The Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), has said Governor Willie Obiano plans to rig the Anambra State governorship election in favour of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). The party said it has uncovered plans where Obiano plans to spend Anambra’s money to achieve the aim, saying that a recent supplementary budget by the governor to lawmakers was for that purpose. A press release by the publicity secretary of ZLP, Mr Afam Ofomata, which was made available to newsmen in Awka made the claim. The release said, “ZLP has already been made aware of how the Obiano camp, having realized that there…
Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso
Youths of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday revealed moves of the All Progressives Congress, APC, governors, ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The National Youth Coordinator of PDP youths, Usman Okai Austin, alleged that APC governors are “lobbying, romancing, and begging” former President Goodluck Jonathan to join the ruling party. Speaking exclusively with newsmen, Okai alleged that APC governors including its Caretaker National Chairman, Mai Mala Buni plans to give Jonathan an automatic presidential ticket in 2023, if he defects to the ruling party. Okai made the remark while rubbishing claims by the Minister of Information and Culture,…
The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof Chukwuma Soludo has chided his fellow governorship candidates for declaring only WAEC Certificate as their highest educational attainments. Soludo who spoke at Dr Alex Ekwueme Square in Awka during the inauguration of the APGA National Campaign Council said Anambra had outgrown being governed with such lowly educational qualification. INEC had on Thursday released a list of candidates for the Anambra Governorship election, with most candidates who claim strings of degrees submitting only WAEC certificates. The candidate who was on Thursday enlisted as the standard-bearer of APGA by the Independent National…
A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, and National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates for Good Governance, CAGG, Barrister Olusegun Bamgbose, Esq., on Friday claimed that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has concluded plans to extend the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari come 2023. He said the party wants to achieve this through the cabals, which according to him, has zeroed down on Osinbajo/Malami ticket tentatively. The senior lawyer further claimed that the National leader of the party, Bola Asiwaju Tinubu has been rejected on two grounds. He warned that Nigerians must beware of this dastardly plan and stand…
President Biden has held fast on his commitment to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan, he has thrown a few bones to advocates of U.S. power projection. One, in particular, stands out, and that is Biden’s promise to use our “counterterrorism over-the-horizon capability” in Afghanistan and the wider region if necessary. What does this mean? On one level, it sounds like we’ll keep killing people with drones. That, after all, seems to be the real-life application of “over-the-horizon capability” in the other places that Biden mentioned — Somalia, Syria, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula. More broadly, however, Biden is assuring us that…
Scores of members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have dragged the Yobe Governor, Mai Buni and the Caretaker Committee to court. They are demanding the sack of Buni, the 13-member national committee, as well as the nullification of all their actions. Joined in suit are the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Attorney General and Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami. The originating summons registered as suit no: FHC/ABJ/CS/938/2021 and a motion for interlocutory injunction were filed by their lawyer, Samuel Irabor at the Federal High Court. Buni charges APC stakeholders to prioritize party above personal interests The plaintiffs presented…
The Ogun State chapter of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has boycotted the 7th triennial delegate conference of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, Ogun State, over disagreement in the zoning of key elective positions. InfoStride News reports that members of the ASCSN walked out of the congress to protest the development. The State Chairman of ASCSN, Isa Olude told newsmen on Thursday that members of the association boycotted the TUC congress because they felt cheated in the zoning arrangement. Our correspondent reports that ASCSN, which has the largest membership strength, is one of the eight…
Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State on Thursday accused the immediate past Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, of hijacking nomination forms for the party’s forthcoming congresses in the area. Addressing journalists at the end of his group’s meeting held at the Vanilla Garden in Bauchi on Thursday, the leader of the group, Alhaji Bala Burga, alleged that the former speaker has perfected plans to deny political actors who do not belong to his camp in the Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency the opportunity of seeking elective offices in the…
Dr. Nyerere Anyim, former governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the 2015 election in Abia State and current representative of the Southeast zone in the National Pensions Commission, has insisted that there is no power tussle in the party as insinuated in some quarters. Anyim spoke in a telephone interview with the media on Thursday over rumours of a power tussle among political leaders in the state following the controversies that trailed the outcome of the just concluded APC ward congress. InfoStride News recalls that the Hon Donatus Nwankpa-led Caretaker Executive Committee of the APC in the…
The Independent National Electoral Commision (INEC) on Thursday published the list of candidates for the Anambra State governorship poll. The election will be conducted in November. INEC replaced Michael Umeoji with Chukwuma Soludo as the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APC). The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was excluded from the list of cleared candidates. INEC National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education Committee Festus Okoye, issued a statement on the update. He said the timetable approved by the commission on January 18 2021 provides for the withdrawal/substitution of candidates in line with Sec. 35 of the Electoral Act 2010…
