Author: Ifeanyi Nwagboso

A year ago, protests over police brutality and racial injustice rocked cities across the country. Cries of “defund the police” and calls for reform echoed throughout the Democratic Party. But New York’s mayoral contest suggests a different political reality is taking hold among Democrats as urban areas nationwide dig out from the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic triggered massive job losses, left streets deserted, strained local budgets and contributed to a national rise in violent crime. The murder rate in U.S. cities jumped 25% or more in 2020, FBI statistics show, and is continuing to escalate this year. Last week, the…

President Muhammadu Buhari’s ally and a former National Chairman of the Buhari Organization TBO, Abdulmajid Danbilki Kwamanda has created a new APC Akida splitting the party into two factions in Kano. Abdulmajid Danbilki Kwamanda who has been championing the President Muhammadu Buhari ideologies since 2003 when the President first contested under the APP, said Governor Ganduje and the APC State caretaker Chairman Abdullahi Abbas should be held responsible for the crack in the party. He said, “the actions of the Governor as well the party caretaker Chairman for vehemently blocking some party loyalists who wish to contest the state gubernatorial…

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, on Tuesday, distanced itself from Saturday’s outcome of its primary election currently circulating on some social media platforms. The APC described the results as fake and urged the general public, especially party members, to disregard them. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some unverified results of the APC primary election are circulating in some sections of social media. Reacting to the development, the APC Spokesman, Seye Oladejo, told NAN who sought authenticity of the results presently circulating on the social media, that the results were fictitious and misleading. Oladejo…

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has dismissed the congratulatory message from the former chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, and the party candidate of the September 2020 governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu. While addressing a large gathering in Benin City, the state capital, on Tuesday as part of the celebration to mark Friday’s Supreme Court victory he said, if the opposition party leaders were serious about their congratulatory letter, they would have printed it on a letterhead paper with signature rather than posting it on the internet. According to him, Edo will never fall for such cheap…

The 2019 presidential candidate of Young Progressive Party (YPP), Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, has declared to run for presidency again in 2023. Kingsley Moghalu, who earlier said he had resigned from the YPP and had also quit partisan politics, said he changed his mind. According to him, his decision to re-contest is due to concern for the youth and to seek a clearer alternative to the status quo that would tackle challenges currently facing the nation. Moghalu advises APC on credible guber primaries in Anambra He further stated that he would decide on a party to join in the next few…

President Joe Biden on Thursday chided Republican lawmakers who voted against his $1.9 trillion economic stimulus and COVID-19 relief bill before lauding its benefits in their political districts. Speaking at an event in Ohio, Joe Biden drew laughter from the crowd when he held up a list with names of Republican lawmakers who he said had touted the law, called the American Rescue Plan, after it was passed with only Democratic support. “Even my Republican friends in Congress, not a single one of them voted for the Rescue Plan. I’m not going to embarrass any one of them, but I…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has insisted that it stands by its findings and declaration that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its leaders are responsible for the killings, bloodletting and acts of terrorism in Nigeria. This was contained in a statement on Monday by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the party. According to the opposition party, “The PDP asserts that the resort to blackmail, threats and attack on the PDP and other well-meaning Nigerians as witnessed in APC’ statement today, in which it attempted to trivialize, politicize and dismiss the alarming violence in the country, cannot deter the…

Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has described the killing of Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, the ex-Political Adviser to the former President, Goodluck Jonathan, as politically-masterminded. The Governor, at a press briefing Monday in Owerri, said the manner with which politician was killed was unconnected to a political assassination. According to the Governor, “Ahmed Gulak was in Imo State for a national assignment. He came to Owerri with the Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendment. Being a humble man, he chose to travel incognito according to his friend who was with him. “Someone must have trailed him from the hotel to the…

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Gani Adams, on Monday, declared that there is no going back on agitation for the Yoruba nation. Gani Adams accused some politicians in South West region of suppressing Yoruba interest due to their political ambition ahead of 2023. He vowed that no amount of antics by “selfish” people would stop the secessionists. Adams spoke to journalists at the 2021 Odun Aje (Wealth) Festival, held at Orile Agege in Lagos. He said the ongoing constitution review was a plot to stop the agitation for the Yoruba nation and it would not work. “The Yoruba are…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP in Abia State has asked the All Progressive Congress (APC) to stop chasing shadows and hide its face in shame for causing pain and agony to Nigerians. The party said the APC lacked moral justification to query Governor Okezie Ikpeazu for non-composition of the full State Executive Council, warning it to desist from casting aspersions on the leadership styles of the PDP but rather apologize to the citizens for misleading them with their inhuman and draconian policies that has given rise to terrorism, banditry, killer herdsmen menace, kidnapping and unknown gunmen attacks in every nooks…

