A former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ladi Adebutu, has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) believes in a united Nigeria living in peace. Adebutu stated, however, that the party is insisting on equity and justice for all Nigerians. The former lawmaker disclosed this Thursday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, during the Ladi Adebutu Good Governance Symposium held at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library. Adebutu blamed the agitations for secession on how the local government had been rendered incompetent in Nigeria. According to him, governors have killed the local governments by hijacking funds that belong to them from the…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to make sure that peace returns in Borno, recalling that the people of the state gave him the highest number of votes. Buhari is on official visit to the state to appraise the security situation and commission some development projects. According to the President, Borno State was where he got the highest percentage of votes during the general elections, adding that the least he can do for the people of the state was keep fighting to fully restore peace in every corner of the North East region and the country as a whole. Buhari also…
During the last weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump and his allies pressured the Justice Department to investigate unsubstantiated claims of widespread 2020 election fraud, despite his former attorney general declaring there was no evidence of it, newly released emails show. The emails, released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee, reveal in new detail how Trump, his White House chief of staff and other allies pressured members of the U.S. government to challenge the 2020 election over false claims, even though officials at Homeland Security and Justice, as well as Republican election leaders across the country, repeatedly said there had…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday, said, it is appalled by the unwarranted attack and name-calling by President Muhammadu Buhari against governors elected on the platform of the PDP. This was contained in a statement on Thursday by Kola Ologbondiyan, the National Publicity Secretary of the party. The statement described as unpresidential and pedestrian, a statement by President Buhari, in which he described governors elected on the platform of the PDP as peddlers of fake news. Ola Ologbondiyan said governors were called names because they pointed out Buhari’s failures and proffered solutions to the challenges facing the nation. “For…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano Municipal Local Government in Kano State has affirmed the suspension of President Muhammadu Buhari’s former media aide for one year, Shaaban Ibrahim Sharada, on the allegations of creating chaos and turmoil in the state. A letter to that effect signed and issued to newsmen by the Chairman of the Party in Municipal Local Government, Alhaji Sani Abubakar Maifata, and his Secretary, Kamilu Saidu Bala, said, “we affirmed the Suspension of Shaaban Ibrahim Sharada has been done by his ward level for 12 months for his open attacks and castigation of Governor Ganduje and…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kebbi State has removed its caretaker Chairman, Bala Sani Kangiwa. Kangiwa is accused of misappropriating funds earmarked for the inauguration of party executives in wards and local government areas. The state chapter has since presented the acting Chairman, Abubakar Kana, to Governor Atiku Bagudu. The officials explained that stakeholders agreed to replace Kangiwa after investigation of the allegations against him. The caretaker Assistant Secretary, Zayyanu Aliero, narrated what led to the suspension of Kangiwa; the Treasurer, Garba Musa; and Financial Secretary, Aliyu Bature. Aliero confirmed that former Public Relations Officer, Sani Dododo, willingly tendered…
The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, ward 7, Igbo Eze North LGA, Mr. Nwokedi Ugwoke has been removed from office for alleged anti-party activities. He has been replaced by Nduka Obeta who has been sworn into office. Swearing in the new caretaker chairman, the Igbo-Eze Caretaker Committee chairman, Mr. Desmond Ayogu accused the ex-chairman of insubordination and gross disloyalty to the party. He said the former chairman had been calling illegal local government chapter meetings, purporting himself to be the chairman of the party. He also accused him of refusing to attend local government party meetings and participating…
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday he hoped to have a July vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill, but a second measure would be needed to incorporate climate and human infrastructure measures. The top Senate Democrat told reporters there are many in his caucus who think the bipartisan proposal is a good start but does not do enough. Democrats and Republicans in the 50-50 split Senate have been negotiating behind the scenes on a potential $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, with slightly more than half of that plan consisting of new funding. The rest would come from…
A public commentator and former Adamawa Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mallam Ahmad Sajoh, has observed that the growing agitations for secession in the country are as a result of cumulative injustices done to different sections in Nigeria with Buhari administration being made a scapegoat. But he was quick to add that Nigerians would fare better together as one nation as against breaking up. Sajoh made the observation on Monday in Maiduguri while fielding questions from the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He said agitators of separation needed to know that we have more in common. “Separation may not serve…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has said that it will appeal the Appeal Court judgment dismissing the petition against the declaration of Oluwarotimi Akeredolu as Governor of the State. This was contained in a statement signed by Kennedy Peretei, the State Publicity Secretary and made available to newsmen in Akure on Wednesday. Recall that the party and its candidate in the October 10, 2020 governorship election, Eyitayo Jegede, had approached the Court of Appeal to cancel Akeredolu’s election. However, the