Preliminary talks on Somali’s impending elections began Saturday as leaders of this Horn of African nation met in Mogadishu to discuss an election, that has faced postponement. Somali’s Prime Minister and leaders of the five semi-autonomous states, including mayor of Mogadishu have been discussing ways of easing tensions in the country. Issues to be tabled for deliberations include the composition of the electoral commission and that of security. It is still not clear what the duration of these preliminary discussions will be. But sources have told AFP that finalization of the organization of the elections, including date for the vote,…
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Mr Emmanuel Ogidi, former National Vice Chairman (South South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called for speedy passage of the Electoral Act amendment bill to enhance the electoral process in the country. Agidi said this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. The chieftain said that those who were anticipating to benefit from the shortcoming of the law may not want the amendment to take place, urging the National Assembly to act in the interest of the nation for the benefit of all. Ogidi stressed the need for early passage of…
The Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC) on Sunday declared candidates of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winners of the just concluded local government election in 32 local government areas of the state. InfoStride News reports that the election took place in 33 local government areas on Saturday. The Commission also rescheduled the election held in Ido local government area of the state. The election, which will now hold on May 26, 2021, was rescheduled over the omission of the Zenith Labour Party’s logo on the ballot papers. The OYSIEC, however, declared PDP, the winner of the election in all the…
Commercial activities on Sunday came to a halt around the venue of the PDP stakeholders meeting held in Calabar, Cross River State It took efforts of security operatives to control the crowd which turned out at the venue of the meeting, InfoStride News reports “Mobile policemen, police officers, civil defence operatives as well as the DSS had a hard time controlling the crowd, especially when former governor senator Liyel Imoke, Essien Ayi and prominent members of the party, within and outside the state arrived,” a source told the media. Also present at the meeting were national, state assembly members of…
The leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ebonyi State Chapter, at the weekend said it has petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, to hold Governor David Umahi responsible if anything untoward happens to any of their members in the state. The Chairman of the party, Elder Fred Udogu, who made this known while briefing journalists in Abakaliki, the state capital, added that his party will no longer accept threats from the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) led by Umahi. Udogu further stated that Ebonyi belongs to the PDP and that his party is prepared to…
A week after House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy gambled he could unify his caucus by ousting a prominent critic of former President Donald Trump, a new Trump-inspired rift has raised questions about his leadership. Thirty-five Republican representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives – or one out of every six – joined the 219 majority Democrats in voting to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, when hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the building, fighting with police and leaving five people dead. That was more than three times as many Republicans as voted in January…
The Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC) has suspended the local government election in Ido Local Government Area, one of the local government areas in Ibadan, the state capital, again. InfoStride News reports that this is the second time the election would be suspended in Ido, which is also one of the nine local government areas in Oyo South Senatorial District. Our correspondent recalls that the election which took place in all the 33 local government areas in the state was yesterday suspended in the local government area. InfoStride News recalls that the election was suspended due to the omission…
The Osun State Caretaker Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adegboyega Famodun, has commended the courage and political will of the Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade for dumping the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Famodun, in a statement issued by his Media Aide, Kola Olabisi, and made available to the media yesterday, said the defection to the APC by Ayade was a product of a very deep thinking of a rare ability to decipher from a metaphorically derailed PDP and the APC, which is solidly on the track. The Osun State APC Chairman stated that it took an uncommon…
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Sunday dismissed claims that Rochas Okorocha, Imo West Senator, gave the group N500 million. Kanu insisted that IPOB has never received any cash donation or financial assistance from Okorocha. There are reports that the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma had accused Okorocha of donating the huge sum to the seperatist group. However, Kanu, in a statement by IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful stressed that both Uzodinma and Okorocha can not bankroll the group. A statement by Powerful reads: “The attention of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the global…
Adamu Garba, a former presidential aspirant, has berated President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo and their wives for staying away from the burial of Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru and other senior officers of the Nigerian Army on Saturday. As InfoStride rightly observed, President Buhari and his Vice, Osinbajo were conspicuously missing at the burial of the late Chief of Army Staff, General Ibrahim Attahiru and others on Saturday. Attahiru and the other ten senior officers, died in a plane crash in Kaduna State on Friday when the Beachcraft 350 aircraft came down due to…
