Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, says the party is loved by Nigerians and has bright chances of ruling the country beyond 2023. Tinubu stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He also reassured Nigerians that President Buhari respects the Nigerian Constitution and would vacate office at the expiration of his tenure on May 29, 2023. He said, “The chances are as bright as a midnight star and we will continue to work for a better Nigeria. “We cannot interject…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has denied an allegation that it generated the sum of N10 billion from sale of nomination and expression of interest forms in 2019. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Mr Kazeem Afegbua, a member of the PDP, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for a probe of the party’s accounts. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, who denied the allegation at a news conference on Monday in Abuja, described Afegbua’s claims as spurious and irresponsible. Ologbondiyan said…
Unknown persons have kidnapped the former secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Auyo Local Government of Jigawa State. The victim, Adamu Digitawa, 64 years, was kidnapped on Tuesday around 1:30am at Aguza village. Source confined to the media that the victim was kidnapped after he paid a ransom for one of his relatives earlier snatched by the criminals. This is coming weeks after the PDP publicity secretary in Jigawa State Isa Alhassan Koreyal died. He died at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Kano after suffering a brief illness. Police spokesman ASP Zubairu Nurraddeen confirmed the incident to the…
Bukola Saraki, former Senate President, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately seek help on the insecurity in Nigeria. In a statement on Tuesday, Saraki noted that on Monday, Nigeria experienced one of the saddest days in recent memory. He said from Anambra State to Kaduna, Yobe, Niger, and Lagos States, critical insecurity issues were recorded and reported. The former Kwara Governor said there were numerous unacceptable reports of violence, kidnapping, terrorism and the systematic breakdown of law and order in many parts of the nation. He cited reports of Boko Haram hoisting its flag in Niger State, in Shiroro…
The APC assured on Monday in Abuja that it would not play politics with matters of life and the collective wellbeing of Nigerians. Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee gave the assurance in a statement on insecurity in parts of the country. He said insecurity had found expressions in criminal activities of Boko Haram, bandits, kidnappers, rustlers and recently the highly condemnable attacks on security formations in some states. These, he said, were the current realities, stressing that the APC was fully focused on identifying and bringing to book the perpetrators and sponsors of…
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, said it was contemplating court action against one of its members, Kassim Afegbua, for dragging its National Chairman, Uche Secondus, to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offences Commission (ICPC) over alleged N10 billion fraud. Afegbua had, yesterday, submitted a petition to the EFCC and ICPC in Abuja seeking serious investigation of the management of the party’s finances. In the petition, Afegbua asked the anti-graft agencies to scrutinise the N10 billion that allegedly accrued to PDP from 2017 till date, especially the money that accrued from sale of nomination…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Chukwuemeka Eze has blasted Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike over the recently concluded local government council election held across the State. In a release made available to the media on Tuesday, Eze, an erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), described the exercise as a sham and of no significance in deepening democracy in the state. Eze lamented that the elections marred by novel voter apathy has been widely attributed to the boycott of the predetermined process by the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives…
The newly elected Senator representing Imo North senatorial district, Chukwuma Frank Ibezim has been sworn in. He was elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress in a bye-election. His election was a subject of controversy until the Supreme Court delivered judgment in his favour on Monday, 5th April, 2021. In arriving at its decision, the apex court in a unanimous judgment voided, nullified and set aside the concurrent judgments of the Federal High Court in Abuja and that of the Court of Appeal which nullified the candidacy of Ibezim on the ground of perjury. Justice Emmanuel Agim…
A rights advocacy group, Concerned Nigerians, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign. The group anchored its claim on the failure of the economy and killings in the country. The Deji Adeyanju-led group stated this in a series of tweets on its verified Twitter handle. According to the group, the President has failed to protect basic human rights of Nigerians among other things, hence should vacate his office. The tweets read: “We are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign now. “Enough is Enough. “Lives are being lost everyday. Economy is in shambles. “Our unity is being threatened. “President…
In the wake of continued attacks by terrorists and other criminal elements across the country, the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has expressed the determination of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to deal decisively with such criminal elements. National Secretary, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the party, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe made the promise in a statement issued Monday in Abuja. The party noted that the issue of insecurity in the country has found expression in terrorist and criminal activities of Boko Haram, bandits, kidnappers, rustlers and recently the highly condemnable attacks on security formations in some states. “These are…