appellate court on Wednesday said in a unanimous judgment that the petition by the PDP and its…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said Nigeria is now on life support. Wike stated this at the inauguration of the Isaiah Odoli/Omerelu Streets in New GRA Phase 1 in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area on Wednesday. He asserted that those who considered the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a better alternative to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2015 poll, must be regretting the current situation in the country. “Since APC came into power, you can now see what Nigeria has turned to. Each day you wake up, you hear people are being killed. “If you watch television and…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Akure, Ondo State capital has upheld the election of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and his Deputy, Lucky Aiyedatiwa in the October 10, 2020 election. The five-man panel led by Justice Theresa Orji-Abadua gave the judgement after dismissing the appeal of Eyitayo Jegede, candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the election for lacking merit. Jegede had approached the appellate court after the tribunal on April 20, 2021, dismissed his petition challenging the nomination and election of Akeredolu and Aiyedatiwa for lacking in merit. But Justice Abadua of the appellate court came to a conclusion that…
A concerned Nigerian wrote, Separation Is Not About War, It Has Peaceful Aspect “In 1776, the USA split from the UK In 1830 Belgium separated from the Netherlands In 1965, Singapore split off from Malaysia in 2002, East Timor got split off from Indonesia In 1921, Ireland split off from the United Kingdom, and (possibly in the future) there will be secession of Scotland. “In 1944, Iceland split from Denmark with remarkable ease. In 1905 Norway split from Denmark In 1905, Norway and Sweden also peacefully split ways. One got the car. the other got the kids. “In 1947, the…
US President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have arrived on Wednesday at the lush lakeside Swiss mansion for their highly anticipated summit, a moment of consequential diplomacy at a time when both leaders agree that relations between their countries are at an all-time low. The two leaders shook hands while appearing briefly before cameras with Swiss President Guy Parmelin, who welcomed them to Switzerland, and then entered the mansion for what is expected to be four or five hours of talks. For months, they have traded sharp rhetoric. Biden has repeatedly called out Putin for malicious cyberattacks by Russian-based…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in Ekiti State on Wednesday, traded tackles as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announcement the date of the 2022 governorship election in the state. While the APC expressed confidence that it would triumph in the poll, the opposition warned it to be prepared to hand over to their candidate, on the premise that the government of Governor Kayode Fayemi has failed the people. The INEC, had on Tuesday in Abuja through its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, slated the conduct of the next Ekiti governorship election for June…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has removed 749 polling units from inappropriate facilities. The commission removed nine polling units from shrines and several others from religious houses, royal palaces, and private properties. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu made this known on Wednesday in Abuja at a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs). He, however, did not give reasons for the action. Presently, Nigeria has 176, 846 full-fledged polling units from the initial 119, 973 polling units. This is as a result of the recent conversion of existing voting points to units by the commission.
As the gubernatorial election in Osun State draws nearer and with the release of the election time table by the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared its readiness for the polls. In a radio current affairs programme in Osogbo on Wednesday, Oladele Bamiji, the Osun PDP Director of Media and Publicity accused the ruling party of degrading the ethics of good governance. He regretted that the APC had made the payment of workers salaries, which is routine government business, a central subject of discourse. While describing the owing of workers’ salaries as wicked and…
The Justice Department will make its policies for obtaining records of U.S. lawmakers more rigorous after former President Donald Trump’s administration secretly secured data on members of Congress, journalists and a former White House lawyer, the top U.S. law enforcement official said on Monday. Attorney General Merrick Garland in a statement also said that “political or other improper considerations must play no role in any investigative or prosecutorial decisions” and that anyone within the department who fails to live up to that principle “will be met with strict accountability.” Democratic congressional leaders on Sunday vowed to investigate the department’s “rogue”…
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said another Democracy Day may not be celebrated in Nigeria if the system of government is not decentralised. Soyinka said this during an interview with Arise News which focused on the June 12 Democracy Day that was celebrated on Saturday. The Nobel Laureate lamented that the country is on a slide, as he advised the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to listen and take action against the challenges which are causing people to demonstrate. “And that is what’s happening to people on the streets. That’s why they are moving, that’s why they are…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is panicky because the ruling platform now has “over 40 million members.” In a statement, John Akpan Udoedehe, Secretary of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee said the PDP was clutching on straws. The APC said it is providing critical infrastructure, access to education, health facilities and empowering citizens. The scribe accused PDP governors of wasting resources on meetings while owing workers and pensioners. The opposition had in a communique queried loans procured by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. The PDP further alleged that the current leadership is…