A Federal High Court sitting in Awka State, the Anambra capital, has affirmed Charles Soludo, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), as the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) ahead of the governorship election in the state. Recall that Soludo, who belongs to the Victor Oye-led faction of APGA had secured 740 votes to defeat Ezenwankwo Christopher, who polled 41 votes, while ThankGod Ibe had four votes, and Okolo Chibuzor got seven votes. However, a list published on July 16, by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) picked Michael Umeoji over Soludo as the standard-bearer…
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Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, on Monday, had a closed-door meeting with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and National Chairman of the party, Uche Sekondus at Benue Peoples House, Makurdi as part of efforts to rebuild Peoples Democracy Party, PDP, continues. Speaking during an interview with newsmen at the end of the meeting, Governor Ortom said the meeting was held to discuss how to sustain the confidence Nigerians have in the PDP with a view to winning the forthcoming 2023 general election. He explained that the realignment had been ongoing within the party with several meetings held in…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo has kicked against the suspension of two of its lawmakers by the party’s caucus in the state House of Assembly. InfoStride News reports that six members of the Imo House of Assembly were suspended by the Speaker, Paul Emeziem, for alleged unparliamentary conduct. Of the six lawmakers, four are members of the ruling APC while the other two are members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The suspension led to a rowdy session as the suspended lawmakers reacted violently over the action. Reacting, a statement signed by Imo State PDP Chairman, Mr Charles…
An ex-senatorial aspirant for Imo East Senatorial District, Ugochukwu Harry Nwachukwu, has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state as a habitat where the bigger fish eats the smaller fish. The politician, popularly known as Ugo Sly, said that “it is only in Imo PDP that internal politics is played with serious interest.” Ugo Sly spoke to journalists in Owerri, the state capital, during the defection ceremony of George White Iwuamadi from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC) held at Uzoagba community in Ikeduru LGA. The Mbaitoli-born politician, who recently decamped to the ruling APC, further…
President Joe Biden’s administration has proposed the first in-person “Quad” meeting with leaders of India, Japan and Australia in late September. This meeting would mark unity among the four Indo-Pacific democracies amid China’s growing assertiveness, President Biden is seeking to build “a position of strength” to directly engage with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as reported by Kyodo News. This meeting is scheduled to take place after the general debate of the UN General Assembly, which is to be held in September in New York City. But Japan’s political schedule is unclear, with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga facing two key tests…
Justice Obiora Egwatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the impeachment move against Zamfara State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mahadi Aliyu Mohammed Gusau. The judge stopped the Zamfara State House of Assembly members from taking any further step in the impeachment process targeted against the deputy governor over his refusal to decamp from the People Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressive Congress, APC, along with Governor Bello Matawalle. Justice Egwatu issued the order on Monday in his ruling in an ex-parte application filed by the PDP. After listening to the arguments canvassed by a Senior Advocate of…
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on members of the public to disregard attempts by a group within its rank crying foul concerning the leadership issues in the party. This is as it stated that it has also noted allegations of an attempt to bribe Justice Oke by Deji Adeleke. In an official statement made available to the media and signed by the party’s Media and Publicity Director, Oladele Bamiji, the party stated that since it is aware of the prohibition placed on subjecting matters before the law courts to public discourse, as a…
The Labour Party has told Governor Dapo Abiodun to face his duties as the elected governor of Ogun State instead of gallivanting all over the State. InfoStride News reports that Abiodun, in the last one week, has been touring the local governments in Ogun to campaign for candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the July 24 local government elections, saying the there is no other party in the state. But, the Labour Party warned Gov Abiodun and the Ogun State Independent National Electoral Commission to desist from plans to rig the local government polls. The party charged…
Former federal lawmaker, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has accused members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Rivers State loyal to the minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, of attacking fellow members of the party who had gathered to deliberate on serious issues. The attack was alleged to have happened at the Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA) of the state, when members of the party in Rivers, Cross River, Kano, Imo and Kwara States, who were unable to take part in the last registration and revalidation exercise met to prepare for the exercise. He called on members of the…
Nepal’s new Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Sunday comfortably won a vote of confidence in the reinstated lower House of Parliament. Deuba, the 75-year-old chief of the Nepali Congress, secured 165 votes in the 275-member House of Representatives, the Himalayan Times reported. As many as 249 lawmakers participated in the voting process and 83 of them voted against Deuba while one lawmaker remained neutral, it said. A total of 136 votes were required for Deuba to win Parliament’s confidence. The Nepal new Prime Minister, Deuba took the oath of office and secrecy on July 13 for a record fifth…