A federal judge seen as a possible future U.S. Supreme Court pick by President Joe Biden cleared a key hurdle on Thursday in her nomination to an influential appellate court, winning approval in a Senate committee despite Republican opposition. The Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Washington-based U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on a 13-9 vote. All those in opposition were Republicans, with two – Lindsey Graham and John Cornyn – voting with Democrats to approve the nomination. Jackson’s nomination now heads for a final confirmation vote…
Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma, has dispelled insinuations that he prevented former Governor of the State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, from registering as a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo. The governing APC just concluded a nationwide registration exercise which kicked off in February. On Thursday, May 20, 2021, the APC national registration appeal team led by Alhaji Farouk Aliyu, paid a working visiting to Governor Uzodinma at the Sam Mbakwe executive chamber, Government House, Owerri. The committee appealed for the integration of Okorocha, Senator Ifeanyi Ararume, Dan Nwafor and a few other aggrieved members, into the APC…
South West Zonal Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ambassador Taofeek Arapaja, has declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) sidelined itself by boycotting the local government election in the state. Taofeek Arapaja, a former Deputy Governor of the state, made this disclosure while addressing journalists shortly after casting his vote at the local government election which took place on Saturday. Arapaja, who spoke in Ibadan, maintained that it was the APC that dribbled itself and shot a goal on its own goalpost. He, however, described the election as ‘very credible and perfect’. He added that there has never…
Pan Nigeria Presidency of Igbo Extraction Coalition (PANPIEC), a sociopolitical group, has criticized governors elected on the platform of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) for their recent position on zoning of the party’s presidential seat ahead of 2023 general elections. InfoStride News reported that governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), had insisted that there would be no zoning ahead of the 2023 general elections and anyone was free to contest for any position. They made this known in a statement signed by their chairman and Governor of Kebbi State, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, on…
The Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC) has suspended the ongoing local government election in Ido local Government Area. Our correspondent reports that the local government election which is currently ongoing in all the 33 local government areas in the state has been fixed for today (Saturday). InfoStride News, however, learnt that the election has been suspended in Ido local government area. Ido is one of the 11 local government areas in Ibadan, the state capital. It is one of the local government areas in Oyo South District. Our correspondent gathered that the election for the Chairmanship and Councilorship in…
The All Progressives Congress has taken over the Secretariat of the People Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State. InfoStride News gathered that the property situated at 42A Murtala Muhammed Highway, Calabar, Cross River State is currently being painted with APC colours. In a statement sent to newsmen, the landlord, Lawrence Ene Asuquo, said PDP remains his tenant and he has no dealings with APC. The statement reads: “My attention has been drawn to the fact that the property situated at 42A Murtala Muhammad Highway, Calabar which PDP holds as tenant is presently being painted with APC colours. “On behalf…
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution blocking a $735 million weapons sale to Israel on Thursday, mirroring a symbolic action by the House of Representatives in response to conflict between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas leaders. “At a moment when U.S.-made bombs are devastating Gaza, and killing women and children, we cannot simply let another huge arms sale go through without even a congressional debate,” said Sanders, an independent who votes with Democrats. Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration approved the potential sale of $735 million in weapons to Israel this year, and sent it to Congress on May 5 for…
The Cross River State Police Command has reacted to the removal of flags of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from their secretariat on Murtala Mohammed Highway area of Calabar, the state capital. It was observed that the secretariat was heavily guarded by policemen while flags of the party were being removed and party colours repainted to green and white, colours of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Ben Ayade’s new party. InfoStride News observed that Ntufam Inok Edim, the immediate past state chairman of the party and current caretaker committee chairman of the party, was at the scene. He was…
Rochas Okorocha, Imo West Senator, has dismissed claims of the state Governor, Hope Uzodinma, that he opted out of the All Progressives Congress (APC) membership registration and revalidation exercise in the state. Okorocha described Uzodinma’s claim as false and laughable. Uzodinma had informed the APC’s appeal committee on the party’s registration and revalidation exercise that the lawmaker had refused to be registered as an APC member in Imo during the exercise. Reacting, the former Imo State governor said Uzodinma’s claim was more of propaganda. The lawmaker, who spoke through his Media Adviser, Sam Onwuemeodo, insisted that the revalidation exercise did…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has cried out over an alleged plot by Governor Dapo Abiodun and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to unleash terror on opposition parties during the July 24 local government election. The PDP alleged that Governor Dapo Abiodun was in talks with some security agencies on how to molest and intimidate its members during the polls. At a press conference addressed by the Chairman, Ogun PDP Local Government Election Organising Committee, Hon. Samson Bamgbose, at the party Secretariat in Abeokuta, Friday, the party said there were plans by the ruling party to chase…