The Kano State governorship candidate of Green Party of Nigeria, GPN, Abdulsalam Abdulkarim Zaura, at the weekend, defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano. This was made known in a statement signed by Media Consultant, A.A Zaura Foundation, Al-Amin Ciroma, where it explained the essence of the decision of A.A Zaura as he is popularly called to dump GPN for the ruling APC, which according to him is a youth-friendly platform. He also called on other chieftains and members of his former party, to join him in APC. The statement reads in part, “The former Kano State governorship…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olumide Aderinokun, has said President Muhammadu Buhari was not doing enough to stop the rising cases of killings, kidnapping and banditry in Nigeria. Aderinokun, who expressed sadness over the killing of three students of Greenfield University in Kaduna by bandits, advised the Federal Government to employ Information Communication Technology (ICT) in tackling insecurity. Speaking in Abeokuta on Monday, Aderinokun maintained that “the gruesome killing of both civilians and security agents in different parts of the country is becoming more disturbing and unspeakable,” saying “the government needs to wake up.” “The President…
The Director-General of the National Inland Waterways (NIWA), Dr George Moghalu has advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) to ensure it holds a free and fair primary election to choose the candidate of the party for the Anambra governorship election. Moghalu spoke yesterday, during a meeting with the Anambra APC elders forum in Awka. “The party has released its guidelines for that primary election, but they are yet to release the modalities. “I don’t want to tell them what modalities to adopt for the election because if I do, people will say I’m an interested party. “But I want to…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that enemies of Imo attacked the residence of Governor Hope Uzodimma and other public facilities. The party, in a statement on Monday, condemned the target on security personnel and formations in Abia, Imo, Ebonyi, Anambra and Rivers States. John Akpan Udoedehe, National Secretary of the APC Caretaker Committee, commiserated with agencies and families over the loss of law enforcement officers. Udoedehe said breaking into the Governor’s residence was an attack on democracy and constituted authority. The scribe said the party was in shock over the ugly turn of events after learning there were…
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has condemned Saturday’s fire that razed the house of Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State. Dr Kayode Fayemi, the NGF Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, in a statement he issued on Saturday in Abuja, described it as criminality taken too far. Recall that Uzodinma’s country home in Omuma, Oru East Local Government Area (LGA), of Imo, was on Saturday destroyed by fire. Fayemi sympathised with the Imo Governor and commiserated with all those who were injured or killed as a result of the incident. The NGF Chairman called on all good citizens to cooperate…
Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, weekend, reiterated that the All Progressives Congress, APC would sack the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP from some States in the South-South region in 2023. Omo-Agege who stated this at Illah in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, shortly after inspecting the rehabilitation work on Asaba-Ugbolu-Illah road which he said would be completed within a week, said Delta State is like a low hanging fruit for APC to pluck. Noting that the dividends of democracy provided by the APC-controlled Federal Government to Deltans would attract votes from the people in…
The recently concluded congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Southwest has presented another opportunity for its leadership to get to the drawing board and work out new ways of managing some challenges confronting it. The elections to the regional positions may have come and gone, with winners having emerged. But to some party leaders, an internal election where a faction out of two won all seats by narrow margins coupled with the implication of winners-take-all, has thrown up new challenges must be well managed. Before the congress, Southwest PDP was divided. Oyo State Governor, Mr. Seyi Makinde led a…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the presidency’s reaction to the terrorism allegations against Dr Isa Pantami, the minister of Communication and Digital Economy, showed President Muhammadu Buhari-led government patronises acts of terrorism. There have been calls on the president to sack Pantami following a flurry of revelations in which he made pro-terrorist comments in the past. Despite the calls by Nigerians for the removal of Pantami as communication minister, the presidency on Thursday, April 22, 2021, threw its weight behind the embattled minister in a statement. According to the statement by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the…
Former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Kalu, has said that he has no ambition to become Nigeria’s President. Kalu, however, said he will not reject the offer if he was given, adding that he is capable mentally and otherwise to lead the country. Uzor Kalu also insisted that it is the turn of a Southeasterner of Igbo extraction to become President if Nigerians want to be fair. The former Abia Governor spoke during an interview with Channels Television on Sunday, adding that he does not believe that prophecies will take him to Aso Rock. He waved aside prophecies from…
There are indicators that the real test for Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s leadership acumen would unfold in two years’ time. By 2023, the Enugu State governor would be rounding off his second term in office as the state chief executive. Recent events in the state showed that Ugwuanyi’s succession plan would be a subject of great contestation between his Enugu North Senatorial District kinsmen and the people of Enugu East Senatorial District. The informal power rotation arrangement among the three Senatorial districts has run a full circle, with the incumbent taking the slot of Enugu North or Nsukka zone for the…