where Ghani was headed or how power would be transferred following the militant Islamist group’s lighting sweep across Afghanistan that led back to the capital two decades after it was overthrown by US-led forces. “The security situation in Kabul is changing quickly, including at the airport. There are reports of the airport taking fire; therefore, we are instructing US citizens to shelter…
The National Appeal Committee set up to reconcile grievances that may arise from the recently concluded ward congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party in Katsina State has said that not a single cry of foul play was received from across the state. While submitting a copy of the committee’s report to Governor Masari at the state Government House, the Committee Chairman, Yakubu Bello said the ward congress held via consensus arrangement in the 361 electoral wards across the state was quite satisfactory as no petition was registered until the expiration of the appeal window. “We came so that…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) says the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have commenced “underhand rigging” ahead of 2023. In a statement on Sunday, National Chairman, Uche Secondus said every indication point to the “unfortunate fact” that President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC are not working towards conducting free and fair elections. The opposition leader reacted to the report that INEC is halting its procurement of E-voting machines because the National Assembly turned down the e-mode of transmission of results. Secondus noted that since the existing Electoral Act and the Constitution gives powers to…
No fewer than three Governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has visited former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rasidi Adewolu Ladoja. Ladoja was the governor of Oyo State between 2003 and 2007. The three governors include Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa, Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi and Mai Mala Buni of Yobe. The governors were seen at the Ondo Street, Ibadan residence of the former Governor, Sunday afternoon. Also on the entourage were the former Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole. Our correspondent reports that the delegation was ushered into Ladoja’s residence by some of…
The relationship between the Governor of Taraba State, Darius Dickson Ishaku, and the elders of Mbamnga, in Mambilla Plateau of Sardauna Local Government Area of the state has suffered a setback. InfoStride News observed in an open letter written to the governor by the former state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Jonah J. Kataps, who is one of the prominent elders of the community. The community alleged that Ishaku, without following due process, selected an acting Chief of Mbamnga chiefdom as well as removed some indigenes from key positions. Citing how the sons and daughters of the community…
NATO says that it is helping to maintain operations at Kabul airport to keep Afghanistan connected with the world. In a statement it says that it would also maintain its diplomatic presence in Kabul. The security of our personnel is paramount, and we continue to adjust as necessary, it added. NATO provided no details on its number of staff still in Afghanistan, but said it was constantly assessing developments in the country. We support Afghan efforts to find a political solution to the conflict, which is now more urgent than ever, the statement said.
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Nigeria Police Force and other sister security agencies to close down the All Progressives Congress (APC) state secretariat over the violence that erupted on Saturday during the appeal committee seating. This is as the PDP has alleged that the APC secretariat has become a place of war instead of party administration adding that the call has become imperative so as to de-escalate the violence and commotion that has been associated with the APC ward congress and appeal. Making the call, the party in a press statement…