Former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to focus on tackling security challenges and other unending financial issues bedevilling Nigerians rather than receiving political defectors into the ruling APC. Fayose made this known on his verified Twitter handle on Tuesday. Recall that TheInfoStride had reported that President Buhari had received a former house speaker Dimeji Bankole and ex-governor of Ogun state, Otunba Gbenga Danielin state house, Abuja on Monday, a month after the duo defected from the PDP. Fayose in his tweet berated President Buhari over his recent meeting with ex-governor of Ogun…
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As the November 6, 2021 governorship election in Anambra State drawing near, some political parties are still unable to attract aspirants into their fold, with some virtually begging politicians to pick their ticket. Of recent, some of the parties, which hitherto had no offices in Awka, have started acquiring offices in anticipation that some of the aspirants in the three big parties who will fall by the wayside, would approach them for a ticket. Apart from the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, that have many aspirants, most others cannot…
Prof. Tahir Mamman, Chairman, All Progressives Congress’ (APC) Constitution Review Committee, has dismissed insinuations that the party would not be as strong as it is now with the exit of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. Mamman stated in an interview with journalists on Wednesday, shortly after the APC’s constitution review committee meeting of its Northeast stakeholders held in Gombe. He said it was common knowledge that the APC as a party, had enjoyed the goodwill of President Buhari but expressed optimism that the party would remain in power “for a long time.’’ According to him, President Buhari is concerned about…
A High Court in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State on Thursday, sentenced a professor of the University of Calabar, Peter Ogban, to three years in prison for announcing false election result during the 2019 general elections. The professor of science who served as the returning officer in the senatorial election in Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District in 2019, was said to have manipulated results from Oruk Anam and Etim Ekpo Local Government Areas. The prosecutor, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, told the court that Prof Ogban altered the results of the election to favour the All Progressives Congress, APC, against…
Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described recent comment by the Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) Interim National Caretaker Committee and Extra-Ordination Convention Planning, Mai Mala Buni, as diversionary, volte-face and calculated at the Supreme Court. In a statement issued yesterday in Owerri by Publicity Secretary of the party, Ogu Bundu Nwadike, it said Buni’s comment on Frank Ibezim’s disqualification in the Imo North Senatorial District by-election saga, was inappropriate and unbefitting. “The Imo State PDP’s attention has been drawn to Buni’s sudden outburst at the Supreme Court on the disqualification of Frank Ibezim as APC…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned politicians against violence and other acts capable of creating apprehension during this weekend’s Aba North/South Federal Constituency by-election in Abia State. Its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, who gave the warning yesterday, declared the readiness of the commission for the poll. According to him, violent and unwholesome acts undermine the sovereign rights of the people to clean elections and deprive the constituency of quality representation. He said 498,390 registered voters are expected to cast their ballots at 609 polling units spread across 24 Registration Areas (RAs)…
Olusegun Bamgbose, a chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, has claimed that key leaders of the two leading political parties, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, are in top secret deal to make it difficult for any Southerner to emerge as presidential candidate under their platforms come 2023. According to him, this is a new dimension as the stakeholders battle for the race to Aso Rock, adding that the recent clampdown on the national leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu and Raji Fashola were part of the plans. “APC, PDP key leaders are…
Senators from the southern part of Nigeria, under the aegis of Southern Senators Forum, on Wednesday, pledged commitment to indivisibility of Nigeria. Addressing a press conference at the National Assembly after the inauguration of the forum’s leadership in Abuja, Senator Bamidele Opeyemi, who emerged Chairman of the group, said, they were aware of the storms blazing through the nation, but they have resolved to manage it in order to keep the nation as one. He said: “Our position is that we have to manage our unity in diversity. “We further look forward to strengthening the leadership of the Senate. We…
The Presidency, on Wednesday, insisted that there is no rift between President Muhammadu Buhari and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, said the duo have a very strong commitment to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Nigerian people. “Recent reports of a rift between the two leaders of our party are false; the handiwork of some media mischief makers”, he stated. Shehu accused the media of creating controversies and provisiding a nexus for naysayers who work behind the scenes planting such stories which are absolutely false. The aide said the administration was aware of pessimists…
A former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has berated the national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for donating money to victims of the fire disaster which engulfed Katsina Central Market. Tinubu had on Wednesday donated the sum of N50m to victims of the fire disaster which engulfed Katsina Central Market on Monday. The national leader of the APC paid sympathy visits to traders and other victims of the market in the company of the State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, a report stated. Reacting to the donation, Omokri criticized Tinubu who according to him…
The Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has decried the low level of participation of women in the political process in the state. Bello, who said this in Minna at the Get Involved Leadership Training organized by the Lead Generation Initiative said the state is lacking in achieving gender equality in the political sphere because the women have refused to participate in politics. He explained that the state needs 40% of women in elective offices and as political appointees in the state. Urging women to take part in the political process, the governor noted that, “there are very…
The Governorship Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Cross River, Barr Eyo Ekpo has condemned the continued labelling of Fulani people as herdsmen, bandits or referring to them by other derogatory names. Speaking with the media via phone Ekpo lamented such name-calling, saying that crimes are committed everywhere including in the south-south and other places. “If you ask me about the state of terrorism kidnapping across the country, the federal and the state governments should come together, real quick before this country dissolves into lawlessness. “And it has nothing to do with Fulanis or Hausas, it is just…
Towards ensuring hitch-free conduct of its forthcoming local government election in May this year, members of the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC) have sought a working collaboration with its counterpart, Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC). To that effect, TheInfoStride reports that a high powered delegation led by Chief Kunmi Agboola was at the state headquarters of OSIElC to compare notes and ideas on how to conduct free, fair, credible and acceptable local government polls in Oyo State. Speaking during the visit, Chief Agboola an OYSIEC Commissioner said the visit became imperative considering the huge experience of members of…
The Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abia North Senatorial district, of Abia State, Chief Amah Abraham has insisted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has long been rejected by the people of the state, because of its obvious failure in the leadership of the country. Fielding questions from newsmen in Umuahia on Tuesday, Abraham remarked that elections were determined by performance, adding that with the massive infrastructure ongoing in Aba metropolis, the residents of Aba are happy with the Ikpeazu government and are ready to reciprocate the kindness and benevolence of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu for his party,…
The APC says it can only improve the lives of Nigerians if it stays in power for many more years to come. National caretaker committee Chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) and Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, says his party’s vision is to remain in power for more than nine terms in office at the center, which equates to 36 years and counting. The APC is seeing through its second term in office at the center which elapses in 2023, after halting the opposition PDP’s 17 years in power in 2015. While inaugurating the party’s 61-member Contact…
Senator Uche Ekwunife formally joined the Anambra State governorship race on Tuesday. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain submitted her nomination form at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Ekwunife said it was too late for the PDP to choose a consensus candidate. “I am running to win, I don’t see how consensus arrangement will work,” she declared. The lawmaker expressed her conviction of beating other aspirants. Ekwunife promised to remain in the party if she doesn’t win the ticket for the November 6 election. She pledged to reform the security architecture of the state and to continue to empower…
The former National Chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), Mr Kenneth Udez, was on Tuesday, re-arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court over alleged electoral fraud, forgery. Also arraigned alongside Udeze were former National Secretary of the party, Mr James Vernibe and one Ogunmodede Oluwagbemi. Recall that Udeze was arraigned over an alleged to have replaced the name of the duly elected governorship candidate of the party in Osun State with another person during the 2018 governorship election held in the state. Also, Udeze was alleged to have fraudulently altered the documents of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and presented…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the Yobe State Governor, Mala Mai Buni to resign as governor and Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC. PDP made the call following the pronouncement of the Supreme Court, which found the leadership of the party as “irresponsible and reckless.” The Supreme Court had given the ruling for engaging in unsubstantiated allegations against its justices. However, PDP said the Supreme Court ruling has confirmed that APC is a party of blackmailers and falsehood. In a series of tweets, PDP wrote: “The @OfficialPDPNig has asked Yobe state Governor Mala Mai…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said that the 2023 general election may be sabotaged by insecurity if it is not tacked before the election time. Ortom made the assertion on Tuesday while briefing State House correspondents shortly after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The governor was at the Villa to brief the president on the state of security in his state. Ortom who lamented the level of insecurity currently ravaging the country stated that “there will be no 2023 elections in Nigeria if insecurity persists”. The governor insisted that he had done nothing…
Ahead of Anambra State governorship election schedule for November, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been urged to investigate the profile of the aspirants. The Anambra Concern Citizens, which made the call, also told the anti-graft agency to investigate whether the aspirants are involved in no payment of bank loans or defaulted in taxes. The group, in a statement by its Chairman, Paul Okeke, said that the call became imperative as “this is the right time to know the people that want to rule the state.” The group further said it is better to know them now than…