Many among the at least 30,000 Afghan refugees headed to the US to escape the Taliban in Afghanistan are expected to be resettled in different cities in Texas state, the agency for refugee services has said. An anticipated at least 30,000 Afghans could be resettled in the US in the coming weeks as they desperately flee Taliban control. Many Afghan refugees will be placed in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and Austin cities of Texas. Afghan nationals and their families, who aided the US military, are in grave danger and are seeking refuge in the US, Russell Smith, CEO of Refugee…
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus has said he visited former President Olusegun in Abeokuta to discuss the situation of the country. InfoStride News reported that Secondus was at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital for a closed-door meeting with the former President. While addressing newsmen after the meeting that lasted more than an hour, the PDP Chairman said he came to Obasanjo as an elder statesman to advise the present government. “I am here with the members of my team and as well as the PDP executives in Ogun State…
There was jubilation in Anambra State, especially among government officials, over the enlisting of former Central Bank Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, as candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the forthcoming governorship election. InfoStride News learnt that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), after a meeting in Abuja on Thursday, while citing the judgement of the Court of Appeals in Kano, included Soludo’s name on the list. At Aroma Junction in Awka, some appointees of the Anambra State governor were seen jubilating, over the inclusion of Soludo’s name in the list of candidates. A special assistant to the…
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has listed some conditions that would enable the All Progressives Congress, APC, to retain power in 2023. Lawan said the APC must ensure youth representation in governance to facilitate active participation in policy matters and decision making processes. He pointed out that concerted effort must be made by the ruling party to manage its successes by ensuring that it sustains practices that would deepen democracy at all levels. The Senate President spoke while receiving a visiting delegation of the APC Youth National Lobby Committee on Thursday in Abuja. In a statement by his spokesman,…
The Appeal Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the ward congress in Ogun State, on Wednesday, said it had received three petitions from aggrieved party members, including senators representing Ogun West and Ogun East, Tolu Odebiyi and Lekan Mustapha respectively. The Chairman of the five-man committee, Mr. Segun Ojo, at a press briefing on Thursday, said the committee was constituted by the APC national leadership to resolve all issues arising from the conduct of the ward congress. He said, “We are in the state to meet with members of our party that are aggrieved as a result of…
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has asked Senator Hope Uzodinma to “wake up from his slumber” and stop politicking with the lives of Imo people. APGA noted that the state is dirty, adding that it is dangerous for Ndi Imo to live in such a dirty environment. The opposition party, in a statement signed by Comrade Chinagorom Ifeanyi, Director General, DG Imo APGA Media, said the rate of indiscriminate dumping of refuse in Owerri Capital City at the moment cannot be overemphasized. APGA said, “Owerri, Imo State capital, was once rated the cleanest city in Nigeria. An independent investigation…
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is likely to reach national capital on Thursday evening to meet BJP central leadership. Sources said that the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister is likely to meet BJP chief J.P. Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss party’s poll preparedness in the state. It is learnt that Uttar Pradesh BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh and state unit general secretary Sunil Bansal have reached the national capital. Sources said that BJP poll preparedness for next year’s assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh will be the main agenda of the meeting. “Chief Minister Adityanath is likely…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has met with Prince Uche Secondus, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The closed-door meeting held in Abeokuta, Ogun State also had in attendance PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC). As at the time of filing this report, the purpose of the meeting was still unknown. Obasanjo, a former member of PDP had years ago publicly renounced the party. The former president had torn his membership card in public after which he stepped back from politics. Meanwhile, there have been calls within the PDP for Secondus to resign. Secondus was accused of failing to properly…
Persons Living with Disabilities (PWDs) in Anambra State have tasked political parties and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the need to grant them equal rights in the forthcoming governorship election. The Chairman of the state chapter of the Joint Association of Persons with Disabilities, Mr Ugochukwu Ernest, stated this at a workshop on ”PWDs Civic and Political Organizing Lab” with political parties in Awka. The event attracted members of the group from all parts of the state, who said they want to be involved in political processes as it also affects their lives. The group said they were…
Taliban commander and senior leader of the Haqqani Network terrorist group, Anas Haqqani, has met former Afghan President Hamid Karzai for talks, a Taliban official said on Wednesday, amid efforts by the Taliban to set up a government. Karzai was accompanied by the old government’s main peace envoy, Abdullah Abdullah, in the meeting, said the Taliban official, who declined to be identified. He gave no more details. The Haqqani Network is an important faction of the Taliban, who captured the capital, Kabul, on Sunday. The network, based on the border with Pakistan, was accused over recent years of some of…