China has announced that it will allow couples to have up to three children, after census data showed a steep decline in birth rates. China scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in 2016, replacing it with a two-child limit which has failed to lead to a sustained upsurge in births. The cost of raising children in cities has deterred many Chinese couples. The latest move was approved by President Xi Jinping at a meeting of top Communist Party officials. It will come with “supportive measures, which will be conducive to improving our country’s population structure, fulfilling the country’s strategy of actively…

Deputy Senate President and the lawmaker representing Delta Central Senatorial District, Ovie Omo-Agege, yesterday, visited Delta Ijaw at Bomadi, Delta State, in his bid to lead Delta state in 2023 with a pledge to provide better service delivery in Ijaw land. Omo-Agege, leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South-South, stormed the riverine enclave, which is Sen. James Manager’s stronghold in Delta South, who is an ardent gubernatorial hopeful under the ruling PDP in the state. In a consultative/interactive meeting with Ijaw APC leaders/stakeholders, who came from Burutu, Patani, Warri Southwest, Warri North, and Warri South council…

Will the riverine part of Rivers State produce Governor Nyesom Wike’s successor in 2023? How far would the two major political parties, the governing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) go in accommodating the agitation by the Ogoni’s to produce the governor of Rivers State in 2023? Those are some of the issues defining Rivers politics as the next election cycle draws nearer. In the past, the zoning of governorship position played a crucial role in the state. However, it appears the zoning formula is losing its appeal as a factor to determine the 2023 poll.…

It was complaints galore as aggrieved members of the Lagos State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) recounted their harrowing experience during last Saturday’s council primaries of the party. Party faithful are now looking towards APC leadership in the state to see how they will redress the aftermath of violence, thuggery and intimidation that characterised the poll conducted across the entire 377 wards and 57 local councils of the state. From events preceding the primaries, which were to select the party’s standard-bearers for the July 24, 2021, local government poll, there were pointers to the possibility of mayhem…

A stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former senatorial candidate for Bayelsa Central Senatorial District in the 2019 general election, Barr. Festus Daumiebi, has dismissed as untrue the claims that the relationship between the current Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, and the former gubernatorial candidate of the party, Chief David Lyon, has turned sour, adding that both leaders are still close. Daumiebi, also described as “misguided and malicious,” insinuations among a section of the party faithful in the state that Timipre Sylva, a former governor of Bayelsa State, allegedly traded with the party’s governorship…

Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday derailed a bipartisan inquiry into the deadly assault on the Capitol by former President Donald Trump’s supporters, despite a torrent of criticism the lawmakers were playing down the violence. Democrats and some moderate Republicans had called for a commission to probe the events up to and including Jan. 6, when hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump, a Republican, stormed the Capitol, fighting with police, urging violence against lawmakers and delaying the formal certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory. The violence left five people dead including a Capitol Police officer. The measure mustered…

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has vowed to resist any attempt by politicians from Abuja to impose anybody as next governor in the state. He spoke at a special thanksgiving church service on Sunday to mark the second anniversary of his administration’s second tenure at St Paul’s Cathedral, Diobu, Port Harcourt, the state capital. In a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri, the governor said: “Let me say it again, I have never sat with anybody to say I will make you governor. “But, as a governor, nobody from anywhere, be it in the party, in…

The Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Professor Abdul Hafiz Oladosu, has warned Nigerians not to fall in the hands of politicians who will renege on the promises made to the electorate in 2023. Oladosu gave this warning during a stakeholders’ summit organised by Political Awareness Group (PAG), an association of Muslim professionals and technocrats for good governance held in Ibadan, at the weekend. The don, who spoke on the lecture entitled, “Corruption, Recession and Insecurity, The bane of Nigerian Democracy”, urged Nigerians to watch out for the kind of politicians who seek their votes. Oladosu, who noted that…

Former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, has said maladministration by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is responsible for the mass defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Eze said this while reacting to the defection of Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State from the PDP to the All Progressive Congress (APC). He posited that Ayade has always displayed the carriage and common traits of a good progressive and expressed confidence that his entrance will place his people on a better pedestal and add weight to the cause of a…

The 196 councillor candidates of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Cross River State have handed over party flags in their possession to the new leader in the state, Governor Ben Ayade. Handing over the flags, which is the symbol of the party, the Cross River State APC Councilor Candidates Forum, led by Comrade Effiom Raymond Yellow-Duke, said the divisions in the party had caused them to remove all the flags from the factional offices in the state. “The disparaged division in the CRS APC necessitated the formation of CRS APC Councilor Candidates Forum by the 196 councillor candidates of…