Yemi Akinwonmi, has declared himself as the authentic National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Akinwonmi said providence has bestowed on him the leadership of the former ruling party. Speaking at Wadata Plaza, the PDP’s National Secretary in Abuja, Akinwonmi, however, declared that there is no victor, no vanquish. He appealed to members of the party to team up with him as he takes over the party’s leadership mantle. “I am a man of peace, not a man of crisis. PDP has a good succession order. There is an order here. The chairman is followed by the deputy national…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Senior Pastor of Citadel Global Community Church, has said a Northern Hausa or Fulani can still emerge as Nigeria’s president in 2023. Bakare said the emphasis should be on competence of the next president and not the zone producing him. Speaking on Channels Television, the clergyman stressed that there is nothing wrong with the North still producing Nigeria’s next president. He noted that political parties should field their best candidates and allow the electorates decide. According to Bakare: “Let the best of the best emerge, it doesn’t matter which part of the country the person comes…
The Deputy National Chairman (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Elder Yemi Akinwomi on Tuesday, suspended the scheduled National Working Committee (NWC), meeting of the party till further notice. In a statement signed by the Deputy National Chairman Elder Yemi Akinwomi on Tuesday, he said the immediate suspension followed the restraining order by a Harcourt Court, against the National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus. He said the Deputy National Chairman, South, Elder Akinwomi, acting on section 45 (2) of the PDP constitution took over the responsibility of presiding over the activities of the party and issued the directive. According to…
The Osun State Governor Gboyega Oyetola has asked the state’s Caretaker Chairman, Prince Gboyega Famodun, to discontinue the court case against some chieftains of the party who had invaded the party secretariat with armed thugs a fortnight ago. Recall that on Monday, the Caretaker Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Rasaq Salinsile and former Chairman of the party, Adelowo Adebiyi and five others were arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrate’s Court. The other five persons arraigned include; former Commissioner for Works and Transports, Kazeem Salami, former Commissioner for Youth, Sports and Special Needs, Com. Biyi Odunlade, former…
Airbnb offered free housing to 20,000 Afghan refugees globally on Tuesday and sought more assistance from hosts who rent property through the home-sharing company. The displacement and resettlement of Afghan refugees in the U.S. and elsewhere is one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our time. We feel a responsibility to step up,” said CEO Brian Chesky on Twitter. I hope this inspires other business leaders to do the same. There’s no time to waste.” The UN Refugee Agency said last month that an estimated 270,000 Afghans had been newly displaced inside the country since January primarily due to insecurity…
The Anambra State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Valentine Ozigbo, has said that he consulted widely before choosing members of his campaign council. Ozigbo was probably reacting to insinuations in some quarters that he failed to consult some big names in the party before naming them as members of his campaign council, leading to their resignation from the council. The PDP campaign council which was inaugurated two weeks ago, with Senator Uche Ekwunife as the chairman, had suffered a setback when some notable names, including Hon Chris Azubogu, Senator Stella Oduah and others resigned, saying they…
Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has insisted that his comment that a candidate with questionable NECO certificate should not be allowed to govern Anambra State was in order. Soludo was reacting to a challenge posed to him by the governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, who recently challenged him to a public debate. In a press Statement by the former CBN governor which was signed on his behalf by his media aide, Mr Joe Anatune and made available to the media, Soludo said he was fully prepared for…
Former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has declared that the party would return to power in 2023. Atiku said PDP would be strengthened to take over power from the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2023. He made the declaration during his visit to the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, at the Government House in Benin on Tuesday. The former presidential candidate disclosed that the meeting with Obaseki “centred on governance, current issues in the country and how to strengthen” the former ruling party ahead of 2023. On his part, Obaseki commended Atiku for his leadership and support…
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus has reacted to the court ruling restraining him from parading as the National Chairman of the party. Recall that a Rivers State High Court on Monday restrained Secondus from exercising the functions of the National Chairman of the PDP. The judge, Justice O. Gbasam who gave the order, also approved the suspension of Secondus as a member of the party pending the hearing and determination of motion on notice for interlocutory injunction. Reacting, Secondus in a statement issued by his media aide, Ike Abonyi, vowed to defend himself in court…
More than 500 tonnes of medical supplies including surgical equipment and severe malnutrition kits due to be delivered to Afghanistan this week are stuck because of Kabul airport restrictions, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Aid agencies say it is critical that medical and food supplies reach some 300,000 people displaced in Afghanistan over the past two months amid advances by Islamist Taliban insurgents that culminated in their capture of Kabul on Aug. 15. Nearly 18.5 million people – half the population – rely on aid and the humanitarian needs are expected to grow due to drought. But the…