A man who identified himself as a former pastor of the Living Faith Church International, popularly known as Winners Chapel, Peter Godwin, says he was sacked by the church for not generating enough money in his branch. Godwin in a trending video as claimed by SaharaReporters said he was employed on the 28th of August, 2020 by Bishop Oyedepo’s Church, Living Faith Church. He claimed he was invited with about forty of his colleagues by the state pastor on July 1, 2021, and were all sacked over low income in their branches. Godwin, however, failed to mention the name of…
The Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Sunday declared its position on the decision taken by Southern governors regarding rotational presidency. Jareh Ajayi, the National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere said the group is totally in support of the governor’s decision. Speaking with newsmen, Ajayi said it would be fair and just for the Southern part of the country to produce the next president of Nigeria. According to the body’s spokesman, President Muhammadu Buhari would have spent eight years at the end of 2023, hence the need for the presidency to move to the Southern part of the country. Southern governors had…
Senator Shehu Sani has stated that the National Assembly has created three electoral bodies, which is INEC, NCC and themselves by its rejection of the electronic transmission of election results. The former Senator who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Senate between 2015 and 2019 stated this in a radio current affairs programme in Osogbo Friday monitored by the media. Shehu Sani who expressed disappointment at the turn of events noted that it was sad, unfortunate and tragic that the national assembly can be so divided on a very important issue. According to him, “The national assembly is made up…
Former Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, has declared that the political battle line has been drawn between him and Senator Ahmed Sani Yarima over who controls the soul of Zamfara politics. The former governor maintained that Senator Yari has lost his political relevance, stressing that when the senator was the political godfather, nobody dared challenge him as his decision was final and irrevocable. He disclosed this while addressing his teeming supporters from Zamfara North senatorial zone at his Talata-Mafara residence, saying that senator Ahmed Sani Yarima finished himself politically in the state because of his anti party activities.…
Senior Afghan leaders are in the Middle Eastern state of Qatar talking peace with the Taliban, whose leader on Sunday issued a statement saying the insurgent movement wants a political settlement to Afghanistan’s decades of war. Still, there are few signs of a political agreement on the horizon, as the battles over Afghan districts continue in dozens of provinces and in the cities there are thousands seeking visas to leave. Most are frightened that the final withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops after nearly 20 years will plunge their war-ravaged nation into deeper chaos. Militias with a brutal history have…
The founding National Chairman of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Rufai Hanga, has disclosed that there was an agreement that President Muhammadu Buhari would handover power to Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2023. Hanga disclosed that the implied agreement of Buhari to handover to Tinubu was an “open secret.” He said Tinubu would have dumped APC after Buhari’s first tenure but opted to remain with the party due to the “implied agreement.” “This is an open secret. There was an implied agreement. Even in law, there is an implied and expressed act. If…
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the votes against the electronic transmission of election results was not done by only members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) but by some People Democratic Party, PDP, senators as well. Recall that the Senate, while considering the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill, voted that “The Commission (INEC) may consider electronic transmission of results, provided the national coverage is adjudged to be adequate and secure by the National Communications Commission (NCC) and approved by the National Assembly.” However, Ahmad Lawan, while giving more reason to why the Upper Chamber voted the…
The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has threatened to give his deputy, Mahdi Aliyu, “the treatment he deserves” if he dares him. The gap appears to be widening between Matawalle and Aliyu, after the governor dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Aliyu has refused to follow Matawalle to APC and even addressed a rally of the PDP, the platform that brought the two of them to power, to reaffirm his loyalty to the party. His decision has left Matawalle unimpressed. He told the Hausa Service of Deutsch Welle on Saturday, that he was…
A candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the Anambra State November 6 governorship poll, Valentine Ozigbo, has described the exclusion of his name from the list of candidates as temporary. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had on Friday released the list of candidates for the election, but failed to list a candidate for PDP, citing court order. But Valentine Ozigbo on Saturday assured the people of the state that he was still in the governorship race, and that the non-listing of his name was only a temporary setback. Ozigbo emerged the candidate of the party in a…
The UN humanitarian chief in Afghanistan appealed for USD 850 million Thursday to help the war-torn country cope with the impact of the Taliban offensive, protracted malnutrition for a third of the country, a severe drought, and the return of 627,000 Afghans this year, most of them deported from neighbouring Iran. Ramiz Alakbarov told reporters at UN headquarters after a virtual briefing from the capital of Kabul that at least 18 million Afghans are in need of assistance and the UN plan is to provide help for at least 15.7 million of them. But he said the UN’s USD 1.3…