The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), has faulted claim by Prof. Attahiru Jega, former INEC chairman, that the two major parties in the country have failed Nigerians. Dr Salihu Lukman, Director-General, PGF, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Jega had in a BBC Hausa Service interview on Aug. 2, claimed that the two parties- the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had failed Nigerians and should not be trusted again. But Lukman said Jega had no evidence to support his submission. “He had submitted that the two big parties had failed to engender good…
Following a resolution on fast tracking the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the battle on who will succeed Prince Uche Secondus as National Chairman, has moved and started in earnest within the power blocks of the main opposition party. The power blocik that is most in contention for the position is the former Governors Forum of the party. Other power blocks being lobbied by the former Chief Executives are the PDP Governors Forum, former Minister’s Forum, former Senators Forum and the PDP National Assembly members Forum. It was gathered that the former Governors who are angling for…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was in Benin, the capital of Edo State on Monday as part of consultations on how to strengthen the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP can take over power from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC ahead of the 2023 presidential election. After the meeting, Atiku confirmed to journalists that his discussion with the Obaseki centered around governance, situations in the country and how PDP could be strengthened to take over power in 2023. “Basically we discussed about governance, the situation in the country, we discussed about our party, how our party should be strengthen and…
The leadership crisis currently rocking the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, worsened on Monday as High Court in Rivers State has restrained Uche Secondus from parading himself as the National Chairman of the party. The order was given by Justice O. Gbasam of the State High Court sitting in Degema local government area of the State. The judge also approved the suspension of Secondus as a member of the party pending the hearing and determination of motion on notice for interlocutory injunction. The order followed a complaint brought before the court by some aggrieved members of the party. The suit…
China on Monday hinted at stepping up financial assistance to the Taliban controlled Afghanistan, saying it will play a positive role in helping the war-ravaged country amid global pushback to stop funding to Kabul until the Afghan militant group modified its hardline religious policies. In his media briefing on Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin hit out at the US saying it is “main perpetrator” for the Afghan crisis and Washington cannot leave without doing anything for Afghanistan’s reconstruction. Asked for his reaction to comments by Afghanistan’s exiled central bank chief stating that the Taliban may go to China…
The Caretaker Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Rasaq Salinsile and former Chairman of the party, Adelowo Adebiyi and five others have been arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrate’s Court. The other five persons arraigned include; former Commissioner for Works and Transports, Kazeem Salami, former Commissioner for Youth, Sports and Special Needs, Com. Biyi Odunlade, former Commissioner for Environment and Sanitation, Hon Idowu Korede, one Alaba Popoola and Azeez Adekunle. The suspects are leaders of a caucus group in the Osun chapter of the APC. Recall that some members of the APC on August 14 besieged the…
The National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Ozonkpu Victor Ike Oye, has extolled the virtues of the late Lady Adanma Okpara, the wife of the former Premier of Eastern Nigeria, Michael Iheonukara Okpara. InfoStride News reports that Lady Adanma Okpara, who hailed from Afugiri Ohuhu clan in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State, died at 97. In a press release signed by the National Publicity Secretary of APGA, Barrister Tex Okechukwu, and sent to the media on Monday, Oye described Mrs. Okpara as the brain behind all the accomplishments of her husband whose political prowess…
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, presidential campaign posters of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State have emerged. The campaign posters carried the inscriptions “Osinbajo-Ganduje Alliance (OGA), For Better Nigeria OGA Na Master.” The posters were spotted in strategic locations across Kano like Total by Airport Road Roundabout, Ahmadu Bello Way by Shekarau house, Murtala Muhammad Way, Kano Club Roundabout and Independence Way Roundabout. Recall that the Osinbajo Grassroots Organisation, OGO, had recently said the Vice President is the future of Nigeria. OGO’s National Convener, Foluso Ojo, said Osinbajo possesses impeccable leadership qualities to continue…
A former governor of Osun State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola has urged newly decamped members into the party to ensure their entrance brings positive changes in their ward, local government and the state as a whole. The one time National Secretary of the party made this known, Sunday, during the official welcoming of decampees from the All Progressives Congress (APC) into the PDP in Odo-Otin local government council area. While urging them to contribute meaningfully to the party, the former Lagos State military administrator assured that the party in the state was not…
Austria won’t accept Afghan asylum seekers and will instead focus on assisting them locally, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said, according to excerpts of an interview published by broadcaster Puls 24. The ruling People’s Party has taken a hard line on immigration amid international calls to help Afghans at risk of persecution after the US troop withdrawal. Kurz said Austria had already made a disproportionately high contribution, with more than 40,000 Afghans accepted in the past. The nation’s responsibility lies with helping improving security and women’s rights locally, he said. Switzerland’s government is examining the possibility of hosting a summit on Afghanistan…